Rick Pitino gets 5 game ban for providing hookers to recruits. BFD.

[DOM-Ganador]

Louisville coach Rick Pitino will be suspended for the first five ACC games in 2017-18 for failing to monitor his program during an alleged sex-for-pay scandal, and the program will be on probation for four years, the Division I Committee on Infractions announced Thursday.
Louisville announced it will appeal the ruling.

Silly slap on the wrist. Everyone who worked for the Celtics during his infamous, clusterfukk tenure was fond of saying "OUR FEARLESS LEADER" and not in a kind way.
Him and Tiger should have ran around together.

[jjgold]

means nothing

old news

[DiggityDaggityDo]

Any pics of the hookers?

[IBetYou]

Failing to monitor indeed. His idea more like.

[funnyb25]

Wonder how the appeal will go

[Cuse0323]

Boeheim gets 9 games, and loses 101 wins for nothing. 5 games for hookers. Good stuff, NCAA. We should have just went the whore route. May have another Championship.

[ChalkyDog]

2013 title in Jeopardy. Pitino "lost faith in the NCAA" - incredible.

[SoCal_Bookie]

Can you blame him? That was going to be one of the only ways you can convince kids to move to the state of Kentucky.

[Sam Odom]

what is wrong with sex ?

[Cuse0323]

This also involved under aged kids, and under aged whores. Take that banner down bitches. Also, Cuse is the 2013 BE Tourney Champs. Take that one down too.

[Mr KLC]

The Louisville Cardinals claim to have as much accountability for Andre McGee’s supposed rogue hooker/stripper for recruits scandal as Pope Francis.

It makes sense. Especially from a university that employs both Rick Pitino and Bobby Petrino. Accountability is not even a virtue in those hallow halls (yes, hallow and not hallowed). By avoiding any form of accountability, the Cardinals get to claim they are not responsible to carry the burden of penalties that come with breaking rules.

In the university’s appeal to the NCAA’s penalties against it, Louisville had some strong words written inside that document. “Draconian”, “unjust” and “grossly disproportionate” were all words the school felt was worth being put in a legal letter that was meant to say how the governing body did UL wrong.

The appeal also continued Louisville’s notion that McGee is the sole wrongdoer in a sea otherwise filled with great leaders of men … or something. He has been the school’s go-to scapegoat for some time and the NCAA has already issued a 10-year show clause for his hands being caught in the cookie jar.

Louisville did make a strong argument that the NCAA’s findings and rulings hold little merit, though. From a legal standpoint, UL claims it was already punished (something it did to itself) and the governing body did not factor that into its decision to potentially remove victories and suspending Pitino for five ACC games in the upcoming season.

Then again, punishing itself for actions it claims no one but McGee had a hand in doing is like my daughter grounding herself from TV because her sister ate a lollipop without permission — it just doesn’t make sense.

This is what Louisville — as well as Pitino — is good at. Creating a narrative of “people out to get them” while playing the role of victim. Mind you, they play this role while kids under the age of 18 were being recruited to their school via things most of those kids can’t consent to in the majority of the states in this country (age of consent in Kentucky is 16).

Sometimes a university, as well as people employed in roles that often get touted as forms of leadership, should just look within itself to see what values should be prioritized. Is it the money-making sports at the university that rank ahead of what is an objectively awful scandal (key figures aware of it or not), or is it to send a message that trafficking teenagers in sex for the sake of recruiting will not be tolerated no matter the cost?

[manny24]

waitress said he nutted like 5 seconds barely made it past the hair

[grease lightnin]

Holy shit what was this ten years ago and we are still talking about it?

[vividjohn45]

Any pics of the hookers?

Check out backpage: Louisville women seeking men or maybe massage

[Cardinals01]

Lol. What do you want Louisville to say? NCAA we will take any and all punishments that you give us and happily pay back the millions of dollars we generated during those seasons. The UL fanbase, including myself, is tired of the scandals, lying, and no accountability across the board at the university (Not just athletics). You can't just roll over and not fight when they hand out unprecedented punishments. The NCAA is a dictatorship and schools will begin to fight even harder (See UNC case) against the NCAA rather than being open and giving them full access to all information a university may find in their own investiagtion (UL Example).

Cuse - I understand you are frustrated but you all still lost, you don't get to crown yourself champion. Also, instead of reading what the media puts out about a 5 game punishment for Rick and that's all we got, read the full report and realize there were MANY things listed that were much worse than what Cuse got, but the media reported Pitino was suspended for 5 games and that's it.