McGee texted me like, what’s up? This is going to be a long criminal and NCAA investigation.
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Cronin, who has been the head coach at Cincinnati since 2006, said head coaches “can only be so hands-on” in their roles as the leaders of their programs.
At least four organizations are conducting their own inquiries into the allegations, including the Louisville Police Department and the university’s police department.
The NCAA also interviewed LSU freshman shooting guard Antonio Blakeney who, similar to Lyle, is mentioned in the book, committed soon after his visit to Louisville, and then later opted to go somewhere else to play basketball. Ramsey noted his unfaltering support for Jurich in the statement but never mentioned Pitino. “What does it do for the program if the coach just runs away?”
Parrish, citing anonymous sources, wrote that Lyle confirmed “the gist of the allegations” made in a book against Andre McGee, the school’s former director of basketball operations. “I understand it. The main argument for people is going to be, ‘I can not believe a guy who oversees every minute detail of his program wouldn’t know this”.
“I’m sorry that Dr. Ramsey did not think enough to mention me, but that’s something I can not control”, Pitino told local radio station 840 WHAS.
A former Louisville recruit, who met with NCAA investigators this week, reportedly has confirmed the allegations that a former team staff member hired strippers and escorts for prospective basketball players.
That could be one of many unanswered questions as a result of allegations in the book.
A new report out Friday accuses the University of Louisville of being a unsafe environment for women. A spokeswoman for IBJ’s publishing arm could not be reached either.
Powell’s book was released online last weekend by a publishing affiliate of the Indianapolis Business Journal. Messages left Thursday with his Louisville attorney, Scott C. Cox, were not returned.
“What differentiates Coach Pitino from a lot of other people is there is no gray, there’s just black or white”, Cronin said, adding that Pitino was so strict in the early 2000s that he would discipline players for being “five seconds late” to practice. Morgan, who denied making such a promise, claimed the mayor made the false statement to remove him from the project and put a halt to a proposed Ford training facility in Louisville’s West End. This is bad for UofL’s program one way or the other; but whether the claims of the book are ultimately found to be true or not, the media is either culpable of perpetuating a false, possibly libelous story, or being compromised as a whore itself in one man’s effort to promote and sell books.
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