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@ericcrawford: "The NCAA will release its infractions report on the University of Louisville at 11 a.m today."

Slap on the wrist. Shocking.

Vacating wins/championships is stupid IMO...everyone knows Louisville won that recent title and was a good team...erasing it in the record books doesn't really change anything IMO. You can't pretend wins didn't happen retroactively when everyone knows what happened. They already got their prestige from it. What would ACTUALLY hurt them is denying them scholarships for a few years, forcing Pitino to resign, or giving them a postseason ban for several years. We are seeing more and more than the NCAA has clear bias in favor of ACC schools Louisville and UNC.

So when is UNCheat gonna get slapped?

The 10 Big East schools should just hire the entire staff of the Bunny Ranch, set up whorehouses on each of our campuses, win titles for the next 5 years, and then lose a couple of scholarships.

billyjack wrote:The 10 Big East schools should just hire the entire staff of the Bunny Ranch, set up whorehouses on each of our campuses, win titles for the next 5 years, and then lose a couple of scholarships.

I'd be more worried about what the Vatican would do to us than the NCAA lol

You gotta love the hubris of major college athletic departments!! It's not that big of a deal because we didn't really spend much on the hookers

(From the SI story about the NCAA findings):

"It is also the first time in an NCAA decision that a university had the gall to argue that its penalties be downgraded because the hookers were not very expensive. Louisville contended that the alleged $5,400 McGee spent on escorts for recruits and active players between December 2010 and July 2014—money that constituted impermissible benefits, and thus made those players ineligible at Louisville—was not a significant sum. It's right there in the report, but the NCAA did not agree with this line of thinking, writing:

[Louisville] made this argument based solely upon the assigned monetary value of the striptease dances and sex acts. However, the panel considers other factors besides monetary value in determining the level of violations. In this instance, the panel need not ascertain an exact value of the activities. The nature of the violations themselves, without more, elevates them to Level I. The types of activities that occurred in this case were repugnant and threaten the integrity of the NCAA Collegiate Model, regardless of any precise dollar value assigned to them."

That is hysterical (and awfully pathetic) on any level!!!!!

Link to the whole story:

https://www.si.com/college-basketball/2 ... ampionship

So they were ugly strippers?

Also, aren't most of these transactions done in cash? I question the accuracy of that $5400.

Jim Calhoun. Larry Brown. Jim Boeheim. Rick Pitino.

Four hall-of-fame coaches, four careers tarnished by controversy near the end of their careers.

GoldenWarrior11 wrote:Jim Calhoun. Larry Brown. Jim Boeheim. Rick Pitino.

Four hall-of-fame coaches, four careers tarnished by controversy near the end of their careers.

Can't wait for the spin as to why Roy is clean at UNC..... Bilas was preaching the narrative this week on Mike & Mike