Louisville Basketball: Was Jordan Fair firing related to FBI investigation or new assistant coach?

Louisville Cardinals’ assistant coach Jordan Fair was terminated without cause after being placed on paid administrative leave, but why?

On Wednesday, the Louisville Cardinals announced that assistant coach Jordan Fair would be terminated without cause from the school. Fair had just recently been promoted to assistant coach in March.

This comes after the revelations as a part of the FBI investigation that led to the “firing” of long-time Louisville coach Rick Pitino and charges brought against multiple assistant coaches in college basketball.

That being said, we were not really given a reason for Fair’s firing, and it helps to cloud the already confusing chain of events throughout the FBI investigation into college basketball.

The university investigated Fair and associate head coach Kenny Johnson internally and put them both on paid administrative leave before the decision to terminate Fair. The internal investigation is still ongoing, and Johnson is still on leave.

The quick decision to fire Fair “without cause” could be attributed to the impending arrival of former TCU Horned Frogs and Stanford Cardinals’ coach Trent Johnson, who will join interim coach David Padgett.

Some are pointing towards the FBI allegations and the report that revealed a wiretapped conversation between an undercover agent and an assistant from the University of Louisville, but, at this point, it is clearly speculation and the clear cause is unknown.

It is important to note that Louisville was already on probation at this time, so anything that happened that violates NCAA rules could be a brutal blow to this program.

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We’ll keep you updated here on Busting Brackets as the fallout of the FBI investigation continues.