re: Per Schlabach at ESPN: Wade made "impermissible payments" to recruits and others

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Did Cam get paid by AU? Hell yeah he probably did. But nothing showed AU paid him. Only innuendo that AU had to have paid him since he ended up there which isn’t evidence.

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this sounds familiar.

Laughable. You realize “them”, the NCAA, is a consortium of the university’s themselves right? The universities hold all the power to change, dismantle or banish the NCAA. Peon fans are idiots when it comes to them vs us mentality when in fact we are them. Bunch of damn meatheads like the Ogre.

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As witnessed by this whole CoVID football thing (and throughout the rest of history) the NCAA is the most useless organization ever created. "Amateur" sports that generate billions in revenue, but don't pay them, and if you do, don't let us find out (unless you're Duke, Kansas, or Kentucky), and if we do, comply with the investigation or maybe don't for the best results. FCK em. I'm sure the conferences are perfectly capable of organizing their own tournaments. And that is the only benefit I'm aware of that the NCAA offers. Pay players what you think they're worth in the open. Be done with all this made up clandestine bull shite that exists in one, single "industry" because someone way back when wanted to control it themselves.

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This is what happens when you blindly worship someone as a hero. Did you really think he was getting all these top recruits without violating the rules?

His lack of cooperation is going to be a real problem.

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AU coaches weren’t on wiretaps discussing payment. Seriously, you can’t see the difference?

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And Wade is? i must have missed where he with certainty discussed money.

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Woodward had best swing a big stick and nut drag the NCAA by stealing a Cal or coach K level coach from a blue blood.

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Yeah good luck with that

“Strong arse offer” is the definition of innuendo, which is what you said about the Cam situation.


ETA: just so we are clear, I have no illusions about the cleanliness of LSU sports. I’m fairly sure “strong arse offer” was talking about money. However, when you combine the lack of proof of payment (so far) with the fact that many other programs are equally dirty, I will continue to obstinately bang the “prove it” drum. I like that Wade made LSU basketball fun again.

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Okay. Guess that’s where we are gonna have to disagree. Pretty disingenuous and homerish on your part but all good.

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Don't try to play the homer card when you're sticking your head in the sand for your guy

Calling me disingenuous

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Double up their salary if you have to. The money can be obtained.

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That’s not how it works.

No one is leaving a blue blood for LSU basketball.

Especially if LSU fires Wade and admits wrong doing- the NCAA will hammer LSU if they do that

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Nope. Every bleeding heart on twitter tells me that college athletes are “unpaid workers”. College athletes do not get paid for their services. It does not happen.

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It always makes me chuckle at the hypocrisy of those who scream and yell that the "players need to be paid"...only to then turn around and feign indignation when we find out they actually did get paid...quite a bit...albeit "under the table". You know who doesn't want the player to "get paid" by the schools? THE GREAT PLAYERS! They would be taken huge paycuts if LSU had to pay them vs. "boosters"

As far as Wade is concerned, I think it would be incredibly naive to think he did not arrange payments to players. That's simply how high level basketball recruiting works at EVERY power conf. school. Only the wholly naive and/or willfully disingenuous dipshits on here believe otherwise. In fact, at least Wade seems to be getting a pretty good ROI. Johnny Jones paid for players as well and had exactly one NCAAT appearance to show for it in 5 years along with the worst season in 20+ years.

The question is and has ALWAYS been whether or not there is any evidence of payment other than the wiretap statements. No question those statements are not good. But without anything else, it seems like it may be pretty difficult to "throw the book" at Wade/LSU.

There very well may be much, much more than what we have heard thus far. But I do think it is somewhat telling that with an ever present media desperately looking for anything to stir up a story there hasn't been any additional information other than the wiretaps...which everyone has known about for over a year.