re: Realism for LSU Fans with McMahon and Program

The alleged allegations have not been proven you have heard what they want you to here

No more smoke and mirrors, finally a good fundamentals coach, good day for LSU basketball.

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Wade set the bar win the sec in year 2, I’ll give Mr. McMahon until year 3.

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All McMahon has to do at LSU to top Wade is win more than a couple of NCAA tourney games.

I respect your opinion on LSU basketball as much or more than anyone on this site. I agree with most of what you said, with exception to the coach we hired. McMahon was a home run in this situation. Honestly a much much better quality coach than anyone I thought we would get. I knew we would lose all our recruits, which has already happened as mentioned.

I also felt we would lose every player from this team………Little more optimism in that respect now ……. Lets see if we can salvage anything.

I was and am still very upset with the media’s involvement with the Wade situation. Every year right before NCAA tourney they blew this issue up……….something was going on here and it was obvious. The NCAA to a lessor extent as well here as schools like Arizona, Kansas, UNC, and Duke are all untouchable with crap like this.

Personally I am not upset with LSU admin here. Normally I would be, but Woodward is family with Emmert. You are right that they could very well hammer us anyway, but it is also very well possible Scott was told “look, you have to do this………or else” behind closed doors. If all we get from this, is what they put in McMahon’s contract then we will know IMO.

Wade was a great coach for LSU. Floored me that this all happened (with NIL deals in play now). He did what all the elite schools were doing. He was as good off the basketball court with team development as could be possible in my opinion. He obviously wasn’t seasoned enough with how to carry out recruiting on that level without covering his/LSU’s own arse. Where McMahon is a home run hire is ON the court in my opinion (practice and game day coaching) I do not think there will be a drop off in this area……..he may even be better than Wade in this regard.

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He has a marriage to the head of the ncaa in his family. We are told he is mister politics. I expect when you have those connections you can work some magic

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The magic is in being able to know what needs to be done to self correct a program, which was noted to be lacking institutional control. That means a lot of coaches were off the rails And no one was keeping them in line.

Wade was one of those coaches.

You think keeping him was the better move? That would teach the ncaa a lesson? That would have shown them who’s boss?

Anyone that thinks keeping wade was a good idea is wrong. Keeping wade was going to poke the ncaa in the eye. It would have meant stronger sanctions.

What Woodward had been doing is cleanup around here. Unfortunately It was necessary.

Boy I will bitch slap you all around over basketball history. Wade has set the modern bar to turn around basketball at 2 seasons to win the sec. Wade had a team that was final four good in 19 and alleva wasted it by being a coward. When is the last time LSU would have made 4 straight tournies?

Wade had 19, we had 20 if one was hosted, 21 and 22.

Sadly wade only got to coach one of them. Coward AD, covid, got to coach and was under seeded, and AD that sacrificed him because our Buffon football coaches got us in more trouble.

Lil boy the nit don’t count. Daddy dale made 13 ncaa tournaments in a row. Every year son. 2 final fours. The only sec tournament championship in ncaa history. Cmon with it boy

The ncaa is a wounded animal right now with the mega conferences rising. Also historically ignoring and fighting them works best. LSU bent over once before and they hammered us. UNC had fake classes and the ncaa did nothing, Kansas told them frick off and have self a lifetime contract. Auburn bent over once in the 90s and got railed since then they flaunted cam newton and have Bruce Pearl who has had multiple run ins with the ncaa including having a point shaving issue.

I’m not saying we had to keep wade, just if we are going to fire him and we have the head of the ncaa as a family member and former coworker at LSU then we damn well shouldn’t be getting drilled.

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Y’all can say Wade messed up and caused this, but woodward signed off on this death sentence.

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This has to be a joke right?

The cause of all this is a lack of institutional control. Control of what? Control of coaches doing stupid shite. Wade was one of those coaches. He should have been fired. It could be argued that he should have been fired by aleva to prove that he had control.

So really alleva set this program back. He set it back by not having control of guys like wade who made some of the most idiotic decisions I have ever seen by a coach. Keeping wade would not have resulted in the ncaa going lighter on us. It would have been worse.

Kids want to play in the tournament. True. Keeping wade would have made that impossible and more.

Wade is a punk. He is arrogant, aloof, insubordinate and overall selfish. He set this program back by being a Dick.

He needed to go.

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I’m not saying we had to keep wade

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There's not a goddamned soul at LSU that is going to put their job on the line for Will Wade, a man they all have contempt for. The only people that evidently think Wade is some God is these really dumb LSU fans who are giddy about a guy who cheated more than any coach in recent history, was retarded about it and still couldn't win more than one fricking tourney game.