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Message: [QUOTE="Da_Aisijimo_Gou, post: 2778719, member: 264"] Dating back to 2017, I don't recall media reports ever indicated the initial and ongoing FBI subpoenas ever directly implicated Pitino. Hence, today's related ESPN article only repeat prior reported information. Before the FBI's broadly reported recruiting bribery investigation minimally involving one of Pitino's assistant coaches and [U]his Louisville program[/U], the Louisville recruiting escort scandal was just one of a [U]series of incidents[/U] involving Pitino and his Louisville program. [LIST] [*]While acknowledging the [U]opinion[/U] stated in your "[I]Parenthesis[/I]" <sic>: [(the escort scandal is separate from what got him fired), the escorts in Pitino's managed program prompted NCAA penalties including vacating Louisville's 2013 championship. [*]Previously, Pitino acknowledged he got the wife of a Louisville athletic department employee pregnant and paid for her abortion. [/LIST] Perhaps you view Louisville's escort recruiting scandal and 2015(?) NCAA penalties as entirely separate considerations and absolutely unrelated to Pitino's subsequent Sept 2017 suspension and firing. Maybe you think a [U]series of prior controversial events and NCAA penalties under Pitino's leadership [/U]in no way, shape or form contributed to his 2017 firing due to FBI bribery investigation and NCAA compliance considerations. Perhaps you'll also contend some "biased third parties" infringed upon Pitino's Constitutional rights. On the above topics, we'll just have to respectfully agree to disagree. Out. [/QUOTE]

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