Former Louisville Recruit Says Allegations of Escorts True

The first domino has fallen.

Neither Powell nor McGee have spoken publicly since the book was released Saturday.

Ohio State basketball player Ja’Quan Lyle confirmed “the gist” of the accusations of an escort service entertaining recruits at Louisville, according to CBS Sports’ Gary Parrish.

A source tells CBS Lyle “told the truth” while speaking with the investigator.

“It’s hard to respond to an inappropriate leak from an anonymous source about what was allegedly said in a confidential interview”, Cox wrote in an email to The Courier-Journal. The book says Powell provided prostitutes and dancers for 22 parties from 2010 to 2014 to entertain players and recruits and that she was paid about $10,000 for it.

The book “Breaking Cardinal Rules” alleges that paid escorts provided sex and alcohol to basketball recruits and players. After the book was published on Friday, McGee was placed on administrative leave with pay and denied the allegations through an attorney.

Louisville and the NCAA are investigating allegations that could be major violations as well as illegal. He eventually committed to Ohio State on June 30, 2015.

Patricia Keiffner, IBJ publisher, told Yahoo Sports that it had informed Louisville of the texts between McGee and Powell but did not show the texts to school officials.

“As I stated in the recent State of the University address, it is important that the university – all of us – stay focused on our day-to-day work of providing our outstanding students with a world-class education”. “Our texts were the smoking gun”.

That could be one of many unanswered questions as a result of allegations in the book.

Keiffner is confident now that one domino has fallen, others will follow.

“As was stated last week, when we learned of the allegations toward our men’s basketball team, we immediately hired Chuck Smrt of the Compliance Group to undertake a complete and thorough investigation of the alleged misconduct”, Ramsey said. “It feels good to move from a defensive mode into [talking about] the real story”.