First off, it makes you wonder what Luke's "recruiting process" consisted of.
Second, any retroactive stripping of titles is of small consequence to a program like Louisville. It is now one of the richest AD's in the nation (#22) when 20 years ago, it wouldn't even rate in the top 100. It is now a perennial national power in both football and basketball and that will not change anytime in the foreseeable future.
And I am sure no one is chasing down the players to find their championship rings, t-shirts, pictures, trophies etc... and try to confiscate them. So the NCAA may say they "stripped" them of titles, in reality everyone knows they won and the publicity they received from the championship run will last and benefit them substantially more than any bad pub they will receive from this controversy.
The high school prospects who saw Louisville make that run, now will have Louisville ingrained in their minds a s a top program and if managed right, will financially benefit Louisville for years to come as they stay a national power for top recruits to consider.
If the NCAA really wanted to thwart this corruption, they would have some rule that if you are caught twice or three times violating recruiting rules, you would be fined much more and the program could not have scholarship players for 5 or 10 years, would ineligible for any post-season play, or even ban them from any NCAA competition at all in that sport for one entire 4 year recruiting cycle.
Individuals may be affected but it is much ado about nothing program wise. Louisville may not say this publicly, but for them, it was worth it.
