Today has been an awfully big day in college basketball. There is a LOT to cover here, and I don’t intend for this to be an exhaustive post on what is happening. But this is worth discussing on TDG as this FBI investigation is likely to have wide-ranging effects on college basketball.
The big news of today is the fact that Rick Pitino has been fired, along with Louisville Athletic Director, Tom Jurich. The Pioneer Press, reprinting of a Washington Times article on the firing sums things up well.
Rick Pitino survived the tawdriest of scandals during his tenure as coach of the Louisville men’s basketball team, first a 2009 extortion attempt during which he admitted to having sexual relations with the wife of his team’s equipment manager, then a 2015 scandal in which a former Cardinals staffer arranged for strippers and prostitutes to have sex with players and recruits in the team’s dormitory.