re: Woodward Basketball Coaching Hires

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especially considering most SEC fanbases don’t give a shite at all about the sport.

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And there you have it. You don’t care about basketball so any criticism related lack of success is retarded. Thanks for playing.

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At the time he extended Romar, he’d been to 3 sweet sixteens in 6 years. Was he supposed to know that Romar was going to mail it in afterward? No, and no reasonably rational person would disagree

At the time he hired Buzz Williams, he’d made 8 tournament appearances in 11 years including 3 sweet sixteens and 1 elite eight. He was viewed as a very good hire and he has A&M’s bad program on an obvious upward trajectory

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I addressed this a few posts up as well. Maybe the hires aren’t the problem, maybe it’s an allocation of resources problem. None of these coaches who had prior success continued that when working under Scott…

Maybe it’s not the hiring process, maybe is management of basketball programs. Either way, he gets paid a lot of money to oversee all athletics and the one program that was consistently good when he arrived on campus is now in the ditch - and this isn’t the first time this has happened in Scott’s career (see Romar’s drop off under Scott).

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Despite popular belief, saying it over and over again will not make it true.

There will be no punishment, we are not under scrutiny.

The fact of the matter is that nothing will happen and Wade will end up like Sean Miller at Xavier leading another team (besides McNeese) to an NCAA tournament sooner rather than later.

Your crooked boy Scott bent the knee to the powerless NCAA. He lacks a chest. He should do what is best and step down as Athletic Director and work on losing some fat

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First and last time I will ask this question because as a lsu basketball fan this entire back and forth makes me irritable and feel bad. It's over. So here goes:
If CWW were allowed to stay on board by SW do you think that this would have gone away quietly into the night? So to speak. In other words by SW's ( LSU's) proactive measures of cutting CWW lose, although it was painful for me as a fan that the powers outside LSU were going to simply allow this to go away before a pound of flesh? Yes we gave them a few oz's but out of self preservation is my two cents. Now I wish we could get on with LSU sports, be fans of the great and good teams we have now and pull like heck for a turnaround (as we have most years) in basketball. Coming from a 50+ y/o who grew up going to games before Shaq got there as a kid with Nikita, Jose, etc and all the way through...

I don't really see Buzz as a blemish on his hiring resume. Buzz was a really good hire at the time. I get not working out is the issue, but not sure A&M could've had a better hire on paper at the time.

239-138 record with 8 NCAAT appearances including 3 sweet 16s and 2 Elite 8s. I think he's a solid coach, just taking a little longer at A&M to see the results but now 52-23 the last two seasons.

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It's certainly a strange phenomenon. EVERY single season...EVERY single sport, these brain dead potato heads come out full force. These geniuses actually believe that McMahon would be shown the door after this season, or even next.

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I bet you my post count that the first time LSU drops an SEC game they’ll be out in full force

If we drop a whole series this place might crash. A ton of people will question the Johnson hire and want him out. You know it’s coming

How many hires he’s made have won championships under his watch?

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No he shouldn’t. Don’t be stupid. He literally just hired Brian Kelly, jay Johnson, and Kim mulkey and you want to fire him cause a first year basketball coach with a program under scrutiny from the NCAA who had to rebuild and recruit an entire roster in his first season didn’t do well? God we have some stupid fans.

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SPOT ON. Rinse, wash, and repeat this reply.

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SPOT ON. Rinse, wash, and repeat this reply.

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I get that there are some people that are out of touch with reality, but nowhere have I argued that Woodward should be fired. I just want to see some acknowledgement of an issue and plan to fix it.

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How many hires he’s made have won championships under his watch?

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None in the major sports that I'm aware of.

Kelly won the SEC West in year 1.

Wade showed that having a consistently good basketball program is possible at LSU. Woodward and McMahon have brought it back to the Johnson and Jones days. McMoribund and Fat Scott have doomed LSU basketball for the foreseeable future.

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Is no one concerned that a little over a week since our abysmal season ended MM hasn’t had an end of the year press conference to address the direction the program is going or had any movement in the marketing department to show that he is working to engage the fans for next season. Our old coach to the west can’t recruit till October and yet he’s got 3 guys committed to McNeese out of the portal already. Doing meet and greets, coaches shows.

Matt where are you buddy?

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To be fair, he has visited with multiple prospects (HS and Transfer) this week. There also isn't much he can say or do at this point to generate fan interest other than creating some noise in recruiting. So if thats his focus at this point rather than coach's shows and pressers, then I'm fine with that.