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To clarify - I think kids are getting laid on recruiting trips all over the country.
And apparently sometimes the recruit's dads too.
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To clarify - I think kids are getting laid on recruiting trips all over the country.
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Im betting this is a smear job by Kentucky big money people.
quote:Usually there isn't much more to it than guilty.
Um seeming there is something more to this than just GUILTY. Interesting how the hammer hasn't just come down.
quote:As long as there continues to be an on-going investigation with articles regularly coming out on the topic, this will be a cloud hanging over the Louisville program.
Um seeming there is something more to this than just GUILTY. Interesting how the hammer hasn't just come down.
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Outside the Lines reviewed Powell's journals, text messages and phone records and independently confirmed that text messages sent to Powell to arrange the parties came from McGee's cellphone. Further, Outside the Lines has independently confirmed a wire transfer of money from McGee to Powell on one occasion.
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One of the former players said he had sex with a dancer after McGee paid her.
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Five former Louisville players and recruits confirmed allegations that a former member of the basketball staff paid for escorts to dance at parties they attended, ESPN reports, and one former player told ESPN he had sex with a dancer after the staff member paid her.
The former players and recruits who spoke with ESPN's Outside the Lines said they attended parties at which escorts were present during that time period, and that McGee gave them money to tip the dancers and to pay for them to have sex.
"[McGee] would give us the money, just the recruits," one former player told ESPN. "A bunch of us were sitting there while they danced. Then the players left, and the recruits chose which one [of the dancers] they wanted."
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Head coach Rick Pitino has said that McGee, who now coaches at the University of Missouri-Kansas City and has been placed on paid leave, denied the allegations. Pitino has also denied any involvement in or knowledge of the situation.
Former recruit Terry Rozier, who Powell wrote is one of several recruits to have sex with an escort during a visit to Louisville, also said he believed Pitino was not aware of the parties.
"Coach P [Pitino], as far as the dorm situations and visits, he'd go out to eat with the recruits and their parents," Rozier said. "As far as after that, he wouldn't know. ... I can say his nose is clean."
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If Rick didn't know about the strippers he certainly should have. Too many occurrences and players involved for him not to have been accountable in some way.
quote:Personally, I would very skeptical that ANY basketball coach in the country would not have been aware at some level that something like that was going on. Pitino's denials don't pass my own B.S. detector.quote:
If Rick didn't know about the strippers he certainly should have. Too many occurrences and players involved for him not to have been accountable in some way.
Would you feel the same way if this was Kennedy? What would the athletic department tell you to say?
quote:yep, and his Palmiero style denials when this broke are what will get him fired.quote:quote:
Personally, I would very skeptical that ANY basketball coach in the country would not have been aware at some level that something like that was going on. Pitino's denials don't pass my own B.S. detector.
quote:Exactly, basketball coaches are CEOs of tiny companies. How many people are on his staff, maybe 7 or 8? Plausible deniability should never be an excuse with such few individuals. If anything, this should bring into question recruiting practices in general. Pitino has no excuse not to know what is happening during recruiting trips when so few recruits are involved for CBB.quote:Personally, I would very skeptical that ANY basketball coach in the country would not have been aware at some level that something like that was going on. Pitino's denials don't pass my own B.S. detector.quote:
If Rick didn't know about the strippers he certainly should have. Too many occurrences and players involved for him not to have been accountable in some way.
Would you feel the same way if this was Kennedy? What would the athletic department tell you to say?
Where was the money coming from to pay for these on-campus stripper parties and 'side activities'? Out of their recruiting budget? From a rogue booster who went ahead and funded something which could get Louisville in major trouble without even doing a 'don't worry, you'll have plausible deniability' wink-wink with Pitino to make sure it was okay?
quote:It's sad that, in this day and age, you can't pay a woman to pimp out her daughters for money and have a reasonable expectation that she'll keep quiet about it forever.
Extortion is being looked at. Just saying things aren't adding up.
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Only one person can clear up what did or didn't go on at Louisville, Cardinals men's basketball coach Rick Pitino said Tuesday, and it's time for that individual to come forward.
Pitino, in an interview with ESPN and Yahoo! Sports, said former graduate assistant coach Andre McGee "needs to come out and tell the truth" after five former University of Louisville players and recruits told ESPN's Outside the Lines that they attended parties at a campus dorm from 2010 to 2014 that included strippers paid for by McGee.
"I don't know if any of this is true or not," Pitino told ESPN's Dana O'Neil by phone Tuesday. "There's only one person who knows the truth, and he needs to come out and tell the truth to his teammates, to the University of Louisville, to his fans and to his coaches that have taught him to do the right thing for years and allowed him to be part of something special here.
"He's the only one with any answers. Whether it's true or not, I don't know. ... Everything else is absurd. I don't care about the legal issues. If he's done something wrong, he has to own up to it and do his penance."
quote:HOLEEEE CHIT we agree on something Ben.
I frankly don't care. Prostitution should be legal. Free market. Tax it.
As far as this. ***** vs. Coach with a long record of playing by the stupid NCAA rules.