EscambiaTiger

Little Brother Syndrome is alive and well in Lafayette

Wade hired Stansbury’s oldest son, Isaac, while at McNeese State and brought him to North Carolina State for last season. Interesting that dad is joining the staff but nothing about the son.

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We need to play these assholes in the ACC/SEC challenge next year

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If it's assumed that every team alternates home and away challenge games, both played on the road this past season: LSU at BC and NC State at Auburn. Plus, LSU is more likely going to be paired with one of the ACC teams that finished at or near the bottom, think Pitt, Notre Dame, BC (not likely) or Georgia Tech. NC State will get somebody from the middle of the SEC, like Texas A&M, Georgia, Missouri or Texas.

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has hired Heath Schroyer, the AD from McNeese, into the same role at LSU.

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Factual error on her part. He was hired as senior deputy AD/executive director of external relations for the LSU System. Verge holds the title of AD.

She says the big winner was McMahon, who gets to leave. The big winners were LSU, because of Wade's past success, and a dwindling men's basketball fanbase that had suffered through winning just 26 percent of SEC regular-season games in four seasons.

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Louisiana children’s hospitals right now..

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You do realize that it was just one rogue booster? Or does that not fit your narrative?

I Will Wade For You. BootTFUp

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2018 - Michigan in Maui

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This is when you knew LSU had hired the right coach and the program was headed in the right direction. Even though it took place 5 time zones away, it helped re-energize the fanbase.

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Rehiring fired employees rarely works.

We will get a lot of big talk, particularly from the Wadeophiles.

We'll schedule easy teams to pad the win-loss record.

We might bumble into the tournament, but there will be a quick exit.

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He wasn't fired for performance, that's for sure. At the time of his departure, his .696 overall winning percentage was the highest of any LSU men's basketball coach in more than 100 years. There might be better coaches, but those coaches might not be best for LSU.

Of course there will be big talk. The program hasn't been the same since he left. To be honest, anything is better than McMahon's 23 percent SEC winning percentage. LSU should never have a coach who wins just 23 percent of his or her conference games over four seasons.

You have to walk before you can crawl. If next year's record is padded to give the team confidence and show the fanbase that progress is being made, so be it. The schedule will likely be a mix of guaranteed victories against regional opponents, the ACC-SEC challenge opponent and a couple of games against tougher opponents.

Again, let's walk before we can run. It took Dale Brown a handful of years in the NCAA tournament before he got the program to the Final Four. Skip Bertman made it to Omaha but didn't win his first CWS title until after a couple of tries.

One of the things that's gone against LSU is seeding. You want to be seeded in a position to avoid the No. 1 seed in the second round, so it can't be 8th or 9th. I'd like to see us make a run in the SEC tournament, because we haven't won it since 1979-80, and in the NCAA tournament. It will happen under Wade.

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Gov. Hee-Haw

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Is he the opposite of Alabama’s Kay Ivey, also known as Gov Memaw?

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I for one am excited to drag up old threads about him being a terrible in game coach to remind everyone why this is a lazy hire.

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How can it be a lazy hire when he has the highest winning percentage of any LSU men's basketball coach in more than 100 years. That includes Dale Brown, Harry Rabenhorst and John Brady. His overall winning percentage (.696) is close to that of Nate Oats at Alabama (.702), though Oats has obviously advanced further in the postseason. It's also not a lazy hire if you're looking for someone to come in and immediately re-energize the program.