Interim President Greg Postel’s statement on NCAA ruling

[HICATFAN]

Interim President Greg Postel’s statement on NCAA ruling

University of Louisville

Jun. 15, 2017

Today, we received the ruling from the National Collegiate Athletic Association's Committee on Infractions in the case involving improper activities that took place in Billy Minardi Hall several years ago.

The committee has accepted our self-imposed penalties and levied additional severe penalties that we believe are excessive.

The entire UofL community is saddened by what took place. It never should have happened, and that is why the school acted to severely penalize itself in 2016. Today, however, the NCAA Division I Committee on Infractions went beyond what we consider to be fair and reasonable. We intend to appeal all aspects of the penalties.

The person responsible for these activities, Andre McGee, long ago left the university, and he has yet to cooperate with investigating officials. We are disappointed that he was not cooperative.

In contrast, UofL did cooperate. We wanted the NCAA Enforcement Staff to uncover what happened. We have been open and transparent throughout this process.

The NCAA knew how seriously the university treated this matter from the beginning. Once we had the facts and recognized what took place, we did the right thing by taking responsibility and imposing severe penalties on ourselves. We believe the penalties imposed today are unfair to the UofL community and our current and former student-athletes, many of whom have already paid a heavy price for actions that did not involve them. This ruling is also unfair to Coach Pitino, who we believe could not have known about the illicit activities.

This has been a very difficult period for UofL. I am confident that what happened here will never happen again. We have changed our recruitment procedures, imposed additional protections in the dorms and the staff has received additional training. It saddens me that these events took place. Nevertheless, the Committee on Infractions has gone too far and taken actions that are unwarranted. We will appeal.

AlohaCat

 

[catben]

Andre McGee must be a VERY powerful man!!

RIDICULOUS!!

 

[UKWildcatT]

Shameful

 

[Wildcat-in-STL]

This past week....... we've discovered exactly what being a Louisville man was.... ............ Being a loyal member of the UL crime syndicate .... thats what.

 

[Wall Knight Teague]

Sounds like he's supremely qualified for the job of prez at that sewer... (zero morals/shame)

 

[Mash 2.4]

Wonder how much money Pitino, Jurich or most likely "the foundation" paid McGhee to keep quiet? Is getting the 10 yr show cause gonna loosen his lips?

 

[WeWant9]

UL playing the victim card once again.

 

[Ugoff]

To paraphrase... "sure we're guilty of trafficking minors to improve our basketball team, but we're going to obfuscate, blameshift and do everything in our power to avoid the punishment that we so richly deserve"

 

[Kybluedude]

Looks like Postel is falling in line with the cartel. Saw how Ramsey profited. Was hoping he would take the medicine and distance himself from the two crooks that should be fired. Guess he's one of "the boys"

 

[YaySports]

The penalties they imposed on themselves were in no way severe...why do they keep saying this? a measly 1 year post season ban and scholarship reduction so now your 12th man doesn't have one. Pathetic excuse for self imposed sanctions. You offered sex parties to underage kids and had sex parties in your player dorm for multiple seasons. Pretty sure a one weekend suspension from games doesn't make up for that

 

[JLucky1]

Looks like Postel is falling in line with the cartel. Saw how Ramsey profited. Was hoping he would take the medicine and distance himself from the two crooks that should be fired. Guess he's one of "the boys"

They will probably keep him as president. What serious candidate is going to take that job and keep the althetic administration as status quo? Probably the only university in the country ran by an athletic director.

 

[DerekMcPwn]

Fighting this is a bad decision. This is not a hill you want to die defending if you're Louisville. These are embarrassing facts that you want buried as quickly as possible, no matter the cost. But hey, if they want three more years of headlines that have "Louisville" and "prostitutes" in the same sentence, and to spend millions of dollars for the privilege, they have my blessing.

 

[jman3715]

Fighting this is a bad decision. This is not a hill you want to die defending if you're Louisville. These are embarrassing facts that you want buried as quickly as possible, no matter the cost. But hey, if they want three more years of headlines that have "Louisville" and "prostitutes" in the same sentence, and to spend millions of dollars for the privilege, they have my blessing.

Exactly. Do they even have a PR firm? Once again, they now have a president bowing down to Jurich.

