GREAT read. Other than the part where he believes Pitino didn't know this was going on. GREAT.
My favorite part was his summary of what the UL president SHOULD have said:
"We don't like it, but these things happened. We think these penalties are excessive, but in the end, if we won a championship using players who were ineligible, or involved in these activities or complicit in them, we don't want it. We don't want wins tainted by this scandal. I'm tired of it. And I'm tired of spending money to defend our people. Frankly, we could've not spent a dollar and pleaded guilty from the start and not gotten much stiffer penalties than were handed down. I'd rather spend the money on books or labs or professors or just go down and throw it in the Ohio River myself than fund another legal effort that seeks to defend the indefensible. We can't change the fact that these things happened. So we will pay the price that has been exacted, we will endure the pain inflicted, and we will move forward. If anyone has a problem with it, you're free to go. We will remove those banners immediately, and with them the stench of this entire matter. We will win more games, and hang more banners, and remember the painful lesson that we must be vigilant, and that we are -- all of us -- members of the same team, and when one does wrong, we suffer a common fate. We intend to comply from this day forward. We intend to pay the price if we do not. I'm sorry to those associated with this school in any way who have had to suffer the shame of these incidents. I apologize to the young men who were exposed to these outrages on our campus. I apologize to their parents. I apologize to our fans, and I apologize to our fellow institutions. Now it's time to worry about the future, not fight a losing battle trying to regain a past that was not the shining moment we believed it to be. Thank you."
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