Rick Pitino possible Alabama candidate

[ukhoops1_rivals58511]

https://thespun.com/college-hoops/rick-pitino-named-potential-option-for-the-alabama-basketball-job

 

[TriCountyCAT]

Alabama should be the perfect fit. The football program has been hiding payments to recruits for years, I’m sure they could apply that same technique to basketball.

 

[mebeblue2]

he will not go to Bama

i do think UCLA or UNLV should be serious player

 

[Mulder14]

I might be completely wrong here but I doubt that a Mitch Barnhart disciple would hire Rick

 

[kybassfan]

No way. The guy would pose a risk to that football team. NOBODY does that.

Though. . . I thought the same about Auburn and they hired that lying cheating *** hat Pearl.

 

[RobJones1978]

I could see that

 

[docholiday51]

Saban would not allow that under any circumstances

 

[FrankUnderwood]

So i mean he’s just allowed to coach again despite cheating/ trying to pay a player and being an accomplice in a prostitution ring for underage recruits and players?

Honestly curious if there’s any type of ramifications?

 

[TeoJ]

Any body that would hire Ricky at this point in time deserves what they get.

 

[MarvinHagler89]

Alabama should be the perfect fit. The football program has been hiding payments to recruits for years, I’m sure they could apply that same technique to basketball.

No they haven’t. They are just really really good.

 

[CB3UK]

Id be happy having him back on the schedule as our whipping boy. Louisville has more basketball resources than Alabama and he couldnt hold a candle to us. Dont see Alabama steering money away from Saban any time soon. Itd be a compelling hire for sure.

 

[CatEye2010]

Saban+Satan, lol. But I seriously suspect a show-cause for RP at some point.

 

[rick64]

NCAA isn’t going to let anyone hire him.

 

[RLSmith]

I actually miss the battles with his teams...

 

[akaukswoosh]

Any body that would hire Ricky at this point in time deserves what they get.

This.

 

[akaukswoosh]

I actually miss the battles with his teams...

We swamped him. What battles?

 

[DonkeyDwayne]

I might be completely wrong here but I doubt that a Mitch Barnhart disciple would hire Rick

Mitch has/had little to do with the coaching.

 

[Mulder14]

Mitch has/had little to do with the coaching.

?

 

[westerncat]

So i mean he’s just allowed to coach again despite cheating/ trying to pay a player and being an accomplice in a prostitution ring for underage recruits and players?

Honestly curious if there’s any type of ramifications?

Heck Self at Kansas has been doing that for years.

 

[dcspurlock]

I don’t see any way Saban and the football program allow him to come and keep the NCAA snooping around. They want no part of having them on campus on a weekly basis which is exactly what would happen to the first program that hired Rick.

 

[UKUGA]

Great. He can break out his plaid jacket.

 

[drbubba]

NCAA isn’t going to let anyone hire him.

I wish, but I don't think he ever got a show cause.

 

[Catlogic15]

Why would ANYBODY hire him. It’s possible if not likely he’ll receive a Show Cause. And the UL suit is still pending, and the NCAA is not finished with Louisville.
I get it you could argue separation of the Louisville thing but still, if I were an AD the whole collective issues would give me pause.

 

[MethodUK]

Even though Ricky may not know anything he can't be hired until the FBI case is completely over.

The risk of anything else coming out after the hire is way too risky for any school.

 

[Kats23]

Even if he’s a serious candidate for the job, I can’t see his ego going to a football school. Dude fought tooth and nail to keep a professional NBA franchise from coming to Louisville so he can be the big dog in town

 

[K_TIME]

So i mean he’s just allowed to coach again despite cheating/ trying to pay a player and being an accomplice in a prostitution ring for underage recruits and players?

Honestly curious if there’s any type of ramifications?

Great point...I'd imagine there would be a few years of "show cause" attached to Rick.

 

[ORCAT10]

Can't be top dog at Bama.

 

[John Henry]

Has his ego shrunk. He will not be the man at Bama

 

[CatsFan4Evr]

I don’t see how he doesn’t have a show cause from the NCAA yet. He’s not coaching again in college for a while.

 

[TBCat]

He could be dangerous there. Bama has much higher class of prostitutes than what UL can afford.

 

[DonkeyDwayne]

N

Heck Self at Kansas has been doing that for years.

Name a coach from a P5 that hasn’t.

Nope wrong.

 

[drbubba]

Paul Finebaum said no way. Rick's "a sleezeball".

 

[SemperFiCat]

He's not going to a football school and be in Saban's shadow.

 

[DonkeyDwayne]

Even though Ricky may not know anything he can't be hired until the FBI case is completely over.

The risk of anything else coming out after the hire is way too risky for any school.

Penalties to the coach would not carry over once hired. He may get a show cause, but it will not matter.

 

[Catluv]

Love Alabama shakes not sure about Alabama squirts!!!

 

[numberonedad]

No they haven’t. They are just really really good.

are you really that naive? Of course they have, all the big boys do

 

[Cindog28]

It might be wrong, but I would like to see Kansas fire Bill Self and Rick Pitino take his place. Continue to run that dumpster fire into the ground. [smoke]

 

[ukhoops1_rivals58511]

I might be completely wrong here but I doubt that a Mitch Barnhart disciple would hire Rick

He hired Sean Miller at Arizona

 

[JDHoss]

No one is likely to hire him until the fallout from the FBI investigation settles, and even then he's likely to be hit with a lengthy show cause, if not outright coaching ban. Besides, Ricky is looking into assembling the greatest coaching staff the Greek Basketball League has ever had when he brings in Wiretap Will, The Rug Doctor and Sean Miller as his assistants. His first staff at UK with Tubby, Donovan, and Willard will look like a junior high staff compared to that.

 

[420grover]

Just saw this