Chuck Smrt, the person hired by the University of Louisville to monitor the progress of the NCAA's investigation, also attended those meetings. Katina Powell is not an admirable person, but she told the truth. The recruiting and sex scandal first came to light in October, when Powell, 43, a self-described former escort, detailed the recruiting parties in the book, "Breaking Cardinal Rules: Basketball and the Escort Queen.
Those parties, Powell said, were primarily designed to lure basketball recruits to the Louisville program. In October, five former University of Louisville basketball players and recruits told Outside the Lines that they attended the recruiting parties.
One former recruit, who went on to play at Louisville, said that he had sex with a dancer after McGee paid her. Another recruit, who ultimately signed to play elsewhere, said of the parties: "I knew they weren't college girls.
It was crazy. It was like I was in a strip club. The three recruits who met with NCAA investigators also provided information about the amount of money they were given by McGee at the parties to tip the dancers who stripped, the source close to the investigation said. Everybody in the room got the money -- the recruits and the current members of the team.
Not only that, but McGee himself had his own stack of dollar bills. Outside the Lines spoke briefly this month with McGee in Kansas City, where he is working as a driver for the car service Uber.
