Could Will Wade’s honesty change how we talk about coaching moves in college sports?
CLEVELAND — It was a one-word answer, but in college basketball circles, it hit like switching from black-and-white to technicolor, like hearing the Beatles in stereo for the first time. Reporters asked McNeese men’s basketball coach Will Wade Wednesday, ahead of his team’s first-round NCAA Tournament game, if he or his agent had spoken with NC State about their head coach vacancy. “Yes,” said Wade. Next question. If a room full of sports reporters’ heads explode, does it make a sound? Wade, never one to sugarcoat things, whether in front of a microphone or on a wiretap, actually...
CLEVELAND — It was a one-word answer, but in college basketball circles, it hit like switching from black-and-white to technicolor, like hearing the Beatles in stereo for the first time.
Reporters asked McNeese men’s basketball coach Will Wade Wednesday, ahead of his team’s first-round NCAA Tournament game, if he or his agent had spoken with NC State about their head coach vacancy.
“Yes,” said Wade.
Next question.
If a room full of sports reporters’ heads explode, does it make a sound?
Wade, never one to sugarcoat things, whether in front of a microphone or on a wiretap, actually...
