Disgraced Louisville deserves audit

The president of a state-supported university craftily renders a “no-fault” verdict shielding himself, the university, its board of governors, its athletics director and the head coach of its basketball program from any repercussions connected with an NCAA violation investigation.

After months of denial, now comes this most disgraceful, disingenuous, delusional recognition of possible culpability. Publicly conceding that the probe has possible merit, the university places restrictions on its basketball program. It is now banned from all conference- and NCAA-sponsored end-of-season tournament competitions.

Demeaning the student athlete for the “unauthorized” actions of unsupervised personnel operating as agents of the university program is a tragic breach of executive authority.

Any state-funded institution found to be as unprincipled and as loosely managed as the University of Louisville seems to be deserves the special attention of the state auditor, the legislature and every morally sensitive voter residing in Kentucky.

This story was originally published February 12, 2016 at 6:00 PM with the headline "Disgraced Louisville deserves audit."