27 days and counting on hostage crisis

April 22

frick Joe Alleva

Still think if Wade stays LSU has to throw the bank at him.

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Where does Alleva live?

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If they fire him now, this late, they will have screwed up even more than they already have which is currently at an unprecedented level. At this point if he did commit a violation you just take the hit and keep him.

Sanctions are never severe anymore, there is no death penalty, so you ride it out with your 36 year old coach. Syracuse had 12 violations in 2015 and Boheim missed 4 games, Louisville was caught with a prostitution ring and were in the tourney this year and Penn State covered up dozens of child rapes and got 2 years probation.

It’s too late to hire another coach, Alleva and Alexander have done enough virtue signaling and unless you want to do irreversible damage to the basketball program you keep Wade and move on together no matter the outcome.

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All of this.

Unless the NCAA is planning on giving the LSU basketball program the death penalty for 10 years, there's no reason not to keep Wade regardless of what comes of the situation. If you let Alleva and FKing hire another basketball coach you getting a self-imposed 10-year death penalty anyway. Maybe longer.

Even if you take those two idiots out of the equation, what are the chances any AD is going to hit on 2 great back-to-back basketball head coach hires at LSU?

Will Wade has already shown the potential to be one of the great ones. If the NCAA sanctions the shite out of him it's not like when that expires he's going to all of a sudden forget how to coach basketball and recruit. Look at Bruce Pearl.

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All of this.

Unless the NCAA is planning on giving the LSU basketball program the death penalty for 10 years, there's no reason not to keep Wade regardless of what comes of the situation. If you let Alleva and FKing hire another basketball coach you getting a self-imposed 10-year death penalty anyway. Maybe longer.

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I look at the current situation like this. LSU is sitting in a house with a wildfire raging in the distance. It's possible, buy by no means a certainty, that the wildfire will reach your home. However, LSU is mulling over whether to just go ahead and burn down their own house so as to hopefully avoid the risk that the wildfire eventually reaches their home.

If LSU fires Wade there will be a mass exodus by the players with remaining eligibility. We're talking perhaps maybe 1-3 scholarship players left from this year's roster. LSU would then have to hire a new coach to come into an unattractive situation. The pool of good candidates willing to do so is small. You're likely not going to get a high major coach to leave his current good situation to come to LSU (How Louisville got Mack to leave Xavier is beyond me) and young up and comers are always a bit of a crapshoot. Regardless, the new guy would need at least a year, likely much more, to rebuild the roster.

Then, you throw in the fact that you've sent a very clear message...no shady recruiting. Now, I know we'd all like to live in make-believe world were top talent go to a school simply because they love the school/coach. That's not reality. If you are going to recruit 5 and 4 star players you better be willing to engage in the shady dealing of AAU basketball. That's the only way you are going to sign big time players. I know most of us were sleeping at that time, but we saw what happens when a coach doesn't particularly want to get in with the dirty AAU circuit during the Trent Johnson era. After winning the SEC with Brady's team, Johnson won five, FIVE, SEC games in the next two years, combined! And that was at a time when the coaching and talent in the SEC was FAR inferior to what the league looks like now.

No, it's not a great situation for LSU to be in. Yes, Wade bears (perhaps significant) fault in this situation. But the best course of action is sticking with Wade and allowing him to continue to build the program. If sanctions come down 2, 3 years down the road and you have no choice but to fire Wade, so be it. But the practical result of that vs. firing Wade now is still the same...significant decline of the program. The only difference is that decline is a certainty if you fire Wade now vs. simply just a possibility if you stick with him.