Just don't do it. Fair warning; if you come here to troll, just know you can lose posting privileges.
NO TROLL ZONE!!!!!
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Very disappointing day. Nightmare outcome. Hopeful the appeals process works. Bottom line -the NCAA should deal with facts (the acts occurred) and figures (the monetary amount of the acts). They evidently have now turned into the morality police. The whole thing sickens me, but the penalty cannot be determined by the lack of values of all involved. That is what the committee has done, if it ends up in court I don't think the decision and penalties will hold up.
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Meh.
Not really. Appeal - rinse - repeat- appeal. Throw them a bone with some insignificant wins to vacate and the nightmare ends. McGee has forever been stricken from L1C4 and will never be welcomed again - ever. Hope he has a miserable life as an uber driver from now until the end of time.
Some still just haven't gotten the message. SMH. There are home boards, and even the main basketball board to troll all things UofL. You just can't do it here.
That's good enough for me. I know there are tons of trolls and opposing fans just chomping at the bit to have a go at this. But luckily I don't really post or even read the main board or other team boards- just mainly this one- so I'm glad there is at least one place to have real discussion on the events that isn't completely inundated by troll idiots.
Bump...for the rival visitors who think NOW is the time to show interest in our board and come over to discuss current events. SMH
Bump...for the folks who are trolling the No Trolling Zone thread. Yep...that's happening. SMDH still.
Steelers is a good dude. I've talked to him many a time in the national board. I shall not troll and wish you guys best of luck.
Same boat. I see a lot of people trash him on RR, and they might have had a different experience, but every convo I've had with him he's been pretty solid and more times than not pretty fair to me when I've lost my cool. I did ask a question on this thread yesterday that got deleted and I wasn't sure why, wasn't bashing or trolling, he could have prob banned me like some mods would but didn't. But I'm still curious as to why the OP thinks they will win their appeal and on what grounds? Maybe it was deleted because it didn't need to be discussed in this thread. If that is it I apologize again
I'll answer that with my opinion.
UofL has a very good chance at winning parts of the appeal (and lets face it, the only 3 they really care about are the vacated wins, the 2012 final four, and the golden ticket - the 2013 national championship) by pointing out that most of the investigating results were provided to the NCAA by UofL who fully cooperated once the issue was brought to the public eye. It's just common sense that had UofL & Pitino been providing this 'perk' on purpose to potential recruits, they would have done everything possible to cover it up. The ONLY person who refused to talk was Andre McGee. There's a reason for his actions or lack of. He was guilty of this deplorable action.
UofL however addressed this issue straight forward with full cooperation from everyone not named Andre McGee and the rest of us tried to understand why McGee would do such a thing. He was a rogue employee who for whatever reason decided to do this. I'll go to my grave believing that to be true.
I don't think Pitino is a saint by any stretch, but I don't think he would have condoned or approved of this had he known about it. His name alone gets talent to commit to playing for him.
2nd and maybe more importantly, there is no actual proof that any player ever directly paid for sex. As far as I can tell, they had college dorm parties where some people had sex. Young people in college dorms have sex all the time. I know. I was young once and I had plenty of sex in college dorms. Anyone who thinks young people don't have college dorm sex are just being naive; and frankly hypocrites. The NCAA needs a serious dose of reality if they think otherwise.
You can see the actual report online, In the actual report from the NCAA they detail accounts given to the NCAA from the recruits them selves stating they were given condoms and sent into rooms with the dancers/hookers. The players didn't pay for the sex, McGee did. If player buys his own hooker it probably isn't an impermissible benefit, college dorm parties with kids hooking up definitely isn't. It's the proven fact that McGee provided dancers and hookers. The list 3 players and a number of other recruits who all corroborated the same story. Other than video, that's enough proof for anyone.
P.S. I'm sure tons of idiots are being idiots posting, This isn't calling you out, just what I read in the report if you haven't seen the actual text.
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Ok. Like I said I was curious in that regard. But I can see that train of thought. I don't think the 2nd point will fly though because it's not just having sex. It's providing sex that was paid for to minors on a recruiting trip. It's not the sex issue, it's the pay for sex issue. But that's my opinion that no one cares about. Just a thought.
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You very well could be right. I guess we'll find out around 90 days or so after the appeal is officially filed. I suspect the special council UofL hired will end up being a key player in the final outcome. Total speculation but this all feels scripted to me.
How long do they have to make a decision after the 45 day appeal time range? Or is it one of those things the NCAA can basically take all the time they want?
90 days after UofL files the appeal according to some article I read somewhere. I've read so many that I can't recall the actual source.
"I got banned...and I haven't even post on that site in a while". Yeah riiiiight. Just one more troll who couldn't man up and just say, "yeah, I trolled, and I got smacked". A troll AND a liar. An embarrassmemt to trolls everywhere. Good gawd, have some respect for the craft.
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