33-34 years old. Mistakes?

Agree, we have all f'd up, but LSU is now in cover their arse mode to protect the institution from any appearance of condoning this.
Unfortunately letting CWW go or suspending him early in the process won't help with eventual NCAA sanctions if they come.

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the cardinal sin of your sport

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Even if he paid a player out of his own salary, that's not a cardinal sin in this sport. The whole FBI thing is exposing it as little more than a little white lie in this sport. Point shaving is a cardinal sin in college sports. Gambling on your own games is a cardinal sin. Assaulting players is a cardinal sin.

Paying a guy what the market says he is worth is like smoking pot for a headache.

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This. Paying players is not the great offense and everyone knows it. Point shaving destroys the integrity of competition, not paying players to come play on ur team.

He clearly made a rookie mistake and he may have to pay a hefty price for it! I love Wade, but when there's smoke, you can almost guarantee there's fire. I just hope it's a small fire and not a flaming inferno! Unfortunately, I'm leaning towards a flaming inferno because of the wealth of talent he brought in. They key is what we hear and can be proven from this point on, whether he stays or is terminated!

If you are a major conf D-1 basketball program AND recruit players that play AAU basketball, the you have offered “improper benefits” to players. EVERY. SINGLE. SCHOOL.

It’s not “cheating”. It’s simply how recruiting is conducted. Any coach, journalists, etc that says otherwise is either lying or just flat out hypocritically disingenuous.

The NCAA has known this for over 40 years, but has done little to stop it. The reason is that over 3/4ths of the NCAA’s TOTAL yearly revenue comes from the NCAA Tournament. We’re talking nearly a billion dollars from ONE event.

Punishing every school that “cheats” (ie at LEAST every school in the SEC, Big 10, Big 12, ACC, PAC 12, Big East, AAC) means jeopardizing the profitability of the thing that funds the NCAA. That ain’t happening to any significant degree.

I don’t know if that is necessarily true, Wade in two years rebuilt this program from the ashes, and established he is a very good coach. He knows his stuff.

Bruh everyone on tRant is perfect. They make these profiles to remain anonymous to say things they’ll never say publicly in people face.

My feeling is the minute Wade’s toe hit the water with recruiting for a bigger program, every recruit he was talking to was probably telling him what they wanted. Now all these same kids are signing somewhere with somebody so lets put 2 and 2 together. Literally millions of dollars are on the line for a young coach who is feeling that pressure. Now i am not saying he did the right thing or any of that bs, but the reality of this is a lot of people under those circumstances would have done the same.

He’s guilty he’s done

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as are all the programs that sign the top notch players, it is just part of the process. The mistake was he was caught, which the ncaa will crack down on LSU because otherwise it will devolve into open bidding for players. There is nothing wrong with bidding for players as long as it is kept out of sight, it is a necessary part of the recruiting process for top level programs, the wrong part about it is being so callous as to get caught having a wire tapped phone conversation. The lesson that needs to be learned is that a buffer needs to be established between the coaches and the recruits for this part of the recruiting process and that you don't use phones to discuss this.