Louisville knows how to recruit!

[MuMark]

@AdamZagoria: Book Alleges Louisville Hired Hookers to Woo Recruits & Their Fathers http://t.co/l12kSmFu9Q

[4everwarriors]

Any y'all regret not bein' 6'8" and perks that seem to come with it, hey?

[Dr. Blackheart]

Sounds like Porcini's was offering a family style buffet too, non è?

[MuMark]

Can't believe he left the moms out of the festivities.

[rocky_warrior]

Can't believe he left the moms out of the festivities.

Maybe he took care of them with a bit more of a personal touch.

[MuMark]

@jeffborzello: Tom Jurich asked at the press conference if he thinks Indiana turned Louisville in: "No comment."

[tower912]

Squirmy.   

[Dr. Blackheart]

Pitino recruits were known for their early entries.

[ChitownSpaceForRent]

Maybe he took care of them with a bit more of a personal touch.

As much as I hated Louisville fans at the Bradley Center, there were always some good looking ladies there. They don't call him slick Rick for nothing.

[Cooby Snacks]

@jeffborzello: Tom Jurich asked at the press conference if he thinks Indiana turned Louisville in: "No comment."

Crean with the slow play on payback for the fake quote "scandal" of '04.

[PuertoRicanNightmare]

If Crean is behind this it constitutes a new low...other than giving his son all awards at his own camp and holding a press conference to announce he was pledging $100k to a soccer stadium and backing out of the deal. Did I miss something?

[4everwarriors]

No wonder we lost the McCray bros. to UL, hey?

[Tugg Speedman]

Sounds like Porcini's was offering a family style buffet too, non è?

The University of Louisville said Friday it has launched an investigation into allegations that former Cardinals staffer Andre McGee paid an escort service to provide sex for recruits.

The allegations by Katina Powell are in an upcoming book, "Breaking Cardinal Rules: Basketball and the Escort Queen" from a publishing arm of the Indianapolis Business Journal. Some details of the book were published on the Journal's web site, and said that McGee hired Powell to provide strippers and prostitutes for recruits and some of their fathers during a four-year period.

"To say I'm shocked is an understatement," Pitino said during a news conference Friday. "You know the allegations. Now we have to find the truth."

[Tugg Speedman]

MU's staff was confident Damion Lee would visit MU after Louisville.  He did not and instead committed to 'ville right away.  I guess 'ville must have blown him away!

[TAMU, Knower of Ball]

If Crean is behind this it constitutes a new low...other than giving his son all awards at his own camp and holding a press conference to announce he was pledging $100k to a soccer stadium and backing out of the deal. Did I miss something?

Why would Tom Crean whistle blowing a disgusting and illegal recruiting practice be a new low?

Not sure how he could be involved. The woman in charge of the escort service is writing the book

[TAMU, Knower of Ball]

Disgusting, shameful, but they are hardly the only school that had done this

[PuertoRicanNightmare]

Why would Tom Crean whistle blowing a disgusting and illegal recruiting practice be a new low?

Not sure how he could be involved. The woman in charge of the escort service is writing the book

And an Indiana booster is publishing the book...written by a prostitute.

[77ncaachamps]

Crean with the slow play on payback for the fake quote "scandal" of '04.

LOL. Forgot about that one until now!

[TAMU, Knower of Ball]

And an Indiana booster is publishing the book...written by a prostitute.

And why is this a low for Tom Crean?

[PuertoRicanNightmare]

And why is this a low for Tom Crean?

Maybe it isn't. He can go lower.

[NavinRJohnson]

The indiana element of this is just weird. More likely non-element, but weird none the less.

I've never been less excited for a college bball season...ok maybe last yeR when MU was so bad, but I am just tired of the whole thing. The NCAA, the coaches, sad pathetic fan bases. It's all just so ridiculous.

[tower912]

http://www.scout.com/college/indiana/forums/2353-hoosier-basketball/14147095-iu-releases-statement-regarding-louisville-situation

IU feels the need to deny involvement.   

[ChitownSpaceForRent]

That being said, couldn't have happened to a nicer program...Louisville can go rot in hell with Wisconsin and ND for all I care.

[GGGG]

If Crean is behind this it constitutes a new low...other than giving his son all awards at his own camp and holding a press conference to announce he was pledging $100k to a soccer stadium and backing out of the deal. Did I miss something?

Sorry to dampen your Crean hate woody, but he wasn't behind it.

http://www.indystar.com/story/sports/college/indiana/2015/10/02/iu-were-not-involved-louisville-escort-scandal/73244018/

[GGGG]

And a special shout out to Ners for inspiring me to use the phrase "hate woody."