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re: SEC hoops down sans gators. Primed for LSU to get serious w WW

Posted on 3/15/26 at 5:11 pm to
Posted by tigersbb
Member since Oct 2012
12947 posts
Posted on 3/15/26 at 5:11 pm to
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Many of the self-proclaimed hoops experts on here said we should've hired Chris Beard. Wonder if they still want him.


With all of the negative stories flying around LSU athletics in 2022 including the Will Wade debaqcle, Title IX lawsuits and sexual harrassment claims against Les Miles and Verge the last thing LSU needed to do was hire a coach who had been charged with domestic abuse of his wife. Guaranteed if he is hired this year those same stories will suddenly appear again.
Posted by semjase
New Smyrna Beach FL
Member since May 2014
15853 posts
Posted on 3/15/26 at 5:16 pm to
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What I cannot comprehend are the rumors that this has become a binary decision, i.e. we only move on from McMahon, if Wade is willing to come.
Let your feelings be known to Associate Athletic Director Verge Ausberry. (vausberry@lsu.edu)

There are no e-mail addresses available for the Head Athletic Director (Wade Rousse) or the Assistant Athletic Director. (Lee Mallet)
Posted by tigahlovah
virginia beach, va
Member since Oct 2009
5025 posts
Posted on 3/15/26 at 7:44 pm to
Is Wade supposed to announce publicly that he wants to return to BR?? Are you 5 years old??

You have NO CLUE how the real world works, and you drive that point home forcefully with every ignorant post you make.
Posted by Sissidog02
Member since Jan 2020
7401 posts
Posted on 3/15/26 at 9:21 pm to
That ain’t saying much just says we have a better loser.
Posted by TygerLyfe
Member since May 2023
3962 posts
Posted on 3/15/26 at 9:27 pm to
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You hire an up and coming mid major coach ticket sales won’t see a bump this year. You hire Wade immediately your new season ticket request list get a great jump.


The PMAC would be packed to see the The Generals Return.....In Accordance With the Pearophecy!
Posted by Adajax
Member since Nov 2015
8653 posts
Posted on 3/15/26 at 10:11 pm to
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I believe he'll be our coach next season.


Congrats. I think it's a long shot. I won't be upset if I'm wrong.
Posted by tigahlovah
virginia beach, va
Member since Oct 2009
5025 posts
Posted on 3/15/26 at 10:55 pm to
Look at his entire career and stop being so reactionary.

That's like the WDS idiots on the board crowing about NC st 's slump at the end of the year. Little do those DUNCES know, that slump is actually making the Wade return to LSU even more possible.

Wade and Beard are both damned good coaches. Beard was just in a shitty situation that was impossible, yet still showed signs with some decent wins.

McMahon ain't even a pimple on the arse of these two coaches.
Posted by tigahlovah
virginia beach, va
Member since Oct 2009
5025 posts
Posted on 3/15/26 at 10:57 pm to
I don't have any sauces as everyone says. I'm just trying to read the tea leaves.

For what it's worth, I thought we had Kiffin the whole time also.
Posted by S
RIP Wayde
Member since Jan 2007
172257 posts
Posted on 3/15/26 at 11:44 pm to
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What if he comes but the shitty seasons still continue?


Data says that’s pretty unlikely.
This post was edited on 3/15/26 at 11:46 pm
Posted by The Boat
Member since Oct 2008
177300 posts
Posted on 3/16/26 at 12:02 am to
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Data says that’s pretty unlikely.

What does Troi say?

Posted by Walnut
Houston, TX
Member since Nov 2014
3939 posts
Posted on 3/16/26 at 6:56 am to
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What I cannot comprehend are the rumors that this has become a binary decision, i.e. we only move on from McMahon, if Wade is willing to come.

It’s because the athletic department only cares about keeping basketball relevant enough to make a small profit, and a lot of our fans think Will Wade is the only coach we can replace McMahon with that will get them excited

We have new leadership who might invest more in next year’s cycle, but I do think this year with the financial obligations it’ll take to get a new coach in place, it’ll be one the other. It’s not that Wade is cheaper, it’s just that Wade excites LSU fans
Posted by Ace Midnight
Between sanity and madness
Member since Dec 2006
95632 posts
Posted on 3/16/26 at 9:50 am to
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What does Troi say?


That was on network television, baws.
Posted by Basura Blanco
Member since Dec 2011
11744 posts
Posted on 3/16/26 at 10:18 am to
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The failure of our leadership was firing Wade in the first place.



In hindsight, no doubt but at the time they did the conservative thing. And that "leadership" only acted on advice from a group of lawyers.

I agree with everything else you said. Wade is the only reasonably attainably coach out there that moves the needle.
Posted by Alt26
Member since Mar 2010
35608 posts
Posted on 3/16/26 at 10:24 am to
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I don't have any sauces as everyone says. I'm just trying to read the tea leaves.


There was an article that was posted late Friday afternoon reporting that McNeese AD, Heath Schroyer, was a strong candidate for the LSU Associate AD position (Verge's old position that hasn't been filled). It was a Glen Guilbeau article and posted just before the start of the baseball game, so it got buried pretty quickly. However, if that article is accurate, then, IMO, that is a MASSIVE "tea leaf" suggesting Wade to LSU is very real.

