Louisville Should Have Acted Like It Had Bigger Problems Than a Meaningless Banner Removal

Louisville’s 2013 national championship banner has descended from the rafters of the YUM! Center.

Banners have come down before, as a coach who works about 80 miles away in Lexington can attest. But no banner of this magnitude had been stripped until an NCAA appeals committee announced Tuesday that it would uphold the penalties handed down by the Committee on Infractions last June. Along with a pu pu platter of sanctions the Cardinals imposed on themselves as a result of the Katina Powell affair, Louisville must vacate the results of games played between December 2010 and the end of the 2014 season and must pay back NCAA tournament units that could total about $600,000. The vacation of those…