NCAA released its report on Louisville

[Rocktheworld]

Only slight bad lining to this is that UK fans are celebrating the hardest of all of us right now

 

[August_West]

Do you know exactly what Syracuse's violations were??

writing papers for students, molesting collies, and nose picking.

Shouldve got the death penalty

 

[BugsyCT]

Does that mean Michigan is the 2013 champion?

Don't think so. If vacated, it would just mean there was no 2013 National Champion.

USC football got stripped of its 2004 BCS title. Although they're still recognized by the Associated Press as National Champs, no team is recognized as 2004 champs by the BCS.

 

[Vowelguy]

I'm afraid that the NCAA took Louisville to the woodshed now so that they can be lenient on UNC later.

How is this the woodshed?

Yes losing the NC is notable but at this point does anyone really recall which teams seasons have and haven't been erased from the records? It's kinda like having your marriage annulled.

These days a postseason ban is killer. That there is none here waters fine its severity imho.

 

[UConnNick]

This is unbelievable, they shouldn't have a program anymore as far as I'm concerned.

It should be death penalty time.

 

[Mr. French]

I'm not sure about the death penalty thing, but on the other end of the spectrum, Pitino is a bit nutty complaining and speaking out.

As Mad Dog Russo said today, pipe down and shut up you got away with a LOT.

 

[UConnNick]

I'm not sure about the death penalty thing, but on the other end of the spectrum, Pitino is a bit nutty complaining and speaking out.

As Mad Dog Russo said today, pipe down and shut up you got away with a LOT.

No kidding. At this point, the better PR move would be to just take your medicine and shut up about it. This righteous indignation BS just makes them look worse than they already do, if that's possible.

 

[hoopsknowitall]

Eric Crawford‏ @ericcrawford 6m 6 minutes ago
Basic disagreement: Louisville wants to be judged on the value of the benefits, NCAA says lurid nature of the benefits is the basis.

Louisville still arguing with the NCAA over the dollar amount to be put on oral sex to a minor. That lets you know all you have to know about Louisville and it's morals.....

 

[gtcam]

ACC Hall of Shame

UNC
Lville
Cuse

P5 or not - this is totally ridiculous and because its a P5 the penalty surely doesn't fit the crime
If it was UConn = double triple secret probation

 

[huskymedic]

REPORT: U of L player told NCAA that an assistant coach blamed bad practice on 'strippers'

And...

Word that resonates in Louisville NCAA punishment: Repugnant

>>It was delivered by Carol Cartwright, the chief hearing officer for the Committee on Infractions as well as the respected president emeritus at two universities. Cartwright called the string of Louisville NCAA violations “repugnant.”

Repugnant is not an overused sports word like unbelievable or clutch that works its way into the talk show conversation every day. It’s also not a word that makes you shrug.

It’s a harsh and sober word, one that I cannot remember invoked to describe the activities that occurred around a Division I basketball program over a four-year period. Not at Syracuse. Not at UNLV. Not anywhere.

That’s the slice of this NCAA fiasco that Pitino, U of L athletic director Tom Jurich, interim president Dr. Greg Postel and others at the university dismissed, downplayed or overlooked in their Thursday push back against penalties they view as excessive, harsh and worthy of appeal.<<

 

[buddy]

Are they going to be thrown out of the ACC and UConn take their place? I think not.

 

[Travelman6]

I used to go somewhere where people would refer to L'ville as "Loserville", haha. Seems we are not too far from that these days.

 

[gtcam]

I used to go somewhere where people would refer to L'ville as "Loserville", haha. Seems we are not too far from that these days.

speaking of loserville.................
quite a statement

 

[Storrs South]

Really great institution they got going on down there:

http://www.courier-journal.com/stor...ndowment-losses-excessive-spending/389653001/

 

[huskymedic]

Long read: CRAWFORD | No appeal can restore Louisville's lost Shining Moment

 

[UConnNick]

This whole mess is laughable. The school is nothing but an overgrown community college. Over half the student body is from Jefferson Co., which includes the city of Louisville. That basically means at least half or more of the entire student population is likely still living at home with mommy and daddy. It's a commuter school and a joke academically.

