What Happened to Louisville Men's Basketball?

They used more strippers and hookers than even the NCAA would allow.  

This guy basketballs

We weren't even assured a win.  We could've lost.  But the fashion it was lost is the issue.  It was robbery.  We very well could've pulled off another "Kansas comeback finish". 

Dont you really mean, the Devil is now collecting his half of the bargain. That horned red fella sure loves him some human misery and suffering for dinner. 

Prostitutes for parties at the athletic dorm. Coach getting it on with a waitress in the back room of a restaurant. It’s the Bugsy Siegel syndrome. Too much attention to “matters of the flesh.” Too little attention to business.

What death penalty? Louisville got a slap on the wrist, and the penalty came down less than three months ago. 

"An independent panel has placed Louisville men's basketball on two years' probation and fined the program $5,000, but spared the school -- and former coaches Rick Pitino and Chris Mack -- major penalties from NCAA allegations leveled in the aftermath of a federal investigation of corruption in college basketball.

The Independent Resolution Panel (IRP) announced Thursday that Louisville avoided a postseason ban and other significant sanctions in the infractions case that began with the FBI's 2017 investigation into corruption around college basketball and the school's relationship with former star recruit Brian Bowen Jr.

Louisville was also given a two-week ban on unofficial visits and a public reprimand and censure."

The NCAA didn't kill our program.  The first Ed Martin investigation didn't even turn up much evidence, since the players refused to talk.  We decided to fire Fisher anyway (because of the appearance of impropriety) and then promoted his #3 assistant - who had just been fired by Loyola (Md.) - to the head job.    

The second NCAA investigation, when Amaker was here, found some hard evidence because of the FBI involvement, but the punishment still wasn't that terrible: one lost scholarship per year for four years, and a one-year postseason ban.  That's not why we went a full decade without making the tournament.

Spot on, btw THE BLOCK WAS CLEAN!!!

Short and to the point.

I like it

Jay Wright might be the greatest coach of his generation, hands down. Dude built championship teams without recruiting at anywhere near a championship level (at least on paper).

He's also a rare instance of someone who has the look of a scumbag (good-looking dude with slicked-back hair who wears designer suits) but isn't actually a scumbag. 

Kenny Payne and Orlando Antigua were the ones whom are thought to be the reason was Cal was been so successful. After bringing in the predecessors it’s been downhill since. The offense is abysmal. Brewster is beyond poor. I think the 3 cannot be split up cause all three (so far) have failed without each other. KP is too soon to tell given the amount of issues UL has had. Go Blue, beat Kansas. 

Krzyzewski was a very good coach for sure, but I don't think he (as a member of the cheating class, at least after some point in the '90s) should be in the same sentence as Wright, who probably ran a much cleaner (though not necessarily perfect) program.

Is it any consolation at all that Ohio State (probably) won't be in it, either?

For me, maybe a LITTLE BIT.

But yeah. My excitement for March Madness has definitely been tempered this season, to say the least. Barring a run to the conference championship game (and they may actually need to win it, too), Michigan basketball just ain't gonna make it. 

...[N]othing good ever comes from strippers and booze.

Correct. You've got to add cocaine to the mix to balance it out.

By whom?

Isn't that what NIL$ is for?

He wouldn't have played anyway.  He was still recovering from back surgery.  The problem with the suspension was that it was going to wipe out his junior season, so he decided he was done with college.