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Lol - remember all the talk during the UL championship season about Siva's Dad and how he paid his own way to come to the games? UL fans always used it as an example of how clean their program was.
I guess we now know why he put so much extra effort into hanging with the team...
EVERYONE needs to do 3 things:Book is out on Amazon.
"An expose of sexual recruiting tactics from the journal pages of an escort queen.
Breaking Cardinal Rules is an exposé by escort Katina Powell based on her experiences providing sexual services for the basketball program at the University of Louisville. It is written with Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Dick Cady.
Powell has filled five journals with details of her escort escapades, sexual encounters and her activities at the University of Louisville. Most of the U of L services she provided took place in the men's dormitory where most of the basket players reside.
Her main contact and the man with the money–the school's former director of basketball operations and former graduate assistant, Andre McGee–kept Powell and her girls busy from 2010 to 2014.
Powell does not present a sympathetic character. Her life is full of contradictions. She has no remorse over the choices she has made. Her story is true in all its graphic detail.
"If you think you've heard seamy tales about recruiting before, wait till you get a load of this. The Louisville high command has vowed to take the matter very seriously. It should."
-Mike Lopresti, retired USA Today sports columnist
About the Author: ABOUT DICK CADY
Dick Cady worked for the Dearborn (Michigan) Guide, Ypsilanti Daily Press, Detroit News, Indianapolis Star and Newsday and also wrote for The Nation, NUVO Newsweekly, Indianapolis Monthly Magazine, the Johnson County Journal and Bloomington Herald-Times. He won 51 local, state and national journalism awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for special local reporting, the Associated Press Freedom of Information Award, the Drew Pearson Award, George Polk Memorial Award, Sigma Delta Chi national journalism society Gold Medal, an American Bar Association special certificate of merit, and two National Headliners awards. In 1976-77 he was assistant director of "The Arizona Project" sponsored by Investigative Reporters and Editors, which examined organized crime, political corruption and land fraud after the assassination of Phoenix reporter Don Bolles. The project won a special gold medal from Sigma Delta Chi as "the outstanding investigative reporting effort of the year." Cady is the author of six books. "
I'll be buying this tomorrow morning as soon as my wife wakes up. I don't know the log on info for prime or I would be reading it right now. All of BBN should buy a copy and make this a best seller. Maybe Cady can get another Pulitzer.
Lol look at it as a nice gesture to help a young inspiring writer lolEVERYONE needs to do 3 things:
1) Go to the Amazon link and rate the book 5 stars
2) Rate every 5 star review as "helpful"
3) Rate every 1 star review as "Unhelpful"
Buying the book is also a good idea if you can afford it. It's only 10 bucks... look at it as an "Eff UL" donation.
looks like they belong together too.Just remember ACC, you invited them to your conference!
323 is in la fwiw.Apparently her text are from a 323 area code, which is just outside LA. McGee is from Moreno, California, a suburb of LA.
Just read Forde's piece - and this leaps off the page:
"The book does not make any allegations that Pitino knew of McGee's activities or had knowledge of the women being provided to the players."
That's not something someone told him, that's an observation made after scouring the book to make sure Pitino isn't under anyone's bus. And so Forde grabs the megaphone to make sure everyone knows RP had nothing to do with this. Like I said, Jurich and Pitino gave this story to Forde knowing he'd protect them as much as possible.
Can you imagine if this was Cal? Whether he knew about it wouldn't matter a whit. If it were Cal, Forde's version would then be about how the head coach is in charge of the program and responsible for anything that happens, and that if Barnhart had any integrity he'd fire Cal and correct the awful mistake he made in hiring him to begin with.
I'm praying for at least 5 pages !
If true, I'm just frustrated that they used the services of that nasty piece of stray, and not a premium escort. I mean really, if you want to get the five star guys you have to provide them with five star women. What does it tell a recruit when you send in some broken down stripper with stretch marks and bullet holes all over her body? SMH.
No.I am going to catch some flack over this ,But should we not be ashamed of our self's over boosting at this awful act that was committed at U of L .We are followers of another Basketball program in this great state of Kentucky,And I also jumped on this band wagon. And I apologize for my actions and to any one I might have offended.
Let he who is without sin,Cast the first stone...
"The dad [of one of the recruits] said he more than likely will send his son to Louisville due to the 'more than extra' activities. He said he will call in the morning for two dancers if he has time before he leaves."
Just read Forde's piece - and this leaps off the page:
"The book does not make any allegations that Pitino knew of McGee's activities or had knowledge of the women being provided to the players."
That's not something someone told him, that's an observation made after scouring the book to make sure Pitino isn't under anyone's bus. And so Forde grabs the megaphone to make sure everyone knows RP had nothing to do with this. Like I said, Jurich and Pitino gave this story to Forde knowing he'd protect them as much as possible.
Can you imagine if this was Cal? Whether he knew about it wouldn't matter a whit. If it were Cal, Forde's version would then be about how the head coach is in charge of the program and responsible for anything that happens, and that if Barnhart had any integrity he'd fire Cal and correct the awful mistake he made in hiring him to begin with.
Mcgee never had that kind of money
no doubt a booster was funding this
Or Rick.
This was not a rogue situation , no way somebody spends their own money to get recruits when their position doesn't rely on signing players . What was his yearly salary ? He was getting funded by a booster or the school itself .
Does anyone think this is all just too good to be true?
Oh I'm sure Pitino had nothing to do with it. I'm not a fan of Pitino but no coach in his right mind would have allowed this had he known about it. However I'm also sure Cal didn't know about Camby taking money or Rose doubt the fake SAT thing but it didn't stop the NCAA from vacating games. If it can be reasonably proved that these things are true, the NCAA will have to put the hammer down. They would look like bumbling idiots if they didn't and they know it.UL knew about this since August. But they used Forde to break the story for reasons just like this. To the casual observer, Forde has more credibility because he broke the story. So when Forde says Pitino knew nothing, it has more credibility.
I actually think Rick knew nothing. But definitely not because Forde says so. I also think it was a willful ignorance. I think he was probably willing to do whatever it took to get back, and stay on top. He just didnt want to know what was going on.
Exactly. Others funded this. We may never know, since it seems McGee was their buffer. But someone definitely funded this.
If someone looked at McGee's bank account, you could trace the incoming transfers. But I dont know the NCAA will look THAT hard. If this somehow turns into a criminal investigation or if a civil suit is filed....all that information will come out.
Pitino said he began his own investigation into the book’s allegations before the university’s compliance department asked him to stop.
The Hall of Fame coach said he spoke with 12 former assistants who worked at U of L between the 2010-14 period mentioned in the book, plus several video and support staffers.
He also heard from former Louisville forward Kyle Kuric, who told the coach he had been contacted by the book’s authors.
I finally watched the Pitino press conference. Oh, for a reporter with courage to have been in that room.
Q: "Coach Pitino, do you feel that your behavior in the Karen Sypher case, and the university's handling of that case, and then the hiring of Bobby Petrino set a tone at Louisville in which an assistant working for you might think that behavior like this was acceptable?"
Guarantee you that question would have been asked by reporters in a city where the press corps wasn't intimidated.