Will Wade has some explaining to do.
Thanks to revelations from the ongoing federal corruption case regarding NCAA basketball, we just might be learning why LSU suddenly -- almost magically -- has become a destination location for so many elite basketball recruits.
The latest developments in the case revealed some damning information about LSU and Wade, its second-year basketball coach.
According to multiple reports Tuesday, Wade was caught on an FBI wiretap expressing to a middleman a willingness to "fund" a recruit's commitment.
Defense attorney Casey Donnelly told the court -- without jurors present -- that the government had recorded a conversation in which Christian Dawkins, a runner for NBA agent Andy Miller, talks to Wade about a recruit "you would have funded.