Kevin Ware Has Amazing Response To The NCAA Stripping 2013 Louisville Team Of National Championship

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Forget what you saw on TV, the 2013 Louisville team did not win the National Championship. Today, the NCAA announced that the school will vacate wins from 2012 to 2015, including their national championship win in 2013, after an investigation revealed that a former Louisville assistant used strippers and sex parties to recruit players to the school.

Via NCAA

Louisville must vacate men’s basketball records in which student-athletes competed while ineligible during the 2011-12 through 2014-15 academic years according to a decision issued by the NCAA Division I Infractions Appeals Committee. The appeals committee also upheld the NCAA Division I Committee on Infractions penalty that requires the university to return to the NCAA money received through conference revenue sharing for its appearances in the 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015 NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championships.

In the Committee on Infractions’ decision, the panel found that a former Louisville director of basketball operations acted unethically when he committed serious violations by arranging striptease dances and sex acts for prospects, student-athletes and others, and did not cooperate with the investigation. The violations in the case resulted in some men’s basketball student-athletes competing while ineligible.

The Committee on Infractions responded to the appeal by stating the penalties were appropriate due to the serious, intentional and numerous violations orchestrated by a university staff member for nearly four years. It further argued that student-athletes do not have to be culpable for the vacation penalty to be appropriate, and because the serious nature of the violations resulted in the participation of ineligible student-athletes, the vacation of records penalty was appropriate.

A member of the 2013 national championship team, former Louisville guard Kevin Ware, had the best response to the NCAA’s decision.

Ware continued to blast the NCAA on Twitter for the sanctions.

Vacating championships is one of the dumbest ways to penalize schools for prior transgression. I’m glad Kevin Ware called the NCAA over their idiocy.