Anyone else feel we should have not fired Wade(ride it out)

There is a chance he gets hit with a show cause so LSU would have had to get rid of him anyway.

I have forgotten what exactly are the penalties for a show cause?

Of course we should have kept him. Woodward was just looking for an excuse to get rid of him to bring his own guy in. Tell the NCAA to frick off like every other basketball program does and go from there

LSU finally had a consistently good basketball program

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There is a chance he gets hit with a show cause so LSU would have had to get rid of him anyway.

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Then get rid of him at that point. Firing him right before the tournament is a terrible move

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Scott is bad at timing. See holding onto O through title ix despite almost no chance he would get the football team fixed. It cost us 20M

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Woodward should have had that buyout come out of his paycheck. He's a freakin idiot for giving Orgeron that insane contract only to fire him a year or so later

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Woodward was just looking for an excuse to get rid of him to bring his own guy in

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Underrated reason for firing in the midst of all this. Really think Woodward wanted him gone the day he stepped on campus because like you said he wasnt his guy and didnt like all the negative allegations surrounding Wade.

I’ll give Scott a pass on the contract because O did have a undefeated national title so you have to pay up.

However, his frick up was either 1 pushing Bo or just 2. Approving an insane contract. O was coming off a title but you can’t let him give a guy no one wants 2M.

His next mistake was not firing O after hiring DJ and Poot as his dc and oc. He had the title ix report and should have used it to clean out O since no way we were winning the west.

Then we have the firing O after a win and not even being able to get a penny off the buyout despite all the off the field black eyes.

Last we have firing Wade before the tourny and having the players find out via Twitter.

He is bad at negotiations if he couldn’t even get a penny off for hush money. I’m not saying it’s so cut and dry but it’s a bad look. He had opportunities to dump O and he held up.

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Outside of death penalty that is what we should have done.

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Hopefully not, but perhaps as early as Saturday that is what the AD will have given the program.

What is left of the coaching staff will leave. All of the scholarship players will leave. They were ALL here because of Wade. And even if they did have a strong affinity for LSU that MIGHT give them a reason to say, the AD pulling the rug out from under them and unnecessarily firing their coach 6 days before the NCAA Tournament probably ruined any of that. The 4 commmits/signees will not sign with LSU. It is entirely plausible that come Saturday the basketball program will have no coaching staff, no players, and no players signed to join the team next season. If that is not a "dead" program, I don't know what is.

Would the day have eventually come where LSU had no choice but to fire Wade? Maybe (probably?) But the NCAA doesn't have to give LSU the "death penalty" (something they have acknowledged they would not do). LSU preemptively committed suicide.

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I’ll give Scott a pass on the contract because O did have a undefeated national title so you have to pay up.

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BULL shite

No matter what LSU fans might think, there was not a single school in America who (1) was a strong enough program to compete for a NC, and (2) had the willingness to spend even what O was making in 2019, that was a threat to "steal" O from LSU. NONE! There was nothing contractually that said O had to get a salary increase if he won the NC. Woodward didn't have to give him another nickel and O would have still been the LSU HC in 2020. You tell me you're worth more than $____, then show me the other person that has an offer on the table confirming such. O could not do that because there wasn't anyone.

In true Louisiana fashion everyone got piss drunk at the party that was 2019 (the AD, along with the fricking Governor and bureaucrats who had NOTHING to do with LSU's success) and didn't think about the potential for a terrible hangover. 2020 and 2021 was Woodward and others waking up after 2019 with a fat woman in the bed and their wallet stolen.