re: Johnny Jones? Cmon.

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Recruiting has very little value in basketball anymore, and he is a fricking atrocious X and O coach. He’s as bad as they come in that regard and just brings very little value to a P5 staff in 2026.

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My stance is that Louisiana is underrated when it comes to basketball talent and while Wade probably has enough on his own can’t hurt to have him as that would open up the temple crew to helping instead of staying on the sidelines

I’d rather Derrick PAC man Taylor.

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Yeah. It’s just he's not a tactician.

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As long as Coach Jones isn’t in charge of timeout usage, I’m okay with it.

I’m not sure anyone has ever told him timeouts don’t roll over game to game.

Wade should pull a Nate Oates

Does Emmitt Williams and Marlon Taylor still have some eligibility

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He wasn’t a bad recruiter.

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Irrelevant in the NIL age. It’s bout one thing and it’s not loyalty or relationships.

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I’m not sure anyone has ever told him timeouts don’t roll over game to game

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Or that players don't foul out after 2 fouls in a half.

If you got 2 fouls in the first half, you were on the bench for the remainder of the half. No matter what.

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I'm just going to assume he has forgotten more about basketball than you know.

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In recruiting? Sure.

Let’s be honest, it doesn’t really matter if he knows more than the collective of his entire fricking board when it comes to Xs and Os. You could find a lot of GA‘s and end of bench coaches for Low Majors that know more about offensive basketball than Jones and he 100% proved that in his time as our head coach.

He is not a valuable part of a major college basketball bench staff in 2026. This is not like college football. Basketball is still limited to five bench coaches, which means only four assistants. The two allowed off bench staff cannot recruit off campus.

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It’s not really about recruiting LA. It’s opening up the wallets of people in LA. Jones can help with that…unless you are one of those naive folks who think Wade was the only one cheating and Martin, Mickey, Quarteman, Simmons, Blakeney, etc at went to LSU just because it had nice dorms.

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Absolutely you get money off the sidelines but temple tyrus thomas etc have all been heavily involved with the AAU circuit and I think about UH. They have had a TON of guys with LA ties over the last several years. Can’t hurt to have some help getting in on them early

You act like recruiting isn’t needed. Just about all the big boys are offering the same players around the same amount of money. If anything with NIL you need proven recruiters more so than before.

I think it's just time to just trust Wade and the rest of the administration. If JJ is the choice, there's a reason.

Those saying that in the age of NIL, relationships don't matter, are being foolish. There are always advantages to having the relationships.

You also have to just trust the Lake Chuck group...they aren't doing this with intent on failing.