Amid allegations he hired escorts to have sex with basketball recruits during his time at the University of Louisville (UL), Andre McGee resigned from his position at the University of Missouri - Kansas City (UMKC).
UMKC head basketball coach Kareem Richardson confirmed to The Courier Journal McGee formally issued a resignation letter on Friday.
"I won't have further comments about Andre or the allegations," Richardson told the newspaper.
McGee played for UL head coach Rick Pitino from 2005 to 2009 and then served as a graduate assistant under Pitino from 2010 to 2012. Then from 2012 to 2014, McGee became UL's director of basketball operations before leaving UL to be an assistant coach at UMKC to Richardson.
In her recently released book, "Breaking Cardinal Rules," Katina Powell alleged McGee hired her and other women to strip for UL basketball recruits between 2010 and 2014 at parties in a residence hall. On occasion, Powell claims, McGee would pay the women for "side deals," which she told ESPN's Outside the Lines meant sex.
Powell also claims McGee implied to her that Pitino knows everything that goes on with his team. Pitino told ESPN neither he nor anyone on his staff knew what McGee was allegedly doing and also called for the former UL staffer to comment publicly.
Aside from his resignation notice at UMKC, McGee has only stated through his lawyer, Scott C. Cox, that he knew Powell but did not pay her or anyone to have sex with Louisville basketball recruits.
"The university deserves a full-time assistant coach, and I am not able to provide that to the basketball team while the false allegations against me are being investigated," McGee wrote to UMKC Director of Athletics Carla Wilson, according to NBC Sports.
OTL's report also contained anonymous testimonies from five former Louisville basketball players who stated they attended McGee's parties, and one stated he had sex with a dancer McGee hired.
