Well – you have to figure the LSU administration was under a lot of pressure – as they came out today announcing that based on the evidence in the Yahoo! Sports story on the FBI investigation and wiretaps, they have indefinitely suspended head coach Will Wade.

But before we get too far about lauding LSU for doing the right thing, lets remember this is all about illegal recruiting and paying players.  Will Wade has been at LSU for two years.  He has recruited 13 players to the Tigers – 2 of which were kicked off the team for disciplinary reasons, 2 of them have transferred, and the other 9 (including Javonte Smart – the believed recruit that was being discussed in the wiretap) are still playing on the #10 LSU Tigers.

If Will Wade truly paid a player – which it appears based on the wiretap that he did – then the player he paid is most likely still on the team – which means the Tigers are playing with an ineligible player.  LSU is suspending Wade because it looks like they are doing the right thing in the media.   But the right thing would not be simply suspending Wade – it would be suspending the team from post-season play.

If all of this is true, LSU is eventually going to be punished with a likely ban from the NCAA Tournament.  But if that happens at the speed of a normal NCAA investigation, that punishment won’t happen while the players who committed the infraction are there (since those are the players that some believe could make the Final Four with the right draw).  The players that will be punished will be the ones who are not even at the university yet – the ones who theoretically did nothing wrong (since it would be pretty gutsy for the university to continue to pay players to play while they are being investigated for it).

But the media is talking about how LSU did the right thing.  That was what they wanted everyone to believe – that way, they can still compete for a National Title while they have all this talent.  The right thing would have been to suspend the team – not just the coach.