Will Wade is LSU’s new basketball coach. Ten days after Johnny Jones was fired after five ultimately rather fruitless and frustrating seasons, LSU has it’s new guy that will hopefully put the program back on the map and a fixture in the NCAA Tournament, where they’ve been just two times in the 11 seasons since John Brady’s team made that shocking run to the Final Four.
There were a lot of names bandied about as to who the next coach of the Tigers should be. There were murmurings of Notre Dame coach Mike Brey at the start, which always seemed like more of a pipe dream.