05/19/2021
One of ESPN’s former college basketball analysts is in the news, and not for anything good. Dino Gaudio has a long coaching history in men’s college basketball, including head coaching stints at Army, Loyola (Maryland) and Wake Forest, and worked for ESPN as an analyst from 2011-18, but it’s his latest job (serving as an assistant coach at Louisville, a role he held from 2018 until Monday) that has him in hot water.
After a 13-7 regular season that saw the Cardinals go on to lose to Duke in the first round of the ACC tournament and miss the NCAA tournament, Louisville head coach Chris Mack decided not to renew the contracts of Gaudio and fellow assistant Luke Murray. As per Shannon Russell of
Feds charge former Louisville assistant men s basketball coach Dino Gaudio for extortion after he threatened to reveal alleged NCAA rules violations if he didn t get 17 months salary
Federal authorities charged ex-Louisville assistant men s basketball coach Dino Gaudio with attempting to extort the university in retaliation for his dismissal
Gaudio was recorded threatening to go to the media with alleged NCAA violations committed by the program, according to the federal charges
Gaudio said he would expose alleged violations by the team in its production of recruiting videos for prospective student-athletes, according to the charges
He allegedly demanded 17 months salary or else he would reveal those claims
Wednesday afternoon Cardinal news and notes
Share this story A fourth-place finish at the Noblesville Regional has the Louisville men’s golf team moving on to the NCAA Championships for the fifth time in program history. The U of L baseball team got back on track Tuesday night with an 8-6 win over USC Upstate. Eric Crawford shares his thoughts on Louisville basketball’s latest extortion mess.
The last thing I’m going to do is gloss over violations for a program that ought to have zero, given the NCAA hammer it is living under. But this kind of Level II or III thing is not the kind of thing that strikes fear into anyone.
Quinn Slazinski transferring from Louisville to Iona
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As if this week hasn’t already been eventful enough, there is now this .
If I’m betting on myself I completely double down
That’s right, Quinn Slazinski one of the first players recruited to Louisville by Chris Mack is headed to Iona to play for former Cardinal head coach Rick Pitino.
The most important thing to note about this move is that we’re all clearly living in a simulation and nothing really matters.
Slazinski started eight games for U of L this past season, and finished his sophomore campaign with averages of 6.2 points and 3.6 rebounds per game. He was expected to redshirt his first year as a Cardinal, but wound up appearing in 15 games where he scored a total of 15 points and grabbed 10 rebounds.