The prodigal sleaze

 I don't know what kind of hooch they're selling down there in the bayou, but the folks in the LSU athletic department need to lay off it. It's done ruint their minds, as the saying goes.

This upon the news that former LSU basketball coach Will Wade -- last seen in Baton Rouge offering a recruit a barrel of illicit cash on an FBI wiretap -- is returning to LSU in the same role, four years after the school booted him for getting it sideways with the feds and the NCAA. 

"Why would LSU do that, Mr. Blob?" you're undoubtedly asking now.

Beats me. Gotta be the hooch, I figure.

On the other hand, it's LSU, which has not been known for the quality of its judgment lately. It poached Brian Kelly from Notre Dame because it thought its football program was the greatest in America (Spoiler alert: It's not). Then it had to eat a gargantuan buyout when it deemed Kelly unworthy of such greatness. 

After which the governor of Louisiana started running off at the mouth about how there was NO WAY he would ever allow such a buyout to happen again. That got the athletic director fired -- which left LSU with no football coach, no AD and not much of a clue.

Apparently the Bengal Tigers still don't.

And apparently Will Wade, the prodigal sleaze, is still ... well, a trifle sleazy.

A year ago almost to the day, see, he signed a six-year deal to coach the Wolfpack at North Carolina State  -- and, no, I don't know what they were thinking, or drinking, in Raleigh, either. Now, just 12 months later, he's bailing.  

(A brief aside: The people caterwauling about the selfishness/lack of loyalty among today's portal-hopping college athletes should take note of this. They clearly learned it from their coaches, who've been displaying exactly the same selfishness/lack of loyalty for decades.)

The oddest thing about this whole affair is Will Wade didn't exactly bring home a string of national titles the first time LSU came calling. In five seasons under his hand, LSU lost 10 or more games four times. And the Tigers advanced beyond the round of 32 just once, losing in the Sweet Sixteen in Wade's second season.

Which of course makes LSU re-hiring him even more bizarre.

I'm tellin' ya, man. That hooch must be powerful stuff.