U of L responds to NCAA allegations, awaits reckoning
Nearly three years after an FBI investigation upended Louisville basketball, the university has responded to the NCAA's allegations.
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According to the NCAA's penalty guidelines, those Level I infractions deemed "aggravated" by an institutional history of infractions or by violations that were "premeditated, deliberate or committed after substantial planning," call for a postseason ban from one to five years, scholarship reductions of 10-25%, limits on recruiting visits and financial penalties.
Factors that could mitigate U of L's penalties include prompt acknowledgement of violations, acceptance of responsibility and the imposition of "meaningful" corrective measures, which would presumably include the housecleaning that cost Pitino and Jurich their jobs.
No matter how many think the NCAA will give them a total pass and won't want to harm the ACC (and anger more of their constituency), it just seems logical (big mistake, I know) that another Level I infraction, while Louisville was already on probation for a Level I infraction, demands a significant penalty.