Well boys..... It's been a good ride with Will Wade (Kansas b-ball going down)

Downvote number 1

Hell, I downvoted myself.

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We have a football game in less than 24 hours, f outta here with this

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Right. If I post a story about one of the other teams in the FBI investigation from the summer THAT JUST BROKE that means the team won't be focused on Vandy. Solid take.

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DV #35

Upvote #1 to downvote #25

This isn’t even transitive logic this is 4 steps removed from even that fallacy. Catastrophe syndrome is real and the Rant is it’s birthplace.

I get it ( ) but for those of you that haven't clicked the link, here's why this is important to Wade and LSU. The NCAA was just waiting to pounce once the trial was done.

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The NCAA is preparing to issue a notice of allegations that details multiple major violations in the Kansas men’s basketball program, The Star has learned.

The notice will come, sources told The Star, after a summer of speculation following a top NCAA official saying the organization would make findings against schools involved in a pay-for-play recruiting scheme investigated by the FBI.

When asked for comment, Dan Beckler, associate KU athletic director for public relations, told The Star that KU Athletics had not received any notification from the NCAA.

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There is one thing that is a bit different between KU and LSU.

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Former Adidas employee T.J. Gassnola testified in federal court last October that he made payments of $90,000 on behalf of Adidas to the mother of KU basketball player Billy Preston and $2,500 to the guardian of Silvio De Sousa. Gassnola also said he agreed to pay $20,000 to Fenny Falmagne, the guardian of De Sousa, to help Falmagne exit an agreement to send De Sousa to Maryland, an Under Armour school.

Gassnola testified that KU coach Bill Self was not aware of the payments.

As a result of that trial, De Sousa was given a two-year NCAA suspension. Kansas appealed the second year of the punishment and the NCAA reinstated De Sousa, who is allowed to play this upcoming season.

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One of KU’s NCAA issues could be Gassnola’s relationship to Self and assistant Kurtis Townsend as revealed in court.

Text messages showed that during the time KU was recruiting De Sousa, KU coaches were aware that Gassnola was in contact with De Sousa’s guardian, Fenny Falmagne.

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That evidence/testimony, which was subject to penalty of perjury and reliability safeguards, was introduced in court. To date, there was no evidence introduced implicating LSU.

I'm not naive. There are wiretaps of Wade talking to SOMEONE. The NCAA has the ability to go speak with the other person to those conversations. The question will be is that person's statement credible? Certainly, there could be some credibility issues when you consider the statement was made by a convicted criminal.

This investigation for the NCAA (for all teams) is going to be wrought with a LOT of people who will be trying to throw each other under the bus and/or preserve their own standing in college basketball. Who and what to believe will be a big deal.

IMO, there is NO DOUBT Wade engaged in "shady" recruiting practices. You know how I know that? Because EVERY big time college HC engages in shady recruiting practices. When the AAU circuit (which is nothing more than an unregulated marketplace for talented basketball players) is the primary recruiting landscape, coaches have no choice but to get "dirty" if they want to sign the best players. I'm sure many coaches may not love that idea, but they are smart enough to know doing so is simply just the nature of the business.

The NCAA has deliberately turned a blind eye to that inconvenient truth because the NCAAT is it's major, MAJOR, cash cow. It will be interesting to see how they now feign indignation

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