Louisville assistant allegedly paid madam to provide sex for players & recruits
The book alleges: “At the peak of the dormitory and off-campus entertainment more than $10,000 cash changed hands to Katina for supplying the women. This does not include the hundreds of one dollar bills thrown at the dancers at each party by McGee, the recruits and players. Nor does it include the money paid to the women who had sex with the recruits afterward. So frequent were the escapades that Katina would later say, especially after the Cardinals won the 2012-2013 NCAA championship: I felt like I was part of the recruitment team. A lot of them players went to Louisville because of me.”
The actions described in the book would appear to be both illegal and in violation of school and NCAA rules. If, as Powell alleges, players who were members of Louisville’s championship team received impermissible benefits that were provided by a staff member, the Cardinals’ title would seemingly be in jeopardy.
Release from book's publisher: http://www.ibj.com/articles/55155-book-louisville-hired-prostitutes-to-woo-basketball-recruits
Could lead to vacating the 2012-2013 NCAA Championship if true. If only that ref had got that clean block right instead of calling a foul on Trey Burke...
October 2nd, 2015 at 7:40 PM ^
She likely didn't supervise MBB...generally the AD oversees MBB and FB and maybe BA in the SEC or Pac-12. Her position would get WBB and some of the other high profile (leftover) sports.
It would be a hard sell to put this on her. But she's done enough on her own to be in hot water.
October 2nd, 2015 at 9:46 PM ^
wouldn't she still know what was going on?
October 2nd, 2015 at 10:39 PM ^
...is that absolutely nobody knows what's going on. If you can't arrange plausible deniability you've got no business running a D1 program.
October 2nd, 2015 at 11:02 PM ^
...some would argue that Julie Herman has no business running a D1 program.
If it was going on, I would guess she knew, or at least knew that the B-Ball coach was running a shady operation. May not have known all the detail, but probably knew that there were shananigans going on.
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it is probably true that proof of a link or of direct and speciic knowledge would be difficult.
I am not sure if she on thin ice at Rutgers anyway. Maybe her earlier rocky start is in the past.
I guess if they were looking for a way to ger rid of her, this new info from the time she was at Louisville might be a factor, assuming proof that she knew, or worse.
Still, when there is smoke there is fire, and there seems to be lots of smoke around Herman, with the latest fiascos with Flood and the overall football program, plus now a possibility of knowledge of the goings on in her time at Louisville, plus the series of earlier missteps, etc...
On the other hand, if she is raising money well, and there is no smoking gun on knowledge of the Louisville thing... Then I suppose she can sleep easily...
October 3rd, 2015 at 3:51 AM ^
Of course she knew what was going on!
What self respecting athletic department doesn't have 24 hour tail's on all of their employees and employee spouses so they know every detail of their lives regardless of what it has to do with the jobs!
Do you seriously think she wasn't peeking in through a window and watching when he knocked up the equipment managers wife? What planet are you on? And if by some unfathomable chance two A.D. employees were wrongdoing at the same time in different places the AD would obviously be peering into the window at both places anyway because they watch and know everything that happens everywhere at all times.
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October 2nd, 2015 at 10:44 PM ^
I have a close relative who was Director of Basketball Operations at a D1 school and I can tell you with virtual certainty that he wasn't arranging prostitutes for the players.
I can say with almost the same level of certainty that NO DBO would do this on his own without at least tacit approval. It might take the form of a "you do whatever you have to do," but it was there, if these allegations are true. The rogue DBO story that Louisville's probably about to float is bull.
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That I only have one upvote to give.
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October 2nd, 2015 at 7:34 PM ^
really needs to look itself in the mirror. Anyone who thinks this kind of crap doesn't go on everywhere needs a reality check.
October 2nd, 2015 at 7:41 PM ^
"Anyone who thinks this kind of crap doesn't get overlooked when it benefits the NCAA needs a reality check."
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October 2nd, 2015 at 7:36 PM ^
So just out of curiosity, does this mean we win a national championship?!!
— Josh Bartelstein (@Jbart20) October 2, 2015
October 2nd, 2015 at 7:43 PM ^
I am not surprised at all that this leaked. I have a friend who is an agent, he told me a number of stories about a number of specific players, schools, and coaches. This could come across as me blowing smoke up the boards ass or him blowing smoke up mine, but trust me, its not. This type of stuff, unfortunately is par for the course. Louisville was one of the programs that he specifically mentioned, so it doesnt surprise me in the least bit. If there was an entity that had the authority to actually did in the closets and hand down punishments, skeletons would be found and heads would roll. (Un)Fortunately there isnt one.
October 3rd, 2015 at 4:06 AM ^
Mgoblueprint,
Who are the other schools your agent friend mentioned as being involved in this kind of thing?
If we are really clean and all these other programs are dirty it shouldn't be that hard to get some private eyes and investigative reporters on the cases and get it all exposed and have 10 or 20 programs on probation, clearing the way for Michigan clean recruiting to take over.
October 2nd, 2015 at 8:44 PM ^
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October 2nd, 2015 at 9:02 PM ^
Fucking ball!!!
October 2nd, 2015 at 9:08 PM ^
October 2nd, 2015 at 11:39 PM ^
Ugh triggered. I had many a drink at BTB Cantina after this night
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and Cal being the smarmster who hived off to Kentucky.
October 2nd, 2015 at 10:48 PM ^
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October 2nd, 2015 at 8:46 PM ^
and the alleged evidence, it would not surprise me if the main allegations were true. Supposedly, the facts were checked by the madam’s co-author, who won a Pulitzer prize 40 years ago for investigating police corruption.
At the same time, the book’s publishing company is hardly what a Pulitzer-prize-winning author would usually choose. The company is what’s called a “vanity” press. Ordinarily, authors pay the company to get their work published. It doesn’t exercise significant editorial review or control. I doubt that it carefully checked out the salacious stories, which supposedly even talk about murders at Louisville. Finally, I believe the publishing company is owned by a booster at IU (not to mention that the primary author is a hooker).
So, there are reasons to be skeptical. But it's about time that some of the corruption in BB recruiting is investigated. I hope the NCAA does more than its usual, superficial job.
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October 2nd, 2015 at 9:12 PM ^
is a Big fat LIAR..Every where he goes they get into NCAA trouble and of course he NEVER knows anything about anything...and the NCAA continues to let him get away with it
October 2nd, 2015 at 9:39 PM ^
That woman pimped out her three daughters. Unbelievable.
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The people involved need jail time over this not sanctions or fines.
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October 3rd, 2015 at 12:00 AM ^
the louisville football team aren't the only people on campus who suck for four quarters
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