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You would have thought that the most baffling thing to happen this week in college athletics would be the curious case of a Wake Forest football radio broadcaster getting fired for sharing “confidential and proprietary game preparations on multiple occasions” with opposing teams over the past few years.
There is nothing like the radio guy selling out his own program, where he used to coach and play, no less.
Then, however, came a statement Wednesday from University of Louisville athletic director Tom Jurich. It rewrites the definition of NCAA tone-deafness and pretty much explains how college sports got here in the first place.
First, recall that the Cardinals were under suspicion for cheating after documents Wake Forest said were “related to their game plan” were discovered at Papa John’s Stadium following the Cardinals’ 44-12 victory last month.
Louisville coach Bobby Petrino denied the Cardinals cheated or knew anything about it. He was aghast at the implication.
Then this week, Wake revealed that broadcaster Tommy Elrod had been canned for sharing secrets. When Elrod was on the Wake staff, he was co-coordinator of the passing game with a guy named Lonnie Galloway, who, not coincidentally, is now an assistant at … Louisville.
You might recall this is the same athletic department that saw its basketball program busted by the NCAA in Octoberbecause an assistant coach kept hiring prostitutes to service players and recruits in the team dorm.
The assistant coach didn’t just do it once, but on 15 separate occasions, as Jurich, head coach Rick Pitino and anyone else at the university apparently paid not a bit of attention over what was going on during recruiting visits.
Then there is Petrino, who was fired at Arkansas after he wrecked his Harley with a former volleyball player on the back. His wife didn’t play volleyball. That’s not good. In professional terms, what’s worse was when it was revealed he’d hired the volleyball player on his staff.
And of course Pitino survived the 2003 incident where he had sex in a booth of a local restaurant that eventually led to an assistant coach driving the woman to Cincinnati for an abortion that Pitino paid for.
These are just the greatest hits, all while Jurich was athletic director. If nothing else, it’s never a dull moment at U of L.
As for the prostitute scandal, the assistant coach quit and ran. The coach and AD stayed on and blamed it all on the assistant.
Now Jurich is blaming it all on Wake Forest. If only that radio guy hadn’t called and offered up the info, our guy wouldn’t have so accurately written it down and then turned it over to the defensive assistants who then studied it.
Complete article:
https://www.yahoo.com/sports/news/t...ouisville-on-tom-jurichs-watch-230119357.html
There is nothing like the radio guy selling out his own program, where he used to coach and play, no less.
Then, however, came a statement Wednesday from University of Louisville athletic director Tom Jurich. It rewrites the definition of NCAA tone-deafness and pretty much explains how college sports got here in the first place.
First, recall that the Cardinals were under suspicion for cheating after documents Wake Forest said were “related to their game plan” were discovered at Papa John’s Stadium following the Cardinals’ 44-12 victory last month.
Louisville coach Bobby Petrino denied the Cardinals cheated or knew anything about it. He was aghast at the implication.
Then this week, Wake revealed that broadcaster Tommy Elrod had been canned for sharing secrets. When Elrod was on the Wake staff, he was co-coordinator of the passing game with a guy named Lonnie Galloway, who, not coincidentally, is now an assistant at … Louisville.
You might recall this is the same athletic department that saw its basketball program busted by the NCAA in Octoberbecause an assistant coach kept hiring prostitutes to service players and recruits in the team dorm.
The assistant coach didn’t just do it once, but on 15 separate occasions, as Jurich, head coach Rick Pitino and anyone else at the university apparently paid not a bit of attention over what was going on during recruiting visits.
Then there is Petrino, who was fired at Arkansas after he wrecked his Harley with a former volleyball player on the back. His wife didn’t play volleyball. That’s not good. In professional terms, what’s worse was when it was revealed he’d hired the volleyball player on his staff.
And of course Pitino survived the 2003 incident where he had sex in a booth of a local restaurant that eventually led to an assistant coach driving the woman to Cincinnati for an abortion that Pitino paid for.
These are just the greatest hits, all while Jurich was athletic director. If nothing else, it’s never a dull moment at U of L.
As for the prostitute scandal, the assistant coach quit and ran. The coach and AD stayed on and blamed it all on the assistant.
Now Jurich is blaming it all on Wake Forest. If only that radio guy hadn’t called and offered up the info, our guy wouldn’t have so accurately written it down and then turned it over to the defensive assistants who then studied it.
Complete article:
https://www.yahoo.com/sports/news/t...ouisville-on-tom-jurichs-watch-230119357.html
