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Posted by Tiptree (Member # 844) on 10-02-2015, 04:22 PM:

Well, UofL is about to be exposed by an Indianapolis-based business news organization.

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A former head of men’s basketball operations at the University of Louisville paid an escort service for four years to provide sex to teenage recruits to help woo the players to join the Cardinals team, according to a book set to be released as soon as Saturday by Indianapolis-based IBJ Book Publishing LLC.

The details of the book, which is based on hundreds of journal entries and thousands of text messages kept by the head of the escort service, have triggered the University of Louisville to launch an internal investigation into its storied men’s basketball program. During the years described in the book, the Cardinals went to the Final Four in 2012 and won the national championship in 2013.

Oh, there are lurid details just in the press release:

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In her book, the 43-year-old Powell said she provided entertainment for 22 parties from 2010 to 2014, many at Billy Minardi Hall, an on-campus dormitory for many Louisville basketball players. The dorm is named after Louisville men’s basketball coach Rick Pitino’s brother-in-law, who was killed in the 9/11 attacks in New York.

At the parties, a number of women—including Powell and three of her daughters—stripped and danced in front of the Louisville recruits and players—as well as performed sex acts with them, said Powell, the ringleader of the strippers.

At those parties, Powell said, high school-aged recruits were offered alcohol by McGee, who also arranged additional payment to her and her dancers if the recruits wanted to have sex with them.

Good Lord. Not only can't he keep his pecker in his pants, but it seems he encourages others do be the same.

What a sick, sick man, leading a sick, sick program.

Posted by catmandoo (Member # 1284) on 10-02-2015, 04:32 PM:

If true and Louisville doesn't fire him on the spot they should be held accountable and the NCAA should come down on both Pitino and Louisville immediately.

Posted by boomdaddy (Member # 2644) on 10-02-2015, 05:11 PM:

Pitino is the Teflon Don of college coaches. Anybody that can withstand the dirty laundry that he has had aired in the past, damn sure won't get reprimanded for these events. It was all supposedly set up by a staffer that is no longer around. Nobody will get fired, because the Patsy is long gone.

Posted by boomdaddy (Member # 2644) on 10-02-2015, 05:14 PM:

For the young players sakes, I hope those women were prettier than the one that Pitino was enamored with at Porcinis after closing time.

Posted by SCWC (Member # 2464) on 10-02-2015, 05:22 PM:

Wow, what a story. If there is any truth and this is directly connected to Rick, it should end his coaching career.

[ 10-02-2015, 06:28 PM: Message edited by: SCWC ]

Posted by PaulCat (Member # 513) on 10-02-2015, 07:27 PM:

Not saying he's ready for sainthood, but I'll give Rick the benefit of the doubt until all the facts come out.

What gets me most of all out of this post is "including Powell and three of her daughters". A lady and her three daughters strip together and perform sex acts at parties together??? Isn't this lady basically implicating herself in the crime of prostitution?

Posted by Old Norm (Member # 1482) on 10-02-2015, 09:11 PM:

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Originally posted by PaulCat:
Isn't this lady basically implicating herself in the crime of prostitution?

Lady? I don't think so.

Posted by CatFanInYankeeville (Member # 2025) on 10-03-2015, 06:41 AM:

Imagine if it were at UK. We'd get the death penalty.

Posted by GA Cat (Member # 642) on 10-03-2015, 08:36 AM:

You can read the story on the PRNewswire here:

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/breaking-cardinal-rules-basketball-and-the-escort-queen---a-new-book-by-katina-powell-with-dick-cady-300153607.html

Posted by catmandoo (Member # 1284) on 10-03-2015, 08:50 AM:

To have a college do this for their gain is reprehensible and should punished to the letter of the law. I can't even imagine how this could have gone on this long without someone putting a stop to it. It's truly unbelievable and sad, very sad!

Posted by handycat (Member # 2323) on 10-03-2015, 09:21 AM:

My guess is that not much, if anything, will come of this. If the NCAA will let years of academic cheating slide by at UNC, I can't imagine Louisville will get more than a slap on the hands if that. After all, no one was murdered and that appears what it would take for the NCAA to act.

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Posted by catmandoo (Member # 1284) on 10-03-2015, 11:01 AM:

Louisville is investigating this situation however it probably goes so far up the chain of command the investigation will be a farce. If they had any credibility at all they would have a outside source come in and do the investigation.

Louisville said it learned of the allegations in August and immediately notified the NCAA. McGee left Louisville in 2014 to become an assistant at Missouri-Kansas City. That school put McGee on paid leave Friday night and said it was taking the allegations seriously.

Cardinals coach Rick Pitino said the situation caused sleeplessness when he first found out and said that he tried to conduct his own investigation before being rebuffed by the school's compliance office.

He said McGee denied the allegations in a brief conversation.

Louisville retained Chuck Smrt of the Compliance Group, which assists schools in NCAA cases, to review the claims.

"We're an open book. We want to get to the bottom of it," said Louisville athletic director Tom Jurich.

Both Jurich and Pitino said they believe that money was the woman's motivation for writing the book. Powell was paid for the book, but said in an interview with the Journal that she felt it was important to tell the story. The publishing company said it paid investigators and Pultizer-Prize winning reporter Dick Cady to vet Powell's story, and based much of it on journal entries, photos and text messages.

The allegations come on the eve of Louisville's first Red-White scrimmage. The Cardinals reached the NCAA East Region final last season.

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Posted by WHO?UK (Member # 2286) on 10-03-2015, 02:14 PM:

I love this but Im sorry Im late the popcorn line was long! What did I miss?

Posted by raymander (Member # 1965) on 10-03-2015, 02:44 PM:

Pitino's PLAYERS just don't listen. He always says DO AS I SAY NOT AS I DO. [Roll Eyes]

Posted by rlt4uk (Member # 3194) on 10-04-2015, 07:19 PM:

It's all about winning in looservile. The facts back it up, and the only place you have to look is their head coaches, Petino and Petrino have no morals and it's passed down through their programs.

Posted by catmandoo (Member # 1284) on 10-05-2015, 10:40 AM:

Here is a article on a former assistant coach that was a graduate assistant when all this was taking place that is being put on administrative leave from his current position.

Missouri-Kansas City assistant coach Andre McGee has been put on administrative leave, the school announced.

McGee, a former Louisville player, graduate assistant coach and director of basketball operations, is at the center of allegations made in an upcoming book that the school used an escort service for potential recruits.

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Posted by catmandoo (Member # 1284) on 10-06-2015, 06:49 PM:

Campus police are now reviewing the allegations. I can't imagine a fair and balanced investigation will take place.

Louisville campus police now say they are reviewing allegations that a former men's basketball staffer hired escorts to dance and have sex with recruits and players in a dormitory.

"The University of Louisville Police Department, in consultation with the Louisville Metro Police Department and the Commonwealth's Attorney's Office, is reviewing allegations regarding the men's basketball program," University police chief Wayne Hall said Tuesday in a statement.

It was the first confirmation that police are looking into the allegations. When contacted last week, a campus police operator said they weren't aware of the book allegations, and it was unclear at that time if an investigation had been launched.

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