NCAA to Rule on Louisville This Morning

[Joneslab]

The NCAA says it's standard operating procedure.

Not sure where there's been another case in basketball with multiple athletes taking "gifts" (cough). UNLV? Michigan maybe under Steve Fisher.

[KCKUKFan]

And if UofL's findings aren't consistent with the NCAA's?

This doesn't make sense.

Again, the NCAA already has the proof. The players' names are in the report. Like you said, it's as if they're giving UofL one final chance to tell the truth about something (which would be the first time in that school's history). The banners are coming down.

[UK8STL11]

Ridiculous

Dan Wetzel‏Verified account @DanWetzel 8m8 minutes ago
Per NCAA, Louisville will determine which games an ineligible player competed, so its up to U of L to cite the 2013 title game.

[Joneslab]

Yeah, nothing UofL could say in the appeal should make any difference. They've already made their case to the NCAA on multiple occasions. No new info to come out.

Whatever's done is done.

[KCKUKFan]

The NCAA says it's standard operating procedure.

Not sure where there's been another case in basketball with multiple athletes taking "gifts" (cough). UNLV? Michigan maybe under Steve Fisher.

There's no standard operating procedure for this sort of infraction.

If you want a good laugh, go over to the Louisville Scout board. Their fans are hoppin' mad because, goshdangit, they didn't do ANYTHING wrong. Just a rogue assistant who was breaking the rules for players that ultimately didn't even go there. Comical. Head in the sand, per usual.

[George]

Again, the NCAA already has the proof. The players' names are in the report. Like you said, it's as if they're giving UofL one final chance to tell the truth about something (which would be the first time in that school's history). The banners are coming down.

I guess I'm just having trouble parsing out a formal reason for the decision. They can't publicly admit that or what Lecter said about a lawsuit, so what's their official reason for placing the burden of identification on UofL?

[KCKUKFan]

Ridiculous

Dan Wetzel‏Verified account @DanWetzel 8m8 minutes ago
Per NCAA, Louisville will determine which games an ineligible player competed, so its up to U of L to cite the 2013 title game.

This doesn't necessarily mean that the NCAA will accept whatever bullcrap UL tries to pass off. It's almost like they're daring UL to lie to them again.

[George]

Ridiculous

Dan Wetzel‏Verified account @DanWetzel 8m8 minutes ago
Per NCAA, Louisville will determine which games an ineligible player competed, so its up to U of L to cite the 2013 title game.

Dude, even if UofL cites games other than the title, the NCAA will know they're lying. It took Kevin all of five minutes to corroborate Katina Powell's claims. No reason to think they'll slip out of this.

[KCKUKFan]

UL's interim president has officially sent out an email, stating that the university will appeal and blasting the NCAA Infractions Committee for overstepping their boundaries.

They wouldn't be appealing anything if they thought the banner was staying up. They'd take their punishment, their bruised ego, and go hide in a hole and wait for it to finally blow over.

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

Today, we received the ruling from the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s Committee on Infractions in the case involving improper activities that took place in Billy Minardi Hall several years ago.
The committee has accepted our self-imposed penalties and levied additional severe penalties that we believe are excessive.
The entire UofL community is saddened by what took place. It never should have happened, and that is why the school acted to severely penalize itself in 2016. Today, however, the NCAA Division I Committee on Infractions went beyond what we consider to be fair and reasonable. We intend to appeal all aspects of the penalties.
The person responsible for these activities, Andre McGee, long ago left the university, and he has yet to cooperate with investigating officials. We are disappointed that he was not cooperative.
In contrast, UofL did cooperate. We wanted the NCAA Enforcement Staff to uncover what happened. We have been open and transparent throughout this process.
The NCAA knew how seriously the university treated this matter from the beginning. Once we had the facts and recognized what took place, we did the right thing by taking responsibility and imposing severe penalties on ourselves.We believe the penalties imposed today are unfair to the UofL community and our current and former student-athletes, many of whom have already paid a heavy price for actions that did not involve them. This ruling is also unfair to Coach Pitino, who we believe could not have known about the illicit activities.
This has been a very difficult period for UofL. I am confident that what happened here will never happen again. We have changed our recruitment procedures, imposed additional protections in the dorms and the staff has received additional training. It saddens me that these events took place. Nevertheless, the Committee on Infractions has gone too far and taken actions that are unwarranted. We will appeal.
With Best Regards,
Greg Postel, M.D.

[KCKUKFan]

[George]

"This ruling is also unfair to Coach Pitino, who we believe could not have known about the illicit activities."

LOL.

[UK8STL11]

Pitino says he has lost faith in NCAA and these penalties are not appropriate. Says they will win the appeal.

Ha

[George]

No, they won't.

[TrueblueCATfan]

Pitino fully believes they will win the appeal........his lips must be moving

[Lighthouse]

Appeal what? And how? If they could prove that players on the championship team weren't involved, they'd have done so already.

Any appeal is just part of the process.