re: Why are we retaining McMahon?

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Be careful on here sharing another perspective. These cucks on here have 1 opinion and 1 opinion only. They don’t want to hear multiple perspectives to formulate an opinion like normal people. These people had an opinion long ago and regardless of any facts or other scenarios you provide, will fight to the death to make themselves right. Then, they will point the finger at you, when you’ve actually shown a change of opinion or admitted you were wrong. These people however, are never wrong LOL

They will also spend several minutes digging through your previous posts to point out one thing that has zero relevance, that they can use against you to prove themselves as supreme. I am truly flabbergasted by the amount of basketball knowledge of these fans. They love the game so much they drive to Lake Charles to watch a guy they’re so emotionally attached to, they fall on the sword of reason just in hopes that they might one day get the return of the prodigal son and then whine and complain that “we are playing street-ball.”


It’s fun stuff.

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Seems like an odd take. Typically the people who believe letting Wade go was a mistake are the ones who know more about basketball. Read some of the posts from the mouth breathers who were ready to claim that McMahon was a far superior coach on day 1, why, simply because he wasn't Will Wade.

Numbers really don't lie. Wade's resume is objectively better than McMahon's in every respect. Moreover, there is nothing in McMahon's history that gives an indication that he can turn this program around at this point. He inherited a historically good program at Murray St., and did a good job maintaining it, except for one year. He came here and hasn't really done the things necessary to run high level P4 program. He doesn't recruit particularly well. Aside for NIL, he doesn't seem to connect with players during the recruiting process in a way that draws them to LSU.

Is there any objective data you can point to that indicates that he is going to right ship, even with more NIL money?

That's why I said it was an odd take, I generally think you have pretty good thoughts on basketball.

At this point, we have Athletic Department that made some very poor decisions, some say out of arrogance (put me in that camp), i.e. we can replace Wade with an equal or better product, and some say out of necessity.

Regardless, with the benefit of hindsight, it is clear that this was a poor decision. My posts before he was let go predicted that IARP ultimately could not prove the egregious allegations against Wade - would have assume that those intimately involved with the situation and with the appropriate legal analysis would have come to the same conclusions.

The second poor decision was hiring a guy that really didn't have a track record of building programs - especially since the narrative from day 1 has been that he is having to rebuild the program. Other options at the time included Todd Golden - that seems like a miss at this point.

No matter which way you fall on this spectrum, we are where we are and the quickest way out is to admit these mistakes and move forward. The buyout is high, but its not a lump sum and is offset by any coaching income he receives. No, any excuse to keep him at this point is continued arrogance or ignorance. Recognition of the obvious is key and refusal to do that at this point is just another mistake on top of the previous mistakes.

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The same can be said for the parts of the fanbase that think McMahon still won't win with better players. The truth is, nobody knows.

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No, it really can’t. Everyone knows 14-40, and that speaks for itself.

You mediocrity lovers have absolutely no explanation for how the recruiting classes McMahon has brought in have all ranked in the middle of the pack on conference, but the results on the court are the absolute worst on the conference.

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As for Vandy and Missouri, it's pretty well known that they significantly upped the amount of NIL spent on their rosters. The information is out there and easy to find.

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Then post that proof. Without that, the rest of your post is absolutely meaningless conjecture.

And no, rumors and gossip from recruiting websites and opinion columns aren’t proof, nor does LSU’s pathetically transparent propaganda campaign.

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there's only one school who spent less than LSU in NIL this year. South Carolina.

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So again, this assertion must mean that South Carolina spent more last year, had a successful season especially by their standards, and decided to spend less this year.

And you think that makes sense.

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Yeah, that comment speaks for itself. So there can’t be any similarity because of results?

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No. There can’t be any similarity because there isn’t any similarity.

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Did you also know it took Jay Wright until his 4th season to make the tournament? Doesn’t matter.

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Did you also know that he won more games in his first 2 years in the Big East of the early 2000s than McMahon will have won in his first 3 years at lsu, in 25 less games? And that his teams at least made the NIT those first 3 years?

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My “coaching record” speaks for itself. I’ve got 6 right now playing college basketball, but I digress. You have forgotten more basketball than I know. I’m not going to waste any more of my time talking “basketball” with someone who thinks that coaches can’t run the same or similar things as other coaches, and not have success.

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You even attempting to bring coaching success between Jay weight and Matt McMahon into the conversation just underscores that you don’t know what you’re talking about.

Only LSU fans can prevent the return of McHallman for another season.

Email McWoodward and let your feelings be known.

Massive boycott of the program if "Curley Lou" is returned........

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Divorces are expensive

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Will probably have two of them to deal with next year at this time.