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“[T]he first order of business needs to be blasting Louisville basketball into non-existence.”

This blog is ambivalent about the predictable call for the University of Louisville to get the death penalty (it’d probably be curtains for the whole university, since without its sports programs …), now that its totally stinky irredeemable stinkiness (there’s a reason they call it the U of Smell) has yet again wafted its way across the landscape of this great country of ours. When it comes to Louisville, it’s very much as George immortally put it to Martha: There isn’t an abomination award going that you haven’t won. The only thing left for that university to win is the death penalty.

One observer claims that the career of UL’s super-louche basketball coach will “almost certainly … end in a fall of Shakespearian dimension.” (That should be Shakespearean.). But if you start in the gutter and end in the gutter does that count as Shakespearean? Tragic?

And why are we here at University Diaries ambivalent? Because without the sex drugs and rock and roll we get from UL we’d suffer a fall of Shakespearean dimension.

Margaret Soltan, September 26, 2017 3:03PM
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One Response to ““[T]he first order of business needs to be blasting Louisville basketball into non-existence.””

  1. theprofessor Says:

    I think that even the jock-sniffers are realizing that the NCAA either drops the bomb on Louisville, UNC, and the other big proven cheaters or it simply has to be dissolved. Given that the “death penalty” in NCAA-speak may be as short as a year, we are not exactly talking about a savage punishment. These are not cases of thug athletes acting like thugs, but institutions themselves cheating. Sticking these places with a 5-year ban across the board on all sports might get somebody’s attention.

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