Well, this is a surprise – not. Will Wade is bailing on NC State after one season to return to LSU, the school he worked for when the program got caught up in the FBI/Adidas scandal.
LSU will now employ Wade, Lane Kiffin, and Kim Mulkey, which, objectively, is hilarious. It reminds one of Jess Helms’s old joke about the North Carolina Zoo: “we don’t need one. We can just put a fence around Chapel Hill.”
You have to feel a little bad for State fans, but only a little. They knew when they pushed A.D.
Boo Corrigan to hire Wade that they were opting for a con man, the Music Man, the Harold Hill of college basketball.
Well, now he’s leaving town with their hopes to return to the Big Time packed away in his steamer trunk.
One hopes this time around that Corrigan will not give in to booster and fan pressure to buy the shiniest object on the coaching shelf and instead, finds someone who sees the potential in that job and who really wants to be in Raleigh.
If it were us, we’d start the search with Tennessee assistant and former State guard Justin Gainey.
Otherwise?
Takayo Siddle deserves a call. He’s done an amazing job at UNCW. Travis Steele should get some consideration for what he did at Miami this past season. UConn assistants Luke Murray and Kimani Young are probably solid candidates. Josh Schertz just signed an extension at St. Louis, but that never stopped anyone who really wanted to move from moving. Tony Skinn at George Mason, Brooks Savage at ETSU, Matt Brauer at Stephen Freakin’ Austin, Chris Gerlufsen at San Francisco
And the funniest move they could make, but one that would blow the lid off the Triangle?
Hubert Davis. The Revenge Tour starts now.
We should all start the rumor just to drive people nuts.
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