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re: LSU Basketball boot up tweet
Posted by Alt26 on 5/13/26 at 7:46 pm to LSUChamps03
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ETA: Maybe Santos is Spanish, hell I don’t know.
Though he likely speaks multiple languages, I’d imagine his primary language is Portuguese
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re: bracketology has us in first 8 out at number 7
Posted by Alt26 on 5/13/26 at 4:18 pm to The Pirate King
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This team squeaking into an away regional is equivalent to making the NIT in basketball.
Or not at all. The NIT is a totally irrelevant consolation tournament. The winner of the NIT doesn't compete for a national championship. The just get a trophy...kind of like winning the Texas Bowl.
Reaching the NCAA Tournament, even as the very last at-large team selected to the field, still means the team gets to compete for a National Championship. Just ask Ole Miss in 2022.
Yes, just squeaking into the NCAA would be disappointing relative to preseason expectations. But it would not be the equivalent of making the NIT
re: Would you support a women's flag football team at LSU
Posted by Alt26 on 5/13/26 at 1:24 pm to nicholastiger
Support as in attending games? No.
Support as in saying they should have the ability to field a team and play other schools? Sure.
Support as in saying they should have the ability to field a team and play other schools? Sure.
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The Saints have had some terrible drafts, but that one takes the cake.
The only reason why it might not be the worst draft in Saints history is because Bresee is still on the roster and can at least rush the passer here and there, even if he can't do anything else well
I'd argue 2014 might be worse
Brandin Cooks
Stanley Jean-Baptiste
Khairi Fortt
Vinnie Sunseri
Ronald Powell
Tavon Rooks
Yes, Cooks was better than Bresee has been. However, the rest of that group were only active for a COMBINED 37 games in their entire NFL careers. None of that group played more than a single season for the Saints (at least on the active roster). Guys like Miller and Howden have at least made some contributions, however small.
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Why did you start here?
To illustrate how infrequent it has been for LSU to miss the NCAA Tournament since Skip first became HC. I think most would consider LSU baseball prior to Skip mostly irrelevant.
But it you prefer to bump things back, it will be only the 5th time in 41 years, since 1985 (Skip's second season), that LSU missed the Tournament. Either way, the point is that barring a miracle this will be a historically bad season relative to what many would consider the modern era of LSU baseball. Right now this team is tied with Maineri's first team in 2007 for the fewest wins (29) in a season. Any way you frame it, it has been one of the worst seasons since the majority of fans started paying attention to baseball with any degree of interest.
re: LSU Clemson 630 ABC
Posted by Alt26 on 5/13/26 at 9:22 am to jwingert77
They aren't playing piped-in music during the play, or even while the teams are at the LOS (for the most part). In stadium or on TV you can hear the crowd just fine. The music is played mostly during lulls in the action.
Did I enjoy Tiger Stadium at a time it didn't sound like a rap concert at times? Sure. But I also know I, a middle aged man, am not the target audience for the "piped-in" music. If it gets the players and students more fired up and, thus, creates a better atmosphere, it's an "inconvenience" I can live with. Certainly one not important enough to wage some crusade over.
Did I enjoy Tiger Stadium at a time it didn't sound like a rap concert at times? Sure. But I also know I, a middle aged man, am not the target audience for the "piped-in" music. If it gets the players and students more fired up and, thus, creates a better atmosphere, it's an "inconvenience" I can live with. Certainly one not important enough to wage some crusade over.
re: LSU vs Ole Miss 6:30p kickoff, McAfee confirms Gameday at Oxford
Posted by Alt26 on 5/13/26 at 9:15 am to Who_Dat_Tiger
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that’s a real bold statement considering on the same day it was announced we’re getting gameday week 1 in the exact same tv slot that we aren’t getting it again week 3. Sounds like they’ve already made up their mind to me.
Game Day is going to LSU for the Clemson game because there is literally no better option. The Week 1 schedule is awful this year. Regardless, that won't have any effect on Game Day going TO Oxford (it might be different if the game were in BR). There isn't a game that week with a more intriguing storyline than LSU @ Ole Miss. And that would be the case even if LSU and Ole Miss are 1-1 going into the game.
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It’s weird how some people on here want our men’s basketball program to stay in the gutter
It's because they are not really basketball fans. They're just self intersted people (in what, I don't know? Anonymous internet clout?) who want to prove the "crowd" wrong. That's it. Nothing more.
