Book claims Louisville arranged for prostitutes for basketball recruits, The NCAA is investigating beauteous new claims that a above agents affiliate of the University of Louisville assassin escorts to accept sex with players and recruits in the school’s admired basketball program.
The claims axis from an accessible book blue-blooded “Breaking Cardinal Rules: Basketball and the Escort Queen,” accounting by bounded escort Katina Powell and Pulitzer Prize-winning announcer Dick Cady.
Ms. Powell is alleging that Andre McGee, above Louisville amateur and administrator of basketball operations, "paid an escort account for four years to accommodate sex to boyish recruits to advice woo the players to accompany the Cardinals team," the book’s administrator said in a columnist release.I acquainted like I was allotment of the application team," Powell writes in the book. "A lot of them players went to Louisville because of me."The book's authors drew from "hundreds of account entries and bags of argument letters kept by the arch of the escort service," said the Indianapolis Business Journal’s publishing department.
Powell said she provided entertainment, either anon or by lining up added dancers and escorts, for 22 parties amid 2010 and 2014. The aggregation went to the Final Four in 2012 and won the civic championship in 2013.
Officials at the University of Louisville say they were aboriginal abreast of the book in backward August and after assassin Chuck Smrt, a "Kansas-based acquiescence able who has formed with array of universities and their contest programs," to abreast investigate, according to the Courier-Journal.
Several above Louisville players accept been contacted by the book’s authors, said the school. It is not bright what was said in those encounters.Powell writes that Mr. McGee provided strippers and prostitutes not alone to campus recruits, whose names are appear in the book, but some of the recruits' dads as well.
Several players contacted by the Account said that this "was the aboriginal they’d heard of escorts advancing to parties at U of L and interacting with players."
McGee, who now serves as an abettor drillmaster at the University of Missouri at Kansas City, was placed on paid leave Friday night, according to bounded news.
McGee's lawyer, Scott Cox, told the Account that while the above amateur knew Powell, the allegations aren't true.
"Andre McGee has cooperated at every date of this investigation," Cox said. "He loves the University of Louisville and would not do annihilation to aching the angel of the university."
Sports Illustrated letters that the NCAA is extensive out to recruits from the accomplished several years for questioning. Both the NCAA and Mr. Smrt, the investigator assassin by the university, accept said they will not animadversion on an advancing investigation.
The school’s able-bodied director, Tom Jurich, said that Louisville has provided board with logbooks for the billet area basketball players lived, calling the academy an "open book."
"If we did annihilation wrong, we will ante up," he said.
Basketball drillmaster Rick Pitino offered a added claimed response.
“To say I’m abashed and aghast would be apparently the better adumbration I’ve fabricated back I’ve been a coach,” said Mr. Pitino. "I’m heartbroken."
The claims axis from an accessible book blue-blooded “Breaking Cardinal Rules: Basketball and the Escort Queen,” accounting by bounded escort Katina Powell and Pulitzer Prize-winning announcer Dick Cady.
Ms. Powell is alleging that Andre McGee, above Louisville amateur and administrator of basketball operations, "paid an escort account for four years to accommodate sex to boyish recruits to advice woo the players to accompany the Cardinals team," the book’s administrator said in a columnist release.I acquainted like I was allotment of the application team," Powell writes in the book. "A lot of them players went to Louisville because of me."The book's authors drew from "hundreds of account entries and bags of argument letters kept by the arch of the escort service," said the Indianapolis Business Journal’s publishing department.
Powell said she provided entertainment, either anon or by lining up added dancers and escorts, for 22 parties amid 2010 and 2014. The aggregation went to the Final Four in 2012 and won the civic championship in 2013.
Officials at the University of Louisville say they were aboriginal abreast of the book in backward August and after assassin Chuck Smrt, a "Kansas-based acquiescence able who has formed with array of universities and their contest programs," to abreast investigate, according to the Courier-Journal.
Several above Louisville players accept been contacted by the book’s authors, said the school. It is not bright what was said in those encounters.Powell writes that Mr. McGee provided strippers and prostitutes not alone to campus recruits, whose names are appear in the book, but some of the recruits' dads as well.
Several players contacted by the Account said that this "was the aboriginal they’d heard of escorts advancing to parties at U of L and interacting with players."
McGee, who now serves as an abettor drillmaster at the University of Missouri at Kansas City, was placed on paid leave Friday night, according to bounded news.
McGee's lawyer, Scott Cox, told the Account that while the above amateur knew Powell, the allegations aren't true.
"Andre McGee has cooperated at every date of this investigation," Cox said. "He loves the University of Louisville and would not do annihilation to aching the angel of the university."
Sports Illustrated letters that the NCAA is extensive out to recruits from the accomplished several years for questioning. Both the NCAA and Mr. Smrt, the investigator assassin by the university, accept said they will not animadversion on an advancing investigation.
The school’s able-bodied director, Tom Jurich, said that Louisville has provided board with logbooks for the billet area basketball players lived, calling the academy an "open book."
"If we did annihilation wrong, we will ante up," he said.
Basketball drillmaster Rick Pitino offered a added claimed response.
“To say I’m abashed and aghast would be apparently the better adumbration I’ve fabricated back I’ve been a coach,” said Mr. Pitino. "I’m heartbroken."
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