re: Unpopular opinion - Wade GOOD but not ELITE

That’s a non sequitur and has nothing to do with what my post states. You’re big on context when it goes a certain way then you ignore it when it doesn’t. That’s not context, it’s bias.

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As usual, just move the goalpost whenever the failed point is refuted. That’s all you guys ever do

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There’s no failed point here. Anyone calling any college coach in any sport elite without true title contention (BCS or CFP in football, E8 and F4s in basketball, Omaha in baseball) or winning a title is either a fricking fool or has some kind of agenda. We all know which it is with you.

Just let Wade prove it for fricks sake.

What I said was he’s accomplished some elite things and they’ve been listed. I’ve also asked for you people to define elite but not one of you has been able to do it and we all know why.

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Again being dishonest and that proof can go back to the first couple of exchanges where you went back and forth on your takes, created straw men, moved goal posts and ran away from topics. I

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I have not done a single one of the things you have accused me of. You’re the one that’s gone off topic and argued against points I never made. You’re the one being dishonest making false accusations. I can’t help it if you read things into my posts that weren’t there because you made assumptions about my opinions and motives that were incorrect. You’ve lost all rationality because something set you off.

By and large I have stayed out of the MBB discussions on this board, so the idea that you think I’m parroting talking points is laughable. I wouldn’t even know what the talking points are to be able to parrot them. The SEC is stronger now than during Wade’s first tenure. That’s not even debatable. More SEC teams are well-funded now than before. There’s no direct evidence of that since most cheating programs were better at hiding it, but the results on the court certainly suggest that is the case. Either some programs weren’t cheating then or they were just bad at it. Wade isn’t walking into a better position funding wise than he had before. He’ll have more money to spend, but so does everyone else. That’s the end of my point. Whatever else you are reading into that that has set you off is wrong.

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By and large I have stayed out of the MBB discussions on this board, so the idea that you think I’m parroting talking points is laughable. I wouldn’t even know what the talking points are to be able to parrot them. The SEC is stronger now than during Wade’s first tenure. That’s not even debatable. More SEC teams are well-funded now than before. There’s no direct evidence of that since most cheating programs were better at hiding it, but the results on the court certainly suggest that is the case.

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What has improved the SEC is not better funding. It's what ALWAYS improves programs. Better coaching. That goes for football too. Look at Indiana. Did they one day decide after 100 years of being one of the worst programs in America they were going to dump an unprecedented amount of money into building a championship football program? No. They hired the right HC....then EVERYTHING else flowed from that. Go back to the SEC in 2018-2019 in basketball. The same year LSU signed Ried, Smart, Williams, Days, Vanderbilt signed 3 top 40 players. LSU won the SEC. Vandy went 0-18 in the league. Why such a discrepancy? Coaching!

When Wade was last in the SEC the league had Pearl, Oats, Cal (Kentucky), Barnes, Buzz Williams, then a collection of mediocre guys. Now he returns to Oats, Golden, Byington, Cal (Arkansas), Barnes, Beard, Miller, etc

The improved coaching, overall, is going to make it a battle. But it won't be a funding discrepancy that determines the outcome. Otherwise, Kentucky would be playing today/tomorrow for a trip to the Final Four rather than being ridiculously lucky to make it out of the first round.

LSU will have a good enough roster to compete. But here's the reality. They've had a good enough roster to compete for FOUR years! No, that doesn't mean the roster was Final Four good, or anywhere close. But good enough to be far better than worst in the league. The reason it was worst in the league is because it had the worst coach in the league. Wade is not that.

For FOUR years we've had to listen to every excuse under the sun explaining why LSU has been so bad, all while ignoring the actual problem stoically staring you in the face on the sideline. LSU has finally stopped fruitlessly treating the "symptoms" and addressed the actual root cause. I'm not going to predict LSU is a Final Four team, or even a Sweet 16 team next year. But I am 100% confident the results will be VASTLY different from the last 4 seasons. Not because Wade is or is not a better "cheater". Not because Wade will generate more NIL. But because LSU has finally dropped the anchor that drug this program to the deep abyss of losing and irrelevance

Conveniently leaving out what he did at McNeese?

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People are going to expect more - not just regular season wins, but consistent tourney appearances and he has not shown he can do that anywhere.

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He's literally done it everywhere he's been.

Lmao thanks for proving my point

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These people don’t follow college basketball, they don’t know what they’re talking about.

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Madking

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