re: Auburn stuck with Pearl under fire, LSU fired Wade, hired a coach who can’t compete

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Wade isn’t on the same planet as Pearl as a coach. He’s taken two different programs who didn’t give a shite about basketball to the top tier of the sport and gotten Auburn to the Final 4.

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Why don't we just shut it down?

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It's not like a little child. It's that many see an opportunity this year to essentially re-start where LSU basketball left off when Wade was fired.

Wade is doing extremely well at McNeese while McMahon and the LSU basketball program are floundering with no end in site. Wade is eventually going to get another power conf. job. More likely sooner rather than later. Kelvin Sampson got the Houston job despite putting two schools (Oklahoma and Indiana) on probation and getting himself a "show cause" penalty. Bruce Pearl was essentially blackballed in the coaching profession when he called a recruit and secretly recorded him suggesting Illinois had paid him to sign with Illinois which Pearl then turned into the NCAA. Pearl then got Tennessee put on probation and himself a "show cause" penalty. Auburn still hired him. Wade's show cause is over after this year.

Winners who cheat still get jobs. Losers who "do it right" don't. That may not seem "right", but that is reality.

Wade had the most consistent period of winning LSU basketball experienced since the early 90's. He knows and is still well liked by the donor class (unless you are naïve enough to think he was winning recruiting battles against Kentucky, North Carolina, Indiana, Auburn, Arizona, etc completely with money out of his own pocket). That is more important now than ever before given having enough money to buy a roster is mandatory. To that end, there is no risk of a repeat transgression at LSU because conversations involving paying players no longer have to be secret. They are NECESSARY.

Outside of men (including Wade) setting aside their egos and any hard feelings, there is no logical reason to not bring him back to LSU after this year. He would immediately inject life back into a lifeless program (which would = increase revenues). He fully embraces the new NIL/transfer landscape, and he has already proven he can compete with the best HCs in the SEC. He's beaten Oats, Pearl, Barnes, Calipari, and Buzz Williams multiple times. By contrast, McMahon is 3-15 against that group.

For Wade he would get to jump right back in to where he left off from a support/donor perspective instead of having to build a major program and relationships with major donors elsewhere. For LSU they get to essentially pretend this current 3 year waste of time never happened.

If LSU doesn't at least consider rehiring Wade it will be for no other reason but hubris and pride

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frick you and the high horse you rode in on. All those things are legal now

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if LSU had told the NCAA to frick off, we’d still have Wade with no sanctions

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