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@_ColeMann @joshwgoodson Malone is an obviously splashy hire because of his NBA coaching. That’s different than knowing he’s a good hire. How many NBA coaches have successfully switched to college basketball?

@joshwgoodson Malone is a good hire. What are you even on? You just hate to hate

Gainey was a perfect hire for what state needed Malone might work but any UNC fan trying to think this was is inspiring hire whew

@MERKE15 @St8agendapusher @cbpack1 @Follow24Hodge It’s a roll of the dice. It’s just as likely to fail as it is to be a big success.

@St8agendapusher @cbpack1 @Follow24Hodge College basketball today is closer to the NbA than college basketball when Lowe was coaching lmao

@kshields8426 @Mr704intheQC And with those tickets, they did the things he described in the post

@Mr704intheQC Stop...most people donated for the opportunity to buy season tickets

Donating to college athletics WAS a noble cause. You helped young people get an education and support your Alma mater. We Got to watch them as the matured academically and athletically and with some luck maybe your program won some and/or you got to see a program great that would go onto represent your university at a higher level. Worst case scenario was you helped young people become a part of your alumni family. Now? Winning is just who has the most money. Education doesn’t matter. Program all time great will never happen except at the richest schools. Players are not a part of your family. I keep asking people like @JayBilas and @WinterSportsLaw why should supporters at schools that are not big brands bother to watch, donate or buy tickets? If we can’t win, education doesn’t matter and we won’t have program greats to follow - what’s the reason for us to continue? They won’t answer. Because they can’t.

@WinterSportsLaw @russlaraway @JayBilas If you can’t explain the how, you’re pointing out why college athletes shouldn’t be considered any level of professional.

@russlaraway @JayBilas Those things are fine. Just collectively bargain them like the NBA, NFL, etc.

As @JayBilas correctly points out, there’s a lot of hypocrisy in college athletics right now. It’s only when athletes begin to get paid that it’s necessary to have a federal law to “save college sports.”

@ZachSchumaker I think this expansion just means that about 20% of D1 teams make the tournament, which is essentially the same percentage as 1990.

This is a blatant cash grab. Expanding the field to create a 24-team opening round does not reward great basketball; it rewards average teams from big markets just so the networks can sell more ads. They are sacrificing the integrity of the greatest postseason in sports purely for financial gain. A genuinely terrible move for the future of college basketball.

@DanWetzel Since he got a new contract, can’t we assume his current team knew he was talking with UNC?

Tommy Lloyd off the table for UNC. Also … will we have the same tampering outrage there is for players?

@NCSU84 @NC_Governor @PackTimPeeler *Koch

@NC_Governor @PackTimPeeler Think you need to throw some history on the Gov where Kock finished her education.

🚀Congratulations to North Carolina School of Science and Math alum Christina Koch for being part of today’s Artemis II launch. North Carolina is proud of you. newsobserver.com/news/state/nor…

@SethDavisHoops I don’t care that Duke lost, or that UConn won. But, if that action isn’t seen as disrespectful by that ref, then that ref and that coach are too close for that ref to be involved in that game.

Hoping this is the last time it needs to be addressed, but there seems to be confusion as to what the rules are regarding contact between a coach and official. Many seem to assume that any contact between a coach and official by rule must result in a technical. This is not true. This is what's in the rulebook, specifically rule 10.2.h which says an unsporting Class A technical should be assessed to a coach or player who "disrespectfully contacts an official or makes a threat of physical intimidation or harm to include pushing, shoving, spitting, or attempting to make physical contact with an official." The phrases "disrespectfully" and "physical intimidation or harm" are by definition subjective. So it's up to the official in that situation to decide whether he is being disrespected or intimidated. The ref in this situation did not believe he was. Seeing as how the "contact" came right after Mullins' game winning shot, it's reasonable to interpret that Hurley was pumped about the shot and not trying to intimidate or threaten the official. That is my interpretation as well. Reasonable (and especially unreasonable lol) minds can differ, but to assert that the referee did not follow the rules in this situation is factually inaccurate. Thank you for you attention to this matter.

@z_bergeron @4JoshReed Child actors are very clearly a) professional and b) protected by special rules governing their employment. College athletes are either professional or amateur, because they’ve always been adults.

@4JoshReed Coddle? You are assigning money as the line in the sand to how someone should or shouldn’t be treated. Child actors making a fortune … no media obligation to treat them differently? “Couldn’t wait until a high paid young man fails so I can tweet some self important bullshit.”

I’ve been waiting and watching for a storyline like Cayden Boozer. Here we are, Boozer, 18-years-old, hasn’t even Iived life and has to navigate a very tough failure. Other side of the coin— quick search— Boozer did a $750K NIL and that is what we call adult money. College athletes want paid and deserve it but it’s not the media’s job to protect them now. I cringe when I read the praise for Boozer taking questions after the loss. He should, he’s a highly paid athlete.

@HighwayVoices @yourpalhalsays @LupusBeowulf I mean, at that point all the things he said in his NCSU intro presser seemed true. Then, later, the team collapsed, he threw the players under the bus, and, quite possibly, bought a house in Louisiana with over a month left in the season….and lied to the AD about his plans.

