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The longer you wait the worse it is. 3 year old will be fine.
Yep.
Mine was less than 3 when she had hers removed. Very quick procedure. The recovery (at least best you could tell for a 2 year old) was easy.
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I got mine taken out 2 years ago at 37. It was pretty awful, lost 30 lbs. Missed 3 weeks of work.
I snore. Multiple evaluations for sleep apnea came back negative. ENT said my tonsils were slightly large and they were likely contributing to the snoring. He offered to remove them but said "fair warning...it is a pretty tough recovery as an adult." I opted not to have the surgery.
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re: Great night for LSU basketball
Posted by Alt26 on 3/3/26 at 3:48 pm to mcspufftiger7
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Because he can hit the 3 bigs have to go out to guard him which opens up the lane for others and also gives him the opportunity to dribble past them as they close out.
In 7 games last season he attempted a grand total of FOUR 3 pointers (made two). The year before he attempted 33 three pointers...in 33 games. Literally, he was averaging 1 three point attempt per game. In his freshman year he attempted 14 three pointers...all season. For his career his average made 3 pointers per game was 0.3.
Was it possible he could make a 3 pointer? Sure. But in no way, shape, or form was he ever utilized as a 3 point threat LSU and defenses weren't going to change their approach to take away the 1 three pointer he might shoot a game.
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Also a good defender
He was an average defender against below-the-rim bigs. He struggled guarding athletic bigs who could operate in space.
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can help with the press
LSU would have to press first to require help. McMahon has never utilized the press
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Unfortunately due to injuries we haven't had the opportunity to see what his ceiling could be.
That is true. But that doesn't mean you ignore actual data/numbers to grossly inflate what that ceiling might be just to support a preferred narrative (er, excuse). Reed didn't even start half the SEC games in 2024. He averaged 7.4 ppg in SEC play. He only had 4 games...out of 19 SEC games (including SECT) where he scored in double-figures. He was also turnover prone...generally the worst among all forwards.
Yet, somehow, as a result of injury he goes from role player/average SEC starter to the lynchpin for McMahon's success and his absence being a huge reason LSU has been at the bottom of the league for 2 straight seasons....even though there was ZERO objective data suggesting that would be the case
re: Great night for LSU basketball
Posted by Alt26 on 3/3/26 at 2:41 pm to JimTiger72
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Just like Beard’s 12-17 record at Ole Miss
Both could be successful at LSU & obviously better than McMahon
Beard certainly has more tournament "skins on the wall", and I agree this season for him is a big outlier. The issue is he has a pretty cost prohibitive contract for anyone seeking to poach him from Ole Miss. His base salary is $6M annually (within the top 15 in the nation) and he would owe $4.5M to Ole Miss if he left. I doubt he would leave OM for less money than he is making now, so a $10.5M initial buy-in to get him seems steep.
re: NC State insiders are concerned about Will Wade returning to LSU
Posted by Alt26 on 3/3/26 at 12:55 pm to mcspufftiger7
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Been a strange year for him. Still would take him but he has been rolled by every ranked team he's played and they beat UNC but they didn't have 2 of their top scorers available that game. Also lost to ND and Ga tech which are in the bottom 3 of the ACC. With that payroll and a preseason POY candidate you would think he'd do better than that.
We don't agree often, but that is not a completely baseless statement. They've been blown out by Virginia 2x, got crushed at Louisville, and hammered by Duke (though Duke is doing that to everyone). They've also lost games to Texas, Auburn, Kansas and Miami.
They are 6th in the ACC, 29th in NET, 33rd in KenPom and projected to be a NCAA Tournament team. By no means is that bad, but 3-8 vs. the current NET top 40 isn't great. I watched them in the final minutes and OT vs. ND. It was a team that looked completely checked out. Even Wade wasn't particularly fiery. It was bizarre.
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No but I see you have an extreme case of WDS so nothing you say will surprise me no matter how ignorant or retarded.
Hopefully within two weeks we will be having a discussion about the open position of LSU MBB head coach. To preview that here will be a list of the Wade opposition talking points:
1. "LSU can do better"....without ever providing a name of who is (a) better, (b) why he is better and (c) someone reasonably likely to take the LSU job.
