A reunion between LSU and men’s basketball coach Will Wade is happening as McNeese announces athletics director Heath Schroyer has accepted a job at LSU as Senior Deputy AD. Jim Gazzolo covers McNeese athletics for the American Press and says Wade would not leave North Carolina State for LSU if Schroyer is not at LSU.
“In this process, just connected at the hip because, trust,” Gazzolo said.
Schroyer hired Wade as McNeese’s head coach in 2023, a year after he was fired at LSU for committing NCAA recruiting violations.
“I think it’s unfinished business with for him; that he didn’t get to complete, kind of the run there, the way he wanted to,” Gazzolo explained.
Schroyer arrived on campus in 2018 as the Cowboys head basketball coach. He was elevated to Athletics Director in June 2020, during the middle of the COVID pandemic and right before two major hurricanes that struck southwest Louisiana. Gazzolo says what Schroyer did once he got the AD job is remarkable.
“We had a football team on academic probation, a basketball team that’s never won in 15 years, $3 million in debt, and no community relationship at all with the business public. That’s all been wiped out by Heath Schroyer.
Schroyer will remain the AD at McNeese until April 10th and then Deputy AD Bridge Martin will become the Interim AD.
Wade’s return to LSU, means Matt McMahon’s four year run as the Tigers men’s basketball coach is over. He went 60-70 in four seasons at LSU.
Wade’s new contract with LSU is reportedly a seven-year deal.
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