Sources: Wade to leave McNeese for NC State job

Jeff BorzelloMar 19, 2025, 03:42 PM ET

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• Graduate of University of Delaware.McNeese’s Will Wade has actually reached a contract to become the next head coach at NC State, sources informed ESPN on Wednesday.McNeese, which won the Southland Conference regular season and tournament champions, is set to play in the NCAA tournament versus Clemson on Thursday(TruTV, 3:15 p.m. ET ). The news is expected to be made main following McNeese’s exit from the tournament.Editor’s Picks 2 Related Wade acknowledged Wednesday he’s had contact with the Wolfpack concerning its head coaching position.
  

  “There’s no need to hide it,”Wade said.”The guys are reading it on social networks. It’s obvious and I’m not going to ask them to do something

  I’m not going to do. It’s no great if you don’t resolve it and if you sit there and B.S. ’em. They know. They can read right through the B.S. So you may as well just [say] ‘This is what it is.'” Wade has spent the previous two seasons at McNeese, winning 57 games and going 36-2 in conference play, winning

  back-to-back regular-season and conference tournament titles.He spent five seasons as the head coach at LSU from 2018-22, leading the Tigers to three out of four NCAA competitions, consisting of the program

  ‘s very first SEC regular-season title in a years in 2019. Wade went 105-51 general at LSU.LSU fired Wade on the eve of the NCAA tournament back in 2022 after the school got a notice of claims from the NCAA detailing five Level I offenses and a

  Level II violation involving Wade. He was likewise suspended quickly before the 2019 NCAA tournament after reports revealed that a federal wiretap caught him talking about a”strong-ass offer”for a recruit.He was ultimately provided a two-year show-cause order and a 10-game suspension in June 2023 for three Level I violations, after being discovered to have actually made impermissible payments to the former fiancée of a player, while also failing to work together in an investigation and failing to promote an atmosphere of compliance.Prior to taking control of at LSU, Wade was the head coach at VCU for two seasons, winning 51 games and a regular-season title. He led the Rams to the NCAA tournament in both seasons. He likewise invested two seasons at Chattanooga, going 27-7 in SoCon play during his time with the Mocs.