Nice Q&A with Will Wade

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WW – Well, we’ll modify but our basic approach is to be the aggressor on both ends. We want to get downhill and attack the rim as quickly as we can on offense. We want to attack the ball defensively.. make every pass tough, contest every pass on the perimeter and make your life difficult on both ends. We want to be good in special teams situations… anything out of a huddle we want to be very good in. It’s going to be an aggressive, attacking, fast-paced attack that gets up and down the court and allows our guys to play in space and make plays in transition. It should be exciting and fits the caliber of athletes we can recruit down here.

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At VCU, you learn the nuts and bolts of running a big time basketball program. There, I learned how to deal with the corporate side of basketball that will certainly suit me well here. But you take a little bit from everywhere. I was looking at my old marketing ideas from Chattanooga and so I’ll dust some of those off here at LSU.

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WW – We’re gonna hit the road recruiting and recruit hard. We’ll start summer school, spend some time with our team and get ourselves better in the weight room.. along with a little bit of skill instruction. We’ll hit the road again in July and continue to recruit to build our team and our future classes. In August we’ll start back to school and really get going full tilt. So we have a busy, work-filled, summer ahead of us but we’re really excited about the opportunity in front of us.

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Saying all the right things. Wade should be a welcome change and a good fit for what LSU basketball fans have been looking for in a coach.

I'm so fricking excited to have a coach that is entergetic and gives me something to look forward to

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When you sit down with Joe Alleva and Eddie Nunez and they go through what they’re going to do for the program, their vision for the program, and how we can get there together, I thought that was very impressive and important.

One thing we had at VCU was that everybody was in alignment from our President — all the way through. We’ve got that now at LSU. When you have everybody in alignment, you have a tremendous opportunity to win at a high level.

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I am wearing my LaCrosse waders to the first game.