re: How does the LSU admin fire Will Wade and avoid the PR nightmare?

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Look just because that gives you reason to hate them doesn’t mean you can take it out on them when Will Wade potentially commits a recruiting violation and won’t meet with them over it.

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And you are right that the academic administrative missteps can be separated from this current situation.

I just don't agree with the way this was handled since March 8th. I've expressed why ad nauseam on this board.

However the handling of this fits perfectly with all the previous misfeasance by the admin when put in larger context like Lipsy did in his article.

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You and the few here calling for his head are claiming to be the majority, but clearly you are the minority.

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I have never once called for Will Wade's head

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So you conflating the two is very wrong.

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you're completely missing my point.

My comparison was for fans that say "don't punish us because it would adversely affect the current players." That applies to ANY school being punished for any bad action, whether it's sickeningly criminal like Penn State, or merely recruiting violations.

I wasn't equating the two - I realize they're vastly different. But the "don't punish the kids" argument to escape NCAA penalties is the same.

F. King will be forced to resign before 2019 semester begins, likely sooner. University scandals that have been kept under wraps are now being leaked strategically by a couple BOR and 1 BOS. JA will also “retire” or be forced to resign around the same time.


This isn’t a guess, this is what I’ve been told from a couple very connected individuals. TIFWIW

lol they can't avoid any PR nightmare -- they don't know how.

"Rational fans like you and me understand what's actually occurring and this is all on Wade."

Nobody knows the entire story about what's "actually occurring" so "rational fans cannot assign judgement one way or another. We don't know whether Wade's comments on that wire tap were scripted to him by the FBI in an attempt to entrap Dawkins into discussing Dawkins own involvement with buying players. We don't know whether or not the FBI was using Wade in this way with the permission of the LSU administration. There is a possibility that everything we've seen since the transcripts were made public is nothing more than a smokescreen by all parties involved to create plausible deniability of having participated in an FBI sting operation. Certainly, the FBI would not have wanted this information to leak out before the trial in April.

This explains the silence from Wade as well as the fact that LSU has not fired him. It also explains why the information might have been leaked from the Dawkin's legal defense team. They are trying to form their legal defense and discovery of an FBI sting operation using Wade would certainly be of interest to them. It explains why their side sent a notice to Wade about possibly having to testify in April.

The trial and it's legal ramifications are running the show and everything we are witnessing is a response to this fact.

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If this was the standard, then no coach could ever be fired for any reason, because the kids would always get hurt.

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Most programs don't fire or suspend a successful coach on the eve of a championship game and right before the bowls or playoffs.

Your very first post deserved it's own very first reply!

I am surprised Lipsey was smoked out of his hole and making himself a public figure in this. He and the rest of his kind in Baton Rouge have always liked to stand in the shadows and pull the strings from out of sight. I wonder what has spooked him and has him acting out of character?