Report claims to expose serious allegations against Louisville

[tornado]

chaos reigns at Louisville as the Trustees try to begin proceedings against the President ...for scandals and other ethical violations...

"University of Louisville??™s Board of Trustees called for a vote of no-confidence Tuesday in embattled President James Ramsey.

But in a contentious meeting marked by personal attacks, Ramsey??™s supporters blocked the motion on procedural grounds.

...a drumbeat of crises??? that prompted 78 full professors to sign a letter saying
they were ???ashamed to be associated with the university.??? She also said
Ramsey had failed to forcefully condemn the sexual misconduct allegations
currently facing the basketball program, "already embarrassed by the sexual
misconduct of its coach."

http://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/local/2016/03/01/uofls-james-ramsey-no-confidence-vote-blocked/81145834/

[tornado]

Investigators confirm...

-there's no doubt this stuff happened
-there's no doubt that people at Louisville knew about it
-the Louisville assistant coaches were spending THOUSANDS of dollars,
the big time question is where did the money come from - who all is involved??
"Andre McGee, a former Louisville graduate assistant and later director of basketball operations,
paid her roughly $10,000 to supply dancers and escorts to parties..

McGee gave the players a stack of dollar bills ranging from $200 to $500.
Everybody in the room got the money -- the recruits and the current members
of the team. Not only that, but McGee himself had his own stack of dollar bills.
If this guy's spending $2,000 to $3,000 on a recruiting weekend, where's this
money coming from?"

http://espn.go.com/espn/otl/story/_/id/14951432/three-former-louisville-basketball-recruits-told-ncaa-investigators-attended-stripper-parties-had-sex-them

I find the most comical statement of all being what Rick Pitino said when told of all these allegations...
he actually didn't try to deny it happened....he mainly just said...
"Pitino has questioned ...the amount of money ..."

...so he's saying the recruits got all those sexual favors for real bargain??

[Da Coach]

Louisville has "self-imposed" penalties on the basketball program for the myriad of violations that have been documented by the NCAA and admitted to.
They are obviously hoping these nominal penalties will help them avoid a second postseason ban next year.

https://twitter.com/GoodmanESPN/status/717767052677746688

https://twitter.com/jeffborzello/status/717766966581268481

Note the comment section in that first link..
Here is one funny comment suggesting an additional self-imposed penalty:
"...also a reduction from 10 to 5 hookers"

[tornado]

Louisville now has something in common with Bradley...

Their President is stepping down as part of the FALLOUT from Athletic Department (specifically Basketball program) problems...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2016/06/17/university-of-louisville-president-steps-down-board-is-reorganized-amid-controversies/

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NCAA has completed their investigation into Louisville providing whores and sexual favors for their players & recruits and paying for it with cash right out of the pocket of their assistant coach so Pitino can claim "it wasn't me".

"NCAA charges U of L with four Level I violations - the highest level -
and cites Louisville coach Rick Pitino with failure to monitor."

That assistant Andre McGee " .. provided impermissible benefits of at least $5,400
to at least 17 prospective or then-current student-athletes at U of L, plus two "nonscholastic" coaches
- likely meaning AAU coaches - and one friend of an athlete..."
(there was some testimony that it was way more than $10,000 and these allegation never really address where that money came from...)

also - "McGee knowingly violated ethical conduct policies and twice refused to be interviewed by NCAA investigators..
..former program assistant Brandon Williams ..refused to provide telephone records to the university or the NCAA,
which the NCAA defines as a "severe" breach of conduct and worthy of a show-cause order.

and finally NCAA...
"says Pitino violated "NCAA head coach responsibility legislation, as he is presumed responsible for the allegations laid out"
against McGee and "did not rebut that presumption." Pitino, the notice says, showed a failure to monitor McGee
by failing to "frequently spot-check the program to uncover potential or existing compliance problems."

Pitino is "potentially subject" to a show-cause order as a result of that finding, the NCAA says."

http://www.courier-journal.com/story/sports/college/louisville/2016/10/20/university-of-louisville-receives-ncaa-notice-allegations-basketball-program/91603198/

betcha they drop everything against Pitino and let him off on the "duh.....I never knew a thing about it" alibi..

we all know that if even 0.1% of this stuff had happened at Bradley or SEMO, there would have been a dozen investigators on campus that very week, and they would have handed down the death penalty within a month.

[Stickboy46]

NCAA has completed their investigation into Louisville providing whores and sexual favors for their players & recruits and paying for it with cash right out of the pocket of their assistant coach so Pitino can claim "it wasn't me".

"NCAA charges U of L with four Level I violations - the highest level -
and cites Louisville coach Rick Pitino with failure to monitor."

That assistant Andre McGee " .. provided impermissible benefits of at least $5,400
to at least 17 prospective or then-current student-athletes at U of L, plus two "nonscholastic" coaches
- likely meaning AAU coaches - and one friend of an athlete..."
(there was some testimony that it was way more than $10,000 and these allegation never really address where that money came from...)

also - "McGee knowingly violated ethical conduct policies and twice refused to be interviewed by NCAA investigators..
..former program assistant Brandon Williams ..refused to provide telephone records to the university or the NCAA,
which the NCAA defines as a "severe" breach of conduct and worthy of a show-cause order.

and finally NCAA...
"says Pitino violated "NCAA head coach responsibility legislation, as he is presumed responsible for the allegations laid out"
against McGee and "did not rebut that presumption." Pitino, the notice says, showed a failure to monitor McGee
by failing to "frequently spot-check the program to uncover potential or existing compliance problems."

