re: How many LSU fans thought you actually going to cheat and get away with it?

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It's not even remotely "legal" now. Why do people like you think it is?

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Most of the posters here are pretty ignorant about things like NIL and such.

I'm not sure if most are actually ignorant or it's just a bottom tier "troll job."

Integrity …… not something LSU understands ……. Oh well back to the end of the bus I guess

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It's not even remotely "legal" now. Why do people like you think it is?

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It’s funny because some school is eventually going to get nailed and there will be some confused folks when it happens

You Okies better hone your cheating skills if you expect to fit in with the SEC on a regular basis! That's the only way you will stay relevant.

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I thought we could get by with minor punishment based on hearsay, but evidently Wade forgot to use a burner and paid cash out of a joint account he shared with his wife. He did some of this after the initial heat. I didn't realize how sloppy he was. Can't defend it tbh

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So basically you're saying that if Wade hadn't been so sloppy you would have defended it as best you could because you have no integrity.

Some institution of higher learning they got down there in Louisiana. Maybe someone needs to start teaching a class about how to be a fricking shite bag and get away with it.

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Auburn did. Already did their 1-year penalty. Pearl served a 2-game suspension. Auburn likely will be a 1 seed tomorrow.

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In fairness what Auburn was accused of wasn't nearly as serious as Wade.

Auburn also lost two players: 1 for an entire season, the other for a season and a 1/3 of another season. They also self-imposed no recruiting for a season and didn't sign a player like a scholly limitation.

I do believe LSU should have gotten in front of this but they would have had to immediately fire Wade and probably done a couple of years of post season ban plus scholly reductions.

I never understood why the fanbase at LSU celebrated him when it was obvious this was ending poorly.

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I mean the football program didn't really "cheat."

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Right. That’s why LSU already self imposed sanctions and the ncaa will impose more

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The NCAA's notice of allegations against LSU not only resulted in the firing of men’s basketball coach Will Wade, but another Tigers program, a notorious coach and NFL star got caught up in the violations as well.
The football team also part of the inquiry, and former coach Ed Orgeron was handed a Level III violation for “impermissible recruiting contact” in January 2019. He allegedly met a prospect in the individual's high school coach's office “prior to July 1 following the prospect's completion of his junior year,” according to the NOA documents.

But the violations for the football program did not stop there, however.
Originally, the NCAA was looking into John Paul Funes’s payments of $180,000 to the father of former All-SEC offensive lineman Vadal Alexander. According to the NOA documents, Funes met with the parents of the athlete in late 2012 or early ’13 and offered to employ them both, the mother at Our Lady of the Lake hospital system and the father at Our Lady of the Lake Foundation.

The arrangement was for the father to be paid $3,150 in February 2013 and “recurring monthly payments of $3,000” from the Foundation. The arrangement continued for nearly five years despite the father not working more than five events, according to the notice.
The athlete subsequently “competed in fifty contests and received actual and necessary expenses while ineligible.” The panel determined that these allegations were a Level I violation.

According to Sports Illustrated's Ross Dellenger, the football probe was in its final stages of completion when NFL star Odell Beckham Jr. forced the NCAA to reopen it. The former LSU wide receiver distributed $2,000 worth of $100 bills during a wild scene that unfolded on the field following the program’s win over Clemson in the national championship game at the New Orleans Superdome in early 2020.
Per the notice, Beckham Jr. “provided $800 and $500 in cash to student-athletes 1 and 2, respectively, while on the field immediately following the game. In addition, that same night, at a club in New Orleans, Beckham provided student-athletes 3 and 4 with $500 and $200 in cash, respectively.”

The Tigers football program had initially self-imposed penalties back in October 2020 in hopes that the NCAA would not levy more. It docked itself eight football scholarships over a two-year period and reduced recruiting visits, evaluations and communication, as previously reported by Dellenger and SI's Pat Forde. Beckham Jr. was also suspended from the team's facilities for two years for his actions.

They were way too sure it would all go away but I’ll give them this, who would have thought he was as big of a dumbass as he is? The blackmail payments from his joint account with his wife (she’s evidently stupid too). I just can’t get over that stupidity, it’s almost shockingly dumb.