Does it matter if a head coach didn’t know about NCAA violations? The NCAA said “no” in Rick Pitino’s case, and that may be a bad sign for Ole Miss.
The NCAA handed down a suspension of five ACC games for Louisville basketball coach Pitino in connection with the Cardinals’ recruiting scandal.
Other penalties include the vacation of all games involving ineligible players from December 2010 to July 2014 (it’s not yet clear whether this includes the team’s 2013 NCAA title), scholarship reductions, four years of probation and a 10-year show-cause penalty for former director of basketball operations Andre McGee, who was accused of paying for strippers to perform at sex parties involving recruits.