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I mostly tweet about LSU football/basketball, the Pittsburgh Pirates, and poker. I once won the Flamingo 9 pm poker tourney 3 nights in a row without chopping!

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@JPerrotto @TheBuccosFan @Pirates By the time I arrived to Pittsburgh, Tony Watson was marginal and that’s being generous. However, I love him bc he gave us Oniel Cruz. TYFYS Tony!

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@EvanSiskHater @PiratesSoldier @colin_beazley Lots of drama for a #3 rotation starter and that’s being max super generous.

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@Fatal_Bubbles7 @PiratesSoldier @colin_beazley I don’t disagree. Ceiling way lower though. Needed to be that much better to force front office to send Bubba to the pen.

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@PiratesSoldier @colin_beazley And he hasn’t performed to make it a certainty. Be a team player. Only person to blame is yourself if you’re upset about the decision. In a close call situation, he did not conclusively prove the decision was wrong. He’s about to incinerate his career bc he’s weak minded.

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@WagnerToCutch Probably has a bad attitude and not a team player. Unfortunate.

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With the right attitude and team first mindset. Not sure if it’s there based on nothing other than he pushed to be a starter last year.

Need that team first mindset like Tari Eason who welcomed the role of being the first player of the bench for LSU basketball bc it was best for the team despite him being the best player on the team and being drafted in the 1st round following that season. With that mindset, he’s perfect for that role I agree.

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Don’t forget the Matt McMahon possibility. Gainey is a dud or not a good fit even with a decent roster. Who knows. He’s never been a head coach. Therefore you have a huge question mark as a coach. Hope it works out for you, but certainly not guaranteed. Roster could be phenomenal but you don’t have the right guy calling the shots.

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So Wade who knows better than us concocted his strategy that the rule would not be enforced. We’ll see what happens. With how late the May memo was from NCAA and how many teams who would be affected by players on their roster who would be ineligible, it likely will be litigated this year but not determined. It’s a calculated risk, but I bet Wade has better Intel than you or me.

Since he chose to pursue this strategy, I bet he’s thinking more similarly to me than to you. He’s pretty calculating and not a fly by the seat of his pants kind of guy so I think you’re going to be disappointed with how this plays out.

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@drewdar2 It’s illegal or it’s not. Your opinion of its effectiveness as a strategy is meaningless based on no information considering it’s never been done. Illinois closest approximation to it last year and they were pretty good.

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@RCorySmith It’s either illegal or it’s not. Maybe signing all international pros is the winning strategy. We all are well aware of the selective application of the Pearl clutching so thanks to contributing to the clownish analyses of Wades recruiting.

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@flaminbball74 It’s going to be an interesting an eventful year at minimum!

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Will Wade has highest winning percentage of any lsu men’s basketball coach and was consistently good to great when he was coach in the midst of 30-year post Brown irrelevancy. It was Wade or McMahon? Who do you take? If you say McMahon you’re a liar. Run it back with the coach who finished bottom in the SEC 2 years in a row? Who comes to coach LSU who is better than Wade? No one is the answer.

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@tsnmike @chwest1 @NCAA @LSUBasketball Move those goal posts Mike, pun intended.

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I understand your issue is selective, biased, and hypocritical as I pointed out in my opening statement identifying your article as piling on hackery by an npc writer.

Find an original take instead of writing regurgitated bore. We get it, no one likes Wade outside of the state of Louisiana.

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He’s not arguing in good faith. His article is directed at the uninformed and for clicks only. He knows he’s misrepresenting his position. In a separate tweet he defended Kentucky attempting to recruit Santos bc he didn’t sign with Kentucky even though they were deploying the same strategy as Wade.

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@tsnmike @chwest1 @NCAA @LSUBasketball Who cares? All kinds of Euro pros already played last year. All coaches recruiting same as Wade. This is the NIL era and the rules now. Write an article chastising state of the NCAA about Illinois using Euro pros last year. Your outrage is selective.

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100%. I’ve suffered through 4 years of watching a poorly coached uninspired average teams if I’m being generous. The General is back to shake things up. It surely won’t be boring. His record of winning everywhere is cause for optimism. I’ve seen him win in Baton Rouge first hand so can’t wait to watch Wade cook again. Even if every player he signs is ineligible, direction of the program much improved compared to the alternative.

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@MichaelKandila2 @tsnmike Agreed. Way more interesting than watching the team LSU would have assembled under McMahon.

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Brother, LSU was in a position where it was a foregone conclusion that was their fate with Wade’s replacement. We’re coming off 4 years of complete irrelevancy putting teams on the floor with zero pulse. I’ll gladly roll the dice with Wade and accept my fate if that’s the outcome.