2. "Wade isn't that good"...while ignoring the resume relative to other potential candidates
3. "He just coaches streetball"...without any explanation as to what constitutes "streetball" and how Wade's teams employ it.
4. "LSU doesn't need to bring back a cheater"...despite the fact the manner in which he cheated, paying players, is both legal and necessary now.
The bottom line is this. While Wade isn't the top coach in the NCAA, his 12 year resume will likely be much, much better than anyone LSU could realistically hire. Anyone who is a basketball fan knows that. The fans who have lived through this depressing 4 year waste of time would gladly welcome back the guy they watched win at the most consistent rate in decades. The people so vehemently in opposition aren't really basketball fans. They are probably fans of LSU in general, but not serious basketball fans. The nature of their opposition is not really based in any logic or deductive reasoning. It's simply just a dislike of those fans who think highly of Wade.
re: NC State insiders are concerned about Will Wade returning to LSU
Posted by Alt26 on 3/3/26 at 9:30 am to LSUbasketballfan
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No players from their final four team are on this year’s team.
Plus, the year after the Final Four appearance NC State was 12-19 (5-15). They finished 16th in the ACC and Keatts was fired. The Final Four run was a total fluke and only extended the inevitable. NC State was going to fire Keatts at the end of 24 season once he lost in the ACC Tournament. However, he didn't lose.
Just about every season is a "rebuilding" season for every team because of the amount of roster turnover. You want a guy who can flip a roster, win, then do it again. Wade has an entirely new roster from last year's NC State roster. To date, he's won 7 more games overall and 5 more conference games compared to last year.
He's been a HC at 5 different schools now. In 4 of those stops (Chattanooga, LSU, McNeese, NC State) he took over a team who had a losing season the year before he arrived. At every one of those stops he had a winning season in his first year and improved the record from the prior season by multiple wins (+5 at UTC) (+8 at LSU) (+19 at McNeese) (+7...with more games to play at NC State)
re: NC State insiders are concerned about Will Wade returning to LSU
Posted by Alt26 on 3/3/26 at 9:01 am to Recoveringcajun
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None of y’all can answer the question.
Why have rules at all? Why have refs? Why not just do whatever and excuse it by accusing everyone else of doing it?
The alleged cheating was impermissible payments, or offers of payments, to recruits. That allegedly occurred in 2017 and 2018. Since that time the entire landscape of college sports have changed. Not only are payments "legal", but they are an absolutely necessary part of recruiting. There is no concern for a repeat offense because there is no need to conceal payments or discussions about payments.
re: If LSU is the better job (over NC State)…
Posted by Alt26 on 3/3/26 at 7:43 am to Circle K Beggar
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I saw an interesting blurb on coaching hot seats today from a national writer. He said his sources seem to think McMahon gets another year (nauseating thought) but he had an interesting quote: “If I’m McMahon, I might see if I could get in front of it and see if there’s a mid major opportunity that I could cling on to.”
He would be dumb to leave for a mid-major job. He has zero market at a major conf. school and no mid-major school (really low-major) would pay him anything close to the $2M+ annually he would be owed by LSU. If anything, sitting out a year or becoming an assistant coach somewhere may go further to wash the "stink" of this 4 year disaster off.
re: If LSU is the better job (over NC State)…
Posted by Alt26 on 3/3/26 at 7:40 am to DamnStrong
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Curley Hallman says hello.
No he doesn't.
Hallman took over a program that had gone 4-7 (2-5) and 5-6 (2-5) in the prior two seasons. Notably, Hallman did not have access to a transfer portal to immediately flip the roster with better, experienced players. Hallman was by NO MEANS good at LSU. But "LSU football in the Hallman era was not the "LSU football" it became in the 2000s. It was a program that had four losing seasons in the 80's. At worst, Hallman just maintained the decline Archer had started. Yet, he still finished with .322 SEC winning %. LSU wasn't even the worst team in the SEC during Hallman's tenure.
