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"Pat Forde ?@YahooForde Y sports story on allegations of Louisville staffer paying madam to provide sex for players and recruits: http://yhoo.it/1KWqs2p"

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"Jeff Eisenberg @JeffEisenberg Jeff Eisenberg Retweeted Pat Forde Assuming the madam can produce those records and text messages for the NCAA, this will not end well for Louisville. "

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"Pat Forde @YahooForde NCAA issued customary no comment when contacted by Yahoo Sports. NCAA already had been apprised of UL's investigation, per UL release."

10/2/2015 4:55:49 PM

burn all the other ACC programs to the ground so maybe we can finally win a title

10/2/2015 4:58:46 PM

forealdo

10/2/2015 5:01:16 PM

Louisville and UNC NCAA investigations, might be out

looks like all the nc state shit will have to come from duke

10/2/2015 5:02:19 PM

ibt "every school does this"

10/2/2015 5:07:02 PM

Oops, hope Thomas de Thaey does not rat us out by spilling da beans on his experience

10/2/2015 5:12:07 PM

Damn, Louisville basketball players must be ugly, if they have to pay for sex.

10/2/2015 5:24:46 PM

LOL, mom and three daughters. That's awesome.

I blame Louisville coeds for not stepping up for the program. Shameful!

10/2/2015 6:51:00 PM

10/2/2015 7:26:45 PM

could totally see slimy ole' Rick knowing about this too.

10/2/2015 8:50:23 PM

I'm a lunatic defender of all Italian coaches.

So consider yourself officially called out for, uh, ethnic prejudice with this "slimy" business.

Until we ridicule the Smiths and Williams in this world, the -vowel guys get a pass.


I don't need any more whipping boys.

10/2/2015 9:29:42 PM

Valvano was an I-talian saint.

10/2/2015 11:01:44 PM

pretty sure "whipping boy" is more offensive than "slimy"

10/2/2015 11:11:39 PM

^,^^Before I can consider your remarks, I'm gonna need your surnames.

THIS MUST BE DISCUSSED!

10/2/2015 11:49:00 PM

mine is hyphenated

Jackson-Colangelo

10/3/2015 12:01:42 AM

LOL

10/3/2015 12:08:30 AM

I didn't feel like being right yesterday, but "whipping boy" is not an offensive term.

10/3/2015 2:49:27 PM

yeah, whipping boy is offensive to the same people who find niggardly offensive.

10/3/2015 3:29:11 PM

Lol they are so fucked. Ex-recruits confirming now too. Unless they are brain dead they have to if they are still NCAA students (as Lyles is).

This is the end of Pitino for sure and probably will put UL off the top level of college basketball for a while. I guess the positive is that they aren't in Canada like Syracuse so kids might still choose to play there after Pitino is gone.

10/8/2015 12:27:57 PM

Cat must've been disappointed with the ladies offered to him on his visit.

10/8/2015 12:31:00 PM

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"Damn, Louisville basketball players must be ugly, if they have to pay for sex."

It is ridiculous. You'd think "hey, I'm a basketball player...may go pro" would be enough to get you some gold diggers.

10/8/2015 12:31:03 PM

^
There's no easier place in America to get laid than at a college campus.

Unless you happen to be a football or basketball player at an American college campus.

makes no goddamn sense.

10/8/2015 12:42:26 PM

Nah I can see the logic in it. Hookers are supposed to be discreet about this sort of thing (in theory).

Plus, probably a better lay than an inexperienced college girl.

10/8/2015 5:23:53 PM

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"Lol they are so fucked. Ex-recruits confirming now too. Unless they are brain dead they have to if they are still NCAA students"

Hey all they have to do was say the hookers were an opportunity allowed to all students! Its the perfect plan

10/9/2015 9:40:27 AM

"Hey, we used local hookers that were already hanging around campus, so all students had the same opportunity to bang a hooker, even if we only advertised the hookers to the basketball players"

10/9/2015 8:54:47 PM

And it was all for Women's basketball anyway, they're lesbians

10/9/2015 9:02:46 PM

This isn't going well for Louisville. Front page of main ESPN site..

We just need wait out K and we can default to best program in ACC. Key is avoiding dumpster fire scandals which the rest of the conference apparently can't.

[Edited on October 20, 2015 at 8:58 AM. Reason : X]

10/20/2015 8:53:53 AM

I'd imagine stuff like this goes on in at least 20% of major programs...although this would appear to be on the very end of the "bad" spectrum. Can't they just find some freshmen hoes from their own school or the local community college?

10/20/2015 9:42:09 AM

And maybe put some regular students in the mix too like UNC did with their classes?

10/20/2015 9:46:58 AM

^^ I tend to agree but this seems to be a bit different than just having some loose girls around the team for recruiting purposes.

Can't see how Pitino survives this.. UL cares way more about athletics than academics and ethics so I'm sure the program won't stay down long but it's a bad look.

10/20/2015 9:53:30 AM

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"I'd imagine stuff like this goes on in at least 20% of major programs...although this would appear to be on the very end of the "bad" spectrum. Can't they just find some freshmen hoes from their own school or the local community college?"

this is what i think...i pretty much expect that plenty of major programs use girls to help recruit. i just don't think most major schools/coaches pay prostitutes to have sex with the recruits. just get some girls from the dance team or something to tag along on a recruits' visit and "show them a good time" or whatever.

10/20/2015 9:57:07 AM

http://espn.go.com/espn/otl/story/_/id/13927159/former-louisville-cardinals-basketball-players-recruits-acknowledge-stripper-parties-minardi-hall

DAMN....

10/20/2015 10:27:38 AM

10/20/2015 10:46:20 AM

I am also a bit shocked by this. If a nerd like me can get laid at a party, then how hard could it possibly be for a 6'3, future-draft-pick with a rockin' body to get some?



[Edited on October 20, 2015 at 10:53 AM. Reason : j]

10/20/2015 10:51:27 AM

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"a rocking' body?"

calm down bud.

10/20/2015 10:52:09 AM

If I was a recruit I'd be all about banging the campus sloots but going from high school girls to professional hookers is a big, and grimy, jump. Hell, even as an adult I wouldn't even think about banging a hooker.

10/20/2015 11:08:07 AM

so far the only proof against rick pitino is "how could he not know". he'll get out of this without even a slap on the wrist.

10/20/2015 1:31:24 PM

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"Former UNC recruit about his visit: 'It was like I was in the audience at Magic Mike XXL'"

10/20/2015 1:37:41 PM

^^ that's crazy. He will be held to the new rules that holds HCs far more accountable.

Biggest question to me is whether the NCAA has balls enough to strip 2013 title (which, if allegation is true they should) knowing that opens them up to all sorts of criticism if UNC doesn't need to. My guess is they avoid those questions altogether.

[Edited on October 20, 2015 at 1:46 PM. Reason : X]

10/20/2015 1:45:49 PM

If they stripped a title for this then UNC should be shut down, this is such a non story compared to what UNC has done.

10/20/2015 2:46:22 PM

i wouldn't say it's a non-story compared to UNC...these two are really impossible to compare IMO.

10/20/2015 3:37:08 PM

this is NO DIFFERENT than what happened with Shapiro at Miami.

10/20/2015 3:40:59 PM