re: Aleva is ruining LSU sports for me.

“ I appreciate Alleva doing everything he can to keep the program free of sanctions”

You do realize that if LSU should face any sanctions, they will come due to a coach hired by Alleva less than 2 yes ago. His third failed attempt to hire a adequate basketball coach for LSU in 3 tries: I don’t see much to appreciate, but each to our own.

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All Aleva had to do is trust in his coach and back him, as any boss worth is salt would do.

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surely you’re kidding.

Wades on tape buying players, and Wade won’t explain to his boss.

No trust is warranted.

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All Aleva had to do is trust in his coach and back him, as any boss worth is salt would do.

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Not at anyplace I ever worked. If a employee created the slightest suspicion that they did something that would violate the rules of a regulatory agency that would endanger licenses or certifications the company needed to operate, they would be put on immediate leave until the situation is sorted out. The World of business is not a court of law, you are absolutely guilty until proven otherwise, and no single employee is more important than the business.

It is not Alleva. I do not care for him either. But this situation is the President and the Board of Supervisors. There was a planned and executed and timed hit piece on WW and LSU basketball. Our leadership choked. Should have just stared them down.

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Not at anyplace I ever worked. If a employee created the slightest suspicion that they did something that would violate the rules of a regulatory agency that would endanger licenses or certifications the company needed to operate, they would be put on immediate leave until the situation is sorted out. The World of business is not a court of law, you are absolutely guilty until proven otherwise, and no single employee is more important than the business

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this is 100% correct. Finally, a mature adult on this board who knows how the real world works.

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Will Wade screwed things up and put the program in a bad light. Instead of taking responsibility he is "me, me me" by demanding to coach again instead of wishing the team well and holding any other comment back until after the trial.

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Wow, you are so out of touch.

LSU has a history of PR nightmare under Alleva. This is just another on his long list of frick ups at LSU and Duke.

fricker backed his buddy baseball coach giving players steroids. You know, actual cheating.

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Not at anyplace I ever worked. If a employee created the slightest suspicion that they did something that would violate the rules of a regulatory agency that would endanger licenses or certifications the company needed to operate, they would be put on immediate leave until the situation is sorted out. The World of business is not a court of law, you are absolutely guilty until proven otherwise, and no single employee is more important than the business

this is 100% correct. Finally, a mature adult on this board who knows how the real world works.

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Actually....... you children obviously don't know how the "Real" world works.

The reality is that in order to win in major college sports, you have to provide benefits to top shelf players (and their families) to play at your school. Everyone knows it except naive, ignorant people.

College Administrations know damn full well this is going on, but simply don't want their coaches to be caught doing it.

So....... since everyone, including F King and Alleva, knew damn full well this stuff is going on, then when their coach does get caught (but, still can't be "legally" proven that it happened, you support him fully. You don't require your coach to come into a meeting full of entrapment that can expose him legally.

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I'll always love LSU but its getting harder and harder to stay emotionally invested.

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That is on you.

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I'll add, see how that worked for Mizzou? They got put on full blast for their moral high ground.

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Why use Mizzou as an example? Why not use the example of Akiem Hicks and DJ McCarthy, because it doesn't fit your narrative? Those were major recruiting violations that LSU self-reported and avoided major sanctions. LSU didn't wait for the NCAA to do an investigation and find out for themselves, they were proactive.

The problem with coming up with examples of where self-reporting resulted in minor sanctions is that no one remembers because a major catastrophe was averted and thus it becomes a non-story.

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All Wade had to do was demonstrate he was worthy of trust by declaring his total and complete innocence.

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This.

Wade goes through the trouble of releasing a public statement. Was the statement to proclaim his innocence? No, it was to say he wants to coach in the post-season. Why the frick does he need to release a statement just to say he wants to coach? Did anyone not know that? No, everyone knows he wants to coach. That was a ridiculous and stupid statement to make. What everyone doesn't know is if Wade is guilty of infractions. Wade releasing a statement simply to say, "I have been in full compliance with all applicable NCAA rules while the coach of the LSU basketball team." would NOT put him or the FBI investigation at risk. He should have taken that meeting with the LSU admin and the NCAA just to say, "I have not violated any rules, but I cannot speak on the details due to the on-going investigation."

WHY WON'T WADE DENY GUILT?

Wade is not doing himself any favors, and indeed is making himself look guilty even if he's not. He has not given LSU one single reason to re-instate him.