A fan of the basketball program would not want to keep rolling over the objectively worst coach in the conference and worst LSU coach in 50+ years all while making a litany of never endings excuses as to why he has lost so many games...while simultaneously rejecting the idea of bringing back the coach who has the highest winning % of any LSU basketball coach in 100 years, and led the program to its most consistent period of winning in decades.
Take the school name off the jersey and hide the names of the two coaches, and every rational sports fan in the world would think that is an unbelievably stupid mindset. Yet, that has been the reality of a portion of the LSU fanbase for the last 4+ years. A basketball fan is not really a personal fan of the HC. He/she just wants a HC who will win. End of discussion.
As for the OP, it is clearly an attention seeking troll attempt not really based in some degree of logic. I still don't think many people who would consider themselves to be casual basketball fans fully realize just how bad McMahon was at LSU. He was historically awful at a program that hasn't necessarily been consistently dominant over its history. That means for Wade to be worse than last year...or any year of McMahon's tenure at LSU... he would have to have a season well outside the norm of his 12 year HC career. That's because even Wade's worst season at LSU was better than McMahon's best season.
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He was worse than Curley bad.
This.
Again, many don't realize that because they are far bigger fans of football than basketball. But Curley, for as bad as he was, still had a significantly better SEC winning % than McMahon. And it's not like Curley took over a great program in an era where a coach could immediately turnover a bad roster with several good, experienced players. Archer was just as bad in the two seasons prior to Curley.
It may take several years for everyone to fully grasp it, but McMahon was the worst coach at LSU, in any sport, over the last 40-50 years of the athletic department.
re: I'll Admit it - I Have No Idea How Basketball Recruiting Works Anymore
Posted by Alt26 on 5/12/26 at 7:53 pm to Lester Earl
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Euros see NCAA as an option now, because they have the opportunity to make more money and gain NBA exposure. These players have agents, so there is some formal shopping going on all around.
This.
The market for major conference college basketball can be as or nearly as lucrative as foreign pro leagues.
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everyone should have seen this coming. The week 1 slate is terrible this season.
This.
I'm not really sure there was another option.
The other power conf. "marquee" games that Saturday are:
Baylor @ Auburn
Boise St. @ Oregon
Washington St. @ Washington
It is an AWFUL slate of games besides LSU v. Clemson.
re: Logos that didn’t need to change
Posted by Alt26 on 5/12/26 at 3:11 pm to SaintlyTiger88
The 90's and early 2000's were the worst because it was the first time computers were really used to generate graphics rather than actual artist. The led to numerous dildos who couldn't draw and had no artistic creativity becoming "graphic designers." They created the crap logos no one likes and many have moved on from. Yet, people/companies had to justify their existence, which led to the bad uniforms/logos of that era.
I've sat on the East sideline for nearly 40 years. Given the choice, I would prefer the West because, as others have mentioned, the sun is brutal during September and early October games. That seems to be a bit less of an issue with no CBS in the picture.
However, given the choice between the East and either endozne, I'm taking the East every time.
However, given the choice between the East and either endozne, I'm taking the East every time.
re: Some logic, so be kind...
Posted by Alt26 on 5/12/26 at 7:12 am to saturncube21
No rational person thinks Johnson should be fired. But…
This will be only the 4th time in 37 years LSU hasn’t made the NCAA Tournament.
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Not even making a Regional is a historically bad year
This will be only the 4th time in 37 years LSU hasn’t made the NCAA Tournament.
re: Sweep Florida
Posted by Alt26 on 5/11/26 at 2:43 pm to PP7 for heisman
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I don't want to go deep in the tournament, but it's not because I fear we'll be "embarrassed."
This team won't win it all. I'd love for them to get regional experience and then get bounced. Portal opens on June 1. I want Jay free and clear from that date forward.
If nothing else, it gives people another weekend of something to watch on TV. And who knows in a tournament setting? A break here or there could change everything. I doubt LSU fans expected to see their team down 5-1 to UALR in the deciding game of a regional, or a 13-17 LSU team 3 outs away from reaching a Super Regional in 2024.
