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re: Why am I supposed to be so mad at Wade signing "pros"?
Posted on 5/20/26 at 10:24 am to thelawnwranglers
Posted on 5/20/26 at 10:24 am to thelawnwranglers
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Boot up stands
Yeah, we've really put up a fence around the boot in basketball.
Congrats. How's the sweat off wades balls?
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Posted on 5/20/26 at 10:24 am to Reservoirdog
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It's because LSU is attempting to sign players that (by the book) are out of eligibility with the intention of challenging via lawsuit.
Other than RJ Luis Jr., how many guys have they signed who played college basketball at an NCAA school, then signed an NBA contract? I honestly don't know.
I think RJ Luis Jr. should be ineligible, personally. Basketball is pretty lenient in terms of entering the draft. If you don't get drafted, you can return; if you sign a contract, you cannot. Failing to make the roster in the NBA and/or G League after signing a contract is not a reason to be able to return to college, nor should it be. I'm thinking RJ Luis Jr. will be denied a waiver. I guess it is worth a shot if you're LSU and figure the guy will try somewhere, but I would not expect it. Of course, I did not expect Chambliss to get a waiver for missing a season due to a sore throat
Posted on 5/20/26 at 10:27 am to mdomingue
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Failing to make the roster in the NBA and/or G League after signing a contract is not a reason to be able to return to college, nor should it be.
Now that everything is professional including college why can one man work and the other not?
It is very arbitrary rule and anti competitive
Posted on 5/20/26 at 10:28 am to ChatGPT of LA
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Congrats. How's the sweat off wades balls?
Non existent the man is ice cold
Posted on 5/20/26 at 10:37 am to Reservoirdog
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It's because LSU is attempting to sign players that (by the book) are out of eligibility with the intention of challenging via lawsuit.
Where was the outrage 3 years ago when LSU singed Jalen Cook who was, by the book, ineligible to play that year because his transfer back to LSU was his second transfer? MANY schools/coaches did the same thing knowing the NCAA was either going to have to grant a waiver to let those guys play, or lose a challenge in court. They lost the challenge in court, which was championed by several state AGs.
Technically Luis is not out of eligibility from a years perspective. He left college after his third year. The gripe is that he is seeking to return to college after signing a pro contract (though he never played a pro game).
The argument for LSU is the NCAA rules are unclear and arbitrarily enforced. For example, (unless the NCAA recently changed the rule) certain players can declare for the NBA draft, go through the entire draft process, and if they aren't selected can return to college. Luis fit within that context because he declared for the 2025 draft yet wasn't selected.
The NCAA will say that even though he wasn't drafted, he became ineligible when he signed a two-way NBA/G-league contract with a NBA team. However, in the same breath the NCAA has allowed guys to play college basketball who previously not only signed such contracts with NBA teams, but played in several G-league games. Just last year Santa Clara had a player on its roster play in all 35 games who, before going to Santa Clara played two years in the G-league.
The NCAA will say the distinction is the Santa Clara player went from an international academy -> G-league then to the NCAA, whereas Luis already went to college, left, now wants to return. LSU will argue that it is arbitrary to say its ok to go to college after first being a pro, but not ok to return to college from never actually playing as a pro.
Posted on 5/20/26 at 10:41 am to thelawnwranglers
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It is very arbitrary rule
As are most athletic rules.
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and anti competitive
just the opposite, IMO
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Now that everything is professional including college why can one man work and the other not?
There are rules and regulations in every profession.
Posted on 5/20/26 at 10:48 am to mdomingue
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and anti competitive
just the opposite, IMO
I did not means on terms of athletic competition
I meant in terms of telling one person they can't earn a living and another they can.
Money is involved now these are not amateurs . A person has a right to work
Posted on 5/20/26 at 10:54 am to Lsuhoohoo
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I don't like it. But here we are so I don't care.
I agree with this sentiment. NIL has ruined college sports.
Posted on 5/20/26 at 11:03 am to ChatGPT of LA
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Yeah, about that. Not sure you understand what that means. FYI, they have no Louisiana players on the state flagship team
It was never about Louisiana baw
It was about “The General” & his “brigade” telling you to “Boot Up”. It stuck & evolved into something with state of LA being “the Boot” but if you have a better explanation of what it means go ahead
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Posted on 5/20/26 at 11:05 am to Lsuhoohoo
The only people who are mad are college coaches and their mouthpieces in the media.
Posted on 5/20/26 at 11:07 am to Lsuhoohoo
The NCAA let everything become a shite show. Reap what you sow
Posted on 5/20/26 at 11:09 am to thelawnwranglers
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Money is involved now these are not amateurs .
Money has been in college athletics for years now.
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A person has a right to work
Sure, but they don't have a right to work at any job they want, regardless of their qualifications. College athletics has a set of eligibility rules. That is effectively the same as required training or years of service in professional and trade jobs.
Posted on 5/20/26 at 11:23 am to Lsuhoohoo
Nobody's mad about it. It's just disappointing to see the game that used to be college aged kids playing for the love of the sport turning into a game of highly paid professionals playing for money.
Posted on 5/20/26 at 11:26 am to Lsuhoohoo
Wade is going to fight this kind of shite for awhile so I hope he's ready for it. Prepare for a litany of bullshite from the blue bloods. It's of course WAAAAAY DIFFERENT when it's UNC, Duke, Michigan, Uconn, Kansas, Indiana, et al doing all this shady shite. When we do it, COMPLETELY IN BOUNDS of legality, etc now all of a sudden it's some big moral debate.
frick these clowns. Let's go win a ship and tell all of them to die in a fire.
frick these clowns. Let's go win a ship and tell all of them to die in a fire.
Posted on 5/20/26 at 11:29 am to ChatGPT of LA
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Yeah, about that. Not sure you understand what that means.
FYI, they have no Louisiana players on the state flagship team
So NO, the boot up sjit doesn't apply
Once they play for LSU they will boot TF up, dummy
Posted on 5/20/26 at 11:51 am to Giantkiller
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Wade is going to fight this kind of shite for awhile so I hope he's ready for it.
Yep. If he doesn’t win, he’s gonna feel it lol
Posted on 5/20/26 at 11:59 am to JimTiger72
That's even a worse version....what a total embarrassment
Posted on 5/20/26 at 12:01 pm to Lsuhoohoo
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Why am I supposed to be so mad at Wade signing "pros"?
you shouldn't be, if there's an angle available and to be played, play it, think outside the box or act as if no box exists
Posted on 5/20/26 at 12:08 pm to ChatGPT of LA
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Yeah, about that. Not sure you understand what that means. FYI, they have no Louisiana players on the state flagship team
You’re once again wrong and a fricking idiot. Boot up does not mean you have to be from Louisiana it means they’re representing Louisiana as the state flagship you fricking idiot.
I’ve never seen someone embarrass themselves so consistently and keep on going.
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