re: Why did not T and W wait until after the tourney

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So Iin the letter signed by T and W they say their actions to fire coach Wade were NOT an acknowledgement that they agree with the allegations. Interesting. I think if I remember correctly LSU has a few weeks to respond to the allegations.
So why could T and W not wait until the tourney run was done to make their move.

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They are denying the lack of institutional control charge.

They will say that by the time they fully assessed the charges and realized what was going on was in the midst of the SEC tourney (which may actually be true) and decided the time to fire Wade was immediately following the Arkansas Game (and can clain=m they would have win or loss).

And I think that was their only real play and probably the right play considering how stupidly Wade went about this and the position HE put the University in.

I am pretty sure when you are going to fire a coach with cause because he received a NOA you can’t just do that at anytime. It has to be done right away.

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The NCAA said fire Wade and make an example of him, and we will let everything else go. Wade was the martyr for the LSU program because Woodward wasn't going against family.

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This is the answer. Blue bloods wanted one thing and one thing only, WW’s head served on a silver platter. That’s it and that’s all. The faster they got it the better for LSU as a whole, not to mention the frothy mouthed press incessantly asking questions and writing articles.

It’s done, it’s over. And nobody wants to talk about it now that that the bracket has been set. This is really the absolute best timing possible if you step back and think about it.

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Yeah that I agree with. Strange wording. I assume it’s because they want to wait until all of this is over and official before officially admitting anything. But now they can say “hey look, when we were made aware, we acted”. Honestly though, I don’t fully understand why they worded it that way

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That may be part of it. But I think a big part is also that Woody inherited WW under a cloud of suspicion. This gives him the opportunity to hire his own guy without that black cloud.

Woodward is not just close friends with Emmert. He is family. I am not upset at LSU for the firing. It was probably layed out that we had no option.

The thing we should be upset with is tax funded FBI investigations into paying players to come play basketball. A woman at the center if which investigation committed a felony to produce such information. This is so rampant that they literally changed the rule so that you could pay these players. And they insisted on going even further with all this investigation from 4 or 5 yrs ago with felonious information. We should be upset with media figures with such a hard on over this for Will Wade and LSU that they literally wrote articles saying crappy Black head coaches might have succeeded if not for getting their arse kicked by Wade (woke racism BS). One of those coaches mentioned, I would be shocked if he were not doing the exact same thing. Not to mention Conveniently doing this right before the NCAA tourney every single year. You think Pat Forde? Pete Thamell? Dick Vitale? have an agenda in place? Its called “we won’t go after blue bloods, they are our friends and that would be biting the hand that feeds……..but these lower level programs can get effed”. Its why only the same hand full of teams can even win a national title every year.

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we'd look like idiots to the media and general public.

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Who the hell cares? If you’re not a fan you can GTFO

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So Iin the letter signed by T and W they say their actions to fire coach Wade were NOT an acknowledgement that they agree with the allegations. Interesting. I think if I remember correctly LSU has a few weeks to respond to the allegations.

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Firing Wade in a timely manner is an argument that the Lack of Institutional Control by the LSU administrations is not as bad as the NCAA alleges.

By firing Wade at this time, the response can say that the AD was able to do everything he could (considering that when Scott was hired, Wade had already lawyered up). Without the ability to talk to Wade about the allegations, his firing would not have been for cause as defined in the original contract.

This is why renegotiating the contract ended up being the only thing Woodward could do. And, that renegotiated contract is why LSU is able to fire Wade at this time with no chance of getting sued for breach.

I have my doubts as to whether this strategy will work with the NCAA (I think they will land hard on the basketball team.) But, they have to push this idea so that bleed-over sanctions don't cripple football.

That's my hunch, at least.

GEAUX TIGERS!

All this in an atmosphere of a state that elected a top official that said hold your nose and vote for the crook. And we did.
We are righteous it seems when we want to be.
Coach Wade did not steal millions. He was small potatoes it seems in the big picture when it comes to breaking rules. Even in his profession and for sure when you look at our culture in general.

All about the timing of the release of specifics.