It was reported on Monday that LSU would be hiring Murray State’s Matt McMahon to fill the basketball opening.
McMahon was thought to be a strong candidate since the job came open after a seven-year run at Murray State, where he won multiple NCAA Tournament games in his tenure and won 25 games on three separate occasions.
McMahon is just 43 years old, when he first took the job at Murray State, he was one of the youngest head coaches in the country.
Murray State is coming off a year where the Racers went 31-3, which included an 18-0 conference record. The point is, he’s won a lot of basketball games.
It’s hard to imagine any LSU fans being upset with this hire in normal times, much less with the state the program is currently in.
McMahon didn’t build Murray State from scratch, it could be said he didn’t build it at all. Murray State had success before McMahon took over the program, but McMahon sustained it over a long period, which is not easy to do at a school of that stature.
LSU’s future remains murky but with McMahon in town, LSU seems to be in some competent hands it handles all the uncertainty headed its way.
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