Coastrashtiger

So when I first heard that CWW was going to not only go after a few active participating Euroleague players but effectively buy them out and take the risk of them never coming I was surprised to say the least.

Then when you start talking about 3, or 4, let alone 5 commitments/signings, it was dang. Everyone knows he doesn’t care about the opinions of others outside the program (Fans/alumni/boosters considered inside program) but that he would openly upend and take advantage of the lack of regulation you knew it would make huge waves. But he is going after 9-12 commitments basically saying to not only the CBB establishment but the sports media in general, this is the bed you are selling I will buy the California king size version and let everyone know. It is glorious. It says not only we are here but that we are here to win.

Yes also Ronald Dupree has been a huge help as well!

Yessir. Outta nowhere hadn’t heard about it even more fascinating he is taking his name out of the draft.

By the way Wade and LSU just got a commitment from a EURO that was in this years NBA draft class and is taking his name out that nobody had heard of even being in contact with. You still have Graves and now de Laurrea

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Could you post a few of the articles that are highly critical of Wade?

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Ummmm. this is just one article a summation of a national cbb podcast…..

Will Wade, I wish you didn’t come back to college basketball,”

But, man, you suck for college basketball right now. Seriously. You suck for college basketball. Like, you’re making it into a mockery. And look in the mirror, and understand it’s not just about you. This is about more than just you. This is about the sport of college basketball. Have some pride. Have some dignity. Don’t try to ruin the sport.”

What a joke
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Jeff really needs to calm down, first off there is no pride or dignity on the unemployment line. It’s about winning. He needs to keep those thoughts to himself.

The first sign was when you hired ‘Slick Rick’ Stansbury,” Goodman said. “That was the first sign when you got to LSU that you were going to muck it up as much as humanly possible. I know people are trying to push the rules. I get it.

He quickly pivoted to slandering multiple other coaches to show how Qill is the worst among them????

And now it’s the same sh*t all over again. Obviously, the rules have changed. We know that. But, come on, man. Again, have some pride. Have some dignity in your profession! In your profession! Have some dignity. F*ck.”

Somebody needs to tell Jeff, yeah it is Wade’s profession he can make the calls for his life, if he doesn’t mind. Second Wade doesn’t answer to anyone accept the powers at be at LSU. He doesn’t have any kind of professional courtesy that is expected to anyone else to explain himself before he makes a decision as the Head Coach. Given that it’s his profession your media opinion about what is and isn’t prideful in someone’s else’s profession does not only not matter. I think any human would be infuriated if someone outside of their profession told them after 20 years in a business to quit, and be talked to like a toddler what they should have done in the past, and what they need to do in the future.

Written enough Goodman then posts 4 separate coaches that told him basically what a POS Wade is, how he is ruining the sport, my favorite though is when two of them give him a compliment when they say only Wade would do this. That’s a compliment Pitino and Izzo.

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Being a lawyer by trade only, the NCAA looks like a huge insurance company right now that is just denying every claim they get, and then when they get sued left and right, they are just signing up every defense firm they can find and paying them full well knowing they are going to lose. By now there has to be between football, men’s and women’s basketball, there have even been golf cases, track and field cases, maybe hundred or thousands of individual “cases” where they may only be winning on the merit 2-3% of the time. With new legislation, they would still be at odds with federal antitrust laws. Even after a 25 year age limit is imposed, you still have religious, military, medical, and state laws where it can be easily argued and won they can’t do it.

I personally agree I don’t want unlimited player movement, no restrictions on the type of transfers, and I would like some kind of age/prior experience bylaw. Because i’m not worried it will ruin or fundamentally change college athletics. I’m worried in 10-15 years some of these gets gobbled up by pro sports or overnight a university has to cease athletics and are left with a ridiculous I don’t know $200-$300 million shortfall overnight. Have asked on social media, multiple pages of message boards, coaches, players. So if what LSU is doing is “wrong” is what everyone else doing wrong as well. I’m not talking about the hypocrisy of it, i’m talking about the reality that’s in front of everyone. I feel like when they started this about a month ago, knew then it would cause a huge stir and upend things, didn’t think the vast majority of people would be detached from reality about it.

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Won't they be affected by the age limit when the 5 for 5 thing passes?

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If and when it passes as it’s currently conceived. None of them had started their clocks, besides I don’t know how you could legally set an arbitrary age ceiling for the 5 and 5. As in for decades the NCAA has allowed cross sport pros to come back mostly baseball to football guys at any age to start their clocks in another amateur sport. The 5 in 5 won’t affect any of these guys either they aren’t 2-3 year guys even they are 3 month mercenaries. In the portal top 100 you have what 30 internationals right now but they are all 2-3-4 year college guys even the ones that played professionally overseas. So I think it will almost be like grad transfers for these guys in a sense is how the NCAA should craft a rule if they want to limit it or do something.

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The only 1 worth a flip is Luis.

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That’s your opinion? Do tell how you came to that conclusion. I’m just confused news to me why did all the blue bloods and big time programs want these guys as well? How could UCONN or North Carolina, Kansas, Kentucky, all have gotten it so wrong, I mean they should have you on staff to straighten it out.

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You still are not getting it. That incident happened before he was even coaching at LSU the first time. He wrote a check from a personal account (his wife's checking account I think) and gave it to a player's family member (mom I think)

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Correct whether the player in question was going to come or did come to LSU, Will was going to do it anyways. Ricky tack stuff like that still happens on a weekly basis all over college sports and is still against the NCAA rules today. But not only can they not enforce it, even if they proved it today, nobody cares or is looking least of all the NCAA.

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and maybe it was U18 Madrid,

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Luka is 27, he played for the big club at 16 and full time by 17. Klavzae is 21 made his debut if you want to call it that and has never been called up to the big club. On Slovenia Klavzae isn’t even a full rostered member of the senior national team. My point is you said why people think Madar is going to come in and be some All-SEC caliber player is you put it like not realistic or something. But then I asked about Klavzae and you say he’s borderline and talk about his accomplishments. Madar is probably the least talented, lowest ceiling, and least athletic of the 7 euros, and if Klavzae is the 6th man of the year in the SEC I am saying LSU will have 3-4 All-SEC players immediately