“You’ve seen the attacks he gets in the media, but, you know, if coach is ever bothered by this, he does a great job of hiding it because we can’t tell”, Lewis said. What does it do for the program if the coach runs away?
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If there’s one thing I’ve learned from my mistakes, it’s that claiming ignorance is a bad defense.
The well-traveled coach also had a Final Four appearance at UCLA in 1980 vacated after two players were determined to be ineligible, while Kansas ended up on probation for violations during Brown’s tenure the year after he won the 1988 national championship and left for the NBA. The reason why the Louisville Men’s Basketball team has been making headlines because an assistant coach by the name of Andre McGee paid a prostitute to have sex with recruits on their visit.
The stand that Rick Pitino is taking on this scandal is not resigning from his position. Pitino has previously stated that was entirely untrue.
If the allegations against the Louisville program are founded, Calipari knows Pitino well enough to think the Louisville coach had no prior knowledge of any possible wrongdoings.
Amid the ongoing scandal, Pitino has not once admitted the simple fact that as the de facto leader of the Louisville basketball program, he has a level of responsibility for everything that is conducted under his program, including alleged “sex parties” that happened inside a campus dorm.
“Not myself, not one player, not one trainer, not one assistant, not one person knew anything about any of this”, Pitino added to ESPN. “Not one person knew anything about it”. The ignorance is just too blatant to miss. Louisville’s scandal is different.
Rick Pitino, Jim Boeheim, Larry Brown and Roy Williams are dealing with stunning escort allegations, embarrassing academic fraud and multi-game suspensions.
That would have been the easy thing for Lee and Lewis to do, and no one would have blamed them.
Pitino might be telling the truth.
But to not claim responsibility for your program’s institutional failure is a prime example of what’s wrong with college athletics – money and winning cure everything. “He was advised not to be here because he couldn’t speak about these matters, but he wants to talk”.
If there is any season for the Cardinals to be led by a pair of graduate transfers, players who have seen and done it all in college basketball and only want to succeed in their last year of eligiblity, this is the year. She feels with writing the book, it would tell the truth what the real scandal is of the Louisville Men’s Basketball program.
“I would just tell them the attention that they’re getting, whether it’s actually for them or the shenanigans going on over there, I would just say try to flip it, use the attention that you’re getting to maybe put your own message out there, whether it’s positive or whatever you’ve got going”, Syracuse guard Michael Gbinije said.
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The sad truth about this scandal is that by the time the Cardinals’ first game rolls around on November 13, we’ll have already forgotten about it and moved onto something fresher. One investigation is being conducted by the NCAA and another joint effort involving the Louisville campus police, Louisville Metro Police and the Commonwealth’s Attorney’s Office. “I worry about him all the time”. “I’m mad about it, embarrassed about it, sad about it”.
