Tigers Official Site · 3 days ago
Tigers Embrace Coach Will Wade's Unconventional Approach
Will Wade’s path back to Baton Rouge began long before his latest stop in the Red Stick. A product of Franklin Road Academy in Nashville, Tenn., Wade first entered the basketball world as a student manager at Clemson, learning the game from the inside under coaches Larry Shyatt and Oliver Purnell.
That foundation helped shape the trajectory of his life.
“I never intended to do all this,” he explained. “I was going to be a high school teacher. My mom was a principal for 30-plus years. This is my degree in secondary education; it kind of stuck with me and never left. So, I’m still teaching and doing all of the same stuff. You just do it in a different venue.”