re: LSU responds to Wade: “Will and his folks ... not denied any wrongdoing.”

If you gave me a suspension because I invoked my attorney's advice regarding how my discussion with you could potentially harm me in some sort of federal case that I was called to witness in, and it came to light later that I had done nothing wrong, I'd be suing the hell out of your company for any damages I could think up and justify even remotely.

Most folks don't want to go through that hassle, and on top of that, you don't have to worry about the media frying you in public when you make those decisions. Must be a nice situation to be in when you can suspend someone based on accusations.

I'm going to assume that none of those people you suspended (shel or EA6B) had a pending federal trial that they were called to witness in and that their comments as your employees had zero potential to deal them harm.

Your "I'm experienced because I have suspended people" schtick is only admissible if you have actually been in this position before.

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Do you bring in Joint Commission, the CDC, or OSHA while speaking with your fricking employee?


I am in internal audit for a large healthcare company, and we would never bring in the investigating body before speaking to our employee

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LOL @ insinuating the NCAA works like a business and near governmental regulators. The NCAA has every right to petition to be there. We could refuse, but anything that gets said in such a meeting will likely be admissible as evidence in the trial. Hence the reason Wade doesn't want to speak "on the record" until after the trial. The only thing that makes this bad from the admin side is if we really are asking the NCAA to be hardasses on Wade as opposed to them following what's happening and asking to be involved.

Wade was caught on a wiretap discussing multiple offers to a recruit that he also likely named in the discussions with a guy he claims to have no relationship with. Given the stupidity of Wade I'm not sure the University had any choice to call the meeting or rebuff the NCAA's request to be present. I don't want the NCAA sniffing around our entire athletics program just to make an example out of us over all of this. Let that be Arizona or some other team.

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I agree that Wade should listen to his lawyer, and not talk to LSU, but I also agree with LSU suspending him. It is their job to protect the University until the situation is sorted out. The administration has no obligation to accommodate Wade regardless of what he is involved in.

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frickING. THIS.

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LOL @ insinuating the NCAA works like a business and near governmental regulators.

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I didnt

I am loling at shel trying to compare his job to this

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Ross just said LSU will not have a meeting without the NCAA present.....fricking ridiculous game over

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Because they are trying to hang Wade out to dry. Wade is better than the current state of LSU athletics.

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I am in internal audit for a large healthcare company, and we would never bring in the investigating body before speaking to our employee

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Same here. Pride is absolutely correct.

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what does jumping to a decision do for anyone involved? that would be gravely irresponsible

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Then why is he suspended? If there is no evidence of wrong doing, what well ran program would suspend their winning head coach on “suspicion”? You think Bama would suspend Saban because some media article came out as “suspected him of cheating”? No fricking way would they suspend him. Why? Because their athletic department is actually run by competent people.

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I agree that Wade should listen to his lawyer, and not talk to LSU, but I also agree with LSU suspending him. It is their job to protect the University until the situation is sorted out. The administration has no obligation to accommodate Wade regardless of what he is involved in.

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I agree. The question is not the existence of any obligation, the question is "What could LSU have done differently to avoid extreme public scrutiny and protect their interests, both as a university and a money-making athletic program".

My whole argument here is that the NCAA has no real authoritative power in this situation, and thus cannot leverage any action against Wade from their current position. ESPECIALLY since they have stated they will take no action until the trial is concluded.

LSU should have acknowledged the situation, publicly detail that Wade took advice from his counsel (which we all agree he is entitled to do), and say that further action will be taken if necessary as FACTS develop.

The university should not be in the business of taking action on simple accusations without proof.

Should they investigate? Yes. However, what they should not do is ivite public scruitny of a higher severity than what would have come by doing the above, and thus alienate their fanbase and cost themselves both money AND public shame in their dealings.

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Why is it that the LSU administration is actually making us look guilty?

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This is an inside job. F King and Alleva know they're going down. They're taking everyone out with them.

fricking sad to hire folks you wouldn't trust to park your car to run your university and athletic department for millions of dollars a year.

fricking sad...

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Right, like all the coaches involved in this that were canned before him. and Sean Miller who will be.

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See I knew you didn’t know jack frick about this issue.

The evidence against those that have been fired versus the evidence against Wade is not even in the same country.

Sit cho bitch arse back the frick down.