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LSU. Of all the teams, LSU. The program that hasn't sniffed the NCAA tournament since 2015, despite having rostered someone who then went on to be selected first overall in the NBA Draft in 2016. The program that hasn't won a regular season conference title since 2009, and hasn't tasted the Sweet Sixteen since 2006. That's the program that succumbed to outside pressures in telling their head coach to take a hike during the most important month of a dream season? Not Kentucky. Not Duke. Not Michigan State. Not Arizona. All schools that are undoubtedly committing the same damn recruiting violations behind untapped doors. But LSU? The football school with the basketball problem? That's who needed to be made an example out of in the FBI's takedown of a sport whose widespread corruption has long coursed through the veins of its bluebloods? As someone who never needed the LASIK surgery because common sense was enough to keep me from wearing wool glasses when taking a look at the shady state of college basketball recruitment, I'm disappointed in LSU. I just refuse to believe that a significant amount of people found themselves so hurt by this information that not even a little bit of time, which is all it would take with the speed of the current news cycle, could heal their wounds. So Will Wade didn't watch Blue Chips through to the end while taking notes on Nick Nolte's approach to crafting a competitive team for a university that has a tough time doing just that. Who even cares? Is doing a little bit of damage control really worth potentially sabotaging the most pleasantly surprising of season, thus doing wrong by both the Tigers' players and their long-suffering fans? I think not, if only because March Madness is, without a shadow of a doubt, going to feature an entire pond's worth of far bigger fish to be fried.
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