Louisville refuted NCAA’s claims today in a 92-page response to the Notice of Allegations. (You can read that document here if you’re really, really, really bored.) In a separate document about half that length, Pitino and his lawyer, Scott Tompsett, made the same argument: “The enforcement staff has overreached in this case. Pitino should never have been charged,” it reads.
In the school’s lengthy response against any additional punishment on top of the school’s self-imposed penalties, UofL argues that the dollar amount exchanged between McGee and the women was more of a secondary violation than a major one (LOL); that McGee’s failure to cooperate shouldn’t fall on Louisville because he was gone at the time of the investigation; and that Pitino couldn’t have possibly known anything was going on.