Louisville should have been in this year but they decided to do a SU and "self impose" a post season ban rather than wait for definite NCAA penalties. They did not want to "hurt" future recruiting and through the current players under the bus, including some graduate school players who came to Louisville to go to post season. If SU had waited rather than self impose would the frosh who scored 21 in second half have gone to SU and sit out this post season?
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Agree Redslope. They should have given their current players a chance to transfer AFTER the tourney this year, so that they, and the current 5th year guys, would not have been the ones to suffer the consequences. When the NCAA institutes the ban they always allow the current underclassmen to transfer w/o sitting a year. With Pitino, they never got that chance. This was wrong of Pitino to do this. And then Pitino, incomprehensibly, blames the NCAA for the 5th year guys not being able to play in the tourney when it was the schools idea to self impose the ban in the first place. You're supposed to give the current guys a chance to transfer. Not Rick. He wanted to save another banner recruiting class. He said don't blame our President or AD, it is the NCAA's fault. No Rick it's your fault! And the media does not even call Slick Rick out on this.
This is yet another example of how clueless the NCAA is when they both write and enforce these rules. Notorious for their idiocy, they let certain schools get away with self imposing to protect their future teams and escape punishment. SU would not have even made the tourney last year; so where was the punishment? You're supposed to give the KIDS a chance to transfer to protect the KIDS THEMSELVES. What's the matter with these people? THEY give the kids a chance to transfer when THEY impose a ban, so why don't they make the schools wait a year when the SCHOOLS THEMSELVES self impose the ban? This would protect the kids. Stupidity bothers me a lot.
They're so stupid. Examples abound. They are too dumb to write sensible rules and enforce them in a logical and consistent way. Take the Monmouth bench mob for example. The rules clearly prohibit premeditated celebrations. Yet there they are on You Tube telling you how they choreograph their routines. "These are just college kids having a good time" they said. Well then get rid of the rule. Nothing against Monmouth, I think they should have made the tourney, but you gotta enforce the rules or strike them from the books. There are many, many examples of the NCAA's incompetence.