“Now you can play the long game a little bit more,” Wade told The Associated Press, referring to how college players can look at their futures.
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Wade's involvement in paying for recruits cost him his job at LSU and wrapped him in an FBI investigation that sent coaches to jail and, he said, “ruined a lot of people's lives for very little reason.” That none of what he did would be considered wrong in today's world of above-the-table NIL payments to players is no excuse for him, he said.
Final Four coaches Bruce Pearl, Kelvin Sampson, once outcasts, now reflect changes in college game
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