re: Where my McMen at?!?!?!

LSU Basketball has been at the forefront of the FBI investigation into bribery into College Basketball. Will Wade is now facing some very serious potential sanctions.

Of course and there’s just no basis for doing it. The team was constructed relatively early, the schedule was made at the normal time, there was no delays on workouts or practices. This guys seems to construct fantasies that vaguely parallel reality but are so outlandish they’re not even close to believable even if he was someone who has inside knowledge which he obviously isn’t. Basically at some point facts have to matchup with the story at least a little. In his case the facts always contradict his stories.

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I just provided the board with a link that proves we were under fbi investigation.

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No you didn't. You provided an article written by an obscure blogger that characterized LSU as being at the "forefront of the FBI investigation". Just because some random bozo on the internet writes a blog doesn't mean it is factually correct. What he was doing was parroting the sensationalized BS Pat Forde ran with for 3 years...constantly repeating the exact same story that broke in 2019. LSU denied any knowledge of FBI inquiries into the program.

What makes the article you cited even less credible is this statement

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Those payments and arrangements are no longer alleged, they are now deemed true. On Wednesday, August 26th, 2020 the NCAA announced that they were sure Coach Wade did arrange or offer the “impermissible benefits” to at least 11 recruits and their families. Those arrangements included but were not limited to cash payments made directly to the recruit. The other payments that did not go to the recruit directly went to the recruit’s family or their AAU coach or as the NCAA described it “others.”

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Yet, despite being "deemed true", the actual NCAA (well, IARP) investigation did not find this occurred.

Now, am I naïve enough to think Wade wasn't finding ways to pay players? Of course not. That's how college basketball recruiting worked LONG before the days of NIL.

But to consistently argue that LSU was under "FBI investigation" and were "strongly considering canceling games" that did not even exist yet because the 2022-2023 schedule had not been made in the Spring of 2022 is absurd.

If you don't like Wade and think he should have been fired, that is completely ok. I've long said LSU had reasonable grounds to fire him if they felt doing so could mitigate sanctions during the pendency of an NCAA investigation, the ultimate results of which could not be known in March of 2022. But stop trying to pass off opinion as "fact".

Not at all. I supported Wade and was really excited until he brought LSU into a total negative light. I actually think Collis is bad for the program. Daddy Dale is too old and really doesn’t know what’s going on. I hated Alleva but I think Woodward is the best AD in the land. And for the absolutely completely clueless that blame him for firing Wade, it was a unanimous board of supervisors decision and as AD Woodward’s duties entailed he was the spokesman.

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If you don't like Wade and think he should have been fired, that is completely ok.

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Exactly. Why make up shite to have that contention or point of view? It completely undermines an actual opinion.

And again, I want to reiterate that Wade literally could have hired a film crew to follow him around handing out cash to players and the FBI wouldn’t have cared less.

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How many more sources do you pansies need short of J Edgar coming from the grave to verify what is common public knowledge???

Again that story was proven to be false less than a week after it was produced.

Within the article you cited...

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LSU spokesman Michael Bonnette told SI Thursday that the school is unaware of any recent FBI inquiries or presence in Baton Rouge. Attempts to reach Wade’s attorney, Steve Thompson, were unsuccessful. A call to an SDNY spokesman was not immediately returned Thursday.

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Much of this was based upon "unnamed sources" by journalists with an agenda and spotty credibility. But perhaps most damning was the fact that despite the "smoking gun" wiretap tape of Wade he was NEVER indicted on any criminal charges. If the DOJ had such a slam dunk case isn't it curious they didn't indict the coach who was at the "forefront" of the investigation.

Again, I'm not telling you Wade didn't pay players. I think he ABSOLUTELY did (along with just about every other major conference coach in the the US). But the hyperbole to you keep passing off as "fact" is ridiculous.

I think Wade absolutely paid players. That’s my opinion. Now I just wish he would have just handed off brief cases in parking garages like a movie or television show. That would have been right AF. Open up the brief case to show the cash, lol.

That’s why the argument about cheating is a distraction. Too many other teams are caught doing worse all the time including nearly half the SEC within the same time frame. Wade’s firing was about something else or a combination of other issues. The Football side of it, the athletic department and of course money. I’m more inclined to believe those latter issues were the reason and not some slap on the wrist that wasn’t worth tanking the basketball program over.