@yourpalhalsays @LupusBeowulf He is def along with many NC State fans extremely butthurt and jealous lol. LSU fans love it. Just a few posts of his love for Will not too long ago.

I wonder if respected AD Boo Corrigan mischaracterized things or if known cheater Will Wade did 🤔

@rtpcfo @statefansnation UNC is going outside the family because there’s not a “family” candidate.

@statefansnation Carolina is finally deciding to hire not from within the UNC family. For those exact reasons. Loyalty is great, but a failure is much much much more painful. To all parties. It’s also a lot of added unique pressure.

I know that everyone thinks that all the love for Justin Gainey is powerful and should move Boo Corrigan to make a decision. And also know they've never thought about the other side of this coin -- What happens in these situations when someone doesn't succeed? Even worse, what happens in these situations when someone only succeeds in a middling fashion? When dealing with alums, now you're dealing with a massive headache because there will always be people that support the alum no matter what, regardless of what the right decision could be. Heck, just look at Hubert right down the street. Not sure if I'm an AD that I'm dying to put myself in that position through the years. So, not sure that all the public pressure to push Boo ends up having the effect that people think it will.

@statefansnation That doesn’t make him wrong, though.

I absolutely love Rick Barnes. He's one of my favorite coaches of all time. If Rick wanted any impact on our coaching position then he should have taken our job at one point over the last thirty years.

@bstrand11111 @PackInsider Two things are true: 1) Your analogy says “girlfriend”. The contract is more like “wife”. 2) Nobody is suing anybody. It’s a guy with a law degree pointing out how much of a disingenuous punk WW was because he had some time.

@PackInsider Guess you’re still in the “anger” stage. Seriously Will Wade is literally hanging with friend’s probably at a crawfish boil. It’s time to move on.

Could NC State sue Will Wade? The former Deputy General Counsel of the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services thinks so. He breaks down Wade's contract to show you how.👇 packinsider.com/2026/03/28/cou…

@PF3Machine @iam_johnw Yep…

@iam_johnw Isn’t this logic backwards? If there’s very little time left then there’s less time for a pump fake, so you should be more likely to react to the opponent’s initial movement.

Did Flaujae Johnson forget it was only 2 seconds on the clock ? Why was she falling for a pump fake

@GeauxTeamPod @Rgreener77 @coreyzinho @RCorySmith I think it’s asking a lot of the guy that had to deal with the fallout from Wade’s first stint in BR to enthusiastically welcome him back. But if I was a fan I would have wanted the coach gone last year.

@danofnc @Rgreener77 @coreyzinho @RCorySmith Hey, I’ve got an idea how we can find common ground. If our shitty previous AD would have just put his ego aside last year, LSU and NC State both wouldn’t have had to waste the last season like we both ended up doing. Picture of Fat Scott below

One additional note on LSU hiring Will Wade: According to a source in Baton Rouge, Matt McMahon and his staff were not informed of his firing from the administration until Wade was on a plane. It was widely reported, but there was never a formal announcement from LSU.

@GeauxTeamPod @Rgreener77 @coreyzinho @RCorySmith Yeah… he accidentally spent at least half a season (one of your guys says about a year) planning his exit. Totally not intentional.

@danofnc @Rgreener77 @coreyzinho @RCorySmith I would feel the same way if I was an NC State fan. I don’t think it was intentional by Wade but I understand why an NC State fan would feel that way.

@GeauxTeamPod @Rgreener77 @coreyzinho @RCorySmith And he’s showing why

Reports in Baton Rouge say he was unofficially notified a couple of days ago but LSU was trying to keep it quiet until April 1st which was the date Wade’s buyout dropped by $2 million. The same reports in BR said NC State caught wind and started leaking the entire thing in order to force a decision from Wade and LSU. Personally I think it was a good play by NC State to force LSU to pay more.

@GeauxTeamPod @Rgreener77 @coreyzinho @RCorySmith Also disingenuous. The portal opens 4/7. If he’s staying, staying, staying, then magically gone on 4/1, which is what they tried, that’s a giant, undeserved problem for State. Just own that he’s an ass, but you don’t care because he’s yours. I never really liked him at State

@GeauxTeamPod @Rgreener77 @coreyzinho @RCorySmith And it looks like his focus on LSU also impacted his focus on State’s team, which shouldn’t happen if you’re under contract. Disingenuous.

I hear you. But is anyone truthful in contract and employment negotiations? As an employer myself (not trying to say that as a brag by any means, but instead just trying to use it as an example), I always assume candidates are lying to me about their current salaries. Most of the time they are. I accept it and understand that it’s in their best interest to lie to me an attempt to make a higher salary. Same thing for Wade, what is he supposed to say that LSU is a special place to him and he wants nothing more than to return there? But then if he is truthful and the LSU job doesn’t come open or LSU couldn’t afford the resources to get him back, he would have screwed himself over with his current employer.

@GeauxTeamPod @Rgreener77 @coreyzinho @RCorySmith If this has been going on for as long as some LSU people are saying, then yes, he should have been honest with State’s AD. Everyone has a job to do, and his assurances put State’s AD on a much worse spot than the truth would have. Again, disingenuous.