Don't expect to see Louisville basketball at the ACC and NCAA tournament in 2016. Even if he wants to claim ignorance, you can thank Rick Pitino for that.
Replacements For Rick Pitino When He's Inevitably Fired
Louisville announced a self-imposed postseason ban for its men's basketball team for this season, per ESPN. The announcement came Friday amid an investigation into an alleged sex scandal -- one in which five former basketball players and recruits told Outside the Lines they attended wild parties at a campus dorm from 2010 to 2014.
Somehow, all this managed to slip past Pitino's watchful eye.
Rick Pitino Knew About On-Campus Sex Parties
"This penalty is quite substantial. It comes with complete shock to me." - Rick Pitino #LIVEonSC pic.twitter.com/wnh736evyn
— SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) February 5, 2016
The complete shock is that Louisville hasn't fired Pitino yet.
A book published by Katina Powell -- a former escort -- alleged that Andre McGee, a former employee at Louisville, was at the driver's seat of the scandal.
When asked about it last year, all Pitino could do is play the victim.
"I believe in the program and the way we do things, and I think we have been wronged," he said, per Indy Star. "We have been wronged.
"Now, did one person [McGee] do some scurrilous things? I believe so. What I know now, I believe so. The only thing I don't know is, I don't know why he did it. I just, for the life of me, can't figure it out. He knew better. He was taught better, by his parents and by me."
And yet he still did it. Under Pitino's tenure, McGee still did it.
Rick Pitino is getting really good at not losing his job.
— Ben Jones (@Ben_Jones88) February 5, 2016
The real victims in this debacle are the Louisville players. At 18-4, the Cardinals were in a position to claim one of the top seeds at the NCAA tournament.
Now, all they can do sit and watch, wondering why they face a stiffer punishment than the man ultimately responsible for them.
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Rick Pitino on if this is his toughest day as a coach #CampusRush pic.twitter.com/SbwYpcJvXF
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