re: How can anyone defend the conversations from the tapes?

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I’ve always known this board had a lot of blind homers, but this situation has really disheartened me about our fans. Wades a cheater, and yet 90% of this board is defending him.

Its disgraceful.

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It is. It's made me conclude that either 90% of the posters are about 13 years old, or 90% of the posters stopped mentally maturing at about 13 years old.

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Everyone here knows Wade paid players,

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Irrelevant. We also know Saban pays players, yet he’s considered the GOAT. Why? Because like with Wade, you can’t prove it based off what we know.

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And they’re all hypocrites. If Wade coached for Bama, Florida, etc, this board would be DESTROYING him as a cheater and SCREAMING for him to be fired and for the school to get put on massive probation.

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Everyone here knows Wade paid players, they just like the winning so much they’re making every excuse in the book.

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How do we know that?

Did a Stripper tell you? Or was that the Duke lacrosse team. Facts are so confusing

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hey can’t. Everyone here knows Wade paid players, they just like the winning so much they’re making every excuse in the book.

And they’re all hypocrites. If Wade coached for Bama, Florida, etc, this board would be DESTROYING him as a cheater and SCREAMING for him to be fired and for the school to get put on massive probation.

I’ve always known this board had a lot of blind homers, but this situation has really disheartened me about our fans. Wades a cheater, and yet 90% of this board is defending him.

Its disgraceful.

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It's just sad and pathetic that so-called LSU fans like yourself are the ones making this whole Wade thing much bigger than it originally was.

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Its disgraceful.

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What's disgraceful is you slamming a coach who just won the SEC Championship in year 2 of his tenure. A coach who recruited agressively to try and keep up with other programs and uplift an LSU basketball program out the gutter. A coach who found a way for a team full of highly talented players to coexist and thrive under his direction. A coach who brought his team even closer together after one of their teammates was murdered just before the season started. A coach who understood that Smart was a hometown talent who was vital to his 1st recruiting class and its success.

None of this matters to you though b/c in your eyes Wade is nothing more than a cheater. Well, people like you are getting exactly what you want and Wade is no longer a part of the team right now.

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Move to ‘Missouri son. Maybe he is completely guilty maybe you and all the SJWs believe everyone plays fair and by the rules all the time. Duke, Kentucky, UNC and on and on don’t do a damn thing wrong do they? What they don’t do is bow down to the NCAA and take it like our stupid arse admin are doing.

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And they’re all hypocrites. If Wade coached for Bama, Florida, etc, this board would be DESTROYING him as a cheater and SCREAMING for him to be fired and for the school to get put on massive probation.

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This!!! Y’all need to get a grip.

That's not even remotely true. Good golly miss molly where do you people come from?

Like seriously?

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Everyone here knows Wade paid players, they just like the winning so much they’re making every excuse in the book. 

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Are you under the impression every p5 program doesnt buy players?

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I’ve always known this board had a lot of blind homers, but this situation has really disheartened me about our fans. Wades a cheater, and yet 90% of this board is defending him. 

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Or the fact that there is frick all in evidence and while the words sounds troubling, they are easily explained away.

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. Wades a cheater, and yet 90% of this board is defending him.

Its disgraceful.

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We are defending him because we are waiting for the facts, and because our team, in the most exciting postseason in years, are deprived of our coach.

To explain this phenomenon to those, like yourself who take a different point of view, here’s a very interesting article on the psychology of why sports team’s fans are supportive, in spite of potential unethical and immoral behaviour/activity. It’s long so I’ll quote some of it.

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“For fans, as much as ever, this N.C.A.A. tournament serves as a taste test for our unholy appetites.
It is called “moral dissonance,” Bowen said, “where someone thinks, ‘Gosh, this is unethical, but I love it so much, and my friends and I have such a good time rooting and cheering that I’m going to participate anyway.’”

Steven Mintz, a professor emeritus at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo who writes a blog called Ethics Sage, called it “ethical blindness.”.
Some people say, ‘We can live with this, simply for the love of the game,’” Mintz said.

Louisiana State’s season began in tragedy, with the shooting death of one of its players, Wayde Sims, on the eve of preseason practices. Now it climaxes in the most N.C.A.A. way possible, with each victory treated as either a feel-good story of redemption or a cautious tale of corruption.

A yearslong F.B.I. investigation burst into public view in late 2017, exposing the type of black-market underbelly long presumed in college sports, especially men’s basketball.

Waves from the investigation continue to wash detritus to shore as cases flow through the court system. A year ago, Yahoo Sports reported that the F.B.I.’s investigation had implicated at least 25 programs. Among them were six members of this year’s round of 16, including three No. 1 seeds — Duke, North Carolina and Virginia — and second-seeded Kentucky.

So far, none have been publicly outed for transgressions related directly to the F.B.I. case (Except LSU), but at least one entire region will be contested this weekend with teams playing under an ethical cloud.

Little of this conversation ever breaks through the cheers surrounding the N.C.A.A. tournament. It is rarely discussed earnestly on CBS, which is paying the N.C.A.A. nearly $1 billion a year, on average, to televise the tournament through 2032.

When something happens that you think is wrong, that you’re morally critical of, you don’t necessarily walk away from that relationship,” Klein said.
“Just as you can have a friend who’s done something to you, but because you like them, you love them, you stay with them,” Haney said. “You don’t turn your back on them, knowing that change is coming.”

Fandom is not a rational pursuit from the get-go,” said Bowen, who helped write “Sport, Ethics and Leadership,” a textbook. “The joy is that it’s an emotional experience, a great getaway. We want that. But on the flip side, emotion hijacks reason all the time.”

You will note that there are 2 different kinds of fans, your 90%, highly emotionally attached and loyal to CWW until we find out facts.

And your 10%, who are in the “corruption” camp, already having a more dispassionate attitude already believing the hint of the facts. By your own percentages you are in the minority.

I trust that you can now understand emotionally connected fans (like myself), and why so many of us feel this way. We are a different kind of fanatic.

So it doesn’t matter what you say you’ll never change our views.