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Will Wade needs to come clean about recruiting allegations

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.