re: Yahoo: LSU’s Will Wade on NCAA radar for recruiting tactics

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If it helps, I knew what you meant lol.

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I appreciate it. I think everyone but a couple of folks who didn't bother to read carefully knew too. I re-read what I wrote and if anyone bothered to look at what I was responding to they would've known, but sometimes people get so fired up here that their reading comprehension goes to hell.

And then some folks only post when it's to be an a-hole to someone else. Part of the price we pay to be part of an elite internet community.

Anyway, the whole yahoo thing is really a non story but it certainly makes you question their agenda doesn't it?

But they are not amazed at calipari and ignore bama FB and NC basketball, lol

NCAA is nutless! All you have to do is go look at the players parking lot at Alabama, and it would raise cause for concern;yet, you want to mess with Will about the #3 class he hauled in! What about the #1 and #2...this is bull$hit. It is almost as if the perception is that LSU shouldn’t be good in basketball.

Johnny Jones must have left his recruiting handbook and Wade picked it up.

So JJ bringing in the #1 player and #15ish player didn’t raise red flags?

I believe UNC for Days and either Oregon/Florida for Williams.

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I believe UNC for Days and either Oregon/Florida for Williams.

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I was thinking Florida because Days is from Gainesville and Williams is from Florida.

Wait are you defending Wade? I thought this clickbait would have trolling this morning. NCAA is just as crooked as the FBI.

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Wait are you defending Wade?

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I am defending him against a hit piece that questions his integrity.

I believe that he is an honest man - nothing suggests otherwise. I also believe in due process - not some vaguely worded media hit piece.

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A buddy of mine’s dad was telling us about a dinner he had with Will Wade at Ruffino’s recently. He is part of some booster club, forgot which one, but they get to eat dinner the coaches every once in a while. (He's not some big money guy)

Anyways, he said every 15 minutes Wade’s phone alarm would go off to remind him to go call recruits again. Every 15 minutes he’d step away from his meal at the table and go call and text recruits.

This backs up things Heiar said recently about how relentless of a recruiter Wade is. It sure doesn’t seem like he’s taking the easy route and just paying kids to come to LSU. Seems like he’s just out-working people.

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I don't think there is any question Wade is aggressive on the recruiting trail. And I have ZERO DOUBT he is rubbing some other coaches (perhaps big name coaches) the wrong way. I also have zero doubt that he gives a frick about them being mad.

Assuming (for the sake of argument) the timeline in the report is correct in that the NCAA started looking into him "shortly after he took the LSU job", then I can almost guarantee the "investigation" started over the recruitment of Waters. Remember, Waters was a Georgetown signee until they fired John Thompson III in March. Wade pounced immediately, and in the process probably pissed off some people surrounding the Georgetown program, as well as other schools who got back into it with Waters. Wade ultimately won the battle and I suspect he flat outworked some other coaches and probably pissed some off in the process. You know who else pisses people off in recruiting? Nick Saban. Urban Myer, John Calipari. They seem to be doing just fine.