At least 6 college basketball programs will be notified of major NCAA violations by Summer

Damn Hal Hughes

Several schools are mentioned in that article but LSU is not.

Will wade doesn’t even baseball.

Really hope we skate somehow. Also in the article, there is another group of schools being investigated beyond the ones that will be named soon.

I’m assuming LSU is in that second group.

Will Wade is as clean as a the pearly gates of heaven.

We didn't do shite.

Article said leaked wire tap conversations can only be used during interviews as talking points. Only evidence introduced at trial can be used as evidence

A couple of things jumped out to me:

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Wilcox said only those schools involved in eligibility issues would be impacted.

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So, if Javonte Smart was the only risk here for us, and he's already been cleared by the NCAA and ruled eligible, then we are good.

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One of the most significant pieces of information to emerge from the trials was a wire tap involving Kansas assistant Kurt Townsend.

On it, Townsend can be heard discussing the exact financial arrangement it would take to land then-No. 1 recruit Zion Williamson. However, that call wasn't entered into evidence in the trial.

"Any wiretap that was introduced into evidence [we can use]," Wilcox said. "It wasn't. That was leaked. We don't have access to that.


"We can use the information that was put in the media but … we would take that information and when we sit down and talk with the coach we would use that as [a talking point]."

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That bolded part has already been played out between the NCAA, LSU, and Will Wade, I believe.

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Dodd states that "Stan Wilcox, NCAA vice president for regulatory affairs, said two high-profile programs would receive notices of allegations by early July.

"The remaining four would be rolled out later in the summer in what was described as a wave of NCAA investigations meant to clean up major-college basketball.

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Let's do the math.

Let's face it, LSU isn't a "high profile" program. Two of these three fit that bill: Arizona, Kansas, Louisville. Aside from those, Auburn, USC and Oklahoma St. all had assistant coaches plead guilty

Now certainly, there are some allegedly damning recordings of Wade and he (thanks to a feckless LSU PR/AD staff) became the center of the storm at NCAAT time. However, LSU didn't have any assistants charged or plead guilty. LSU very well could, and likely will be in the "second group", but I think they stay out of the "first group" for now.

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Also in the article, there is another group of schools being investigated beyond the ones that will be named soon.

I’m assuming LSU is in that second group.

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Fingers crossed Pirate King.

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