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Posted on 1/1/26 at 11:12 pm to
Posted by lsudave1
Baton Metairie
Member since Jan 2005
12035 posts
Posted on 1/1/26 at 11:12 pm to
You are to be replaced on this board by a better poster… me. You are now banned!
Posted by ellessuuuu
Member since Sep 2004
9252 posts
Posted on 1/1/26 at 11:18 pm to
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Same guys that love Coach O


Seriously?!? People who know basketball wanted Wade.

Pirate King was the biggest O cheerleader here and he hated WW…why…because Wade was more popular than his man crush.
This post was edited on 1/1/26 at 11:18 pm
Posted by Madking
Member since Apr 2016
68052 posts
Posted on 1/1/26 at 11:19 pm to
Your parents are siblings
This post was edited on 1/1/26 at 11:20 pm
Posted by Riverside
Member since Jul 2022
9576 posts
Posted on 1/1/26 at 11:21 pm to
Wade was packing the PMAC and LSU was consistently in the NCAA tournament. It was too much fun for some of our self-loathing and perpetually miserable “fans” to enjoy.
Posted by Madking
Member since Apr 2016
68052 posts
Posted on 1/1/26 at 11:22 pm to
100% fact
Posted by Laman1978
Earth
Member since Jan 2009
11933 posts
Posted on 1/1/26 at 11:23 pm to
I love Wade, but this is getting ridiculous. Get over it, at least until something concrete ever comes up about him being hired here again.
Posted by Riverside
Member since Jul 2022
9576 posts
Posted on 1/1/26 at 11:29 pm to
The fanbase is clearly over it. That’s why the PMAC is barely half full these days for men’s basketball. But at least we don’t cheat or play streetball anymore. We lose the right way and that’s what counts to the McMen.
Posted by jwingert77
Dallas
Member since Nov 2007
671 posts
Posted on 1/1/26 at 11:42 pm to
You have one goal. Is to provoke people on here. No way in hell, this would happen in next ten years.

Even you know this.
Posted by OpenlyGayDave
Denver
Member since May 2021
498 posts
Posted on 1/2/26 at 12:57 am to
I agree with this.
Posted by LesnarF5
Member since Apr 2015
9873 posts
Posted on 1/2/26 at 1:07 am to
Will Wade. The love for this frick on this site is like cringeworthy.
Posted by H-Town Tiger
Member since Nov 2003
60944 posts
Posted on 1/2/26 at 1:12 am to
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The fanbase is clearly over it. That’s why the PMAC is barely half full these days for men’s basketball. But at least we don’t cheat or play streetball anymore. We lose the right way and that’s what counts to the McMen.


what a retarded post. The Wade ship sailed, he’s not coming back, recognizing that does not mean someone prefers McMahon. Will Wade and McMahon are not the only coaches in America, it’s possible to find another coach that is better than the current one other than Wade.
This post was edited on 1/2/26 at 1:13 am
Posted by JohnnyU
Florida
Member since Nov 2006
12832 posts
Posted on 1/2/26 at 6:04 am to
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The guys on this board satisfied with 2 win SEC seasons and no March Madness are pathetic.


No one is satisfied with 2 win SEC seasons and everyone is aware of our coaching situation. It doesn't mean that we all have to worship at the altar of Will Wade.
He's not leaving NC State, a school with a rich tradition of hoops success, to return to LSU. That ship has sailed.
People who whine about what happened with Wade need to move on and stop acting like a teenager pining for a lost crush.

Posted by paulb52
Member since Dec 2019
8080 posts
Posted on 1/2/26 at 7:00 am to
What makes you think he would even come back?
Posted by coolpapaboze
Parts Unknown
Member since Dec 2006
21427 posts
Posted on 1/2/26 at 7:09 am to
quote:

Your parents are siblings

Posted by LuckyTiger57
Member since Dec 2015
1726 posts
Posted on 1/2/26 at 8:04 am to
Get over it. He won’t be back.
Posted by Crappieman
Member since Apr 2025
2151 posts
Posted on 1/2/26 at 8:09 am to
Couldn't afford him now. Lane and JJ have record deals, as does Mulkey. Where eould the funds come from? Jeff Landry?
Posted by Gus007
TN
Member since Jul 2018
14451 posts
Posted on 1/2/26 at 8:22 am to
quote:

Same guys that love Coach O


Vs the guys who love sitting home watching Ole Miss play football while LSU's season is over. What a memory.
Watching the greatest team in NCAA History vs watching Houston skin a Tiger. Brings a tear doesn't.



Who love watching McNeese play Basketball while LSU can't make it to the NIT.

You know who you are. Thanks for the Testimony. Go Rebs!

Thanks Woody, for all the Woody fans. You made them proud

Posted by Alt26
Member since Mar 2010
34996 posts
Posted on 1/2/26 at 8:45 am to
A really big contract.

There was a push to hire Wade at the end of last season. Tate/Woodward shut it down. The ultimate result is both got pushed out at LSU. The same people that wanted to hire Wade then are still fans of LSU. The people who saved McMahon are no longer at LSU. That means barring a truly remarkable season by McMahon, remarkable not relative to his dreadfully low standards, but remarkable in general, McMahon will be out at the end of the season. He knows his support at LSU outside of a small handful of hopeful dreamers is gone. That's why he brought so many former players onto the staff this year (Hornsby, Dupree, Thornton). He's trying to build support to stave off the inevitable.

Wade is at a good spot at NC State. However, his contract isn't massive. In fact, McMahon is making more than Wade this year. LSU would be able to offer a better contract than NC State. The issue would be that NC State would likely match. That would then put the ball in Wade's court and LSU would have some strong selling points:

1. LSU's President was Wade's President last year at McNeese. There is familiarity.

2. Wade has spent 7 of the last 8 years of his life in Louisiana. He knows the donor landscape and they know him. Contrary to what the handful of "morally superior" fans on the board think, the donors don't give a shite that Wade was paying players. In fact, they were the ones giving him the money do to that! In a world where paying players is necessary it's probably a good thing to have a HC who is good at raising the money to do so.

3. Overall, the ACC is a fading conference relative to the SEC. Yes, at places like Duke, North Carolina, Syracuse, even NC State, basketball is paramount. But football still makes the world go round and the SEC/Big 10 are pulling away from the ACC/Big 12 financially. So much so that two of the ACC's biggest football brands, Florida St. and Clemson, are desperate to leave the conference. The future doesn't look great for the ACC relative to the SEC.

Is it a certainty Wade would come back to LSU? ABSOLUTELY NOT. But there is strong support to try to make that happen. Not from fans on the message board. But from people with the means to make that happen.
Posted by Kool Kaliper
Mansfield, TX
Member since Nov 2018
3404 posts
Posted on 1/2/26 at 8:47 am to
quote:

What will it take to rehire Will “The Pear” Wade?


Your ole lady
Posted by Recoveringcajun
Banjo country
Member since Aug 2022
2728 posts
Posted on 1/2/26 at 8:50 am to
Not this stupid shite again…
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