re: What are your goals for the basketball program?

1. Recruit at a high level.

2. Develop players as much as possible in their short time at LSU.

3. Finish in the top 4 of the SEC most years.

4. Make the NCAA Ty every year.

Obviously, the ultimate goal is always championships. That said, my hope has long been that the LSU program could develop into one like Florida under Billy Donovan. I'm not alone in that. Wade said the exact same thing when he took the LSU job.

Before Donovan took over Florida was basically just a "football school" in a "football conference" with almost no history of great basketball success other than the unexpected Final Four run in 1994. Hell, LSU had a far greater basketball history than Florida did at that time. Donovan took a program that had won only ONE SEC championship in it's entire history, only played in 3 NCAA Tournaments to date, and turned them into one that would would reach 4 Final Fours, 3 championship games, and win 2 National Championships over the next 20 years.

Donovan was 30 when he was hired by Florida and had only been a HC for two seasons. He was known more for the 1987 Final Four run as a player than as a coach. No one could predict what the Florida program would become. LSU has largely the same resources and challenges Florida had at the time. I'm not saying LSU under Wade WILL become what Florida did under Donovan. But if you are looking for an archetype of what LSU should strive to become, that is it.

LSU should compete for SEC titles and make the tournament every year.

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Would you prefer sharper, cleaner basketball but with less talented guys?

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talented guys can't play with high IQ and discipline?

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Only reason I ask is I see people who want to fire a top 3 winningest basketball coach in the SEC over the past 5 years over a 1 point loss to top 15 Arkansas team on the road.

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this board wanted to fire O after a few games after the best season the program ever had

Play basketball as if you're well coached, that's all I ask.

realistically making the NCAA tournament 2 out of every 4 years would be successful. Wade has made it so we think we should make it every year which shows you how good of a job he is doing. Don't forget the sec got stacked 4-5 years ago so everything he's doing is with the sec being a top basketball conference

It's very much sarcasm and is exhibit zzz in how RIDICULOUS the argument that college baseball is a major sport sounds.

Look, baseball is popular at LSU. Ray Charles can see that clearly. If Wade stays another few years, and keeps building the program, it will replace baseball as the #2 sport here. It happened before with Dale Brown.

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this board wanted to fire O after a few games after the best season the program ever had

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The difference is one can coach and develop players and another was a TERRIBLE HC WITH A TRACK RECORD OF FAILURE. One was hired by Alleva. The other was a Nunez hire that Alleva signed-off on. Alleva was arrogant and a cry baby when it came to O. That’s why he was fired before O and why he screwed up the entire Wade investigation with the best team LSU had over the last several years. That was a run opportunity ALLEVA screwed up that could have propelled the program to the UF level. Instead it was a coward and a bumbling mess of an AD that set the program back. Thanks fully, Wade has overcome that and kept the program at a high level in the SEC. In a season like this one, you CANNOT DISCOUNT THE INJURIES. It has so many similarities to 2006, it is crazy.

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LSU has been many times. Florida?

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Lol Florida just fired their in football you stupid frick

Florida basketball program has never been successful except a couple of years with Billy Donovan

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Baseball is only #2 at LSU for the time being, because it's a consistent winner. Men's basketball will blow it out of the water once we win consistently at it,

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Lol
No the frick it won't, baseball is burned into our soul at this point. Even dominant basketball program will not blow lsu baseball out of the water

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Do you feel like LSU should be a tournament team every few years?

Should lsu be a tournament team with a real contender every year with a run every 4 years?

Tournament team with a contender single year?

Should LSU in your opinion be on the same level as Duke or North Carolina? Which have had some rocky seasons lately. Maybe Gonzaga, should lsu be Gonzaga and go 30-4 every year?

Is it an optics thing? Would you prefer sharper, cleaner basketball but with less talented guys? Essentially build with less talented underclass men for that big run every 3-4 year?

Only reason I ask is I see people who want to fire a top 3 winningest basketball coach in the SEC over the past 5 years over a 1 point loss to top 15 Arkansas team on the road.

That's a tough standard for any coach to live up to and in my lifetime has only been Brady, Johnny Jones and Trent Johnson.

So I'm willing to consider maybe my standards have been lowered by mediocrity. But I remember the national media saying Buzz Williams at Virginia Tech was the best X's and O's coach in the country, better than coach K, yet he struggling in the SEC and Wade hasn't lost to A&M yet (10-0)

So answer realistically with numbers - what is your goal for lsu? Not some ambiguous "I just want high IQ ball"

Also who would replace Wade? It's easy to play Monday morning QB but look around. Who would be better than Wade for us?

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Reading this stressed me out so goddamn bad