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Will Wade was the only 'big personality’ LSU wanted to coach men’s basketball

By BY TOYLOY BROWN III | Staff writerThe Advocate

LSU athletic director Verge Ausberry and deputy AD Heath Schroyer talked about who could be the next leader of the men’s basketball program. Inside the conversation and the reasons why it had to be Will Wade.

The only person the athletic department and the board of supervisors knew would energize people was former coach Will Wade. He fits what LSU is, he always did, I always felt it, Ausberry said. I tho…