The one thing keeping the past three years of Louisville basketball news from tipping past the point of depression saturation has been the absence of anything directly related to DePaul.
Our cup of sadness is now overflowing.
According to documents obtained by WDRB’s Jason Riley, U of L is claiming in its lawsuit against Rick Pitino that the former Cardinal head coach was a “central figure” in the recruitment of Brian Bowen and was aware that other schools were trying to pay for Bowen’s services. The evidence of this? The following text message sent to former Louisville assistant Kenny Johnson:
“DePaul trying to pay Bowen 200 K to come there.