re: McMahon is on the clock now

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McMahon has at least two more years before his seat gets hot.

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I think it is more like one more year. The excuse train will fully be over next year (except for those diligent few who refuse to find any grounds for criticism whatsoever) and it has never been easier to quickly "rebuild" a winning team. If after next season the team is still hovering around .500 and no real threat to make the NCAA Tournament it will be very reasonable to evaluate if this is just a waste of time relative to the ultimate goal of being a competitive program. Twice in the last 20 years LSU has hung on to a HC after it was clear the program was going nowhere (Johnson after 2 seasons with 5 total SEC wins; Jones after the wasted "Simmons" year). All it resulted in was greater apathy to build from for the next HC. There's generally no reason to prolong what is inevitable.

However, to the OP's point, any new arena is so far into the future that it won't have any bearing of the evaluation of McMahon in the next couple of years.