re: Expectations of Will Wade coming to LSU?

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That's some hefty expectations - even for most SEC programs - outside of - Kentucky and maybe Florida - and you're expecting that out of LSU - a football and baseball school - good luck with that one.

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This is essentially asking LSU to be what Auburn and Alabama have been for the past 8 years. Definitely not too much to ask.

tough to expect a natty in hoops unless you bring in a championship level coach, due to the nature of the NCAAT. We aren't likely to be pulling from that type of pool anyway


I just want to consistently make the tournament and make a solid run in some of those years. You build from there. If Wade can't elevate past that, we re-evaluate down the road.

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What makes everyone think he would do anything special at LSU?

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who are we bringing in that will?

This isn't football where we're a premier job pulling from an elite list of candidates. Most interested in this job are going to have serious warts on the resume.

Wade was on the verge of at minimum consistency that has failed the large majority of basketball coaches before him here.

These people don’t follow basketball. Kelvin Sampson has 0 nattys, does he suck? Bruce Pearl, 0 nattys yet these same people use him as an example of greatness all the time. Jim Boeheim, 1 natty in 47 seasons, does he suck? Slick Rick, considered by many a top 5-7 coach alltime has 2. Bobby Knight won 3. These people have no idea what college basketball even is or what it takes to have success in the sport. They’re just ignorant.

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I promise you these people don’t watch basketball

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If nothing else, the last 4 years have shown just how LITTLE LSU fans know about basketball and the college basketball landscape on the whole. Yet, that doesn't stop them from taking definitive, almost always ignorant, positions.

Example No. 62,598...the poster you reply to that says "If Wade can't win at NC State then he can't win at LSU"...the implication being NC State is a much better program.

I'm CERTAIN that poster has no idea what NC State's record was last season. That it was 12-19 (5-15) with a 16th place finish in the ACC. That even with Wade's "inability to win" he improved the overall record by 8 wins...to 20-14 (10-8), tied for 6th in the 18th team league. That poster probably doesn't realize that, prior to this season, "powerhouse" NC State had reached three, 3, THREE, NCAA Tournaments in the last 10 years. One of which being a total fluke by winning the ACC Tournament as a 10 seed. That, if you are keeping score at home, is the same amount of NCAA Tournaments Wade reached at LSU, alone.

Average 500 conference record, dance bid most years, sweet 16 run every 4-5 years

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It’s alarming how many people can’t grasp this.

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but you have to tie in the premise with at what cost are we willing to spend a coaching budget and nil budget that is high end only to achieve mediocrity in the sport. i promise you after making the tournament 4 years out of 6 years that it will quickly become not good enough and people will get bitchy.

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but you have to tie in the premise with at what cost are we willing to spend a coaching budget and nil budget that is high end only to achieve mediocrity in the sport. i promise you after making the tournament 4 years out of 6 years that it will quickly become not good enough and people will get bitchy.

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Well at that point we will finally be out from under the albatross contracts that Scotty left us with.

Buy outs will be paid and mulkey retired so we can finally fund basketball with the NIL it deserves to make a deep run,




The damage Scott did is sickening

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and mulkey retired

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so quit on the woman's sport that achieves annual top 10ish tiered success for the boy's sport so we can be closer to mediocre?

I have zero expectations of Will Wade being the next men’s basketball coach at LSU