Domeskeller

Good summation. Not absolving Woodward because the contract has become a disaster. But it was probably necessary to land McMahon, who actually wasn't a bad candidate. When McMahon was hired, not too many people were saying he had only been successful because of Ja Morant. And he had won a game in two different NCAA tournaments while with Murray State. Pretty good candidate, on paper.

I know people find this hard to believe, but from coaching to hiring, sometimes coaches and administrators make a choice that's good and reasonable that, in hindsight, just doesn't work out.

And I'm not in the camp that he deserves to come back next year. It hasn't worked out here, and won't work out here.

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Listening to tiger bait last night and Mike said he’s hearing scuttlebutt the entire basketball staff would be let go but McMahon would be back.

His reasoning was firing McMahon and his staff , hiring a new coach and staff plus money for NIL would cost around 30 million dollars and LSU isn’t willing to do that.

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I don't believe this for a second that the entire staff would be let go but McMahon stays. McMahon either comes back and some of that staff returns or he's fired. This isn't football where you point to an offensive coordinator or defensive coordinator as a major reason why you're not winning.

It's possible assistants jump ship either for a better job or a safe landing spot. Now if they're gonna force him to fire people in an attempt to get him to resign and/or negotiate a lower buyout, then maybe. But clearing out everyone except McMahon doesn't seem realistic.

The t-shirt cannon that shoots 1 t-shirt.

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The “pucker up and kiss that baby goodbye” is so ghey. I’ve hated it from the first time he ever said it. Almost as ghey as sliding mits.

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"lYn iS a nAtIoNaL tReAsUrE!!!!"

Stunned a Tuscaloosa judge would rule against Alabama unless it's what the school wanted.

Went to the NCAA tournament 10 seasons in a row from 1984 to ‘93, and 13 of 15 from ‘79 to ‘93, making 2 Final Fours, 2 more Elite Eights and a Sweet 16. LSU was a top-tier national program for most of that stretch.

Made another Sweet 16 trip in ‘00, another FF trip in ‘06, and a Sweet 16 in ‘19 even in what’s been mostly a down 30 years plus. So this place can be more that the shite Brady, Johnson, Jones and McMahon put on the floor for most of that stretch.

Every coach but McMahon has made the tournament even if most of their tenures were shite. Even Johnson won an SEC title and an NCAA tournament game, and Jones made an NCAA tournament. So what McMahon has done is indefensible and inexcusable.

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Our women's coach is a HOF, the men's coach is a dud. She deserves to make more.

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I agree. The women's coach produces a quality product and tries to market the program. The men's coach puts out a crap product and has the charisma of a brick wall.

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When I was a student we sometimes had to get in line hours early, with some people camping out overnight, just to get in to the Assembly Center. How times have changed.

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Yep, back when the program was worth a shite.

The PMAC is fine. Men’s basketball is not at a point where it needs premium seating beyond what they sell now.

Put some of the money for a new arena into PMAC renovations and reallocate the rest for other things.

I had a more cynical post up, and it could still be that. But I agree it’s probably to keep Davis Webb from leaving.