The request for the escorts, she claimed, was from former Louisville staff member Andre McGee who has since left the school and not spoken publicly since the book was released.
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But Thursday was Pitino’s worst day since that day.
It was riveting radio, that 17-minute conversation. “And then I’d like to know why it went on, more than anything else”. We went out to a club.
In Chapter 1 of Breaking The Cardinal Rules, Powell and Cady write that in 2010, Powell was a single mother of three daughters struggling to make ends meet.
I’ll take it a step farther. Ramsey noted his unfaltering support for Jurich in the statement but never mentioned Pitino.
Former Louisville recruit and current Ohio State freshman JaQuan Lyle has also said escorts visited Louisville’s campus. And he can’t control Katina Powell, the madam with the stories. Head coach Rick Pitino has denied any knowledge of these allegations but he could be on the hook here as this all falls under his watch.
“An educated person can’t think he’s going to get a recruit by strippers coming in”. Ultimately, my guess is that there is nothing, plenty of smoke but no fire.
How much can Rick Pitino take?
‘If I resign, would people feel better about it?’ The other reasonable candidates were Providence’s Kris Dunn, Oklahoma’s Buddy Hield, LSU’s Ben Simmons and Kentucky’s Skal Labissiere. “It just doesn’t make sense to me”.
‘I felt like I was part of the recruitment team.
“I know nothing about any of this”.
The Hall of Fame coach wasn’t mentioned in Ramsey’s statement in which the chancellor praised Jurich’s athletic program as “exemplary” at the school.
But what I found interesting is that Turgeon had replaced legends before. McGee texted me like, what’s up?
Then, in April 2007, Turgeon replaced Billy Gillispie at Texas A&M.
Oh, those football and basketball players.
One such example: McDonald’s All-American Diamond Stone. The report did not name the former player but did state that it’s somebody who was “mentioned in the book”.
“I think it’s the cowardly way out”, Pitino responded. “He told me something, and I can’t really say, but it’s not what came out in that book”.
So Yahoo Sports – not exactly a bastion of Edward Murrow’s legacy – picks up the story, spreads it to the rest of the world and now it is time to rush to judgement. As recently as four or five years ago, it was impossible to imagine Pitino sauntering down to the business class section of the bench for anything less than a verbal dress down or a better view of the action on the court. It was his first response to the allegations against the UofL basketball program. He said he didn’t know who contacted the strippers and that their presence wasn’t announced to the entire team. “I gave him a strong piece of my mind”. “I can’t believe it. It turns my stomach to be honest with you”. You’re included now in a very strong way. You think: “Something is not right in this environment”.
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Statistically speaking, it’s unlikely Burns is the only gay coach in men’s basketball.
