Pitino 5 Game Ban 'ville 4 yr probation

[Newsdreams]

Will appeal
https://twitter.com/sportscenter/status/875372011668869120

[wadesworld]

Will appeal
https://twitter.com/sportscenter/status/875372011668869120

The slap on the wrist punishment is "excessive" according to Louisville's president.  You know, no way should anybody be suspended for 5 games for paying for hookers and strippers for underage kids on their recruiting trips...

[GB Warrior]

Look forward to UNC getting verbal admonishment for betraying faith in their higher education program.

[MU Fan in Connecticut]

Look forward to UNC getting verbal admonishment for betraying faith in their higher education program.

Looking for some other school(s) to get hammered in place of UNC.

[Newsdreams]

Looking for some other school(s) to get hammered in place of UNC.

Rutgers BC deserve death penalty me thinks

[ChitownSpaceForRent]

Meanwhile, the NCAA cracks down hard on an athlete making YouTube video.

http://deadspin.com/quit-college-sports-or-quit-youtube-ncaa-threatens-ucf-1796033861?utm_campaign=socialflow_deadspin_twitter&utm_source=deadspin_twitter&utm_medium=socialflow

[79Warrior]

The slap on the wrist punishment is "excessive" according to Louisville's president.  You know, no way should anybody be suspended for 5 games for paying for hookers and strippers for underage kids on their recruiting trips...

The hookers were fine. He spent to much on meals for the recruits.

[Dr. Blackheart]

The hookers were fine. He spent to much on meals for the recruits.

The cream cheese was applied on the dancers but not on the bagels. All the difference.

[Herman Cain]

Meanwhile, the NCAA cracks down hard on an athlete making YouTube video.

http://deadspin.com/quit-college-sports-or-quit-youtube-ncaa-threatens-ucf-1796033861?utm_campaign=socialflow_deadspin_twitter&utm_source=deadspin_twitter&utm_medium=socialflow

This case is a classic example of the NCAA over regulating.

On the other hand all college athletes are expressly told this kind of activity is against the rules. All three of my kids had to sign acknowledgements that they understood this exact image use rule with their respective Athletic Departments . The rules are very clear, for example a student athlete cannot be paid to  model unless they had a prior model career and legitimate portfolio to document it.

[Earl Tatum]

To bad it's not longer. A cheater

[Juan Anderson's Mixtape]

If Louisville has to vacate their title, do 2013 bracket winners have to vacate their winnings?

[Jay Bee]

Mmmm, so good, so brief

[Spotcheck Billy]

Perhaps this was a practice swing by the NCAA for the UNC case.

Carol Cartwright, the chief hearing officer for the Committee on Infractions as well as the respected president emeritus at two universities,  called the string of Louisville NCAA violations "repugnant."

""A 17-year-old prospect who engaged in oral sex and sexual intercourse with one of the prostitutes offered that he 'really didn't know too much about what was going on.' Prospect 2, who was 16 years old at the time of his visit, described how the former operations director handed him a condom and sent him to a room to engage in a sex act.""

[GGGG]

Perhaps this was a practice swing by the NCAA for the UNC case.

Carol Cartwright, the chief hearing officer for the Committee on Infractions as well as the respected president emeritus at two universities,  called the string of Louisville NCAA violations "repugnant."

""A 17-year-old prospect who engaged in oral sex and sexual intercourse with one of the prostitutes offered that he 'really didn't know too much about what was going on.' Prospect 2, who was 16 years old at the time of his visit, described how the former operations director handed him a condom and sent him to a room to engage in a sex act.""

Random fact: Carol Cartwright is a Milwaukee-area native.

[TAMU, Knower of Ball]

Perhaps this was a practice swing by the NCAA for the UNC case.

Carol Cartwright, the chief hearing officer for the Committee on Infractions as well as the respected president emeritus at two universities,  called the string of Louisville NCAA violations "repugnant."

""A 17-year-old prospect who engaged in oral sex and sexual intercourse with one of the prostitutes offered that he 'really didn't know too much about what was going on.' Prospect 2, who was 16 years old at the time of his visit, described how the former operations director handed him a condom and sent him to a room to engage in a sex act.""

Amazingly, the age of consent in Kentucky is 16. Goddamn creepy Kentuckians.

[LON]

Amazingly, the age of consent in Kentucky is 16. Goddamn creepy Kentuckians.

Something something cousin, prime breeding years, something something.

[Billy Hoyle]

The slap on the wrist punishment is "excessive" according to Louisville's president.  You know, no way should anybody be suspended for 5 games for paying for hookers and strippers for underage kids on their recruiting trips...

This is no "slap on the wrist" as much as you all want to interpret as such or not read what's in the report. 

4 years probation - significant
reduction of recruiting days and official visits (latter by 8 over a 2 year period) - quite significant
Scholarship reductions over a 4 year period - strongly significant
Possibly vacating wins over a 4 year period (including the 2012 Final Four) - very significant
paying back millions in NCAA tourney revenue - significantly significant

It also destroys Andre McGee's career with the 10 year show cause penalty.
(probably) vacating the national title - unprecedented (8 schools have vacated a Final Four appearance, most recently Memphis, but none has vacated a national title).

[GGGG]

There are three things the NCAA can do to make any punishments more severe:

1. Give show causes to head coaches based on the actions of their assistants.
2. Post-season bans for multiple years.  No credit for giving yourself one.
3. Allowing players to transfer without sitting a year in residence.

[Billy Hoyle]

There are three things the NCAA can do to make any punishments more severe:

1. Give show causes to head coaches based on the actions of their assistants.
2. Post-season bans for multiple years.  No credit for giving yourself one.
3. Allowing players to transfer without sitting a year in residence.

1 - That is done in cases where the head coach has knowledge of what the assistants are up to that led to the violation;
2 - That's been done but let's be honest, there is too much pressure from CBS to not do that;
3 - That is standard protocol in the case of a post-season band being imposed.

[Frenns Liquor Depot]

3 - That is standard protocol in the case of a post-season band being imposed.

[willie warrior]

Pitino's press conference where he says that he has lost a lot of faith in the NCAA for this decision is a classic. Reminds one a bit of Claude Rains in Casablanca, "I am shocked..shocked... to learn that gambling is going on" as the casino guy hands him his winnings.

Picture Pitino after "screwing around" at Porcinis, "I am shocked...shocked...to learn that illicit sex within our exalted basketball program is going on. I never knew!"

What a gem.

[NCMUFan]

Who wants to proceed with an annual game with Louisville?

[GB Warrior]

Who wants to proceed with an annual game with Louisville?

Only if it fulfills a promise to a recruit we steal.

[Mr. Sand-Knit]

Pitino's press conference where he says that he has lost a lot of faith in the NCAA for this decision is a classic. Reminds one a bit of Claude Rains in Casablanca, "I am shocked..shocked... to learn that gambling is going on" as the casino guy hands him his winnings.

Picture Pitino after "screwing around" at Porcinis, "I am shocked...shocked...to learn that illicit sex within our exalted basketball program is going on. I never knew!"

What a gem.

Crean like

[brewcity77]

Amazingly, the age of consent in Kentucky is 16. Goddamn creepy Kentuckians.

Every state in the union allows minors to get married, so "Goddamn creepy Americans" would probably be more appropriate.