re: CMM needs better players

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I don’t understand how people can’t see that it will take a few years to build a team

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Build what team? McMahon has taken 2 high school recruits in the 2024 class and back in the 2023 class. He is not "building" anything through recruiting. He is not getting enough high school talent and is having to dip heavily in the portal to try and have a team each year so far, and it will be the same going into year 3. You cant sit here and say he's "building" anything when he's taken 12 transfers the last 2 seasons and will probably take another 6 or so for year 3. If he got 4-5 high school recruits in 2023 and maybe the same for 2024 you can tell people to be patient the team is young etc...

Instead only 3 players on this entire team are getting any minutes who arent already 3rd, 4th or 5th year players.

McMahon will live and die by the portal going into year 3 just like the previous 2 seasons. It's not "building" anything, it's simply getting talent from the portal and he hasnt done well enough there to win games so far. He's gotten 3-4 SEC caliber players out of the 12 portal takes he has. If he has to go out and get 6 more this offseason are we confident he'll even find 3 (out of 6) guys who can play at this level?

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McMahon is a good coach and it’s wild people just hate him because he’s not Wade.

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He's not wade because he's losing at an astronomically higher rate than Wade. And lets keep in mind Wade didn't walk into an easy situation himself here, and he didnt have the portal in the same way like McMahon has at his disposal right away either.

Simply put, McMahon has to do the portal way better than he has. We have too many guys who cant play in the SEC on this roster and this roster is entirely his outside of Wilkinson at this point already. He cant take 5 guys in the high school class of 2025 and sit here and say "oh yeah we're going to build something that'll be good in 3-4 years from today".

We're seeing coaches win in their 1st and 2nd years in the SEC (Beard, Paris). I'm giving McMahon a pass until year 3 but if he cant put together a winning team by then he has to go because there's nothing being "built" he's just striking out in the portal too much and we can get a bunch of coaches who cant recruit the portal well enough in here if thats all he's going to do because he cant get enough talented high school kids on campus.