Pitino is "potentially subject" to a show-cause order as a result of that finding, the NCAA says."

http://www.courier-journal.com/story/sports/college/louisville/2016/10/20/university-of-louisville-receives-ncaa-notice-allegations-basketball-program/91603198/

betcha they drop everything against Pitino and let him off on the "duh.....I never knew a thing about it" alibi..

we all know that if even 0.1% of this stuff had happened at Bradley or SEMO, there would have been a dozen investigators on campus that very week, and they would have handed down the death penalty within a month.

So Pitino will get suspended. Louisville will get bumped UP a couple of seed lines next year because "they were without their coach" the same way that Syracuse got into the tournament this year when they didn't deserve it because of their suspension ...

[tornado]

on top of all this bad news...the arena Louisville plays in going bankrupt

http://www.bgdailynews.com/news/official-yum-center-faces-bankruptcy/article_c4b53fac-97ef-5a72-9530-bf7e35e9b9a7.html

University makes over $20 profit from events in the arena then the taxpayers get stiffed for all the costs & losses...
Maybe the taxpayers should get the same "extra benefits" that the players & recruits get!!

[tornado]

NCAA has concluded that Louisville committed multiple serious violations, so now we're in the phase where they go dormant and we won't hear a thing until probably next spring or summer....
which gives Louisville all year to make a run, recruit top players and get richer...

Wonder how, when Bradley supposedly committed incredibly minor violations by comparison, the NCAA swooped in and hammered BU & decided on penalties all within a matter of just 1-2 months.
In the UNC scandal, that's been going on now for nearly a decade with no final call on penalties...

http://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/news/ncaa-charges-louisville-with-four-level-i-violations-pitino-charged-with-failure-to-monitor/

http://bradleyfans.com/vb/showthread.php?t=21370&highlight=north+carolina

[tornado]

uh, oh...
now more scandal at LOUISVILLE
but of course - the NCAA will drag their feet for a decade and then look the other way as they have already done with all of Louisville's and UNC's scandals

http://www.whas11.com/news/local/audit-on-uofl-to-be-released-thursday/446637730

MILLIONS of dollars of FOUNDATION money- and endowment funds paid to people in the ATHLETIC DEPARTMENT for no clear purpose...
And the PRESIDENT of the University himself used $$ MILLLIONS of DOLLARS of FOUNDATION money to buy BASKETBALL and FOOTBALL tickets for his own personal use and for "gifts"!!

AD Tom Jurich was on the Foundation's board AND ON THEIR PAYROLL!!

And on top of all that - the FOUNDATION employees hired a specialized "IT AGENT" to try to come in to their office and scrub their computer files & the President's computer hard drive to hide all this scandal!!!


OMG - this should hand Louisville the death penalty - but you know it won't - that NCAA will yawn and ignore..

[bradleyfan124]

I would think the Louisville Board of Trustees would be jumping up and down on this. Universities are looking hard at costs and cutting back programs then this happens. Wasted spending

[Da Coach]

Looks like Louisville will get away with a mere slap on the wrist, despite serious and repeated recruiting violations and other NCAA violations over the course of several years in their basketball program. They managed to convince the NCAA that their Director of Operations was the guy solely responsible for hiring hookers and strippers to entertain recruits, and that nobody else ever knew about it. Everyone else got off very easy.
The DBO is the fall guy. He will get a 10-year "show cause" penalty, which makes him unlikely to ever get another job in college basketball. I hope he got a nice severance package from Louisville for being the sacrificial lamb.
Rick Pitino was slapped with only a suspension from coaching the first 5 ACC games next season for "failure to monitor". And the University will forfeit some money from their NCAA appearances in 2012 and 2015, and a token $5000 fine.

http://www.ncaa.org/about/resources/media-center/news/former-louisville-operations-director-acted-unethically-head-coach-failed-monitor

[Da Coach]

And as light as the penalties are against Louisville, considering how egregious their violations were, the Louisville President has announced they will appeal them-

https://twitter.com/GoodmanESPN/status/875384047069003776

Why not? The NCAA has already set precedents that they often back down on penalties against the big schools when they appeal.

[tornado]

every athlete that got "a free hooker" should be penalized like POB was and docked 8 games for the impermissible benefits..
LOL - but of course that won't happen...

[Da Coach]

Some of the recruits who were entertained by the hookers/strippers did end up enrolling at Louisville and playing for them. One part of the penalties is "vacation of basketball records in which student-athletes competed while ineligible from December 2010 and July 2014". As noted, Louisville is planning on appealing, but that penalty is not a real big one, since few people care about what might happen to those games played years ago.

[it's boogie time]

The email exchanges in the exhibit section of the financial audit are interesting to read.