Will Wade sounds off on potential return, transfer portal, current state of college basket

He’s right

He’s right in this age of college basketball. Because of the transfer rules your roster is going to significantly turnover from year to year. You’re building teams from year to year. Not building for the the future.

That’s why, for instance, it doesn’t make a ton of sense for McMahon to sit two of his three freshmen while getting stomped game after game. They likely won’t stick around and you just wasted two potential players.

He has to get impact starters from the transfer portal after the season. Not “development” guys.

Sounds like he has a pretty realistic and accurate understanding of how college basketball works these days: you don’t build a program you build a team. Basically, a new coach has one off-season to figure it out and put a team together. Gone are the days of planning to finally have a championship team 3-4 years down the road. It doesn’t work like that. The players will be gone long before then and the fans will already want you gone too.

And the key is to have the best players who need the least development. So in one off-season you’ve got put together a team with whatever resources are available at the destination you find yourself in. Oh there’s no institutionalized pipeline supported by a legion of wealthy boosters (like at LSU) to pay players and their families in order to have a steady supply of 5 star talent? Tough luck, figure it out.

It’s too bad we’ve got so many deluded fans that can’t understand this is exactly what he was dealing with and trying to do here. “Oh but muh Dickie V don’t like it!”

He is spot on

frick he’s awesome.

I fricking LOVE that man. McMahon should take notes. He was all culture culture culture in his introductory press conference.

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"If you don’t have good players, you’re not winning. You can have all the culture in the world. Houston has an incredible culture and I love what they do and how hard they do it. But it doesn’t work without the good players and the winning. They would revolt if they were doing that and they were 15-15 every year. That’s just the way it works. You have to figure out what you have to do to win immediately."

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Again McMahon should take notes. And all the people wanting to give him 3 to 4 years should take notes.

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"It’s pretty simple. You have to build your team year to year. You can’t think two or three years down the road. What can you do to win this year? And then you figure it out next year. That year we lost (Trendon) Watford and Cam (Thomas) everyone is like, 'What are you going to do?’ We’re going to get in the portal and build a team that can win now. It’s not that hard. We didn’t have a lot of guys back, you just go figure it out.

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Why hasn't Will found a job coaching basketball somewhere? Doesn't some high school need a coach?

frick I love Will. We should hire him

I miss the General

Man, how the world has changed.