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WADE: Hopefully (Jaron) Blossomgame's not blowing you up too much right now.

DAWKINS: Well listen, I mean [expletive], he could be playing for LSU or some [expletive]. He could have fifth-year eligibility and if he doesn't get drafted like Randolph Morris or some [expletive] like that.

WADE: We'll take that. We'll take it.

DAWKINS: I know you will. I know you will.

WADE: We could compensate him better than the rookie minimum.

DAWKINS (laughing): You probably right about that, too.

WADE: We'd give him more than the the D-League.

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In another conversation -- it's not clear if it is the same or a different call -- Dawkins asks Miller if Arizona thinks it can land five-star recruit Naz Reid.

MILLER: No. He's going to LSU. We're not even bringing him on a visit. He's not even visiting. That's all bull----. Like, I'm looking at our recruiting board, he's not even on it. I've never talked to the kid. All this [expletive] hype [expletive] on the phone, it's stupid. He just probably said, you know what, [expletive] you I don't want 75, I want a 120. I may go to Arizona. That's all that was.

DAWKINS: And Will Wade is -- I told Book, I said, 'Will Wade is like driving up the price of [expletive]. 'Cause he's not even, he's not even doing like real numbers.

MILLER: I tell you what, I'll give him credit, he got a big set of balls on him.

DAWKINS: No, Will Wade doesn't give a [expletive], Sean.

I know this stuff happens at most programs that are good, but I'm shocked that the head basketball coaches would talk so openly about it. You'd think it would be organized like the mob, where no one talks to the "head of the family" directly.

I honestly don't care if Wade is culpable. I like having good basketball programs in the SEC. Musselmeh has recruited well too, same with Pearl, Howland, Cal, Williams, etc... Really good basketball on the horizon in the SEC.