 

[Cal4Pres.]

So in their fan's mind, when Rose got someone to take the SAT for him without Cal possibly knowing, that made Cal a cheater and justified taking their banner down. But A COACH on their team does something way worse in Slick Rick's own families dorm, whether he knew or not, does not justify taking their banner down? hahaha I love scandUL logic

 

[Ineverplayedthegame]

Fighting this is a bad decision. This is not a hill you want to die defending if you're Louisville. These are embarrassing facts that you want buried as quickly as possible, no matter the cost. But hey, if they want three more years of headlines that have "Louisville" and "prostitutes" in the same sentence, and to spend millions of dollars for the privilege, they have my blessing.

Even the local media shills are having a hard time supporting their position. Can't wait to see what national reporters want to get on board with "Yeah, we hired strippers and prostitutes, but we hired cheap ones and besides they were so skanky that nobody would have come here because of them."

 

[gojvc]

Fighting this is a bad decision. This is not a hill you want to die defending if you're Louisville. These are embarrassing facts that you want buried as quickly as possible, no matter the cost. But hey, if they want three more years of headlines that have "Louisville" and "prostitutes" in the same sentence, and to spend millions of dollars for the privilege, they have my blessing.

We're it not for the 2013 title you'd be right. Had they lost to Michigan they would probably accept the penalties and get this behind them. But they will defend that banner to the death. Don't be surprised to see them take this to the civil courts if the appeal fails.

 

[BigBlueManSouthCentralKY]

Interim President Greg Postel’s statement on NCAA ruling

University of Louisville

Jun. 15, 2017

Today, we received the ruling from the National Collegiate Athletic Association's Committee on Infractions in the case involving improper activities that took place in Billy Minardi Hall several years ago.

The committee has accepted our self-imposed penalties and levied additional severe penalties that we believe are excessive.

The entire UofL community is saddened by what took place. It never should have happened, and that is why the school acted to severely penalize itself in 2016. Today, however, the NCAA Division I Committee on Infractions went beyond what we consider to be fair and reasonable. We intend to appeal all aspects of the penalties.

The person responsible for these activities, Andre McGee, long ago left the university, and he has yet to cooperate with investigating officials. We are disappointed that he was not cooperative.

In contrast, UofL did cooperate. We wanted the NCAA Enforcement Staff to uncover what happened. We have been open and transparent throughout this process.

The NCAA knew how seriously the university treated this matter from the beginning. Once we had the facts and recognized what took place, we did the right thing by taking responsibility and imposing severe penalties on ourselves. We believe the penalties imposed today are unfair to the UofL community and our current and former student-athletes, many of whom have already paid a heavy price for actions that did not involve them. This ruling is also unfair to Coach Pitino, who we believe could not have known about the illicit activities.

This has been a very difficult period for UofL. I am confident that what happened here will never happen again. We have changed our recruitment procedures, imposed additional protections in the dorms and the staff has received additional training. It saddens me that these events took place. Nevertheless, the Committee on Infractions has gone too far and taken actions that are unwarranted. We will appeal.

AlohaCat

"Severely penalize itself" No wonder this guy is acting chief in charge. Just another Jurich boy. NO blame on the ones really in charge, Jurich and Pitino. Sit out a tournament they knew they wasn't going to do anything in anyway. Some minor recruiting thing that did NOTHING to effect recruiting. Yeah Postal. Real severe.

 

[KMKAT]

Sounds like Jurich is still in charge with everyone towing the same message. Posted loses no credibility since it wasn't under his watch.

 

[CatPhight]

Yeah the consummate micromanagers micromanager couldn't possibly have known anything.

Same baby murdering pervert who knew nothing about 15 seconds until he was on a federal witness stand.

 

[sefus12]

We're it not for the 2013 title you'd be right. Had they lost to Michigan they would probably accept the penalties and get this behind them. But they will defend that banner to the death. Don't be surprised to see them take this to the civil courts if the appeal fails.

Not sure the courts have any saying ovr the NCAA's penalties for UL. They can sue, but if the NCAA says the title is gone I don't see how a court can say otherwise. Plus, do you really think UL wants to get people on the stands under oath over this? If I had to guess there are still a LOT of skeletons around that athletic department...