Looks like Rick Pitino has coached his last game

[PHXCATS]

Sounds like Arizona is one of the only clean programs

[Spaceman Spiff]

Sounds like Arizona is one of the only clean programs

In all reality, I hope that Arizona is clean (given that recruiting is a dirty business). There's a certain amount of sleaze inherent in the process if you do it well.

Louisville basically paying for prostitution is a little much even by recruiting standards. Most schools just find ladies who don't get paid.

[Chicat]

Sounds like Arizona is one of the only clean programs

In all reality, I hope that Arizona is clean (given that recruiting is a dirty business). There's a certain amount of sleaze inherent in the process if you do it well.

Louisville basically paying for prostitution is a little much even by recruiting standards. Most schools just find ladies who don't get paid.

There is no way Arizona is 100% "clean", but there are varying levels to that designation. I know we aren't getting prostitutes or providing fake no-show classes. But as we have all seen, all it takes is a free piece of pizza to get the NCAA to crawl up your ass if they want to.

[Spaceman Spiff]

Sounds like Arizona is one of the only clean programs

In all reality, I hope that Arizona is clean (given that recruiting is a dirty business). There's a certain amount of sleaze inherent in the process if you do it well.

Louisville basically paying for prostitution is a little much even by recruiting standards. Most schools just find ladies who don't get paid.

There is no way Arizona is 100% "clean", but there are varying levels to that designation. I know we aren't getting prostitutes or providing fake no-show classes. But as we have all seen, all it takes is a free piece of pizza to get the NCAA to crawl up your ass if they want to.

If you have a top ten recruiting class, I doubt you are 100% clean. There are too many people and too many rules involved.

[azcat49]

Sounds like Arizona is one of the only clean programs

Maybe we should ask that guy Basnight

[ASUHATER!]

Sounds like Arizona is one of the only clean programs

In all reality, I hope that Arizona is clean (given that recruiting is a dirty business). There's a certain amount of sleaze inherent in the process if you do it well.

Louisville basically paying for prostitution is a little much even by recruiting standards. Most schools just find ladies who don't get paid.

There is no way Arizona is 100% "clean", but there are varying levels to that designation. I know we aren't getting prostitutes or providing fake no-show classes. But as we have all seen, all it takes is a free piece of pizza to get the NCAA to crawl up your ass if they want to.

If you have a top ten recruiting class, I doubt you are 100% clean. There are too many people and too many rules involved.

Yep. I absolutely don't​ think that Arizona under Miller is 100% squeaky clean and has always followed every NCAA rule. But I think we're as close as is can be reasonably expected.

[rgdeuce]

I guarantee you Miller bends the rules. Dude played in the Big East when you had a million teams within a small radius stabbing each other over the next Chris Mullin. It's a dirty game and with only a couple exceptions, you have to play dirty to succeed at it. I just don't think he is doing the REALLY shady stuff.

[Merkin]

[NYCat]

[Spaceman Spiff]

Sounds like Arizona is one of the only clean programs

In all reality, I hope that Arizona is clean (given that recruiting is a dirty business). There's a certain amount of sleaze inherent in the process if you do it well.

Louisville basically paying for prostitution is a little much even by recruiting standards. Most schools just find ladies who don't get paid.

There is no way Arizona is 100% "clean", but there are varying levels to that designation. I know we aren't getting prostitutes or providing fake no-show classes. But as we have all seen, all it takes is a free piece of pizza to get the NCAA to crawl up your ass if they want to.

If you have a top ten recruiting class, I doubt you are 100% clean. There are too many people and too many rules involved.

Looking back at this post...well, those were simpler days.

No matter how bad it gets, we can always look down on Rick Pitino. What a hypocritical dirtbag.

[Chicat]

Sounds like Arizona is one of the only clean programs

In all reality, I hope that Arizona is clean (given that recruiting is a dirty business). There's a certain amount of sleaze inherent in the process if you do it well.

Louisville basically paying for prostitution is a little much even by recruiting standards. Most schools just find ladies who don't get paid.

There is no way Arizona is 100% "clean", but there are varying levels to that designation. I know we aren't getting prostitutes or providing fake no-show classes. But as we have all seen, all it takes is a free piece of pizza to get the NCAA to crawl up your ass if they want to.

If you have a top ten recruiting class, I doubt you are 100% clean. There are too many people and too many rules involved.

Looking back at this post...well, those were simpler days.

No matter how bad it gets, we can always look down on Rick Pitino. What a hypocritical dirtbag.

Didn't you hear? He's as shocked as the rest of us.

I really did believe what I wrote above ... right up until this morning. Now I don't know, and I don't believe anything I've been told in the past.

[Spaceman Spiff]

I can say that I doubt we are worse than the norm. If you read the complaint, the other assistants were pulling the same stuff, but not landing the classes we were. Shoot, if the rumors are true, Bowen was 100k to Louisville.

But I also think the norm is pretty bad. It does shock me that it might have been coming directly from Book. I sort of assumed there would be a level of separation with the actual coaches.

There's part of me that wonders if Book wasn't just shaking this guy down for more money in personal use. What was the dude gonna do, call the cops because his bribe was misused? Who knows?

[Chicat]

I can say that I doubt we are worse than the norm. If you read the complaint, the other assistants were pulling the same stuff, but not landing the classes we were. Shoot, if the rumors are true, Bowen was 100k to Louisville.

But I also think the norm is pretty bad. It does shock me that it might have been coming directly from Book. I sort of assumed there would be a level of separation with the actual coaches.