Schroyer and Wade are very close. Schroyer was in consideration to be an assistant on Wade's first LSU staff. Some reported it as a done deal, but he ended up joining the BYU staff instead. A year later he took the McNeese HC job and eventually became the AD. Schroyer being at McNeese is THE reason Wade took that job. Mostly because Schroyer was probably the only AD who was fine with hiring Wade despite the 2-year show cause penalty in play. If Schroyer were to take the LSU job, then that would mean the President and AD at McNeese last year would now be at LSU. Combine that with Mallet, a Wade supporter who pushed to get him to LSU last season, being the chairman of the BOS, then basically every key person at McNeese last season would now be in key spots at LSU.

When asked about the rumor, Schroyer said: “I do not have a job offer from LSU,". That's a bit similar to another guy who was recently asked about the LSU whose first response was "Is that job open?" Perhaps the company line is "I have no reason to talk about a job that isn't open...until it IS open"

Like NC State, McNeese is in the NCAA Tournament. Thus, I suspect both guys want to keep all of the focus on their teams, not LSU rumors, as they should. But if Schroyer is being discussed as someone joining the LSU AD that is a really big deal.

For all of those saying "LSU hasn't said anything about McMahon returning because they don't have to given he's still under contract for three more years", it is pretty commonplace for a school make some sort of comment about the future of a HC who, based upon objective reasoning, everyone things could be fired. It's what Alleva did 20 minutes after Les being carried off the field in 2015. It's what Woodward did last year at the end of the season. It's what the Oklahoma AD did YESTERDAY with respect to Porter Moser.

IMO, the silence about McMahon is deafening. If NC State loses tomorrow....the (potential) party will start
This post was edited on 3/16/26 at 10:31 am
Posted by semjase
New Smyrna Beach FL
Member since May 2014
15853 posts
Posted on 3/16/26 at 10:56 am to
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The PMAC would be packed to see the The Generals Return.....In Accordance With the Pearophecy!
I'd even drag Mrs. Semjase back to the Hole for a day or two to see the return of Gangata Pear.

We hated BR and stopped going to football games due to PIM, (Insulting to current GBFTL members and all TB Alums) but we'd come back for a brief day or two for a WW return game.


Posted by Tigercowboy
Baton Rouge
Member since Nov 2007
5092 posts
Posted on 3/16/26 at 11:59 am to
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And that "leadership" only acted on advice from a group of lawyers.


They definitely acted on Taylor Porter’s advice but I do believe Woodward and Tate wanted to make the move and just wanted the excuse.

Woody wanted his guy. Woody likes the straight lace no risk hires. Look at Kelly and even Jay, Woody would have never hired Lane.

I back that with this:

1. LSU could have waited until after NCAA tourney to let Wade go and not under cut the student athletes for no reason. LSU gained nothing with this timing. Only looked like and admission of guilt and negative PR during the tournament.

2. If they had any desire to keep Wade you hold out until the completion of the investigation not at the notice of allegations.


3. Wade was ruffling feathers pointing out the PMACs many needs. Wade was not bending the knee to the status quo.


Woody wanted him gone and jumped at the first opportunity. It’s also why Wade wasn’t hired last Summer.
This post was edited on 3/16/26 at 12:01 pm
Posted by Ponchy Tiger
Ponchatoula
Member since Aug 2004
49672 posts
Posted on 3/16/26 at 12:06 pm to
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What I cannot comprehend are the rumors that this has become a binary decision, i.e. we only move on from McMahon, if Wade is willing to come.


This is easy the boosters are willing to fund a buyout if they have Wade on the hook to replace McMahon
Posted by Jauquismos
Member since Jul 2023
655 posts
Posted on 3/16/26 at 1:34 pm to
First order of business is you fire McMahon.

Then whatever else happens is lagniappe
Posted by Basura Blanco
Member since Dec 2011
11744 posts
Posted on 3/16/26 at 2:48 pm to
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They definitely acted on Taylor Porter’s advice but I do believe Woodward and Tate wanted to make the move and just wanted the excuse.

Woody wanted his guy. Woody likes the straight lace no risk hires. Look at Kelly and even Jay, Woody would have never hired Lane.



I cant speak to Tate's personal reasons, but I could understand a school president seeing a LOI as a professional reason for wanting a coach fired. As for Woodward, regardless of what he wanted done, I just don't think the BOS would ever let an AD wield the power to hire/fire a football, basketball or even baseball coach without them initiating and giving final approval of that action. Again, I am not an insider on any of this by any stretch, but Louisiana politics doesnt lend itself to ceding power at any level.

Same thing when everyone was up in arms over Kelly. Do they honestly believe the BOS and TAF would task Woodward with finding, hiring, and negotiating the salary of the head football coach, without pulling strings like a puppeteer the entire time?
Posted by windmill
Prairieville, La
Member since Dec 2005
7808 posts
Posted on 3/16/26 at 3:38 pm to
Bingo where has wade even said hed come back?"

And you believe he would say as much while coaching NC St.?
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