Even if it were very unlikely LSU could win a regional, I don't think I'd ever say "I hope they don't make it"...absent a situation where backing into the postseason would prolong the tenure of a coach that needed to be fired for the betterment of the program
re: The Russini/Vrabel stuff keeps coming, arms around him at 2022 SB party
Posted by Alt26 on 5/11/26 at 2:23 pm to Weekend Warrior79
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but why now. Why in the month before the NFL draft. or 2-3 months before her contract expires. A lot of these older pictures have already made their rounds, and no one cared then. Now all of a sudden, it's a huge scandal and they need to keep finding new proof and pushing it to the front pages. But a lot of these drops are from old pictures that have already been out there, and no one cared then.
The initial photos published were taken in AZ shortly after the owners' meetings in AZ in late March. It could have been a PI that got those photos. Or, it could have been a journalist covering the meetings who was tipped off the two would be going to a resort after the meetings. Regardless, the photos from the AZ resort were taken a few weeks before the NFL draft.
This was at a time when the sports calendar was kind of slow and the biggest NFL event was the upcoming draft. If you want max exposure, release them at a time when the NFL was about to get its largest exposure from February of this year until late July
After the initial story caught fire others saw the interest and jumped in out of their own self interest. Maybe there had long been inuendo among those in the business, just not strong enough evidence for them to feel comfortable to push a story out about it. However, once Page Six published its' story the floodgates were opened and now everyone is trying to ride the wave.
There's not really any big conspiracy theory. The first story allowed everyone else who may have suspected an affair to now come forward trying to make a buck.
re: June will be an interesting month
Posted by Alt26 on 5/11/26 at 12:44 pm to The Pirate King
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Man, expectations around here have tanked. Making the NCAA tournament is not an accomplishment at LSU.
The bar to retain your job is not particularly high when you have two national championships in 5 years. Ergo, simply reaching the NCAA Tournament would be enough to Johnson to keep his job.
re: Do y’all eat boiled peanuts much in Louisiana?
Posted by Alt26 on 5/11/26 at 12:31 pm to weagle1999
As a kid in south Louisiana, three sisters (in their 60's then) who lived down the street would boil and give out peanuts every Halloween. Otherwise, I nor my family ever ate them, and I can't ever remember any of our friends eating them either.
My oldest daughter here in LA loves them...but that's only because her grandparents in Alabama introduced them to her. She probably gets a cup once a week at a local gas station (which are really just the canned boiled peanuts you can get at the grocery store). However, I don't think any of her friends ever eat them.
My oldest daughter here in LA loves them...but that's only because her grandparents in Alabama introduced them to her. She probably gets a cup once a week at a local gas station (which are really just the canned boiled peanuts you can get at the grocery store). However, I don't think any of her friends ever eat them.
re: Would you rather be a Hog fan?
Posted by Alt26 on 5/11/26 at 11:38 am to PP7 for heisman
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No, these people live in a fantasy world where LSU should just replicate the 90s and win a title every other year.
I think that is probably a bit of a stretch...as is suggesting the coach who has won 2 NCs in 4 years suddenly (A) forgot how to coach and (b) should be on the "hotseat". However, I get the surprise and frustration from the fans with such a huge drop-off from National Champions to missing the NCAA Tournament for the first time in 15 years and only the 4th time in nearly 40 years.
The initial drops were on purpose. Now, it's the media trying to find ANYTHING to keep the story going during a relatively slow time in the sport calendar.
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The fact that everyone thinks Verge is some kind of decision maker is funny. He’s the figure head. He doesn’t make decisions
This.
And there is no strong push from outside the athletic department re: baseball. Last year was unique in that the primary sport (football) failed to meet expectations and it led to an unexpected midseason firing (when Woodward met with BK after the A&M game there was no plan to fire him that day. Things melted down quickly...because BK is an arse...and he was surprisingly fired by the end of the day). The basketball change happened because the program had been worst in the league awful for 4 years and people with influence wanted one specific coach to return.
Baseball doesn't have that demand from outside the AD right now, and Johnson's two NCs have earned him a lot of leeway. Yes, if Johnson missed the tournament the next two seasons a discussion will be had. But as long as he makes it next year, he's fine.
re: MBB Offseason '26 Transfer Portal / HS Tracker
Posted by Alt26 on 5/11/26 at 8:52 am to ForeverLSU5
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I do know it is for a college guy.
At least in the top 250ish (per 247), there aren't many guys left who are uncommitted. Given the names discussed as having been contacted by LSU one could probably narrow it down to the guy
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