Cut 23 (02) “He’s back!”
He’s back all right – four years after being fired for recruiting violations, Will Wade is returning for a second stint as LSU’s head men’s basketball coach. Speculation came to a head when former McNeese Athletic Director Heath Schroyer joined LSU as Senior Deputy AD. Jim Gazzolo covers McNeese athletics for the American Press and says that was the catalyst behind Wade’s return to Baton Rouge.
LSU isn’t the only Louisiana school making a move with its men’s basketball program, as ULM has introduced Ryan Cross as its new men’s basketball coach. Cross led UAB to four postseason appearances in his six seasons there and says he hopes Northeast Louisiana will rally around his program.
The Senate Governmental Affairs Committee effectively kills a resolution that would have required those running for U.S. congress to live in the district they’re running in. Houma Senator Mike Fesi did not feel comfortable passing a resolution in Louisiana when there are 25 members of the U-S House of Representatives who do not live in the district they represent.
LSU will soon be launching a bachelor’s degree program in artificial intelligence. Assistant Professor of Science and Engineering James Ghawaly (guh-WALL-ee) says students will learn how to build new A-I technologies from the ground up, and they will also learn how to detect whether video content was created using A-I.