re: ‘Death’ for Louisville Basketball?

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Not gonna happen

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They should get it at least as bad as LSU basketball did.

I don't think you can draw comparisons between Louisville and Penn St.

What Penn St did deserves people to rot in prison... but it did not affect the competitiveness of athletics... which is what the NCAA is supposed to deal with.

Louisville basketball deserves the death penalty, but the NCAA doesn't have the balls to do it. Because if they did... Louisville would sue them... and so much about the NCAA would come out that the organization would collapse. NCAA has too many bones in the closet.

These days you can't really give the death penalty to a P5 school. Too much money involved that the collateral damage would hurt the other conference schools. Hammer Louisville and you end up hurting Boston College, for example, because you hurt the ACC revenues.

I think Louisville should be given the death penalty though. It's a fake P5 school. Got into the ACC by cheating their arse off. Kill them, kick them out, and replace them with WVU.

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Does basketball really have a death sentence for a blue blood program? You could bring a program, especially one that was a sustained winner with significant financial investment, so much faster than football.

Even with a competitive ban for a season or two, I would expect Louisville to make a splashy hire and be back in the tourney within 3 seasons.

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UK got it back in the 50s and didn't skip a beat.

I'd be surprised if they went that far. Especially with the impact it would have with the city and the Yum Center contract.