📡 LSU Basketball Investigation Could Signal Trouble for Football Program Allegations

[Brandon Van de Graaff]

It seems like every 6 months they are slapped with something that appears rotten, and they just somehow maneuver away from it. This Guice stuff, Odell Beckham being a human ATM machine on the field after their last game, Our Lady of the Lake hospital/booster embezzlement scheme, Will Wade ADMITTING on a federal wiretap that he's buying players. You'd think they'd ease up on some of their football recruiting tactics, but then again, when you see how they wiggle free of everything, why bother?

The only thing better than Will Wade getting pole-axed by the NCAA, is him causing the football team to get slapped too because of his smugness. Will it happen, who knows, but fun to think about... Check the tweet thread.

 

[50+yeartidefan]

Called ."Independent Accountability Resolution Process". ....
Really.... cheating has new 2020 word...or phase

 

[252BAMA]

Called ."Independent Accountability Resolution Process". ....
Really.... cheating has new 2020 word...or phase

IARP. RAPI, LSU bout to get rapied.

 

[mando]

IARP. RAPI, LSU bout to get rapied.

I will believe it when I see it. Same thing as with the Barner program.

 

[TerryP]

How short sighted is this? Wade refuses to cooperate and it ends up bringing the football program into a larger focus. When they brought in their new AD it was a "keep it down home, cuz" move; transparent as glass.

 

[TerryP]

I will believe it when I see it. Same thing as with the Barner program.

Auburn isn't over, but they haven't skated either. They've already dealt with losing two players for a season...

 

[Brandon Van de Graaff]

ESPN... LSU's Wade part of 'impermissible payments'

With the NCAA there's no telling what, if anything, will come of it... but if this was Alabama, I wouldn't be feeling too great. LSU forgot (or ignored) the number 1 lesson in SEC Cheating 101. If you're going to cheat egregiously in football, you better make sure your other programs are clean. Would imagine Will Wade is steering very clear of Orgeron for his own well-being these days. Also makes we wonder what AD Scott Woodward is thinking right now? He was obviously aware of much of this when he took the job, but did Alleva and the PTB mislead him some on the severity of the issue(s)? Having a football national title looks good on an AD's resume, but having your 2 major sports get smacked at the same time (possible LOIC?) by the NCAA would look very bad (if it were to happen, which I doubt). The NCAA would be smart to threaten such in order to get what they want (their pound of flesh) from Wade and the basketball program though.

 

[JoseyWalesTheOutlaw]

At some point the high dollar folks at LSU will make the call to settle with the BB coach and have him move on. If he has leverage on some then his financial package will be good.

 

[TerryP]

Also makes we wonder what AD Scott Woodward is thinking right now? He was obviously aware of much of this when he took the job, but did Alleva and the PTB mislead him some on the severity of the issue(s)?

I don't think so. I see it no other way than CYA and do with with someone who is "family."

Having a football national title looks good on an AD's resume, but having your 2 major sports get smacked at the same time by the NCAA would look very bad (if it were to happen, which I doubt).

The tone of this...to me it's coming across as an angry NCAA: Johanningmeier angry.

 

[BamaFan334]

I'll believe it when I see it. The NCAA is so weak anymore that I don't expect anything damaging to the LSU program. If Louisville (paying prostitutes), USC (Reggie Bush), and North Carolina (cheating on exams) weren't banned, nobody will be.

 

[TerryP]

I'll believe it when I see it. The NCAA is so weak anymore that I don't expect anything damaging to the LSU program. If Louisville (paying prostitutes), USC (Reggie Bush), and North Carolina (cheating on exams) weren't banned, nobody will be.

Here's the thing, Casey. You're making a suppostition based on the old NCAA model.

Banned? I'm not sure what you mean by 'banned.'

Louisville is on probation.
USC was slammed.
UNC didn't do anything against the rules. (How do people keep forgetting that?)

 

[UAgrad93]

@BamaFan334 , Casey, maybe the NCAA will give them 2 slaps on the wrist!!

 

[BamaFan334]

@BamaFan334 , Casey, maybe the NCAA will give them 2 slaps on the wrist!!

If we find girth was involved at all in their report they will definitely be getting two slaps. Ha Ha Ha Ha.

 

[50+yeartidefan]

Agree with @Brandon Van de Graaff
glad those days...darkest days ever for bama....are over...hopefully for ever

Those were even worse thann the 2 Saturday evening post articles about BEAR

 

[BamaFan334]

Here's the thing, Casey. You're making a suppostition based on the old NCAA model.

Banned? I'm not sure what you mean by 'banned.'

Louisville is on probation.
USC was slammed.
UNC didn't do anything against the rules. (How do people keep forgetting that?)

"Banned" probably wasn't the best terminology. Paying prostitutes to lure underage recruits to your school, there has to be something there to suspend a program and just make them start over. What kind of morals are being allowed when all they get is a slap on the wrist (one, not two @UAgrad93 ). Maybe USC is so far in the past in my mind that I just don't realize how hard they were hit. I know their program is down at the moment, but I was thinking it was more of a leadership issue rather than the sanctions. North Carolina, wasn't it found they had student tutors taking online tests for the players, coaching staff and athletic executives knew it was going on? Didn't Rashaad McCants even come out saying he never took a test himself while at North Carolina or something along those lines? This is not even bringing out the shoe company issues with Duke, Louisville, and others involved in that disaster. Add in Zion and that mess, hiding rapes at Baylor, child molestation at Penn State, and the NCAA should be able to find enough to show all of these schools are breaking the rules and deserve to start back at Step 1. They have tapes with Will Wade, or e-mails, so where is the issue in penalizing them?

 

[TerryP]

@BamaFan334 What UNC was 'charged' with is what I was referring to earlier. It was available for the entire student body. Athletes directed towards it, yes. But, it wasn't limited. Hence, they weren't breaking rules.

As I understand it, the process of the NCAA's compliance does require responses. Wade isn't cooperating. That's why it's been sent to the panel. Where it goes from here we don't know. It's a first, so to speak. From what I'm learning it's not going well...the NCAA side of this? Ticked off.

See the Rich reference earlier ... that's the tone.

 

[TerryP]

Question: How does anyone see the NCAA not being vengful here?

The NCAA says LSU men's basketball coach Will Wade either arranged for or offered "impermissible payments" to at least 11 potential recruits or others around them

 

[It Takes Eleven]

Question: How does anyone see the NCAA not being vengful here?

Justice.

 

[Brandon Van de Graaff]

@BamaFan334 What UNC was 'charged' with is what I was referring to earlier. It was available for the entire student body. Athletes directed towards it, yes. But, it wasn't limited. Hence, they weren't breaking rules.

As I understand it, the process of the NCAA's compliance does require responses. Wade isn't cooperating. That's why it's been sent to the panel. Where it goes from here we don't know. It's a first, so to speak. From what I'm learning it's not going well...the NCAA side of this? Ticked off.

See the Rich reference earlier ... that's the tone.

A wild stab in the dark... Will Wade ends up fired to mitigate the damages levied by the NCAA. Wade is slapped with a show-cause and ends up running an illegal dialysis clinic out of a van behind a Chevon in Shreveport, and LSU loses a couple of scholarships and gets handed a postseason ban for 1 year.

 

[TerryP]

I'd bet there's something there.