re: LSU Football Self-Imposes Penalties, Bans Odell Beckham Jr. from Facilities

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Worried about the basketball program...it appears they indeed separated the penalties, so I'm guessing the basketball sanctions will be worse.

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The two are distinguishable. With football, the evidence of payments to Alexander's family came out in the the criminal trial of Funes. It happened. OBJ was on camera giving LSU players money. The evidence of those two "violations" were pretty clear.

With Wade, not so much. The wiretap tape that we've all heard exist. Wade is generally talking about making an "offer" to a player not named (though we know that discussion was about Smart). To date, nothing else concrete has come out that any such transaction occurred between Smart and Wade and/or a booster. Whereas there was a clear "paper trail" with the football stuff, that doesn't appear to be the case with basketball based upon what has been report.

That's not to say there isn't one in basketball. Or that the wiretap isn't enough in and of itself to levy some degree of sanctions against Wade/LSU. Or even that the NCAA doesn't have additional, more firm evidence against Wade/LSU that we don't know about. But evidence of the exchange of benefits is basketball seems to be (at this point) far less firm than that in football.

EDT: Not "trial" (he pled guilty). But financial records the DOJ had in support of their case against Funes