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

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That was an example I used. We all know he was talking about money. The issue is, you can’t prove it just with his statements on tape BECAUSE IT’S POSSIBLE HE WASN’T REFERING TO MONEY. It creates a shadow of doubt. That’s all that’s needed to be found innocent in court.

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This is not a court of law. with a private business, a corporation, or in this case a university and a private regulatory organization it is the exact opposite. All you have to do is give the suspicion that you were engaging in prohibited activity based on the rules of your employer and its regulatory organization, rules that you agreed to when you were hired. Taking Dawkins call would be enough to raise suspicion regardless of how you want to parse what was said. Wade had no legitimate reason to even talk to Dawkins.

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They're still waiting on a meeting with him and his lawyer. Having his lawyer wasn't an issue. His lawyer wanted to limit the scope of questioning/have questions beforehand and the university said no. His lawyer also didn't want the NCAA there and for whatever reason they were going to be there with the University's permission. Whether the NCAA asked to be there or was invited doesn't seem to be to clear right now. Just to clarify your incorrect clarification.

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And the University said NO. Your words.

I think they were in contact with LSU the minute the report came out

Kansas basketball now being investigated by NCAA

And when nobody wants to coach here because the university admin tried to harpoon the coach by calling in the NCAA when only circumstantial evidence is involved and we still get sanctioned to death if anything does come from this, did they really protect the university? Or just try to cover their own arse?

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There isn’t a power 5 coach out there that can deny the question “did your players get paid” without lying.

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So there's something to deny, which was my point to the post I was replying to.

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But if the NCAA wants to "make an example out of us" then our administration needs to do absolutely everything they can to avoid getting a death sentence. Given the aforementioned corruption of the NCAA, I don't think perceived concern over the matter can be understated.

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We don't have to worry about the NCAA the admin is giving us the death penalty either way. No one worth a shite will want to come coach here.

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The NCAA has zero grounds to punish us for waiting until facts come out.
The NCAA has zero grounds to punish us if it's proven our coach was paying players?

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It's like you have blinders on.

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With the caveat that I am not a fan of the NCAA or Joe Alleva, this entire process is a charade meant to protect LSU and Will Wade. Given the comments made by Wade on the wire tap, LSU had no choice but to suspend Wade. The failure to meet with LSU administration officials is simply a ruse for the suspension. Any information that LSU were to obtain from Wade would have to be turned over to the NCAA. Wade knows that and LSU knows that. LSU and Wade are both right in handling it this way

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That's giving LSU a lot of credit. I hope you are right but the current public back and forth between the two parties doesn't make this seem likely.

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when your coach is potentially saying shady shite on FBI wiretaps, the school should obviously do what's best for the school first and not thag coach. What kind of bizarro world are we living in here?

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There's MUCH better ways to do it. You'd hope the LSU administration would have learned from past recent public relations disasters, but apparently they haven't. You never, ever let outside parties drive the narrative. They've done exactly that, plus they've thrown their own employee to the wolves in the process.