re: South Carolina went 11-20 last season. Currently 21-3 this season.

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Wade was sacrificed to get LSU off with lighter penalties…especially with the bell cow (football) being part of the investigation.

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That's the part of the equation everyone is forgetting, or choosing to ignore.

Let's say we stood firm with Wade, and football got hit hard. No reason to think it wouldn't, they had already voided out a few of Miles' seasons, and were poking around in the Guice stuff. Those were shots across the bow. Somebody had to go down.

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Trent Johnson inherited Marcus Thornton , Garrett temple , and Tasmin Mitchell . McMahon is most likely not the guy but let’s not take his first year and compare it to CMMs first . That’s three all sec type guys that had tons of experience

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The team also included future NBA player Chris Johnson.

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People forget Wade was also a horrible game day coach. The only advantage he had was buying players. Since buying players is no longer an advantage he is average as frick. frick slimy Will Wade for destroying the program and anyone who supports him

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He is currently 21-3.

He has had success at LSU, VCU, and now McNeese.

That is a power 5, mid major, and bottom tier school. He has won at every level in CBB.

You are obviously a moron

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He is currently 21-3

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21-3 at Louisiana-Lake Chuck... that don't impress me much!

Yall are both right

Brady mailed it in after the final 4, kept trying to press forward without a legit PG. He also openly flirted with NC State. The 06-07 season was just as if not more disappointing than 15/16 given we began the year top 10 off a final 4 appearance. Then in 07/08 Taz and Johnson got injured, Baby was in the pros and the wheels came off only for Butch to step in and lead them to a few surprise wins. (Like @ Florida)

If 06/07 hadn’t been such a disappointment he would’ve probably got another year

You have to factor in the possible NCAA sanctions that might have kept players away. I’m really not worried about the Men’s BB program turning around this year. If things look the same in year three then I would start to become more concerned.

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You drunk or high? We are talking about Wade at McNeese

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Why?

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He had one returning player. The others are freshmen and transfers. Pretty good wouldn't you say?

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Yes, a great job. Although he had more than 1 returning player. Doesn’t really matter if he can bring in better players every year from the portal. Which he can do at Mcneese

Last year it was gates, tang and jans.
This year it’s Paris and beard. The reality is that you can build good teams from the portal early, but sustained success comes from recruiting, which does take a few years to show dividends.
For the record, I think tang and Paris are very good. What Paris has done with a roster that isn’t more talented than ours is exceptional.

They used this same line with Mizzou last year but look at them this year. They suck. Sometimes the coaches hit it with the portal. Sometimes they miss. SC wasn't under investigation were they. I'm going to give MM a little leeway due to the circumstances surrounding the program when he came in. I'll see where he ends up at end of the year and how next year goes before wanting to replace him. All I know is they said they wanted Beard and they used Mizzou as an example last year. MM beat both of them this year.