With the arrogance that's on display coming from the school and athletic administrations, I'll predict we're looking at SMU Part II. This school has never played by any rules and will continue to flaunt every NCAA rulebook violation, despite the currently imposed four year probationary period. Just as in the SMU case, these people never learn any lessons. Even at Baylor they eventually fired most everybody, including the top school administrators. People deserve to get fired for what has happened. Louisville just laughs and tomorrow it will be business as usual there, with all the same people in charge. They'll just do a much better job of keeping everything going on quiet. They'll polish up their act a bit, but in the end, they're going to go right on doing what they've been doing for several decades. Sooner or later the NCAA will be back investigating another scandal, and it will likely happen while they're still on probation.

You really have to wonder what Swofford and the other ACC schools are thinking now about their fateful decision to let this garbage dump of a school into their vaunted conference.

 

[Hi-Low]

You really have to wonder what Swofford and the other ACC schools are thinking now about their fateful decision to let this garbage dump of a school into their vaunted conference.

Politics aside, this clown had some influence in the ACC picking L'ville over UConn....Mitch McConnell — College of Arts & Sciences

 

[LStudfellow]

This whole mess is laughable. The school is nothing but an overgrown community college. Over half the student body is from Jefferson Co., which includes the city of Louisville. That basically means at least half or more of the entire student population is likely still living at home with mommy and daddy. It's a commuter school and a joke academically.

With the arrogance that's on display coming from the school and athletic administrations, I'll predict we're looking at SMU Part II. This school has never played by any rules and will continue to flaunt every NCAA rulebook violation, despite the currently imposed four year probationary period. Just as in the SMU case, these people never learn any lessons. Even at Baylor they eventually fired most everybody, including the top school administrators. People deserve to get fired for what has happened. Louisville just laughs and tomorrow it will be business as usual there, with all the same people in charge. They'll just do a much better job of keeping everything going on quiet. They'll polish up their act a bit, but in the end, they're going to go right on doing what they've been doing for several decades. Sooner or later the NCAA will be back investigating another scandal, and it will likely happen while they're still on probation.

You really have to wonder what Swofford and the other ACC schools are thinking now about their fateful decision to let this garbage dump of a school into their vaunted conference.

The honest, sobering truth is... all Swofford and his buddies at Florida St. and Clemson care about is the following:

Louisville FOOTBALL: pre-season Top 10-12 ranking, returning Heisman Trophy winner, returning scum bag of a head coach (he is great at coaching, but definitely not any other part of being a role model)

Louisville BASKETBALL: pre-season Top 5-7 ranking, and that was before 5* recruit Brian Bowen signed on. They might be vacating the 2013 National Championship? Boo hoo. Pitino suspended for 5 games? What a joke. No extra post season ban? They will have a great shot at being in the Final 4 next year.... kinda like their fellow conference member (UNC) who was in the National Title game the last 2 years, winning it this year despite the worst scandal in major college sports since the payoffs at SMU lead to the death penalty for their football program.

Louisville BASEBALL: Top 5, and in the College World Series

The truth is: Swofford and his cronies all think that choosing Louisville was the right choice then, and they would double down on that choice now. That is the world in which we live. It is disgusting.

 

[temery]

Breaking actual laws is far less important to the NCAA than punishing a school that gives players the grades they deserve and don't meet an arbitrary gpa and graduation rate. Even academic fraud is less important than holding players accountable for poor grades.

Got it.

 

[temery]

Do conferences have provisions they can use to toss a member?

 

[mauconnfan]

If they're allowed to play in the post season next year then it means very little. Can't believe Ricky is crying about it, he may now believe his own lie as to not knowing what was happening.

 

[AntG168]

Your're wrong when they are minors. Its against the law

 

[Edward Sargent]

So now we know how you got the plum job of BY moderator!!

 

[temery]

So now we know how you got the plum job of BY moderator!!

Didn't know recruits were involved.

 

[David 76]

Th e positive in vacating wins is that it addresses the people involved with the violation instead of kids who arrived years later. Problem with it is, is it a meaningful consequence?