Louisville responds to NCAA's Notice of Allegations for stripper scandal, arguing for leniency

[mountaineer]

Louisville responds to NCAA's Notice of Allegations for stripper scandal, arguing for leniency
Pat Forde,Yahoo Sports US
1 hour 53 minutes ago

   


The University of Louisville made public its response to the NCAA Notice of Allegations against the men’s basketball program Wednesday. In the 92-page document, the school argued that coach Rick Pitino should not be charged with a major violation of NCAA rules.

Pitino himself makes the same argument in an accompanying 43-page document submitted by his Kansas City-based lawyer, Scott Tompsett.

In October 2016, the NCAA alleged that Louisville committed four violations. Among them was a charge that Pitino failed to monitor staffer Andre McGee, who paid at least $5,400 over a four-year period for strippers and escorts to dance for and/or have sex with recruits, current players, AAU coaches and others. The NCAA enforcement staff charged that Pitino is “presumed responsible” by NCAA rules for McGee’s conduct, and that the Hall of Fame head coach failed to “frequently spot-check the program to uncover potential or existing compliance problems.”

If the NCAA Committee on Infractions rules that Pitino did commit a major violation – a hearing before the COI is expected sometime this spring or summer – he could be subject to a multigame suspension during the 2017-18 season. In previous seasons, Hall of Fame coaches Jim Boeheim, Larry Brown and Jim Calhoun have been suspended for part of a season.

In its response to the NOA, Louisville said, “The University believes that Coach Pitino fostered a culture of NCAA compliance within the basketball program and exercised appropriate supervisory oversight of McGee. McGee’s furtive conduct was not detectable by reasonable monitoring practices, as McGee purposefully intended to avoid detection.”   ...

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[mountaineer]

... The NCAA has alleged that from December 2010 through July 2014, McGee, who was a program assistant and later director of basketball operations, arranged and paid for adult entertainment and sex acts at Billy Minardi Hall, a campus dormitory that houses athletes. The NCAA alleges that McGee paid cash for strippers and/or sex acts to entertain at least 14 prospective and/or current student athletes in the men's basketball program.

The recruiting and sex scandal first came to light in October 2015, when Katina Powell, a self-described former escort, detailed the recruiting parties in the book, "Breaking Cardinal Rules: Basketball and the Escort Queen."

In its notice of allegations, the NCAA alleges that Pitino failed to properly monitor McGee, a Level I penalty. Under current legislation, Pitino could face a multiple-game ban, similar to those received by Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim and former SMU coach Larry Brown.    ...  More at ESPN

[geronl]

prison time for all involved

firing those in charge trying to defend it

[mountaineer]

Well, barely adult men, I'd guess. Probably 17 or 18 years old.

[Wingnut]

This was SOP when I was being recruited.