In 70 career SEC regular season games McMahon has a total of 17 wins. His SEC winning % is 242...nearly 10 points lower than Hallman. To put that in a bit of perspective, Texas joined the SEC last season. To date the program has 15 SEC (reg season) wins....almost the same amount McMahon has in 4 seasons. No team (excluding Texas and OU) has fewer conference wins than LSU over the last 4 years. LSU is the only SEC team (INCLUDING Texas and OU) who has not made the NCAA Tournament over the last 4 seasons. And he's accomplished that futility at a time where it's never been easier to "rebuild" a team given the availability of thousands of experienced players via the transfer portal.
People always say Hallman out of reflexive groupthink. But if you actually look at the data, not just lazily parroting what everyone else says, you see just how bad McMahon has been at LSU. This is the worst performance in any major sport in at least the last 40 years.
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Why is Oklahoma ready to fire their coach
Because they have standards. In 5 seasons he’s only made one in NCAA tournament. He has a 36% conference winning % (including 3 years in the Big 12). It’s worse when limited to the SEC.
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and LSU isn't?
Ask some of the knuckleheads who keep white knighting for McMahon.
re: William Schmidt vs. Kade Anderson
Posted by Alt26 on 3/2/26 at 4:34 pm to Jack Crevalle
LSU won the NC last year with basically 2 dominant starters, 2 good RPs, and one RP (Shores) who came at the end. Those 5 three 95% of the innings in the CWS. IIRC, LSU had only 4 reliable pitchers last season.
If LSU is looking to repeat that formula this year it seems like they are off to a decent start
If LSU is looking to repeat that formula this year it seems like they are off to a decent start
re: Early Season Hitting Struggles
Posted by Alt26 on 3/2/26 at 4:18 pm to Bring Da Wood
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Then you hit a mid week game with an in state school and 3 games against lower competition. They aren’t focused and don’t really have a big series to get up for right now.
I doubt it had much to do with motivation. Some of it is probably that opponents this week had film to evaluate on the LSU hitters and made some adjustment to their pitching approached based on what they saw. LSU's hitters will now have to adjust. That's going on all season long. Pitchers and hitters are constantly adjusting their approach based on more and more data
re: Saudi Arabia and the UAE seriously considering going on offensive against Iran
Posted by Alt26 on 3/2/26 at 4:12 pm to Wildcat1996
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find this hard to believe.
Assuming it is true, how badly did Iran FAFO to get the Saudis to join Israel in a fight?
I doubt Saudi Arabia and UAE see eye to eye with Israel on a lot of things. However, Iran, under its current leadership, is "bad for business." it's kind of like the mafia. One family may hate another family. But if a third family is messing up the business for everyone, they'll form a brief alliance for a specific purpose. To knock off the head of the troublemaker.
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LSU was offered the NIT last year which I felt they wisely declined, due to players opting out even before the end of the regular season. I think the situation this year is a little different. I don't see the team declining this year if offered the chance to burnish their postseason credentials
:lol:
It will give the SEC Network an opportunity to update its graphic showing McMahon's postseason accolades. 4 NCAA Tournaments (none at LSU) and 2 (somebody had to accept) NIT appearances.
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The Pit in The ABQ
I remember some epic games there
Arguably the most famous moment in NCAA Tournament history happened there:
re: Look at what the NCAA took from us man
Posted by Alt26 on 3/2/26 at 2:35 pm to Billy Blanks
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and Boise State courts.
Boise has had some great moments
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If LSU wants to play in the NIT, I suspect there will be an opportunity. I believe Auburn will choke their way out of the tournament. But, with the increasing number of teams who are opting out, I wouldn’t be surprised if they get an invite. Personally, I would hope they let McMahon go, meaning that we would likely decline as well.
Yep. The NIT is just desperate for anyone to participate who might draw any type of audience. Oklahoma is ahead of LSU in the pecking order. But it is very likely they fire their HC at the end of the season...which would likely prompt them into turning down a bid. I doubt Auburn would accept a bid either so they could just get a jump on next year. It's a little deflating to go from the Final Four to the NIT in the span of one year.
