The NCAA’s Division I Committee on Infractions just showed how its moral compass sort of points the right way.
It just didn’t have the guts to mete out the punishment deserving of the crime.
On Thursday, the committee issued millionaire basketball coach cum educator Rick Pitino of the University of Louisville the wrist slap heard round the world.
For Pitino’s role in failing to monitor his basketball program that resulted in a massive scandal alleging recruits and players were provided prostitutes as entertainment in college dorms, the coach was given a five-game suspension.
Five games. That’s it.
The allegations, however, involve four years of abhorrent and sordid off-court behavior during Pitino’s tenure.
It involves an escort named Katina Powell, who alleged that Pitino’s assistant Andre McGee paid her $10,000 for 22 striptease shows at the player’s dorm from 2010 to 2014. During that time, Louisville won a championship in 2012-13.
