re: Why Can't We Consistently Have a Better Basketball Team?

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he’s McNeese’s problem now.

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Yeah they probably hate all the problems they’ve had in their best season in like 50 years.

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lol…I was shooting hoops downstairs in the practice courts before your mom even shaved her legs for that date…

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This could possibly be the dumbest thing I’ve ever read on tRant and that’s saying something.

It’s always the self proclaimed lifelong, super connected, true LSU basketball fans like that poster who constantly get all the facts wrong every time they talk about LSU basketball. Weird huh?

1. Bad Hires at HC

2008–2012 - Trent Johnson - Terrible Hire (Could not relate to our Culture and Recruit the South.. Plus a Dry Personality)

2012–2017 - John Henry Jones Jr - LSU guy , I like Johnnie , but (Bad X's and O's Coaching, Avg Recruiter, Not a SEC Head Coach.

2. Head Coach Issues Blocking Progress

2017–2022 - Will Wade - Solid Coach (Bad Pub and Endless Recruiting Allegations)
(Then the Rules Changed) But The NCAA wasn't going to let up. Wade was a Good Hire!

2022–present - Matt McMahon - Good Coach , But Not Sure He can Dig out of the Hole were in.

3. Facilites
Nice Practice Arena ,
But When we Compare what Arena's other SEC and Top Teams have to Play in , We are not even in the top 10 of the SEC and certainly in the bottom half of all the Major Conferences out there. (ACC, BigTen, Big12)

Kids like A Great Arena to Play in. LSU has gave the PMAC lips stick and a New Dress to many times.

4. Got to Keep Home Grown Talent, Just like Football.

5. LSU has a Really Good Basketball History , But Not Elite or Blue Blood.

LSU Athletic Dept. Needs to put more money towards the Men's & Women's BB Program.

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our ADs sucked balls at hiring

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I disagree. Scott Woodward has successfully revitalized numerous sports programs through top-tier hires. However, the hiring of the Men's Basketball coach was a miss. Yet, as we transition from the McMahon era (hopefully soon for the sake of your sanity ), I believe we will emerge stronger. Even as someone who doesn't regularly follow basketball, it's evident to me that he wasn't the right choice.

He hired Jimbo, Buzz Williams.

Depends on where you sit. I’ve always seen that watching a game in person is a much better illustration of what’s actually going on from how good the players are to the details of the game. When you watch on tv you’re at the mercy of the camera.

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Depends on where you sit. I’ve always seen that watching a game in person is a much better illustration of what’s actually going on from how good the players are to the details of the game. When you watch on tv you’re at the mercy of the camera.

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absolutely there are things you see in the building that you don't necessarily see at home.

but by same token, things you think you saw in person you see 3 more times from different angles and speeds and suddenly, you didn't see what you thought you saw at full speed.

Enough LSU fans are fine with baseball being the important second semester sport so the athletic department follows suit and doesn't go all out for men's basketball.

Very true, I guess it’s up to preference.