Coach Rick Pitino reacts to allegations against UofL

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“For the past 18 years, Tom Jurich has served as Athletic Director of an exemplary program at UofL”.

“I’m sorry Dr. Ramsey didn’t think enough to mention me, but that’s beyond my control”, Pitino responded.

It was a transformative period for the man in charge of Cardinal hoops, and those guys were the catalyst to Pitino signing his current contract, which is supposed to keep him at UofL through the 2025-26 season. “I understand it. The main argument for people is going to be, ‘I can not believe a guy who oversees every minute detail of his program wouldn’t know this”.

In one of the most shocking revelations in the book, Powell, a single mother of three, writes that provided her own daughters, two of whom were 15 and 17 years old at the time, as escorts for sex with the players.

Pitino, speaking to longtime friend Terry Meiners on 840 WHAS, said he felt sick to his stomach when he first heard of the allegations.

It does not matter if Rick Pitino was aware this was going on; he should feel culpable for allowing people like that into his program.

The coach called the book’s allegations “very disgusting”.

A CBS Sports report on Thursday said former U of L recruit JaQuan Lyle, now an Ohio State freshman, told NCAA investigators that the “gist” of the allegations in the book were true.

Things at Louisville are not looking so great right now as the basketball program is coming under storm. OSU spokesman Dan Wallenberg confirmed via email that Lyle met Tuesday with the NCAA. He did not mention Louisville. In all, Powell claimed she was hired for 22 “shows”. “I think that’s the cowardly way out if I resign now”, Pitino said, adding that he has players counting on him to be their coach.

Andre McGee left Louisville in 2014 for Missouri-Kansas City, which has placed him on paid administrative leave.

At this point, only the silliest Louisville fan – plus McGee’s ridiculous-sounding lawyer, Scott Cox, who seems ill-equipped to handle a case with this kind of media attention – is still holding out hope that this was all caused by a insane whore’s imagination. A spokeswoman for IBJ’s publishing arm could not be reached either.

On Monday, June 10, 2013, Powell allegedly texted McGee: “Hey Andre what was the name of the recruit the tall chic was with Saturday”.

The SI report, written by Michael Rosenberg, went on to mention basketball coach Rick Pitino’s extramarital hookup inside Porcini and Bobby Petrino’s being welcomed back to UofL after he lied about having hired his mistress at the University of Arkansas.

My longform piece on Maryland coach Mark Turgeon ran earlier this week, and, even with about 2,500 words, I couldn’t include all of the fascinating topics Turgeon and I discussed, among them what it’s been like to replace a legend in College Park like Gary Williams.