David Padgett: NCAA Should Have Waited to Announce Louisville Punishment

Interim Louisville coach David Padgett said he wished the NCAA had waited until after this basketball season to issue its ruling that stripped the program of the 2013 national title and handed down multiple other punishments.

"It was something that none of (Louisville's current players) were even here for," Padgett told reporters Tuesday. "I don't want to go on a tangent about the NCAA, but the least they could have done is wait another month or so until our season is over. With what these players have been through this year, for them to have to go through another thing like this, it's not fair to them. It's completely not fair. These 14 players have been through enough."

The NCAA announced Tuesday it was upholding punishments to Louisville's basketball program, which included vacating wins from the 2011-12 through 2014-15 seasons. The Cardinals won the 2013 NCAA tournament. Louisville will have to take down its banner from the 2013 season and can no longer publicize its championship.

"The panel found that a former Louisville director of basketball operations acted unethically when he committed serious violations by arranging striptease dances and sex acts for prospects, student-athletes and others, and did not cooperate with the investigation," the statement read. "The violations in the case resulted in some men’s basketball student-athletes competing while ineligible."

Andre McGee, a former Louisville assistant, arranged for strippers and prostitutes to perform sex acts for Cardinals recruits and players during his time with the program. He was the school's director of basketball operations during the championship season.

"It's dumb," former Louisville player Kevin Ware told Jeff Goodman of ESPN.com. "At the end of the day, the mistakes that Andre McGee made didn't have to do with us. The NCAA is a joke."