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Louisville Star Suspended

tornado

tornado

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Louisville head coach Rick Pitino called a press conference todau and announced
that sophomore Derrick Caracter has been suspended indefinitely.
He has appearently had issues before, as Pitino said this:

"Derrick Caracter has once again been suspended indefinitely - by the team," Pitino said. "From the summer to now, he's been under dormitory arrest. Then he slipped up again and I wasn't going to play him against Dayton but the team asked me to play him."
"We made him sign a contract and he broke it twice the first night after he signed it," Pitino added. "So I had no choice but to suspend him."

"Pitino said that Caracter had a 9 o'clock curfew Saturday night after Louisville's loss to Dayton. Caracter broke the curfew twice Saturday night, arriving back at Minardi Hall at 10 p.m., then after being confronted by coaches for breaking curfew, Caracter again left the players dormitory at 10:40.

"He's got to learn to make the right choices in life," Pitino said."

http://louisville.scout.com/2/710127.html


Here are some other comments from prior threads about Caracter, who is apparently no stranger to rules violations.
http://www.bradleyfans.com/vb/showthread.php?t=1569
http://www.bradleyfans.com/vb/showthread.php?t=1527


ps--- a lot of speculation that since Louisville is very shorthanded due to injuries and other player losses, that Caracter's suspension probably won't be for long, and look for him to be back before the conference season starts.
 
As talented as Caracter is, there were a whole lot of schools who wouldn't touch the guy during the recruiting period, and he couldn't figure out why. (guess what, Memphis was after him, duh)
He gets suspended just about 2-3 times for each season he plays, go figure.
http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/mensbasketball/bigeast/2006-12-22-louisville-caracter_x.htm
http://www.orangepower.com/archive/index.php/t-28219.html
http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/weiss/2006/10/louisvilles_caracter_suspended.php
http://rivalshoops.rivals.com/content.asp?SID=910&CID=165627
 
Kelvin Sampson has also suspended one of his player, Armon Bassett, for "violations of team rules.
Bassett had started all 8 games before that.
 
tornado said:
"Derrick Caracter has once again been suspended indefinitely - by the team," Pitino said. "From the summer to now, he's been under dormitory arrest. Then he slipped up again and I wasn't going to play him against Dayton but the team asked me to play him."
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Let me translate -

My plan was to sit him against Dayton. However, I looked at the scoreboard and saw that we were losing. I then decided that Caracter had to play for us to attempt to salvage a victory. Since we lost anyway, there is no reason to keep playing him and maybe I can use him as a scapegoat when we lose some other games that we should have won.
 
He's also been seen driving around Louisville in a Mercedes..not a new one but a pretty nice one from what I here...you would think he would have better taste than that (wink)..I still can't figure out the icon situation
 
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