OT - Pitino crap storm coming?

[WarriorPride68]

Presser at 1:30 with Rick & AD. Sounds like self imposed sanctions if not worse per Twitter.
 

[GooooMarquette]

Might just be an enhanced recruit entertainment plan.

[WarriorPride68]

Might just be an enhanced recruit entertainment plan.

You get a hooker, and you get a hooker, hookers for everyone

[Litehouse]

Friday afternoon before the Super Bowl...  that might be the absolute best time to drop bad news.  Pitino is clearly a pro at this stuff.

[BM1090]

Self imposed Postseason ban reported. Sucks for Damion Lee.

[4everwarriors]

Porcini's caterin' da event, ai na?

[Frenns Liquor Depot]

Sucks for Damion Lee.

He had a lot of choices -- feels a little bit like we announced a self-imposed postseason ban 2 years ago...

[MuMark]

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/louisville-self-imposes-postseason-ban-for-alleged-violations-related-to-prostitution-scandal-050350278-ncaab.html?soc_src=mediacontentstory&soc_trk=tw

[GooooMarquette]

So MU is one slot closer to the bubble?

[TAMU, Knower of Ball]

Self imposed Postseason ban reported. Sucks for Damion Lee.

And Trey Lewis. Both of those guys would have looked so good in Blue and Gold.

[ChicosBailBonds]

So MU is one slot closer to the bubble?

Vadgers are

[BM1090]

Jeff Greer ‏@jeffgreer_cj  5m5 minutes ago
Pitino says the entire team stood up and hugged Damion Lee and Trey Lewis as they cried after they were informed of the decision

[TAMU, Knower of Ball]

So does this mean Louisville fans finally admit that something happened? Most of them were pretty insistent that the whole thing was an IU or UK booster trying to screw them over.

[MerrittsMustache]

Self-imposed bans are basically a plea bargain with the NCAA.

Jeff Greer ‏@jeffgreer_cj  5m5 minutes ago
Pitino says the entire team stood up and hugged Damion Lee and Trey Lewis as they cried after they were informed of the decision

Don't go to a shady program and you wouldn't have to worry about that.

[keefe]

Jeff Greer ‏@jeffgreer_cj  5m5 minutes ago
Pitino says the entire team stood up and hugged Damion Lee and Trey Lewis as they cried after they were informed of the decision

They were crying because they realized the Spring recruiting parties were likely being cancelled?

[GooooMarquette]

Jeff Greer ‏@jeffgreer_cj  5m5 minutes ago
Pitino says the entire team stood up and hugged Damion Lee and Trey Lewis as they cried after they were informed of the decision

UL's player entertainment program ain't what it used to be....

[TAMU, Knower of Ball]

Don't go to a shady program and you wouldn't have to worry about that.

I was thinking about this. Supposedly this tactic of recruiting ended when Andre McGee left Louisville...but Antonio Blakeney, a 2015 recruit who visited after McGee left, is on record saying he and his dad received the "royal treatment." If it was still going on then, it wouldn't surprise me to learn that Lewis and Lee received similar perks only a few months later. If Lee and Lewis participated and then signed, I don't feel bad for them. They knew it was a dirty program and a risk of that is postseason bans.

If it truly ended before they were recruited and they didn't receive any improper benefits then I feel awful for them. Truly awful.

Also, it looks like we aren't the only school who schedules bad news pressers for Friday afternoons.

[JamilJaeJamailJrJuan]

Jeff Greer ‏@jeffgreer_cj  5m5 minutes ago
Pitino says the entire team stood up and hugged Damion Lee and Trey Lewis as they cried after they were informed of the decision

Gotta feel for those two.  Man, to think if we had Lee. Gahh.

[keefe]

UL's player entertainment program ain't what it used to be....

Damion Lee takes the news hard...

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/NPxnQv4RH5s" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="bbc_link bbc_flash_disabled new_win">https://www.youtube.com/v/NPxnQv4RH5s</a>

[drewm88]

Had they listened to their coach, they would have had those women in and out of there quick enough that nobody would have known.

[chapman]

One NIT team slides into the NCAA  There's now an NIT spot ripe for the taking!

[RushmoreAcademy]

One NIT team slides into the NCAA  There's now an NIT spot ripe for the taking!

[MU82]

Jeff Greer ‏@jeffgreer_cj  5m5 minutes ago
Pitino says the entire team stood up and hugged Damion Lee and Trey Lewis as they cried after they were informed of the decision

Glad they didn't go to MU. We don't need no stinkin' crybabies!

[MerrittsMustache]

If it truly ended before they were recruited and they didn't receive any improper benefits then I feel awful for them. Truly awful.

I don't feel bad for them at all. They chose to play for a shady coach who runs shady programs. If a player elects to play for a coach like Pitino, Larry Brown, Kelvin Sampson, etc then they have to recognize that sanctions may eventually be a part of the deal. They took the risk and got burned.

[wadesworld]

So their program paid for prostitutes to party with and have sex with players within their program and underage recruits visiting the program and they self imposed a 1 year post season ban? Yeah, that right there is the definition of fair punishment.

I'm thinking jail time is a lot more fitting.

Yet, I'll just wait for the NCAA to champion Rick Pittino as the model of what we need in this game for "taking responsibility" for something going on in his program that he "had no knowledge of" and clap for the program, only to shut down some random little program for giving away 2 too many free tickets to a recruit's family visiting.