Will Wade will meet Friday with LSU and NCAA officials in the first official meeting between the groups since the basketball coach was suspended for alleged recruiting violations.
Tiger Rag assistant editor Tyler Nunez says the meeting could be the first step in getting Wade back in Purple and Gold.
“It looks like LSU is going to try to stick with their guy and they are going to try to get him back, and it couldn’t come at a better time considering the late recruiting signing period is coming up in about a week.”
Wade recently fired his attorney, and hired new representation who’s been working to facilitate the meeting. Previously Wade’s attorney had the suspended coach on a gag order.
This rapid change of events comes on the heels of reports that Wade may not be forced to testify in the basketball corruption trial of a man he was reportedly caught on tape trying to bribe for recruit. Nunez says that’s good news for the coach.
“Federal prosecutors have moved to make sure that he will not have to testify in this upcoming trial, but there’s still a lot of moving parts, and we don’t know exactly what is going to happen.”
Nunez says isn’t wasn’t long ago that he and most other Tiger analysts considered Wade a dead man walking, but the school signaled they might not be done with the young coach after refusing to fire him after the Tiger’s NCAA tournament exit.
“A month ago i thought he was as good as gone, but the longer this has gone on without LSU making a decision one way or another, the more i felt that they were going to make a play to keep him there.”
The meeting was confirmed by LSU senior associate athletic director Robert Munson.
