Was the NCAA right to vacate Louisville?s 2013 national title? (2.21)
Eye On College Basketball
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🗓️ 21 February 2018
⏱️ 53 minutes
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What has been clear for a while became official Tuesday: Louisville will vacate its 2012 Final Four appearance and its 2013 national championship. So the Cardinals are suddenly one of just three programs to vacate multiple Final Fours. The others are Memphis and Michigan. Did the NCAA handle this correctly? Matt Norlander and Gary Parrish open on that. At 21:25: Is Louisville's impending coaching search hindered in any way? 31:22: Kentucky won 87-72 at Arkansas. What does that mean for the Wildcats? 36:33: It's a huge Wednesday in college hoops. The guys touch on a bunch of games to keep an eye on.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, it's Gary Pershing, Wednesday, February 21, 2018. Welcome back to the Ion College |
| 0:21.4 | basketball podcast. I got Matt Norlander here with me in the biggest development since |
| 0:25.1 | we last recorded is obviously the NCAA's decision to uphold the punishment for what is |
| 0:29.2 | widely known as Louisville stripper scandal. It was announced Tuesday afternoon that the |
| 0:34.2 | Cardinals are going to vacate their 2012 Final Four parents and their 2013 national championship. |
| 0:39.4 | So Louisville is now one of only three schools to vacate multiple Final Fours. The others are |
| 0:45.4 | Memphis and Michigan and Louisville is now also the first school to ever vacate a national |
| 0:50.8 | championship in Minsk basketball. So it was a big headline, but hardly a surprise because we've |
| 0:55.8 | sort of known it was headed this direction since last year and like it never even occurred to me |
| 1:01.2 | that Louisville had a chance to win on a pill. So then when it lost its appeal, I wasn't really |
| 1:07.6 | surprised. I've just figured it was going to be that way. But let me ask you this, Norlander, |
| 1:11.8 | we'll just start here. Not a surprising outcome. Was it the correct outcome? Did the NCAA |
| 1:17.8 | given the way it does things? Did the NCAA do this correctly? I'm going to answer this. Yes, |
| 1:25.2 | I'll say yes, even though I hate that I'm saying yes because I hate vacating national championships |
| 1:34.0 | and vacating victories. It is almost like the the Trump card that the NCAA has when it's really just |
| 1:45.3 | oh whatever kind of punishment, but there are a number of ways that we can discuss this and let's |
| 1:49.1 | make sure that we do that right now because I do hate it. I think it's stupid. I find it mostly |
| 1:54.0 | hollow, but I do acknowledge that because Rick Patino has lost a national championship officially |
| 2:01.7 | at the hands of the NCAA and because Louisville has had its national championship taken away, |
| 2:06.5 | it has to take down a banner, it has to give back the national championship trophy. |
| 2:12.8 | That's not necessarily just symbolic, that's actually physical in nature and this was a powerful |
| 2:19.5 | decision because there has been speculation for basically nearly a decade that people wondered if |
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