All of the “This Team vs Wade’s Teams”

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Will Wade is gone. McMahon is a good coach and we will have a good program under him. Will Wade was also a good coach and we had a good program under him, these things are not mutually exclusive. Why can’t we comment on the quality of the team without bashing Wade or comparing the teams in the process?

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Great point, but this is tRant sir.

Because LSU fans love to compare current coaches to former coaches. It’s why every time Brian Kelly stepped up to a microphone this year, there were immediately 5 threads started about Orgeron or Miles.

Wade brought in great players but he was a terrible coach. He would get 5 stars and just let them play street ball. And no, I don’t dislike Wade. I was actually a big fan because he was so good at recruiting.

The frustration comes from basketball fans, like myself, being exhausted from watching inconsistent teams for 20+ years. Having a coach who brought a level attention to detail that rivals a 50 year old coach and he was only in his 30’s. He won and he won CONSISTENTLY.

We saw the potential of a long term program with long term success. Yet he was consistently criticized by the basketball recruiting virtue signals and then last year by the Woodward acolytes (yes it was done intentionally because the same talking pints you read on here were repeated by BOS members and others within the school administration).

The team Wade had coming in next year would have been his best on campus. Instead we blew it up, while other schools in similar situations gave the NCAA the middle finger and hung banners last year.

I hope MM does great, but we gave up the most consistently successful coach since Brown in the 70-80’s for a really good mid major coach. And don’t be fooled, we did it on the cheap. Didn’t pay Wade a dime in buyout money and are paying MM near the bottom of the league in salary. It feels like had this administration been behind Wade, last year would have looked different and this year certainly would have looked different.

I’m not judging MM against Wade’s team last year or even what it could have been this year, that’s not fair. I’m also not judging it against Wade’s first year because MM did not inherit a dumpster fire and under the transfer portal days rebuilding is not what it used to be.

FYI many on here claimed MM’s roster was as good as last year. That was wrong. Last year LSU ran the table pre-conference and had a single digit NET ranking. This year we are 8-1 and are in the 70-80’s.

I hope MM succeeds, but if he doesn’t match his predecessor, it is a failure.

I’m pulling for LSU, but if the admin isn’t going to invest into the program, it’s tough to spend my money on it.

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pulling for LSU, but if the admin isn’t going to invest into the program, it’s tough to spend my money on it.

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I think woody gutted it to give Brian Kelly as clean of a slate in football as he could.

Woody knows football is our cash cow and I think that's why he did it.

It sucks, I find myself listless watching this team, but I still support it.

It feels like we got relegated back to what we were post Johnny Jones, but so be it.

Facts.

Arguably the best coach ever to coach Lsu program & without a doubt the best coach to rise to the heights he did almost instantly from stepping on campus. He rose to quickly despite constant back stabbing and lack of support by his own athletic department and was loved by every player he coached.

I miss the bad boy mentality, he may not have been the best coach but his coaching produced great results and also the last year the he grew a little imo and changed the team philosophy on getting a win based on his players he had


Rising star someone is going to higher him and he will do the same thing he did at lsu

I agree that they’re both good coaches. I would have loved the McMahon hire under different circumstances.

I think people are still rightfully pissed at Woodward/Tate for how Wade was jettisoned right then the NOA hit with no thought given to the tourney.

Any competent and confident administration would have issued a single statement that the NOA had been received and would be addressed immediately following the conclusion of the team’s postseason. Until then there would be no further comment.

WW is a choad

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but Wade BOUGHT in much better players and that is more important in basketball.

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FIXED IT FOR YOU
He cheated and sucked at it. Bye.

Yeah I could see where 4 paragraphs is tough for you. Glad you felt the need to chime in. Congrats.