Article: Tuesday is the day for LSU-Wade to come together

Nice summary.

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That’s Wade’s perspective, but he might not feel comfortable saying it with an NCAA representative in the room – because if the meeting devolves into a cross-examination involving material he might have to testify about at that trial in April, it could well put him in a dreaded perjury trap. Let’s remember that Wade was called as a witness by the defense in Dawkins’ trial, not the federal government. Criminal defense attorneys will tell you that being called as a defense witness in a federal trial puts one in the uncomfortable position of drawing scrutiny from the FBI and U.S. Attorney’s office, and perjury traps are a delightfully fun means the Feds have of assailing the credibility of those defense witnesses. Things Wade would say at this meeting about what he’s been subpoenaed to testify on therefore become sticky – he’ll get asked about the LSU meeting at the trial in New York by the federal prosecutor, and if there is any deviation between his testimony and what he says at that meeting you might see a subpoena go out to someone else who’s at the meeting to rebut his testimony. And it could well devolve from there even if the deviation is over something not central to what’s on those wiretaps. If you’re Will Wade, how comfortable are you that F. King Alexander gets called as a witness to examine whether you told the truth at a meeting with the LSU brass over how you recruited your players? That’s a real, albeit remote, possibility if he agrees to this meeting. Which means Wade might well feel comfortable assuring LSU’s top brass informally that he hasn’t done anything to put the NCAA monster on the university’s back, but the more official that meeting is and the more comprehensive the questions and answers become, the more dangerous, legally, it could be for him to participate.

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This portion cannot be stressed enough. I'm not sure many really understand this. It's well laid out here.

I thought this was interesting

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we understand that the TAF plane coming back from Nashville Friday night was a near riot with furious boosters seething over the Wade thing and numerous other public-relations and administrative lowlights in recent history

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I hope its true, and the heat is being turned up on Alleva and Alexander.

That was a masterpiece.
Somewhere between Hemingway and Shakespeare.

I understood the initial suspension of Wade, but if there is interdepartmental politcking going on, then those in the compliance department need to be put in their place. They work under the president and AD, not the other way around. I just can't fathom that this is all there is to the story. It almost seems to me the AD is using this as a cop out to garner support from the fanbase and BOS by passing the blame to others rather than just being proactive and addressing what needs to be addressed. That would be like a regional manager blocking the CEO of a company from conducting business and the CEO caving. In no universe would an underling ever try to usurp the authority of his boss and expect to keep his or her job.

But one thing is for sure. I, for one, am sick and tired of this play out in the media. All that is happening is all involved are making themselves look incompetent and dysfunctional to the national media.

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This became a sticking point, and scuttled the plans for the coach and the top brass to meet – what Wade wants is an informal meeting with Athletic Director Joe Alleva and President F. King Alexander, and his perspective, we’re told, is that he’s not actually going to have to testify in this case, that the seemingly-damning remarks on the transcript released by Yahoo! Sports are selective and paint the exchange between him and Christian Dawkins (who was not a middleman for Smart, and with whom Wade maintains he’s never actually done any business other than occasionally talking shop) in a light which doesn’t reflect reality, and that this will all eventually blow over.

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Thank you!

Time for all parties involved to stop acting like children. Come to a compromise and get this figured out. Everyone’s gonna have to put some pride aside, which may make this impossible in the end.

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that he’s not actually going to have to testify in this case, that the seemingly-damning remarks on the transcript released by Yahoo! Sports are selective and paint the exchange between him and Christian Dawkins (who was not a middleman for Smart, and with whom Wade maintains he’s never actually done any business other than occasionally talking shop) in a light which doesn’t reflect reality, and that this will all eventually blow over.

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This article lays bare the utter bullshite laid forth by our local "journalists" peddling the line that simply an employee should be willing to meet with their employer. Wade can not and should not enter into a what will devolve into a collective legal/contractual gang bang. His attorney was wise to steer him clear. LSU needs to reign in the keystone cops and go about this wisely. Enough if wade were guilty as sin, they are handling this wrong.

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we understand that the TAF plane coming back from Nashville Friday night was a near riot with furious boosters seething over the Wade thing and numerous other public-relations and administrative lowlights in recent history

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