Why are all our basketball fans so stuck on Will Wade? His team can never shoot the 3!

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It’s as simple as that.

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OK thanks for clearing that up, keep us posted

Not saying The Generals teams didn’t shoot 3’s or shoot them well. By and large throughout his coaching career from UTC, VCU, LSU, and now McNeese, his teams are notoriously much streakier even game to game than even he himself would probably like. A coach told me this a long time ago, and this is not a shot at CMM, at the end of the game if you have more points on your side than the opposing team, it doesn’t matter how they come when you need a win.

But to answer your question at large. While I loved Coach Wade, knew him as well as a student/third degree played in front of him enough times in high school, as well as had enough mutual friends in basketball circles to say this. Not only did LSU and Wade get screwed by mainly not even the powers at be but by media, a select few coaches in the Power 4, and then when the HBO documentary came out. it blew up even more The NCAA was not going to let him, “Get away with it.” By the end of Johnny Jones tenure, the program was on absolute life support, to the point, it was a much harder decision to leave a place like VCU to come coach at LSU. For a lot of fans, myself included, Wade was as excited and determined to win as had been since Brady and the Final Four.

Speaking for myself, felt like much the same way as Jay Johnson for baseball we had a coach that was younger, hungry, had a plan at all times, and did whatever it took to win (lol too soon or late?). He also was just different enough and having no real ties to become a true part of the fabric that is LSU and Louisiana basketball. Under Trent Johnson, under Johnny Jones, and as it stands right now under CMM, as a lifelong diehard Tiger basketball fan, he made us not only relevant but what he had put together going into the next year before being fired was his best team yet, with the transfers they had lined up and the #2 recruiting class in America, they were probably looking at an initial Top-10 ranking and give how his teams performed and the state of the SEC at the time finishing at worst 3rd in the conference with 2-3 losses. In 5 years at LSU we made/ would have made covid not withstanding 4/5 NCAA tourneys, and one NIT. With 4 in a row. Two of the tournaments he didn’t even get to coach in with one being a Sweet 16 appearance. Since Dale Brown he was the closest thing to potentially rattling off 15 or 17 straight NCAA tournament appearances. In 5 years he had 9 players that either played in, or built careers in the NBA. Some bluebloods struggle to do that. The energy and the juice was back, and lastly CWW had that, “F you” aura and personality as it related to competing against others, that a lot of the best LSU coaches in various sports have had.

Not stuck on him, simply one of those already looking to be biggest what ifs in LSU sports history. Happy for his and any others man’s success, but when it’s as close to home as Lake Charles, and then added on, it will take 3-4 years to build a program in the SEC now to contender status year in and year out, because the league is so good, it is simply easy to get fixed on probably the only team in Louisiana besides Southern if they win the SWAC to go dancing this year.

I've never seen so much support for a coach who accomplished so little and whose biggest "strength" as a coach has been neutralized by the NIL era.

Is there any faction of the LSU fanbase more stupid than the ones trying to stick it to the fans who miss the previous relatively successful HC?

You guys tanked this program to go 9-4 in football.

Sure but the had ‘spacing’

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Not saying The Generals teams didn’t shoot 3’s or shoot them well. By and large throughout his coaching career from UTC, VCU, LSU, and now McNeese, his teams are notoriously much streakier even game to game than even he himself would probably like. A coach told me this a long time ago, and this is not a shot at CMM, at the end of the game if you have more points on your side than the opposing team, it doesn’t matter how they come when you need a win. But to answer your question at large. While I loved Coach Wade, knew him as well as a student/third degree played in front of him enough times in high school, as well as had enough mutual friends in basketball circles to say this. Not only did LSU and Wade get screwed by mainly not even the powers at be but by media, a select few coaches in the Power 4, and then when the HBO documentary came out. it blew up even more The NCAA was not going to let him, “Get away with it.” By the end of Johnny Jones tenure, the program was on absolute life support, to the point, it was a much harder decision to leave a place like VCU to come coach at LSU. For a lot of fans, myself included, Wade was as excited and determined to win as had been since Brady and the Final Four. Speaking for myself, felt like much the same way as Jay Johnson for baseball we had a coach that was younger, hungry, had a plan at all times, and did whatever it took to win (lol too soon or late?). He also was just different enough and having no real ties to become a true part of the fabric that is LSU and Louisiana basketball. Under Trent Johnson, under Johnny Jones, and as it stands right now under CMM, as a lifelong diehard Tiger basketball fan, he made us not only relevant but what he had put together going into the next year before being fired was his best team yet, with the transfers they had lined up and the #2 recruiting class in America, they were probably looking at an initial Top-10 ranking and give how his teams performed and the state of the SEC at the time finishing at worst 3rd in the conference with 2-3 losses. In 5 years at LSU we made/ would have made covid not withstanding 4/5 NCAA tourneys, and one NIT. With 4 in a row. Two of the tournaments he didn’t even get to coach in with one being a Sweet 16 appearance. Since Dale Brown he was the closest thing to potentially rattling off 15 or 17 straight NCAA tournament appearances. In 5 years he had 9 players that either played in, or built careers in the NBA. Some bluebloods struggle to do that. The energy and the juice was back, and lastly CWW had that, “F you” aura and personality as it related to competing against others, that a lot of the best LSU coaches in various sports have had.

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Well said. 100% agree

He’s doing pretty well at McNesse State. Absolutely dominating that league. He’ll get another shot at a bigger program and probably win there. I’m not sure McMan is the answer. Maybe if he can buy better players, he’ll do okay.

Made nCAA 4 of 5 years here and didn’t make up excuses

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I've never seen so much support for a coach who accomplished so little and whose biggest "strength" as a coach has been neutralized by the NIL era.

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Actually, just the opposite my friend. It has not only NOT neutralized his strength it has and will only made it better and stronger.

Ask yourself this question and be honest......how many coaches in the country could do what he's done at McNeese? You know very well the answer....very few...you think maybe NIL played a part in that?

And you think maybe he'd be pretty good at helping raise NIL money at a Power 5 school.....yeah, probably so.

I'm not sure you thought this one out too well before posting. You can hate the guy, I get it....but at least go a more logical direction to try to make your case then an assertion that NIL neutralizes him.....that may quite literally be the worst angle you could have chosen in terms of reality.