Louisville Basketball self-imposes sanctions: Twitter reacts
After the Louisville Cardinals placed self-imposed sanctions on their basketball team, Twitter blew up over the news.
March is going to look a lot different in college basketball this year without the Louisville Cardinals and Rick Pitino. On Friday, Louisville announced self-imposed sanctions that will place a one-year postseason ban on the program, which means they won’t be competing for a National Championship this season.
The move comes after an investigation into the program possibly using escort services to land recruits. After a detailed investigation, it’s clear Louisville is taking the necessary moves to work on cleaning the situation up with the one-year ban. While the NCAA will surely make their ruling on the matter, the Cardinals are wasting no time of their own.
After the program announced that they won’t be playing in March Madness, which is a yearly tradition for the storied program, Twitter absolutely blew up over the news that they won’t see the Cardinals and Pitino coaching from the bench in March.
Louisville's self-imposed postseason ban essentially an admission of guilt. School praying NCAA decides not to go any harder with sanctions
— Christian Zylstra (@Chizzy_CMZ) February 5, 2016
If Illinois thinks they've done anything wrong in the past, this would be a good year for self imposed sanctions.#Louisville#Pitino#Illini
— Jeff Drake (@JDrake52) February 5, 2016
These Louisville sanctions are toughh
— Alexander (@ALYV480) February 5, 2016
Wait til the NCAA sanctions are handed down on Louisville!! Hate it for the Kids!
— Chaplain Trad York (@tradyork20) February 5, 2016
I wonder what other sanctions the NCAA will bring down on Louisville ......but haven't forgotten the major North Carolina scandal either..
— Paul Roberts (@MisterRoberts) February 5, 2016
Somebody needs to make a "University of Louisville president Jerry Abramson" countdown clock.
— Mark Ennis (@MarkEnnis) February 5, 2016
Louisville made the complete wrong decision
— logan (@logant2311) February 5, 2016
Feel sorry for Louisville and all of those seniors
— Brian Graves (@coachbgraves) February 5, 2016
Welcome Louisville to my ban life
— DeAnthony R (@The_Barbarian__) February 5, 2016
Damn Louisville went out like that huh
— Happy Hour Bully (@BullyWasHere) February 5, 2016
When a team like Louisville announces they aren’t going to be playing in the postseason and something like this happens that could lead to further ramifications, it’s going to be a pretty polarizing subject.
It’s bad news for the players that had nothing to do with it, but it’s going to be hard for the program to get much sympathy in a situation like this from people on Twitter.