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DonViejo

(60,536 posts) Tue Feb 20, 2018, 02:33 PM Feb 2018

Louisville basketball will vacate 2013 national championship as NCAA upholds ruling

Source: The Washington Post

By Jacob Bogage February 20 at 12:47 PM

Louisville’s 2013 national championship banner is coming down from the rafters.

The NCAA Committee on Infractions upheld its ruling Tuesday to strip the Cardinals of 123 wins dating from 2012 through 2015, including two Final Four appearances. It is the first time in modern NCAA history that a Division I men’s basketball national championship has been vacated.

The decision stems from a 2015 NCAA investigation that found members of the coaching staff provided prostitutes and strippers for players and recruits.

Louisville must also pay the NCAA $600,000 in fines, interim university president Greg Postel said at a news conference announcing the ruling.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/early-lead/wp/2018/02/20/louisville-basketball-will-vacate-2013-national-championship-as-ncaa-upholds-ruling/

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Louisville basketball will vacate 2013 national championship as NCAA upholds ruling (Original Post) DonViejo Feb 2018 OP

HMMM... Wait a year and give them back just like Penn State Football IllinoisBirdWatcher Feb 2018 #1

No.... Central Florida has already claimed Louisville's vacated title..... Jack from Charlotte Feb 2018 #8

Calipari had 1996 at UMass 2008 at Memphis vacated underpants Feb 2018 #2

Well, fifthoffive Feb 2018 #5

I know underpants Feb 2018 #6

Does that mean there is no champion or does it go to the runner up? MichMan Feb 2018 #3

AS I understand it - fifthoffive Feb 2018 #7

Should be Michigan. GeorgeGist Feb 2018 #9

What about all the teams that Louisville eliminated? MichMan Feb 2018 #13

Should be Michigan playing WSU for the title........ Bengus81 Feb 2018 #16

Meanwhile North Carolina completely skated on their charges Blue_Tires Feb 2018 #4

Yeah. They had some easy classes. You never see that on WhoWoodaKnew Feb 2018 #11

You know there's a difference between an "easy class" Blue_Tires Feb 2018 #14

yes, i do. that's why i said i changed my mind when i actually read what happened there. WhoWoodaKnew Feb 2018 #17

That's Just So Dumb ProfessorGAC Feb 2018 #10

i obviously went to the wrong fucking school...oh wait...i am not good at sports dembotoz Feb 2018 #12

That may be the stupidest reason for taking a championship away ever. BlueTsunami2018 Feb 2018 #15

IllinoisBirdWatcher

(2,315 posts)

1. HMMM... Wait a year and give them back just like Penn State Football

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Tue Feb 20, 2018, 02:52 PM

Feb 2018

Based upon NCAA history this won't last long. If it is OK to molest children, it certainly is OK to pay prostitutes and strippers.

[link:http://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/12179571/joe-paterno-111-wins-were-vacated-restored|

Joe Paterno is now winningest coach

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. -- Penn State's football team is getting back 112 wins wiped out during the Jerry Sandusky child molestation scandal, and the late Joe Paterno has been restored as the winningest coach in major college football history.

The NCAA announced the new settlement with the school Friday, weeks before a scheduled trial on the legality of the 2012 consent decree it will replace.

Jack from Charlotte

(2,367 posts)

8. No.... Central Florida has already claimed Louisville's vacated title.....

Reply to IllinoisBirdWatcher (Reply #1)

Tue Feb 20, 2018, 04:05 PM

Feb 2018

to go along with this year's football title.

underpants

(182,883 posts)

2. Calipari had 1996 at UMass 2008 at Memphis vacated

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Tue Feb 20, 2018, 02:53 PM

Feb 2018

Come on Pitino! Don't let Calipari beat at that too.

Of course USC had a football championship vacated too.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Calipari

fifthoffive

(382 posts)

5. Well,

Reply to underpants (Reply #2)

Tue Feb 20, 2018, 03:15 PM

Feb 2018

Neither of Calipari's was a championship - just final four appearances. Pitino got one championship and 1 final four appearance (2012) vacated in one NCAA ruling.

underpants

(182,883 posts)

6. I know

Reply to fifthoffive (Reply #5)

Tue Feb 20, 2018, 03:17 PM

Feb 2018

I just went back and checked because I wasn't sure where Memphis ended up that year.

