And may well be a tournament team this year. They've been like 4 of the last 5 years. Lots of mid majors have pretty good basketball teams. It happens every year if you ever happen to watch college basketball. And this is their second season since Underwood left. It's still a senior and junior laden team that knows how to win.

So you should follow your own advice about knowing what you're talking about before you post. Or just stick to football where you original statement may hold some validity because your arrogant views hold no worth in college basketball or baseball. They are different worlds.

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Posted by Stephen1979

Member since Oct 2016

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Posted on 1/20/18 at 8:57 pm to chinhoyang

Can you show me where I blamed Johnny? Your constant presence acting like Johnny got a bad deal and devaluing Wade is really getting tired. Johnny had 5 years. I didn't degrade your friend. I know you're having a hard time with his being terminated as the coach but maybe you should stay away from message boards until the sting is gone.

Coach Wade didn't inherit a great situation or loaded roster. That's all you'll ever see me post about Johnny. He had his chance and he's moved on. Wade deserves a chance to get a recruiting class or two in here before people criticize him too sharply. It's not like we walked into a top 25 program. It's a major rebuild. The roster sucked, the culture sucked, the work ethic sucked, etc. Since you're all about what's fair, how about you give Will half the time Johnny got before you say another negative word about him ok?

Again, tell Johnny, LSU fans have no hard feelings. It just didn't work out for him in that role here. Best of luck to Johnny and I hope you can resolve your anger/resentment soon. Just try to remember Will Wade didn't take your friends job. He's just here trying to build a program.

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Posted by Big EZ Tiger

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Posted on 1/20/18 at 9:27 pm to T

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ts amazing to see people on here thinking it was ok to lose to a southland team.

Honestly, who are we? LSU has had 1 freaking tourney appearance this decade and 0 tourney wins. SFA has had 3 appearances (2014, 2015 and 2016). And they advanced to the 2nd round by beating the #3 and #5 seeds in two of those years.

Yes, we should be better than them looking at our resources, but they have a good team this year and we are rebuidling after a bad stretch.

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Posted by Stephen1979

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Posted on 1/20/18 at 9:30 pm to Big EZ Tiger

You can't tell the football only crowd that sort of thing. They can't grasp the differences. It's a pretty myopic view but whatever

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Posted by Madking

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Posted on 1/20/18 at 9:35 pm to TrollingMidget

Before he went to starting both Reath and Epps we were 8-3 since he started using both bigs in the lineup we are 3-4. We need to go back to the smaller lineup to free up more space for Waters and use the full court pressure defense. The lack of rebounding isn’t going to change and playing the two bigs together just clogs up the paint and takes away space for Waters to operate. We’ve got to offset the possessions we lose from offensive rebounds by turning our opponents over with the press. Besides Waters and Reath pretty much everyone els we have is the same level player and we need all of them to contribute to be successful. The press will level out their minutes and give us more opportunities collectively. We’ve outscored our opponents by double figures while in the press it’s the only defense that’s worked for us. It creates turnovers and the pace we need to be effective and I’m hoping Wade starts using it and the smaller lineup exclusively.

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