Louisiana Can't Escape the Will Wade Saga

[LaCajunsFan]

I am trying to figure out the likely outcomes to all this, as realistically and unbiasedly as possible, and based soley on the facts that we know so far. Correct me if I am wrong on any of this:

1. LSU admin has suspended WW, and is doing an investigation of his activities.
a) It seems very unlikely that he will be cleared, but I that is a possiblilty.
b) Even if that happens, the NCAA will no doubt do their own research, and if they too clear him
then all of this goes away.

2. LSU finds wrong doing, fires WW and self imposes to hopefully get ahead of the NCAA.
a) Self-imposed penalities would likely (?) include vacating all of this season, the
championship, etc., since all of it pertains to WW and Smart.
b) Maybe they even give up some schollys, but I doubt they will impsoe any bans on
themselves.

3. NCAA will do their own investigating. This is where it could get very interesting:
a) Will they look into where WW got the money to do the pay-outs?
b) Will this extend into other sports?
c) I tend to think they will not dig/expose too much: they don't care about them as far as MBB
goes, but I don't think they want to endanger all the revenue from football and baseball.

Again, just my thoughts.

[CajunEXPRESS]

Baseball is not much in terms of NCAA revenue.

Nobody is better loved than USC was in football. They got pounded pretty good by the NCAA with the Bush scandal.

Additionally unlike basketball, football isn't a significant revenue source for the NCAA. It's a huge revenue source for the P5, and we know that the SEC members rat each other out like crazy.

So I do believe they’d do a through beat down on anything LSU is found to be in NCAA conflict. Besides better LSU than Duke/UNC,Kentucky from the NCAA prospective.

[31Ragin97]

proposed penalties: not allowed to host teams with better rpi in postseason and coaches not allowed to speak to crowd via pa system during games

as far as baseball..... i am interested to see if their is any proof that walkons pay tuition

[LaCajunsFan]

Baseball is not much in terms of NCAA revenue.

Nobody is better loved than USC was in football. They got pounded pretty good by the NCAA with the Bush scandal.

Additionally unlike basketball, football isn't a significant revenue source for the NCAA. It's a huge revenue source for the P5, and we know that the SEC members rat each other out like crazy.

So I do believe they’d do a through beat down on anything LSU is found to be in NCAA conflict. Besides better LSU than Duke/UNC,Kentucky from the NCAA prospective.

Yeah, agreed for the most part. I guess by revenues I meant for the P5/SEC, not directly for the NCAA....but I think they will do a lot to protect the revenue for either of those two.

So do you agree with the self-imposed pentalites I listed? Do you think the NCAA will hand them even stiffer ones?

[31Ragin97]

wow, is it the apocalypse?
i like some of these TD posts tha were linked...

lol

“F King isn’t even a real academic. He’s never even been a tenured faculty member.

He got his first president of a university gig after taking over for his freaking dad.

Guy’s actual PHD is in higher ed administration. Let that sink in. His entire education wa purely built around him being given a job he is not qualified for.

Telling other real faculty how things in a university should be run.
This post was edited on 3/10 at 2:31 pm”

[Professor]

wow, is it the apocalypse?
i like some of these TD posts tha were linked...

lol

“F King isn’t even a real academic. He’s never even been a tenured faculty member.

He got his first president of a university gig after taking over for his freaking dad.

Guy’s actual PHD is in higher ed administration. Let that sink in. His entire education wa purely built around him being given a job he is not qualified for.

