“On the surface, it appears Louisville just skipped a sexy hostess program and went straight to the professionals,” [Armen Keteyian] wrote. “And given the high-stakes world of college basketball recruiting – and I’m not trying to be glib about this – it makes sense. This is like Hostess 5.0.“
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October 9th, 2015 at 12:16PM
Maybe Katina could be the poster girl for Take Your Daughters to Work Day.
October 9th, 2015 at 12:22PM
John R: LOL.
October 9th, 2015 at 3:33PM
Good joke. But maybe we’ll start seeing some major back-pedaling from Powell once she fully understands the potential legal consequences of pimping out one’s underage daughters. IANAL, but that’s gotta be a pretty serious felony, no?
My prediction is that Powell’s going to wind up suffering a lot more than Pitino.
October 9th, 2015 at 3:46PM
Dr_ – I also know little about the legal stuff. But – I don’t know – immunity? in some context or other?
October 9th, 2015 at 6:20PM
Maybe. But it’s hard to see a DA excusing anyone for prostituting her kids, under any circumstances–setting aside everything else, the optics would be terrible–much less doing so in order to go after a sports program that is popular with voters. My gut feeling is that Powell gets thrown under the bus and Louisville PR says, “You just can’t believe a horrible monster like that.”
October 26th, 2015 at 8:42PM
[…] coaches that earn by far the highest salaries at our universities. The genius who came up with “Hostess 5.0” at the University of Louisville will be immortalized in case studies at business schools all over […]