Lets talk expectations for the lsu basketball program

Maybe you didnt understand the first post. What are your expectations for the program?

I like the fight of this team. You NegiTigers can talk all the shite you want but they fought their asses off today!

We should make deeper runs in the tournament than we have made for sure. Especially with how good we have been recruiting. Will wades not on the hot seat, but he damn well better get this team to play, to it's potential here late and make the damn tournament or he will be getting some backlash from our fans going into next season and will have his back against the wall and coaching for his future. You can only live and get by with good recruiting for so long before people start wondering if you are just a recruiter that can't coach. He needs to get this team playing to their capabilities, period.

Consistent tournament team

Yes. We should expect nothing less than a sweet sixteen consistently with how we have been recruiting and throw in an elite eight or final four in there every four years or so when we have a deep, talented, and mature roster. Those are realistic expectations for our program. If wade proves that he can't get that done, then we need to move on and find someone that can and will bc our expectations should be no less. He will be coaching for his job next season I have a feeling. I hope he gets it done bc he's been through alot here and I truly do like him as a person and believe he is a good coach and a good fit, but time will tell.

LSU needs to be consistently in the NCAA tourney with some ability to make deep runs.

Let's look at some past champions in this sport.

Tony Bennett didn't make the Sweet 16 at Virginia until his 5th season. In his 7th season, he got to the Elite 8. In his 9th season, his team goes 31-3 but becomes the first one seed to get bounced by a 16 seed. Virginia is laughed at for being perennial underachievers in the big dance. The next season, they win the title. Great coach though.

Jay Wright won his first championship at Villanova in his 15th season. He made his first Elite 8 appearance in his 5th season, and first Final 4 in his 8th season. Great coach though.

Everyone knows the successes of Coach K and Roy at their blue bloods, yet they have even squandered some absolutely loaded rosters.

Bill Self went on a ridiculous streak of winning the second best conference every season, but even he hasn't won a title since 2008.

Mark Few is also a stud. He took over a program that had made the Elite 8 the previous season and he made it to the Sweet 16 his first season as a 10 seed. They don't make it to the Elite 8 until his 16th season. Widely respected as one of the game's best coaches, but he's only made the title game once and he lost.

Scott Drew has become one of the most respected coaches and is known for one of the best rebuilds in college basketball history. He's in his 18th season and hasn't reached the Final 4 yet.

So I would like someone to tell me why people on here are ready to move on from a 38 year old coach in his 8th season as head coach, 2 of which at Chattanooga, who took over an LSU program that was essentially at rock bottom and made it to the Sweet 16 in his second season here after winning the conference. We are looking at potentially 3 straight seasons of making the tournament.

These are the same people that criticize how our offense is ugly and we don't run offensive sets like they want us to. Yet LSU is sitting at #10 in the nation in offensive efficiency, #1 in the SEC. Last season we finished #4 in efficiency. The year before, #28. Whether or not we execute the offense the way you want it to doesn't matter. Wade gets tremendous results on the offensive side of the ball.

Now there's more that goes into becoming a great coach, but just look at some of those coach examples I pulled above and tell me why we shouldn't be patient with a 38 year old coach who has been really successful here in his short tenure? I guarantee you that you would take Jay Wright, Mark Few, Scott Drew or Tony Bennett here at LSU now that you've seen the finished product of these coaches, but they didn't get there without patience from their program.

19 or 20 win seasons, regular NIT appearances, qualify for NCAA tournament every 4 to 5 years. LSU is a football/baseball school. Basketball is just a fill in sport between those sports.

How about that we finish somewhere in the same hemisphere as our recruiting rankings (top 5 class 2 of the last 3 years)?