No one is attending the LSU games anyway and I doubt many, if any, would suddenly be excited to see LSU play in a postseason game just because "someone had to" vs actually accomplishing anything. Last time LSU played in the NIT there were probably less than 2,000 fans that attended...and that was McMahon's best team.
re: so who starts tomorrow
Posted by Alt26 on 3/2/26 at 1:44 pm to jasonbr1975
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I believe it's also more interesting the strategy that UL will employ as they play a 3 game away series at Dallas Baptist this weekend.
This is an emotional game by both teams, and a win for UL would be gigantic for their team and bragging rights for sure and an all out melt would occur by the negatigers for sure. If LSU wins, it's just another day at the ballpark and another win against an in state team.
I think the magnitude of the game is WAY bigger for the fans than it is the coaching staffs. I don't think UL is going to do anything to compromise its weekend series just to get a mid-week win over LSU. On the flip-side, I doubt Johnson treats it any differently than if it were a game vs. Grambling or the like. Of course he wants to win and will, within reason, make moves to try to accomplish that. But he's also looking well beyond ULL in terms of getting the team better for April, May, June than selling out to win a mid-week game in early March.
re: Tiger Rag Magazine says LSU only had a surplus of $3.8M in 2025 & in a mountain of debt
Posted by Alt26 on 3/2/26 at 12:40 pm to Sissidog02
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Gildo still salty over the Sunbelt Billy non-hire, now go do one on Florida and what there football program did.
I can’t stand this hack mfer Gildo, sorry if I offended any journalist admirers or kin folks of this Godouche
He's going to implode if LSU somehow manages to hire Wade. He was so thrilled to mock LSU fans when Wade was fired. He was giddy last year to write an article cheering the decision to retain McMahon for year 4 despite a behind-the-scenes push to get Wade back to LSU from McNeese.
He gleefully told LSU fans Wade was NEVER coming back to LSU as long as Scott Woodward was AD:
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And if there was one afoot, there will no longer be any concerted effort, including by a certain political power or two, to try to pressure Woodward into hiring Wade back. It was Woodward who rightly fired Wade in March of 2022 amid a plethora of major NCAA violations while LSU’s coach from 2017-22.
Such a Wade coup wasn’t going to happen without a fight, and Woodward is more connected politically than any LSU athletic director in history and as connected as some in Louisiana politics now. He used to play that game in Baton Rouge before he went the athletic director route.
How did those political connections work out for Scott 7 months later? Oh, and those "certain political powers or two"? They are still around.
Ever?
My nominee would be Elizabeth Hurley in in Bedazzled
Bonus....this is her at 58 (she might actually be the devil)
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My nominee would be Elizabeth Hurley in in Bedazzled
Bonus....this is her at 58 (she might actually be the devil)
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That is why I am opposed to the plans to build the new arena as there were indications they want to build a more intimate type setting like Auburn but reduce seating to around 10,000. That is foolish with the way gymnastics and women's basketball pack in huge crowds and so will men's basketball which will eventualy have all things aligned. If the new arena capacity can be 14,000 to 15,000 that would be great.
The plan for the new arena is that it will have modifiable seating. The model is the Moody Center at Texas. The general capacity for UT basketball games is just under 11k. However, the seating can be expanded to 16k (presumably including floor seats) for concerts.
See below. Behind the screen are upper deck seats. The screens can be raised (if needed)
Also, while WBB and gymastics being very good is the biggest part of the draw for fans, you also have to realize the season tickets are really cheap compared to mens basketball. Lower-level season ticket for WBB (including TAF fees) range from $325 - $400. Upper deck season tickets are $50. Compare that to men's BB where lower level season tickets range from $500 - $1,100 with upper deck ticket from $175 - $300. Season tickets are even cheaper for gymnastics: Lower level season tickets are $125. Upper deck season tickets are $20 - $50. Would LSU get the same crowds for WBB and gymnastics if the ticket prices were higher?
If LSU wanted to build a smaller fixed capacity arena they could do so and simply raise the costs of WBB and gym tickets to meet the obvious demand.
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