re: Jacques Doucet said after the game, Scott Woodward walked calmly to the tunnel

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People swore off LSU after Wade was fired.

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complete lie

Wrong. Kelly was his manallaling

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Woodward got so much shite for firing Wade…

It’s really ridiculous how this board is.

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I may not have liked it, but I can understand the reasoning why Woodward fired Wade. What pissed me off was the timing was chickenshit. Virtually on the eve of the NCAA Tournament. It was vindictive and unnecessary to do that to the players from whom you had benefited financially all season. There was ZERO reason he could not have waited until LSU was eliminated from the tournament. Instead, he purposely sabotaged any chance the team may have had for success in the tournament out of spite. LSU was NEVER going to be punished any more or less severely by firing Wade before the tournament. It was done simply to make sure the team did not have a chance at success. I don't care if you don't like the HC. You don't do that to the "student athletes" you purportedly care so much about.

His other misstep was unnecessarily giving Ogeron and big raise and extension after 2019. There was NEVER any risk whatsoever of O leaving LSU. All it did was put LSU in a financial bind when LSU had to dump him two year later because Ed felt he was going to show the world his great football mind rather than recruit and get out of the way with respect to the gameplay.

Other than that, Woodward has been terrific at raising the funds necessary to may huge hires. I will forever think it is ridiculous to pay a WBB $2M per year given the sport will ALWAYS lose money...no matter how successful the program is. But you can't argue with the ability of the person he hired. Mulkey is a HOF coach who is going to have the program competing for championships soon. Maybe this year.

Kelly was a great hire. Nothing more to be said there.

The book is obviously still out McMahon and Johnson.

I remember when we hired him, I had already developed a disdain for him because I had followed that Duke situation. I get the feeling he is just really lazy. Always takes the path of least resistance. Typical bureaucrat. Hence the end of 2015 situation. He probably didn’t fire Wade because he didn’t want to take the heat for it. Very low character. Threw those innocent kids under the bus because he didn’t care to look into the situation for five seconds to see it was complete bullshite.

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Dude has coke in and cleaned house

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I agree with you about the Wade situation mostly. But when a coach wins 10 games and a NY6, and then follows it up with a 15-0 natty, he gets an extension. Wasn't coach O only making like $3 million at that point? You can't in good faith as an AD keep paying your coach that measly amount compared to others in the business when he delvers you those two seasons and has shown improvement each season.

LSU is LIGHT YEARS more powerful than an on life support NCAA.

There are only 2 plausible scenarios:

1) Woody chucked a bone to Emmert due to family connections, by firing Wade and allowing the NCAA to save face. An aggressive AD that wanted to keep Wade (like Kansas is demonstrating RIGHT NOW with Bill Self), would advise the NCAA to pound sand, back the fLuck off and allow us to give our coach a slap on the wrist, or my mission for every waking second of every day will be to take LSU and 31 of our elite football buddies, to form a new league, and snip that fLucking thread you're dangling by, ending your sorry asses.

The money those 32 would make in that new league would DWARF the deals they have now in payout PER school. I don't think it would take much convincing on LSU'S part to get the big boys to break away at this point.

Granted Kansas wouldn't be in that 32. But they are arguably the #1 basketball program ever, and they carry immense clout with the NCAA. If you doubt me, look at that "thorough" investigation UNC was put through after THIRTY YEARS of sustained cheating, and they got LITTLE OR NOTHING in regard to punishment as a result. I'm positive that UNC threw their weight around behind closed doors, and told the NCAA "how it are", and what the result of this is gonna be.

2) Woodward truly didn't like Wade and/or though McMahon was a better coach for LSU, and with what Wade was building, that will be a high bar to clear.

Common sense tells you by the way the NCAA turns a blind eye to st. Krysweski, Bama, (and others in both major sports) that a STRONG brand like LSU can negotiate with the NCAA behind closed doors and tell them to back the fLuck right off. Woody chose not to for one of the 2 reasons above. But you go ahead and keep believing that the NCAA can tell LSU or any other top REVENUE PRODUCER AND BRAND what they can or can't do.

By the way, I'm an LSU LOVER. I want nothing better than for McMahon to build an elite program here, and hopefully he will. I just know that Wade WAS doing it, and he could have been retained if he had the AD's support.

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rift raft

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More Wade Lover stupidity:

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would advise the NCAA to pound sand, back the fLuck off and allow us to give our coach a slap on the wrist, or my mission for every waking second of every day will be to take LSU and 31 of our elite football buddies, to form a new league, and snip that fLucking thread you're dangling by, ending your sorry asses.

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yes NCAA, f you. and to spite you, we're just going to form a new league, easy as that.

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2) Woodward truly didn't like Wade and/or though McMahon was a better coach for LSU, and with what Wade was building, that will be a high bar to clear.

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what high bar? it's not like we were firing coach K. get over yourself.

wade fricked up, got caught red handed, and had to be terminated. simple as that. no vast conspiracy theories, not clandestine cover ups, no in law padnah deals.....