re: Wade did something that is now legal thru NIL

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It absolutely is semantics. At the root of Wade’s “issue” was the fact that players were getting paid. Are players not getting paid legally today to play collegiate basketball? The “who” of the paying doesn’t fricking matter because no matter who we’re told the “who” is we have know way of knowing where the money originated. That is fact. The fact that you are telling me other coaches aren’t paying players, even before NIL, shows me how naive you are. On the same FBI tapes that implicated Wade (on allegations that he won’t be punished for criminally or by the NCAA BTW) many other coaches were implicated. shite Pitino has been paying players financially and with other forms of payment for years. He’s just the tip of the iceberg.

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Dude…I loved Will Wade. I would love to have him back….but you’re objectively wrong on this. It’s not semantics. Coaches cannot legally pay players. NIL deals can pay players. It matters where the money comes from. He’s on wiretap basically admitting to major NCAA violations and he left a paper trail. This is what separates him from other coaches. Of course they’re paying players. They’re just not making such an easy case against themselves.
Just because you don’t agree with the rules, doesn’t mean you can just ‘very blatantly’ ignore them. And the “who” does matter when a paper and audio trail is left and the governing body of the NCAA deems that it matters.
If Orgeron was heard on wiretap and there was a paper trail showing that he paid Burrow to come here….LSU would have to vacate a national title and Burrow would forfeit the Heisman trophy. That’s how much it matters….whether we like it or not.