MichMan

(11,974 posts)

3. Does that mean there is no champion or does it go to the runner up?

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Tue Feb 20, 2018, 02:54 PM

Feb 2018

fifthoffive

(382 posts)

7. AS I understand it -

Reply to MichMan (Reply #3)

Tue Feb 20, 2018, 03:21 PM

Feb 2018

No champion for 2013

GeorgeGist

(25,323 posts)

9. Should be Michigan.

Reply to MichMan (Reply #3)

Wed Feb 21, 2018, 12:12 AM

Feb 2018

MichMan

(11,974 posts)

13. What about all the teams that Louisville eliminated?

Reply to GeorgeGist (Reply #9)

Wed Feb 21, 2018, 10:59 AM

Feb 2018

Bengus81

(6,932 posts)

16. Should be Michigan playing WSU for the title........

Reply to GeorgeGist (Reply #9)

Wed Feb 21, 2018, 01:11 PM

Feb 2018

http://www.kansas.com/sports/college/wichita-state/article201146299.html

"At his weekly press conference on Tuesday, Marshall once again suggested the two teams that Louisville beat in the 2013 Final Four — WSU and Michigan — play for the right to be called 2013 national champions."

Blue_Tires

(55,445 posts)

4. Meanwhile North Carolina completely skated on their charges

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Tue Feb 20, 2018, 03:02 PM

Feb 2018

They must be laughing their asses off...

WhoWoodaKnew

(847 posts)

11. Yeah. They had some easy classes. You never see that on

Reply to Blue_Tires (Reply #4)

Wed Feb 21, 2018, 08:42 AM

Feb 2018

campuses. Like, you know, bowling on most campuses.

I was ready to scream for NC to be shut down. So I started reading about it and it's become a story that I now understand and that fascinates me. I'm now convinced it was blown out of proportion. Had they had easy classes just for athletes they should have been fried. They didn't. They just had some easy classes.

Now I'm fascinated by Louisville. I think the whole hiring women to have sex with players/etc is gonna be a hard one to get past. Easy classes on campuses just ain't the same as buying hookers for recruits/team/etc.

Blue_Tires

(55,445 posts)

14. You know there's a difference between an "easy class"

Reply to WhoWoodaKnew (Reply #11)

Wed Feb 21, 2018, 12:57 PM

Feb 2018

and a "no show, no work except for one assignment and even THAT will be done for you to get your effortless A-grade" class, right??

A *LOT* of high-profile programs (Notre Dame, Minnesota, Maryland, Ohio State, Memphis, Texas Tech) got dinged for cases of academic fraud much less egregious than this...

WhoWoodaKnew

(847 posts)

17. yes, i do. that's why i said i changed my mind when i actually read what happened there.

Reply to Blue_Tires (Reply #14)

Wed Feb 21, 2018, 05:23 PM

Feb 2018

ProfessorGAC

(65,191 posts)

10. That's Just So Dumb

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Wed Feb 21, 2018, 08:15 AM

Feb 2018

Like a stalinist creation of a non-person. What does the NCAA think, that nobody will remember actually seeing the games?

The correct punishment is CASH against the school and fire anybody who should have know and should have prevented the violations.

Telling the players that they didn't actually win those games and the championship is just silly.

dembotoz

(16,835 posts)

12. i obviously went to the wrong fucking school...oh wait...i am not good at sports

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Wed Feb 21, 2018, 10:09 AM

Feb 2018

my school had no reason to give a shit if i enrolled

BlueTsunami2018

(3,503 posts)

15. That may be the stupidest reason for taking a championship away ever.

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Wed Feb 21, 2018, 01:03 PM

Feb 2018

No one was doping or point shaving or paying players as professionals. Not gaining an unfair advantage in any way.

Ridiculous.

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