SemiNoblePursuit

I don’t think it’s a coincidence that his two worst seasons here have followed a national championship. I think deep post season runs like that necessarily take his attention away from recruiting, scouting, etc.

Didn’t Heiar and Wade have a falling out back in the day?

This is fun and all, but we are kind of making a deal with the devil by encouraging the increasingly incestuous relationship between the governor’s office and the athletic department.

Not saying I’m not happy, but I’m not going to laud Landry.

I feel like some sort of an effort should be made to retain Thomas. Dude is a baller, it would be like Wade getting Waters to flip when he was first hired

I agree with this. It was time, but he did all he could. It just wasn’t enough to bring LSU where it should be.

Great dude, hopefully he lands somewhere with lower expectations where he can win more and still be a part of the community.

I’m sure he was aware this was in the works

One of the LSU Instagram pages reported the deal is for “15M per season” but that can’t be right. He’d be making more than Bill Self. Maybe $15M over the course of a few years… or they were really talking about the $15M NIL budget Wade was allegedly promised.

Yep, Philly confirmed in a thread a while back that Austin Thomas was his primary source during the Kelly administration. I'm forever grateful for all the inside info he shared, but he probably won't be as much help in this situation.

If you're reading this, TYFYS Philly :cheers:

None. If our administrators had any intention of firing literally the worst coach in the history of our basketball program, it would’ve happened. He’s staying another season to shave a few more million off his buyout.

It happened in the CWS in ‘23, we were just winning by a ton so it didn’t matter.