JR Hamilsbach

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Watching the Florida/Arkansas game is just so fricking frustrating to think that fat fricking Woody could have hired Golden for LSU'S coach but instead hired the worst fricking coach in college basketball history frick!!!!!

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He could have just not fired Wade and told the NCAA to frick off. Then Wade indebted to your loyalty for the long haul and fans get to keep supporting a winner and enjoy being bad boys of NCAA.

Woodward’s likely inept and a terrible decision maker in general consider he created circumstances for a huge unforced error by firing Wade in first place. He just needed to get out of the way instead of insert himself into the mess. He then used bad judgment again to hire McMahon. Woodward’s just a loser.

Double bye in SEC tournament most years with rare exceptions for down years. NCAA tournament every year with rare exceptions for down years.

That’s a slightly lower standard Will Wade team’s produced. He demonstrated this is possible within last decade.

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For a fraction of the buyout, say $4M more NIL, we could get 2 more star players to play along with DJ.

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Didn’t the AD and Woodward float the NIL excuse this time last year and it was supposedly solved to the level deemed acceptable financially? If we were at our willing limit to upgrade last year, why would they spend more this year? The record is the same so the problem wasn’t solved although we were told it was

I think this team is McMahons strongest yet and I believe they can win. I also believe they are disorganized and poorly/inconsistently motivated and so they are not playing to their potential. The team seems affected by an inability to win/self sabotage. The reason isn’t the improved roster isn’t good enough. The reason is McMahon appears to be outclassed consistently by other coaches, has poor feel for game decision making, is uninspiring or unable to motivate his players appropriately. I thought this was the year. The problem is McMahon doesn’t have the stuff. Maybe he is capable and lost his mojo, but him losing this year suggests he’ll Never win here. Put him out of his misery and let him go somewhere else. He’s probably depressed with how much of a failure he’s been with high expectations for success. He probably wants out of here as much as the fans want him gone.

They dropped multiple games they were expected to need to win to get in. Now they will have to win games they are expected to lose to claw back to bubble status. We put ourselves behind 8-ball, but maybe things click and we can notch multiple upsets, now necessary. McMahon history suggests it’s unlikely, but I think this is the best team McMahon has put together since he’s been here. I hope team figures it out.

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There is a completely new administration now, in part, because the old administration refused to fire McMahon last season. The default is the new administration is planning to make a change at the end of the season. McMahon will have to have a remarkable season (likely making it to the second week of the NCAAT) to stave that off

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Alt you’re my favorite basketball poster and I agree with almost everything you post, but I think this bar is too high for retention. I have no insider intel and have been very critical of McMahon and was a huge Wade homer. With how bad the team has been, I would believe getting in the tournament and competing would be sufficient to give him another conditional year. I believe if he were to win a game he’d almost certainly be back. It would be hard to cut bait from McMahon following his clear best season to date in case he had turned the corner.

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It’s not that deep lmao Will Wade whiffed on what’s been his top target for months.

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I haven’t watched Wade’s introductory press conference at NCSt since it happened, but he mentioned during his reflection portion of the conference that a major change in him was knowing there are multiple avenues to succeed and that he didn’t need to obsessively get every player he wanted. He didn’t land Haggerty, but moving on when negotiations stalled or when he lost upper hand/mutual respect, it might be interpreted as sign of maturity or not obsessively insisting he gets everyone he wants and not a whiff.

Eyeball test for me is McMahon’s teams have seemed very soft and possibly poorly conditioned relative to Wade’s teams. Effort also subjectively way worse. I’m sure talent is important for many things on the basketball court, but observed subjective trend is poor defense and soft toughness is more coaching related than talent drop off. McMahon has done a poor job instilling the grit and toughness necessary to be good at defense to date imo. Better explanation than players half as good as when Wade was here.

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s this clear? The same thing was said last year. Perhaps even more NIL money will be needed next offseason if the results are lackluster yet again

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They added the necessary NIL warchest funds to find themselves in the same place they’ve been since McMahon has arrived. Looks to me like NIL narrative was lip service. If they added substantially to NIL, it appears to be at the same rate as everyone else. If the team is garbage again this year, you’d hope they’d move on from McMahon, but who knows. Past 5 years lsu has handled mens basketball exactly the opposite of how I would have wanted them to.

My beef with it all is narrative floated at end of season that issue was NIL and it would be addressed. McMahon did commendable job in first few weeks of portal, but appears the well went dry pretty early compared to talk NIL would be substantially bolstered. I’m excited with signings early and think chance it all finally comes together. Just frustrating that narrative floated appeared to skirt appropriate criticism of everything and end result is we’re going to be in a similar boat roster construction wise as past few years, where it’s ended up being shite when it’s all said and done. If we’re done, NIL talk seems to have moved the needle little and acted mostly as a talking point to buy time till everyone appropriately outraged moved on emotionally and MBB left high and dry again.

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aka “We know we’re out of the running. We just won’t say anything and hope the fans still left forget.”

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No McMahon fan but credit to all the signings I haven’t seen leaked prior so I could see being in on anyone. My perception of concern is we’ve run out of money bc what looked to be grabbing some of the best talent available, which is how we stared, has stalled past 2-3 weeks. Hope they have a few more great signings on paper and I’ll hope for the best, but I’m not going to be critical they haven’t pulled some guys I’m excited to watch or perceive them to be out on anyone.

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You miserable fricks. It doesn't matter what McMahon does, how good a guy he gets, he's just not your boy so y'all are gonna shyt on his parade. I truly am convinced so many of you are wishing for LSU to lose out so you can say, "see I told you."

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Winning fixes everything. Unfortunately, last 3 years and last year especially, there hasn’t been much of that after running a consistent winner out of town. I’ll reiterate some sentiment shared here. I hope I’m wrong. I’m impressed by the get and am hopeful. History suggests it might all be for naught considering McMahon’s body of work to date.