re: Now even more confident Wade will be at LSU once NC State loses

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NIL has objectively changed the landscape of college sports. The transfer portal, even more so. It’s crazy to me that you think that is a naive statement.

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All NIL has done is bring what was already happening behind the scenes out into the open. Do you really think AAU basketball existed because of it being an altruistic youth development league? It was a marketplace for the selling of basketball talent. Hell, Wade was just one of several coaches, at several schools, who had communications with one of countless "runners" selling players.

Yes, gone are the days where coaches develop players/rosters over the course of several years. You need a guy who can generate the funds, identify and sign players, coach them for one year, then start over and do it again. Wade's team struggled to win down the stretch this season and STILL, with a totally new roster, improved upon NC State win total last year by 8 games.

Wade was nowhere near the best cheater.

The infrastructure at Duke CACKLES at Wade's efforts.

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Tate was told to look elsewhere. That’s a nice way of saying you’re fired.

Enrollment grew bc admission standards were lowered DA

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frick tate and his DEi and covid vax BS.

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Pretty simple yes or no question: do you think everyone was cheating on the same, equal level?

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Yes.

If you were major conf. program signing op 100 (maybe even 150 and beyond) HS prospects, there were impermissible benefits/payments.

LINK

The link above identifies players at NUMEROUS schools suspected of potential impermissible benefits/payments. Kentucky, Michigan, USC, Alabama, Duke, Michigan St, Seton Hall, Washington, South Carolina, Louisville, Xavier, Kansas, Clemson, Vanderbilt, on and on and on, including LSU...under Johnny Jones. Wade was signing some big time prospects. But so was Johnnie Jones.

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If you have a coach that is good at skating the rules, and you take that advantage away, it changes who that coach is.

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It's not that Wade was "good at skating the rules". In fact, some might argue he wasn't. It's that he was good at getting the money to make the "strong arse" offers. He was good at convincing business people in Lake Charles to invest into a program that had never been good or relevant. That fundraising aspect hasn't changed. In fact, it's more important than ever.

Any logical person would assume there were levels to cheating. Some being less afraid of the consequences than others. Ignorant that you would think otherwise

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Not even going to read the rest of your post. Just a flat out crazy Madking-like answer

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In what world was his response a crazy, Madking-like answer?

Coach K at Duke had everything set up for him. All the big schools do it that way. LSU had it with Dale. LSU football had/has the "system " set up.

Wade was very unlucky. Dawkins probably spent dozens of hours on the phone with any number of coaches more famous than Wade.

For whatever reason, the Wade/Dawkins call was emphasized by the FBI investigation and/or media.

The last Coach that was remotely possible to have been clean IMO was Bobby Knight. And if he was clean, how in the hell did he get Isiah Thomas out of Chicago?

To all you dorks screaming Wade's a cheater! You may as well be screaming he's a breather! Also.

The only levels of cheating there are pertain to how in demand a particular recruit is.

Everybody from Wooden to today that has won anything of significance has PISSED all over the recruiting rules. Do you still believe in Santa???

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Any logical person would assume there were levels to cheating. Some being less afraid of the consequences than others. Ignorant that you would think otherwise

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And Wade wasn't doing it at a level well beyond what most power conf. schools were doing. The same year Wade signed Ried, Smart, Days, Williams, VANDERBILT signed 3 top 50 players. Two in the top 10.

Where Wade was good was getting the money and leveraging his connections. Smart was a Baton Rouge kid. Greg Heier was well connected in Florida (see Williams and Days). Bill Armstrong had a long standing relationship in Birmingham with the Watford family. Wade, himself, is deeply connected in the Virginia, Baltimore and Philly regions. That's why you saw guys like Thomas (Virginia), Murray (Baltimore) come to LSU. It's why Tyrell Ward (D.C.) was a target before Wade was fired. He has guys from the same regions on his NC State team.

He wasn't going out and simply offering every top 20 prospect massive amounts of money. The only outlier there was Naz Reid. He was selective about how he used what he had. Find the connection first...then negotiate the terms...that's how most of the recruiting is done outside of programs like Kentucky, Duke, UNC, Kansas, etc.