Rick Pitino gets 5-game ban for Louisville sex scandal

#2      

Whitman2020

W
Whitman2020
I think the title vacation depends on their written report of involved players. Any games they were involved in could be vacated?
 
#6      

Deleted member 8213

D
Guest
Deleted member 8213
giphy.gif
 
#7      

TCTORNADO

TCTORNADO
TCTORNADO
Did the NCAA give Katrina Powell any jail time? How about Karen Sypher's ban from Porcini's.
 
#8      

Calvin

C
Calvin
Justice is served! .....somewhere in another reality?

Anyway, I don't expect these cases to ever punish the wrong-doers. The 2 year post-season ban already served was a bit lame, and the reluctance to hit Pitino with anything more than a 5 game ban also seems pretty lame. Makes me wonder who's paying McGee to keep his mouth shut, although I suppose that's the only course that makes sense. If they ever start hitting the coaches as hard as the institutions, it would change the landscape of college bball.

Vacating the title seems unlikely. I assume Louisville will claim that the players involved were not part of the title run. The remaining punishments seem pretty watered down, except the 4 years probation.

They do seem to be hitting them a little in the pocket book with the penalty to return some revenue sharing money.

Overall, the boosters wanted to keep Pitino, which they did. Championship I'm guessing will be safe. Nothing to see here, move along.
 
#11      

Calvin

C
Calvin
Whoa, lot of speculation on Louisville message boards that the NCAA will ask them to identify the players and it's a given that they will then have to vacate the title.

Of course, the attitude there is that it was just a few sex parties that coach couldn't have known about.

Isn't there a precedence for this kind of behavior? I thought there was a whole string of revelations of bringing in hookers for recruiting in football a few years back. Were wins vacated then?
 
#14      

mycitymytime

M
mycitymytime
Can someone (maybe a lawyer) help explain to me how the coaches are not charged with pimping when we are talking about paying prostitues for sex with high school kids. How is that not a criminal act? If a teacher did this, wouldn't there be a massive movement to fire the teacher and charge them with a crime?

To hear Jay Bilas this morning on Mike and Mike defending Pitino was honestly sickening. I understand his point about a lack of evidence, but CEOs in this country are responsible for the culture and activity of their institutions. Pitino, as the CEO and highly paid executive, is ultimately responsible for any activity that occurred 22 times under his leadership.
 
#16      

Calvin

C
Calvin
mycitymytime said:
CEOs in this country are responsible for the culture and activity of their institutions.
Click to expand...

CEOs responsible? Were you here for the Financial Crisis, or any one of thousands of scandals involving CEOs?

CEOs are responsible for winning (making money for investors). The only people who are going to hold them responsible are citizens willing to boycott them, or citizen activists who pass laws to stop egregious behavior, and then have the willpower to make sure it's enforced. And politicians and lobbyists will try to thwart them for their own gain. When one CEO gets away with something, the others will soon try it themselves in order to survive or up their bonus.