Telling other real faculty how things in a university should be run.
This post was edited on 3/10 at 2:31 pm”

This thread is maybe just as embarrassing for us as them ( lol close but no)

There is a lot of wishful thinking in here and that’s understandable but some of you are acting like this is the biggest accomplishment in our athletic history. Actually when you think abut it maybe it is (which is sad in itself)

Also of course there are idiots who post shut in college message boards( tigerdroppings etc) and the bigger the fan base the more idiots but some of you nenes to read some of the posts on this board. Talk about idiotic

[LaCajunsFan]

This thread is maybe just as embarrassing for us as them ( lol close but no)

There is a lot of wishful thinking in here and that's understandable but some of you are acting like this is the biggest accomplishment in our athletic history. Actually when you think abut it maybe it is (which is sad in itself)

Also of course there are idiots who post shut in college message boards( tigerdroppings etc) and the bigger the fan base the more idiots but some of you nenes to read some of the posts on this board. Talk about idiotic

Well in the case of lsu, the idiotic behavior goes waaaaay beyond fan forums....guess you didn't see the behavior of those in attendance at the PMAC this past Saturday night. I mean, the guy was caught red handed, and refuses to even meet with their admin....what did they expect the admin and BOS to do? At least with Hud and our NCAA issue we....meaning the admin and fans....were all on the same page that we needed to fix the wrong and move on. It's just nuts how their fans are reacting to this.

[ULvictory]

This thread is maybe just as embarrassing for us as them ( lol close but no)

There is a lot of wishful thinking in here and that’s understandable but some of you are acting like this is the biggest accomplishment in our athletic history. Actually when you think abut it maybe it is (which is sad in itself)

Also of course there are idiots who post shut in college message boards( tigerdroppings etc) and the bigger the fan base the more idiots but some of you nenes to read some of the posts on this board. Talk about idiotic

I wouldn’t say this is an athletic accomplishment as much as it is karma to a school and fanbase that is right in our territory. As much yapping as their couillion fans do, it’s nice to see them get a taste of some humble pie. If they would leave us alone and quit acting ignorant, not as many of our fans would be laughing about this. But they do. The way they’re reacting to this whole debacle is proof itself. One of their fans even offered to have a candle light vigil in front of Wade’s house. Seriously, how absurd does one have to be to do that?

A lot of their love for Wade started when he called that TO against us in the NIT game last year, so I’m not surprised that a good number of our fans are enjoying this right now. The man’s arrogance blatantly allowed him to leave a paper trail by openly speaking about paying a recruit over the phone. And all of their fans keep saying “Well, everyone else does it.” But everyone else doesn’t leave paper trails like Wade did. The fact of the matter is that he got caught.

So again, our fans are enjoying their karma.

[Professor]

Well in the case of lsu, the idiotic behavior goes waaaaay beyond fan forums....guess you didn't see the behavior of those in attendance at the PMAC this past Saturday night. I mean, the guy was caught red handed, and refuses to even meet with their admin....what did they expect the admin and BOS to do? At least when with Hud we, meaning the admin and fans, were all on the same page that we needed to fix the wrong and move on. It's just nuts how their fans are reacting to this.

Fans is short for fanatics and most were probably mad that there coach was suspended but I’ve talked to some rational lsu fans who just don’t trust Alleva enough to not think maybe he’s overreacting to the media line he did in duke lacrosse. I don’t know but whether it was mostly the students with the chants or whatever is was a bad look

[Professor]

I wouldn’t say this is an athletic accomplishment as much as it is karma to a school and fanbase that is right in our territory. As much yapping as their couillion fans do, it’s nice to see them get a taste of some humble pie. If they would leave us alone and quit acting ignorant, not as many of our fans would be laughing about this. But they do. The way they’re reacting to this whole debacle is proof itself. One of their fans even offered to have a candle light vigil in front of Wade’s house. Seriously, how absurd does one have to be to do that?

A lot of their love for Wade started when he called that TO against us in the NIT game last year, so I’m not surprised that a good number of our fans are enjoying this right now. The man’s arrogance blatantly allowed him to leave a paper trail by openly speaking about paying a recruit over the phone. And all of their fans keep saying “Well, everyone else does it.” But everyone else doesn’t leave paper trails like Wade did. The fact of the matter is that he got caught.

So again, our fans are enjoying their karma.

I think Wade is a total _______ especially with the NIT stuff but Marlin running his mouth beforehand has a lot to do with that. As cocky as wade is he was gonna talk back when he won even if the win was by the skin of his teeth