Rick Fayard

This kid has unsolvable issues. 1) He doesn’t want to be a “student/athlete”. He wants to be a pro now! 2) According to his class mates, very poor attitude, resistant to instruction. 3) Resents correction or discipline. Conclusion: Why poison the locker room while you’re trying to build a team and sell the program?

The reason good teams get upset by inferior teams is because they have the same superior arrogant attitude that you have. CBK tries to infuse respect into his team’s regard for their opponents to avoid an ambush. He has the best active record in coaching and his kids are never surprised by the quality of their opponent.

Dear Helmet Heads: The illusion that football is the sole purpose for the existence of LSU, is a fantasy shared mostly by non-graduates of the University who simply don’t know any better. Rick Smith, by every standard, was the most qualified swimming coach in America. He has coached the US Olympic Team on multiple occasions. There are hundreds of superior US athletes who are medal worthy competing for each swimming and diving olympic event. Rick Smith has made the difference in many of those lives by coaching them into Olympic Champions. Once again, Scotty did his homework, and pilfered a super star from a major university. Promises had to be made. Our new swimming coach is no fool. There is no comparison in the swimming team facilities at LSU to those at Michigan. By the outstanding recruits already at LSU, signed and on their way to LSU, and the superior athletes who Smith is recruiting, he is fulfilling his promises. Now our athletic department, TAF, and our Alumnae need to do the same. To keep the top coach in the “Olympic Sport” of swimming and diving, we need to build facilities second to none, that will impress recruits, and help our coach to sign them. We now have the Coach to build a Champion. Let’s support him!

Really great job. A must read for those trying to digest this mess caused by the NCAA and the USSC. Thanks.

Purchased from LSU, LSU Sections, for $115 each. Reasonable offer acceptable. STACI, sfayardrn@aol.com. Storm affected.

You are totally and completely wrong. Hiring Alleva was the first mistake when the Board knew he had cost Duke over $7 mill. when he chose the word of a convicted thief and prostitute over his athletes and his coaches. The second and third mistakes were the Les Miles firing debacles, the fourth was the public courting and humiliation by Jimbo Fisher, the fifth was the embarrassment “hiring” of Tom Herman, the Final straw was suspending an “innocent until PROVEN guilty” successful basketball coach from coaching his players in the national championship playoffs. We know from published reports that at least 5 coaches “talked on the telephone” with the same snakes that Wade talked to. Of those five coaches, how many were suspended? Only LSU’s Wade. SEC coaches were at Auburn and Kentucky who coached their kids in the playoffs. Kentucky’s coach has placed his two prior programs on athletic probation and is perennially investigated at Kentucky. ( Memphis and U Mass). Wade made a “Strong” offer to a Baton Rouge kid which means he wants that kid and will wait on his “yes or no” before he recruits another guard. Arizona and Auburn made non-exclusive offers which means they have offered several guards but will take only the first who commits. Wade’s lawyer advised him not to discuss the case with anyone, including the NCAA, LSU, Alexander, or Alleva. Why? Because any person he discusses the case with becomes a witness against him. Nobody, no DA, no Grand Jury, had ever found “probable cause” to file charges against Wade. So he committed no crime. He also stated repeatedly he had not committed any recruiting violations . This mess was recorded by the FBI presented to a Grand Jury and leaked to YAHOO news. Yahoo, YAHOO???? Anybody question that News Source?? What not Fox? CBS? ABC? NBC? The FBI in this era are not the paragon of integrity they once were. However, Yahoo blasts this on the internet, it’s picked up by ESPN ( another paragon of virtue ) and the great LSU fan PAUL FINEBAUM . Paul tells his buddy Dicky Vitale ( a genuine idiot as a coach and announcer ) and the FBI’s unethical “leak” of Grand Jury evidence comes back as the TRUTH. The LSU lawyers apparently very inexperienced in criminal law practice, wrongly advise Alleva and Alexander to suspend Wade despite the young coach trying to follow his lawyer’s advice.
As you can see, Smelly, the only person responsible for making LSU “Look Bad” is Alleva, which began the moment he was hired, and it has continued with every decision he has been involved in. He is a “Tar Baby” , and anyone, and any Universities who associated with him are stuck with his incompetence. An athletic director who hires a coach is putting his “Seal of Approval” on the character and integrity of HIS coach......except Alleva. Like his tossing his lacrosse coach “under the bus” when a challenge came from a criminal source at Duke, Alleva said “Not My Fault” when a similar challenge came to Wade. This type of cowardly reaction is a recurrent act by Alleva when his young coaches could use the strong support of a competent Athletic Director. No Smelly, the firing of that man was, if anything, too late, but merciful to the LSU fans, and understood by everyone but you.