mcspufftiger7

The stupidity on here is amazing. How many ACC teams made the NCAA? 4
So Wade is going to a basketball school in a much easier conference. If LSU was in the ACC they win more than 5 games. It's really not that hard to understand.

If you can't see the talent difference between LSU and the other teams in the SEC then not much I can say to you. Other than a few blowouts, this team has played with some of the best teams in the country for 30 or more minutes. Can't do that with the lack of talent we have unless you can coach some. Dale Brown was considered by some to be a bad coach but he recruited great talent and went to the final 4 twice. Once without a center. Go look at the rotations of every SEC team and look at the maturity and experience they had. It is about talent. They were in the games late against Auburn, AL, FL, TAM, Miss St and Ole Miss who plays 10 seniors.. They did not have the depth or maturity to beat those sr and jr heavy teams. Especially without Reed, Ward and then Chest and V Miller. And he did it without an SEC caliber PG. It is what it is. It's on him to improve that talent but saying we lost those games just due to coaching is laughable.

Good coches still need talent. Where MM has failed in my opinion is he has yet to recruit an SEC caliber PG. Losing Reed didn't help and then Chest later in the season decimated their size and affected their ability to rebound. They got better on the TO numbers on the back half of the season but they are lacking scorers on this team and Reed and later V Miler going down didn't help with that either. They were also the youngest and most inexperienced team in the SEC this year. Ole Miss has 10 seniors playing. That is a huge difference. Needs to change next year. If not he'll be gone.

t is interesting to watch the various camps try to defend their positions on who a great coach is. Dale Brown, one of the most successful coaches in the history of LSU, was not a great coach. And I say that as a Brown fan. He was a great recruiter and literally signed 2 of the greatest players in the history of basketball in Jackson and Oneal. He was a master motivator but you have Oneal and Jackson on the same team and can't win the Natty?I feel the same way about Wade. He was not a great coach he was a good coach that recruited superior talent. And I say that as a Wade fan. Doesn't mean he can't become great coach. He is young and coaches, like players, can develop. Who knows where he would have been with a few more years at LSU.MM is a good coach but has not mastered the recruiting portal yet. That been his biggest weakness. His team this year competed in many games they probably shouldn't have even been in based on the talent gap and maybe if he was a great coach could have won a few of those. And anyone saying the $$$ doesn't matter is just being foolish. If they keep him then he has next year to get to the tourney or they fire him. But at least they will fire him after giving him the financial resources to get the players he needs. That is where he needs to develop as a coach in this new pay for play era. If he can't do that then he won't be successful anywhere in P5.

Disagree with this statement. Once the show cause is gone he will be one of the top candidates for just about any job. he has won everywhere he has been and there are plenty of schools who will take a calculated risk with hiring him based on that record. especially when now everyone is paying players. Not saying he is an elite coach yet but he is phenomenal recruiter and that is half the battle these days.

I understand. You're immature dweebs who can't get over it. I was a Wade fan but I damn sure not gonna be on here bitching about him being fired 3 years later. But then I'm a full grown man with a life.

Trying to be objective on this site is useless. If you want to criticize MM on his portal transfers you have some argument. He has been terrible with PG. We have not had a true SEC level PG since he has been there. That has been his biggest weakness in my opinion.This was one of the youngest most inexperienced teams in the SEC, That is a fact. You can blame MM for that but it is a statistical fact. That is why the loss of Reed was so big. That and your only other post player was a freshman. Fountain is a bench player. Losing ward was also huge. If Ward wasn't strong enough to stay and compete then that is on him. So I would say that with what MM had as far as experienced talent and what he he did with that against much more talented and experienced teams was commendable. They did have a few blowouts but they were in the game late with TAM, AL, MISS ST. OM, Vand, FL , TN and Auburn. Admit he made a few mistakes at end of OM game that they should have won but if Chest doesn't get the tech and miss the easy dunk they win. So he wa able to compete with less talent and younger talent. That is all good and fine but since he is coming back he is going to have to do like Kelly and killl it in the portal to give his incoming freshmen time to develop. If he doesn't then it is time to make a change.

I agree with that. I know some freshmen take longer to develop than others but he has shown no improvement. Not sure where the 4 star came from. That has been MM biggest weakness his entire time here. No SEC caliber starting PG. If he doesn't fix that next year he will be gone for sure.

Tre's play was more impactful and important but wasn't better. This was more difficult as it required 2 people and more importantly 2 people who have just started playing together which made it that much more impressive.

And anyone who doesn't think that both Millers and Collins have been developing is just an ignorant hater. Givens still has a ways to go but is better than he was at the beginning of the year. If MM can keep these guys and add his 2026 class and go get a couple of SEC caliber PG and shooting guards and another Big to compliment Reed and a hopefully stronger BMiller, they will have the talent to move up the SEC. This team is literally Reed and a true SEC PG away from 5-6 more wins. It's MM job to get it there by next year or find someone else who can.