Andre McGee, the former Louisville staffer accused of hiring dancers to strip and have sex with recruits and players, resigned as assistant coach at University of Missouri-Kansas City on Friday.
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In his resignation letter to Missouri-Kansas City athletic director Carla Wilson, McGee wrote he couldn’t perform his duties as a coach for the Kangaroos while also dealing with the allegations in Louisville.
Powell appeared on ABC’s The View Friday with her daughters and was quizzed about why she chose to step forward now with the allegations that she had supplied women to dance for and have sex with Louisville players and recruits.
Legendary University of Louisville coach Rick Pitino who led the University Of Louisville to the 2013 NCAA championship says he won’t quit in the wake of the sex scandal rocking his team. He left the university previous year to become an assistant at UMKC.
The escort’s allegations, which are detailed in a new book, have focused national attention on McGee, a once-coveted point guard from a basketball-loving family who overcame a painful condition to play four years on Louisville’s powerhouse team.
Pitino has repeatedly denied that he knew anything about the alleged on-campus parties inside Billy Minardi Hall, a dorm for athletes named after Pitino’s late brother-in-law, who was killed in the 9/11 terror attack on the World Trade Center.
But an interview with Katina Powell, the escort and co-author of “Breaking Cardinal Rules: Basketball and the Escort Queen”, describe someone desperate to attract top talent to a program worth millions of dollars and expected to compete for championships every season. Reporters peppered Boeheim with questions and he sidestepped all of them, making the excuse that he had been instructed not to speak about an ongoing investigation. “He’s the only one with any answers”. “So for him to not know, just kinda, you know, baffles me a little bit”. Whether it’s true or not, I don’t know…. Everything else is absurd. “If he’s done something wrong, he has to own up to it and do his penance”.
“I do not want the allegations we are facing to negatively impact the other 14 institutions on what should be a great event…”, Pitino said in a release.
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“It seemed like no one would listen to me”, she continued. He also said he would not consider resigning. “I was asking them what should I do?” At Louisville, where he’s been since 2001, his record stands at 368-126.
