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SBKY

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Let him retire at his Camelot. I've listened to him speak for 35 years and have never gotten tired of hearing what he has to say. I'm already tired of hearing what Pope has to say. The things he's saying this year about the state of college basketball, St. Johns, prior players, etc are extremely in tune with everything we want in a coach.

Just bring him back. He gets it. He probably wants it. For those of you that don't want him, nobody wanted Pope but then he pulled the wool over our eyes with the press conference and we all gave him a chance. I guarantee everyone will be all in on Pitino in a day. Let him retire here and mold a new replacement in 4-5 years.
 
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SBKY said:
Let him retire at his Camelot. I've listened to him speak for 35 years and have never gotten tired of hearing what he has to say. I'm already tired of hearing what Pope has to say. The things he's saying this year about the state of college basketball, St. Johns, prior players, etc are extremely in tune with everything we want in a coach.

Just bring him back. He gets it. He probably wants it. For those of you that don't want him, nobody wanted Pope but then he pulled the wool over our eyes with the press conference and we all gave him a chance. I guarantee everyone will be all in on Pitino in a day. Let him retire here and mold a new replacement in 4-5 years.
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I've been back and forth on this notion of Pitino. When Cal left I thought "what if"? Then when we got Pope I was like "aah, it's probably for the better". At that time my thought on Pitino was sort of this idea of closure, more so than him having success.


I am now firmly in the camp of welcoming Pitino back for both closure and as simply the best hire out there. He's showing no signs of slowing down. If anything, he's as hot right now as he's ever been. This whole "Godfather" thing he's taken on is arguably the best thing to ever happen to his career. He'd be an unbelievable hit for recruits and their handlers. Rick Pitino makes you an offer and combine it with Kentucky and it'd be damn hard for anyone to say no.


If Pitino came back, we'd instantly be contenders as much as any other hot name coach could instantly make us contender, if not more. Which is precisely why it won't happen.
 
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shockdaddy19

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I have 2 good friends who are close to Pitino and while I haven’t discussed this with one of them, the other is adamant that it won’t happen. Just that Pitino is very happy at St. John’s, is on his home turf, and is incredibly well funded with NIL. I suppose you never say never, but according to someone who is really close to him, it just doesn’t make any sense.
 
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That’s a desperation move, unfortunately. And that’s pretending that Mitch/ AD even had the ballz to do something like that.
 
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Y’all. A coaching change is not happening this year. We are stuck with Pope at least one more year.

Why is this so hard to grasp. Use your brains instead of your hearts.
 
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We could have hired Pitino away from Louisville in 2007 but Mitch doesn’t have balls to do that and wouldn't this time either...

If we truly had no options after scott drew [yuck] said no, we should have then offered Pitino for 3 to 5 years, but now there's not a chance and pope is back next year. Pitino retires at st johns probably in 3 years.

We had plenty of options but mitch just went straight to Pope. The evidence will be shown with who UNC and Kansas hires. UNC doesnt even pay their coach's alot but they might have to now since going with an out of family hire. Hubert Davis's first contract was only $10 million over 5 years. We paid that to pope in 2 years.
 
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SBKY said:
Let him retire at his Camelot. I've listened to him speak for 35 years and have never gotten tired of hearing what he has to say. I'm already tired of hearing what Pope has to say. The things he's saying this year about the state of college basketball, St. Johns, prior players, etc are extremely in tune with everything we want in a coach.

Just bring him back. He gets it. He probably wants it. For those of you that don't want him, nobody wanted Pope but then he pulled the wool over our eyes with the press conference and we all gave him a chance. I guarantee everyone will be all in on Pitino in a day. Let him retire here and mold a new replacement in 4-5 years.
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He has been on social security for 7 years. Why?
 
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SBKY said:
Let him retire at his Camelot. I've listened to him speak for 35 years and have never gotten tired of hearing what he has to say. I'm already tired of hearing what Pope has to say. The things he's saying this year about the state of college basketball, St. Johns, prior players, etc are extremely in tune with everything we want in a coach.

Just bring him back. He gets it. He probably wants it. For those of you that don't want him, nobody wanted Pope but then he pulled the wool over our eyes with the press conference and we all gave him a chance. I guarantee everyone will be all in on Pitino in a day. Let him retire here and mold a new replacement in 4-5 years.
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Dude, you know this isn't going to happen.

Why bother posting this?
 
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Bring Pitino in for 4 years & make Pope the associate head coach, learning on the job, let Pitino teach him how to be a head coach & how to actually play defense lol. Joking obviously but this would be crazy, Pitino would get to come back to Camelot & Pope could be taught how to be the coach here. It just totally baffles me how in the world Pope doesn't use a type of defense Pitino taught him.
 
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