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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
 

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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
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One would think there would be criminal ... or at least civil charges pending.


The really sad part for me is Wake curb stomped SU 28 - 9. :facepalm3:
 

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One would think there would be criminal ... or at least civil charges pending.


The really sad part for me is Wake curb stomped SU 28 - 9. :facepalm3:

I'm sure it was just because Cuse took the high road and refused to take the offered game plans :nod:
 

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I loved Jurich's reply..."Yeah, we received the information from Elrod...BUT WE DIDN'T USE IT AND IT WOULDN'T HAVE HELPED!"
 

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Is it just me, or does anyone else out there think Tom Jurich looks like a mobster?
 

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I'm having a hard time believing that this POS from wake forest wasn't exchanging game plans for money.......

has the NCAA formally opened an investigation?????

Any team they played on their schedule is suspect. if it can be proven money or not that they received game plans. If Team X took the game plans and didn't report it, they are guilty......

:pop2::pray::whistle:
 

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Because who gives a rat's ass about Wake Forest?

This story was due to die down due to the fact that it was Wake Forest.

then...Tom Jurich sent out the worst press release imaginable. He basically defended cheating and didn't condemn the actions of his coaching staff.

This story is no longer about Wake Forest. Its about Louisville now, IMO. The team that just had their QB win the Heisman Trophy and finished #13 in the CFP rankings.
 

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This story was due to die down due to the fact that it was Wake Forest.

then...Tom Jurich sent out the worst press release imaginable. He basically defended cheating and didn't condemn the actions of his coaching staff.

This story is no longer about Wake Forest. Its about Louisville now, IMO. The team that just had their QB win the Heisman Trophy and finished #13 in the CFP rankings.


 

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Still wonder how stupid the Louisville staffer is that left that 'material' behind for Wake to find and what was that Wake staffer doing where he came into contact with it? :spy:

Some programs just don't care how you win, as long as you win. Nothing new. Not sure there is anything that can or should be done unless a full money exchange could ever be proven. And that's not very likely.

This sport is big money. You can't take game plan/play book security lightly. I'm sure stuff like this happens more than any of us knows, but this guy was just fucking retarded about it. He still got away with it for 3 years if the reports are correct.
 

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I'm having a hard time believing that this POS from wake forest wasn't exchanging game plans for money.......

has the NCAA formally opened an investigation?????

Any team they played on their schedule is suspect. if it can be proven money or not that they received game plans. If Team X took the game plans and didn't report it, they are guilty......

:pop2::pray::whistle:

Yeah, it's no way in hell he was giving out secrets for free.
 

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This story was due to die down due to the fact that it was Wake Forest.

then...Tom Jurich sent out the worst press release imaginable. He basically defended cheating and didn't condemn the actions of his coaching staff.

This story is no longer about Wake Forest. Its about Louisville now, IMO. The team that just had their QB win the Heisman Trophy and finished #13 in the CFP rankings.

How do we know at this point that it was 'just' Louisville? IMO, if other teams that simply "had" the info, and didn't report it immediately are suspect.
 

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How do we know at this point that it was 'just' Louisville? IMO, if other teams that simply "had" the info, and didn't report it immediately are suspect.

I'm sure Louisville wasn't the only one that did it. Wake has also notified Army and Virginia Tech that they've been linked to Elrod. Doesn't mean they took the information, but they were offered it.

My post was that Louisville's AD, Tom Jurich, is so out of touch that he thought his statement was acceptable. He admitted to cheating, but brushed it off as if it was no big deal. He also tried to portray Louisville as the victims, since they have an important bowl game coming up.

I was very close to being in WGAF mode about this entire situation as Wake has had a decent to good football season this year by their standards and Elrod has been banned from Wake Forest University. Jurich's statement put an end to that stance.
 

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VT has responded:


This is the correct way to handle it. Take notes, Louisville.
 

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Expect more teams to be busted.
 

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Louisville, Army and Virginia Tech have been notified. So far, Louisville is the only school that has admitted any guilt. We do know that Army and Virginia Tech were both contacted by Elrod.

Will be somewhat surprised if Indiana isn't next. Indiana's DC last year, Brian Knorr, coached with Tommy Elrod at Wake under Jim Grobe.
 
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