The email arrived early Wednesday afternoon, and it came from an old friend and longtime fellow college hoops junkie.
The subject line read: “This is the way …”
Once opened, the rest of the message read: “… the world ends.”
My friend wasn’t talking about the fate of Louisville men’s basketball after the university’s announcement that both Cardinals coach Rick Pitino and athletic director Tom Jurich had been placed on administrative leave.
That decision was pretty much a foregone conclusion as soon as news broke Tuesday that the FBI had video and audio evidence of an unnamed Cards assistant coach helping broker a deal with the family of a player believed to be prep All-American Brian Bowen for a cool $100,000.