There's part of me that wonders if Book wasn't just shaking this guy down for more money in personal use. What was the dude gonna do, call the cops because his bribe was misused? Who knows?

When Book met one of the local fansite operators for the first time way back when, he asked to borrow $40. He was making like $150k at the time. I'm guessing he was pocketing stacks of cash.

[Spaceman Spiff]

I can say that I doubt we are worse than the norm. If you read the complaint, the other assistants were pulling the same stuff, but not landing the classes we were. Shoot, if the rumors are true, Bowen was 100k to Louisville.

But I also think the norm is pretty bad. It does shock me that it might have been coming directly from Book. I sort of assumed there would be a level of separation with the actual coaches.

There's part of me that wonders if Book wasn't just shaking this guy down for more money in personal use. What was the dude gonna do, call the cops because his bribe was misused? Who knows?

When Book met one of the local fansite operators for the first time way back when, he asked to borrow $40. He was making like $150k at the time. I'm guessing he was pocketing stacks of cash.

This all reeks of a lot of personal greed. The contact with that agency...he was selling out his future and potentially the program and other coaches for sub $5,000 chunks.

[SCCats]

This morning Pitino told members of his coaching staff that he expects he's going to lose his job, that he "knows it's coming."

[Merkin]

that he "knows it's coming."

Think he knew in about 15 seconds?

[CalStateTempe]

Try the meatloaf right merk? Lol

[NYCat]

[MrBug708]

Winning a title isn't enough to keep your job, wonder what happens to the programs who havent?

[Spaceman Spiff]

Winning a title isn't enough to keep your job, wonder what happens to the programs who havent?

Are these hypothetical programs on NCAA probation for prostitutes? That's an important variable.

[MrBug708]

I suppose if the program in question has been slapped with regards to violations lately, sure. It takes a lot to topple a coach and AD

[Spaceman Spiff]

I suppose if the program in question has been slapped with regards to violations lately, sure. It takes a lot to topple a coach and AD

Louisville has to be thinking they will be lately to duck the death penalty. They already were banned from the postseason and restricting acholarships when this happened. What other punishments are there short of the death penalty?

[rgdeuce]

Mostly dead penalty (bad Princess Bride joke).

[Spaceman Spiff]

A quote from Pitino when he signed Brian Bowen:

“But they had to come in unofficially, pay for their hotels, pay for their meals. So we spent zero dollars recruiting a five-star athlete who I loved when I saw him play. In my 40-some-odd years of coaching, this is the luckiest I’ve been."

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.diehar ... -quote/amp" target="_blank

This scandal is a gold mine for a lover of dark humor.

[Chicat]

Don’t you just hate when that happens?

[scumdevils86]

Don’t you just hate when that happens?

[Spaceman Spiff]

Don’t you just hate when that happens?

That's a bold move, Cotton, we'll see if it pays off.

[azcat49]

might turn into a class action suit LOL

[Spaceman Spiff]

I hope part of adidas's defense is that it is impossible for Pitino's reputation to be sullied after the prostitution and impregnating someone on a table.

[CalStateTempe]

Wow...well no one can't say that Pitino doesn't play for keeps!

That's what makes him a champion

[Spaceman Spiff]

In case anyone forgot:

Pitino sad he did not plan on having sex with Sypher but he didn’t protest. She asked if he had a condom and he said, “I don’t carry condoms.” Sypher tells Pitino she is fertile. Rick testifies, “she told me her husband looked at her 4 times and she got pregnant and I pulled out”. Defense attorney asks how could she have become pregnant then if he did not ejaculate. Pitino testifies, “I did, down my leg.” Pitino said entire sexual encounter with Sypher “took less than 15 seconds”. Pitino then testifies that “it is physically possible” he could have gotten her pregnant but declines to go further. Thankfully topic ends. 

[Spaceman Spiff]

Dick Vitale on how Rick Pitino should get another chance:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washin ... -one-more/" target="_blank

No shocker that Vitale is leading the Pitino PR charge. By the way, the fact the article was written by "Matt Bonesteel" is awesome.

[gumby]

Holy hell. What a sewer. From taxpayer-funded Yum Center to Adidas. When sports means TOO much.

http://www.espn.com/espn/otl/story/_/id ... ges-excess" target="_blank

Out of 125 FBS schools required to report financial data to the U.S. Department of Education, Louisville is the only one that derives more than half of its men's sports revenue from basketball, says Jonathan Jensen, a sports marketing professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Much of that revenue comes from a $238 million taxpayer-funded arena, the KFC Yum Center, which opened downtown in 2010 and has become a heavy burden on taxpayers. The lease was negotiated by Jurich and the arena authority. Under the terms, taxpayer contributions make up 75 percent of the arena's operating income while Louisville gets to keep most of the revenue -- an arrangement that "blew our mind," says state auditor Mike Harmon, whose office examined the arena's finances. "It was like, 'This is ridiculous.' It's like co-signing the loan for a friend's home and then having to pay three-fourths of the mortgage."

Denis Frankenberger, a local businessman who has dissected the lease in minute detail, calls it "the biggest taxpayer scandal in the history of Louisville."

[Spaceman Spiff]

Oh shit, 2013 natty vacated!

https://www.courier-journal.com/story/s ... 354805002/" target="_blank

http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basket ... onal-title" target="_blank

[pc in NM]

Rumor is that Pitino's wife is looking at homes in Tucson...

... rent to be paid by FBI Witness Protection Program

[Spaceman Spiff]

It shocks me this is even before they factor in the FBI allegations. Damn.

[Jefe]

[Spaceman Spiff]

Just add an (vacated) asterisk.

[84Cat]