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Rick Pitino: ‘I’ve lost faith in NCAA’

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Louisville Cardinals head coach Rick Pitino says that the NCAA ruling about the escort scandal is unjust.

Louisville head coach Rick Pitino issued a statement on Thursday afternoon, highly critical of the punishments handed down to him and his program by the NCAA Committee on Infractions.

“For 35 some odd years, I’ve had a lot of faith in the NCAA and have reacted that way accordingly as a head basketball coach; in the belief of their rules,” Pitino said. “I’ve thought that in the recent past they’ve made some great adjustments to the rules that have helped players along the way. I feel now like everybody here that not only is it unjust, unfair, over-the-top severe, but I’ve personally lost a lot of faith in the NCAA and everything I’ve stood for in the last 35 years with what they just did.”

Pitino would go on to say he is putting his faith in the NCAA Infractions Appeals Committee.

Currently, Pitino is suspended for the first five ACC games of the 2017-18 season. However, the program has to vacate 108 games during the span of Dec. 2010 through July 2014. That would include the 2013 national championship victory over Michigan.

Louisville will appeal the committee’s ruling.