Louisville names Padgett as interim coach

This comes one day after the Federal Bureau of Investigation announced it was investigating a fraud and corruption scheme involving college basketball programs across the country.

One of the true visionaries of American education was University of Chicago president Robert Maynard Hutchins, who in 1939 declared that big-time sports and high-level education could not co-exist.

Upon Jurich’s exit, Pitino entered the president’s office.

Rick and Richard became the first father-son duo to coach teams into the same NCAA tournament last season. His future employment will also be reviewed in October.

“It’s hard to know how much money can influence the corrupting influence that money can have on a process”, Flood said.

“We’re getting through it, we’re putting our head down and going back to work”, said Padgett.

After leaving Louisville, Padgett played professionally in Europe. Rich alumni contribute millions of dollars for the athletic programs. It is heartbreaking to me that the alleged intentional and secret criminal acts can bring such harm to our school. “So, I feel pretty comfortable with who I am and what we’ve been able to do in this”.

The board also could consider an acting athletic director, though it’s possible the meeting could be informational for trustees, and no action could be taken on the athletic front.

He is filling in for Rick Pitino who is now on unpaid administrative leave following a federal investigation implicating coaches for the team may have been involved in a recruiting scandal.

Are dishonest Division I sports ruining America?

Let’s not fool ourselves – hundreds of thousands of young adults get that message on universities across the country, even if we pretend it’s not there. More than 30 percent said only Pitino should be fired. Talk of suspending UofL’s basketball program started nearly immediately.

The players decided they were too emotional and wanted to reschedule.

Considering UK’s legacy of basketball scandals, the Big Blue Nation would be well advised to withhold judgment on the Louisville Cardinals until all of the facts are disclosed. “They interviewed individuals, members of the General Assembly, the governor”, Postel said.

The scandal has enveloped eight programs and led to the Tuesday arrests of four assistant coaches at Oklahoma State, USC, Auburn and Arizona.

“It’s been a dark week at UofL; there’s no other thing to say about that”. This university embraced me when I was a student-athlete here. “They need that support and they need that love from this city, and they will get it”.

“Me doing this is for them”.

Many are wondering what this news means for the KFC Yum Center, the home of the Cardinals. If he is Coach-2, then Pitino is the man who called Adidas’ head of global marketing for basketball to ask him to play Bowen more money.

“I am shocked – shocked – to find that gambling is going on in here!”