The Cardinal is a Dirty Bird...potential Louisville Escort Scandal

[Billy Dat]

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/new-boo...202333537.html

"The book alleges that over a four-year period, Powell brought women into Billy Minardi Hall – the basketball dormitory on the Louisville campus that is named after Pitino’s late brother-in-law – through a side door to entertain players and recruits. Powell also says her dancers – which included her daughters – also entertained Louisville players at other locations off-campus. After the women danced for the players for an agreed-upon sum, Powell alleges that she would negotiate a second payment for the women to have sex with the athletes."

Quite a follow-up to "Scenes from an Italian Restaurant"

Man, this college ball is a seedy business...

[luburch]

Like coach, like player?

[Billy Dat]

Like coach, like player?

"Bottle of red, bottle of white, it all depends upon your appetite.."

Jeff Goodman ‏@GoodmanESPN 3m3 minutes ago
Rick Pitino and Louisville AD Tom Jurich will hold a news conference at 5:45 p.m. to address the situation, allegation

[Henderson]

Without judging the relative seriousness of the allegations, I gotta say: Louisville is funnier than UNC-CH, Syracuse, and SMU combined.

[MartyClark]

I'm having a beer with a Louisville insider in an hour. I doubt that he'll tell me anything but it could be a lively conversation.

[SCMatt33]

Also from the article (emphasis mine):

The book alleges: “At the peak of the dormitory and off-campus entertainment more than $10,000 cash changed hands to Katina for supplying the women. This does not include the hundreds of one dollar bills thrown at the dancers at each party by McGee, the recruits and players. Nor does it include the money paid to the women who had sex with the recruits afterward. So frequent were the escapades that Katina would later say, especially after the Cardinals won the 2012-2013 NCAA championship: I felt like I was part of the recruitment team. A lot of them players went to Louisville because of me.”

Hopefully no one at Louisville gave any recruits dollar bills to use. That would probably be twice as bad as everything put together at UNC, at least in the NCAA's eyes.

[Tripping William]

"Bottle of red, bottle of white, it all depends upon your appetite.."

Jeff Goodman ‏@GoodmanESPN 3m3 minutes ago
Rick Pitino and Louisville AD Tom Jurich will hold a news conference at 5:45 p.m. to address the situation, allegation

Did they say these youngsters were (euphemistically) riding around with the car top down and the radio on?

[weezie]

"...Powell also says her dancers – which included her daughters – also entertained Louisville players at other locations off-campus. After the women danced for the players for an agreed-upon sum, Powell alleges that she would negotiate a second payment for the women to have sex with the athletes..."

I'll bet that's a lovely cotillion of debutantes.

[wsb3]

I may not have my facts straight in which the posters here will be all over me, which is fine.

But the book comes out Saturday. Written by someone in the escort business.. The person gets 10% of the book sales. Maybe all these allegations will turn out to be true but for now I choose to wait and see.

disclaimer: I have no affiliation with Louisville in any way, shape or form.. Other than I still hurt occasionally from the 1986 National Championship game..

[El_Diablo]

Of course the NCAA investigators are tripping over their you know whats to investigate this one.

[Duke3517]

How come Duke didn't think of this? That is a genius idea.

[BD80]

Were these benefits available to the general student population?

[Henderson]

Were these benefits available to the general student population?

It's an optional surcharge on the Student Fee. You have to check the box and pay extra. But no one does because for some reason "Louisville Escort" doesn't inspire folks to sign up. I'm not sure why, and I'm not sure where that arrangement sits with the NCAA.

PS: In all seriousness, I'm skeptical of the whole story and reserving judgment.

[brevity]

Were these benefits available to the general student population?

It's an optional surcharge on the Student Fee. You have to check the box and pay extra.

So strange. At Duke, my meal plan just covered meals.

[BigWayne]

So strange. At Duke, my meal plan just covered meals.

You should have been there the first year we had the electronic meal cards when we got beer on meal points.

[Olympic Fan]

How come Duke didn't think of this? That is a genius idea.

Are you kidding? This is one of the oldest recruiting scams in the book ... only most schools don't use pros ... they use willing coeds.

Most of the SEC schools and many of the ACC schools have organizations of coeds signed up to escort recruits on campus ... and in a large percentage of cases, these escorts provide sex to the prospects. I'm not saying that every girl who works for an organization such as the Sweet Carolines (to name just one nearby organization) offers sex to recruits, but many of the girls in these organizations do.

[rocketeli]

Are you kidding? This is one of the oldest recruiting scams in the book ... only most schools don't use pros ... they use willing coeds.

Most of the SEC schools and many of the ACC schools have organizations of coeds signed up to escort recruits on campus ... and in a large percentage of cases, these escorts provide sex to the prospects. I'm not saying that every girl who works for an organization such as the Sweet Carolines (to name just one nearby organization) offers sex to recruits, but many of the girls in these organizations do.

When I was at Duke the Duke equivalent was the "Duke Duchesses" It was a win-win situation. The girls got first access to all the hot young studs and the recruits enjoyed their visit. Naturally nothing was demanded or explicit, but I knew a few of the Duchesses and they were definately down to recruit.

[bob blue devil]

When I was at Duke the Duke equivalent was the "Duke Duchesses" It was a win-win situation. The girls got first access to all the hot young studs and the recruits enjoyed their visit. Naturally nothing was demanded or explicit, but I knew a few of the Duchesses and they were definately down to recruit.

fwiw, i think the "Carolina Belles" from down the road were more effective recruiters...

[DukeDevil]

*backing away slowly from the minefield this thread has turned into*

[MarkD83]

*backing away slowly from the minefield this thread has turned into*

BOOM!!! Too late