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Don't be the idiot that compares the 1st season of each coach. Apples and oranges. Point is Wade went to NIT after terrible seasons under Jones. Mcmahon is going to NIT his second year but his first year was a cluster f**k due to the Wade situation before. That is a fact. And Wade went to the NIT with future NBA players on his team when he got there. Doe that make him a bad coach that year? It would if his name was Mcmahon. These people seriously need to get some therapy. Constantly bringing up Wade whether the news is good or bad for LSU basketball shows just how mentally unstable these people are. I will be there supporting LSU basketball and hope this helps springboard the team to a better outcome next year. I will judge Mcmahon on his own merits and not on Will Wade. He has done a great job with the exit of Cook. Not easy to lose your leading scorer and starting PG on this team and continue to have wins in big games against ranked opponents. Anyone who doesn't agree with that is just a moron and loser in life.

You can not like it all day long, but there will always be a natural comparison to Wade for one big reason...the fans were happy with his on-court results and did not want to see him fired. There hasn't been another HC of a major sport at LSU in the last 50 years (maybe ever) where the school got fired a coach with whom the fans were pleased with his performance. Arnsparger, Skip, Saban ALL left on their own accord. Everyone else was eventually fired (or encouraged to retire) because of substandard performance. And when that coach then goes to an in-state school, with virtually zero history of success, and engineers the biggest one year turnaround of any school in the country while LSU fans are left to be "happy" in year two to back into the NIT, the fans are naturally going to think "we should be excited for an NCAA Tournament appearance". Not slogging through apathy trying to justify significantly lower expectations.

Now that is not going to change anything. Wade is not coming back to LSU. But if you can't understand while the fans remain frustrated with the current state of LSU basketball relative to what it was just a few years ago (the longest sustained period of winning in 30 years), I don't know what to tell you. And like it or not, it is going to remain that way until McMahon starts winning at a similar level. Miles, Mainieri, and Johnson would have gotten the same treatment except for one key difference...they WON at a high level almost immediately.

McMahon will get the same favor if/when he starts winning. Until then, he's going to continue to be the guy the fans have to "deal with" until the program starts winning again (or he's fired). That makes his job incredibly tough. But that's what he signed up for. And much of the ire is directed to the LSU administration. That is who chose to fire Wade. There was certainly a reasonable basis why they chose to do so when they chose to do it. But 2 years later, with Wade now taking McNeese to the NCAA Tournament, and LSU "excited" for the NIT, it seems in the minds of the fans less, and less likely LSU HAD to end the party.