Bannon and Rice had rather poor experiences at Rutgers leading to their being fired,
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Was that frowned upon by the powers that be at Louisville ? Had Pitino known he probably would have rented a room at a motel or something.
Hard to believe that they have higher standards than a good Catholic school like St. John's.
You should probably just stop rooting for football teams in general if that bothers you. Although the insertion of $ as an issue hasn't lessened the need for much of the shenanigans.
I've been rooting for Rutgers for over 60 years. It's probably too late to stop now...apologies to Van Morrison.
But I don't root for teams that use hookers to recruit players. Bad coaching IMO.
Not all sketchy pasts are the same. Some will bother just about everyone with their extremely sketchy past. Other sketchy activity will just bother a certain percentage of the public. Some will bother almost no one.
IMO Pitino clearly belongs in the first category. That's probably why Louisville cut loose such a great coach.
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Here's what recruits see. Rick Pitino's 39 players in the NBA.
Hawaii - Reggie Carter, Tommy Barker
Boston University - Gary Plummer
Providence - Billy Donovan, Marty Conlon
Kentucky - Reggie Hanson, Jamal Mashburn, Rodrick Rhodes, Tony Delk, Walter McCarty, Jeff Sheppard, Mark Pope, Antoine Walker, Scott Padgett, Derek Anderson, Ron Mercer, Wayne Turner, Nazr Mohammed, Jamal Magloire
Louisville - Reece Gaines, Francisco Garcia, Terrence Williams, Jerry Smith, Earl Clark, Derek Caracter, Samardo Samuels, Peyton Siva, Chris Smith, Gorgul Dieng, Russ Smith, Montrezl Harrell, Terry Rozier, Mangok Mathiang, Chinanu Onuako, Damion Lee, Donovan Mitchell, Deng Adel, Raymond Spalding
St. John's - Kadary Richmond
Sampson's transgressions seem rather quaint now. Pearl was a hypocite and a snitch. Pitino's level of grime was no more than most coaches that win at that level, the buying hookers for recruits notwithstanding.
Well, judging from Rutgers lack of recruiting success over the many years that I've been following them they need to upgrade to a better class of hookers.
I have zero respect for people with no character - like you and Pitino. You sound like Donald Trump. Both of you would consider me a major LOSER, and I would wear that as a badge of honor.
It does totally disgust me when posters here excuse evil behavior as OK, as long as the guy wins. He will be in the Hall of Fame, because there are far more people willing to excuse such behavior than there are people willing to demand character.
I was simply questioning the idea of not routing for a coach because of character issues.
Why not cheer for Pitino but then cheer for Greg?
it seemed inconsistent thinking.
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Now imagine how bad his transgressions had to be for Louisville to cut Hall of Fame Pitino loose.
Was it the banging a woman on a restaurant table or the hookers used for recruiting purposes that broke the camel's back ?
They were toe to toe with the #1 team in the country lmao. What is with this fanbase?
Pitino laid an egg sitting Prey most of the second half. Very similar to last year when he sat RJ Luis in the NCAA Tournament 2nd round game.
this is embarassing. especially on a Rutgers board. you should delete it.
If we don’t get better talent and coaching, we may need hookers to keep our fans happy.
Another Boomer Here: Indeed, a new world when someone gets satirized for writing "I have no respect for those with no character." Is the sentiment the exclusive domain of us geezers?
sometimes it is nice to show moral standards when many excuse the lack of them because winning is everything.
Hopefully it's not just boomers that express high moral standers they want from their School's HC , but those of all ages will lament how the need for wins overshadows a coach's conduct and not be insulted for it.
Sadly I realize that the winning is everything approach has become standard practice for most programs and their fan bases.
I have no problems with individuals not wanting or liking Pitino. I agree he by all accounts ofc the court displays very low if any moral compass.
My question before I was attacked was then how can you support a bad coach who can not come close to Pitno’s coaching achievements in Greg.
Our current head coach is tied too and was implicated in the countries largest children’s abuse case.
On my moral compass adultery is much much much lower on the scale then what happened to those kids at PSU.
If you apply morality be consistent .
You seem to have a serious dislike for both our basketball and football coaches. I don't know why but I'm kinda curious as to who is the most recent Rutgers football or basketball head coach you have liked....if any.
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I like Puke a lot but feel he is over his head and behind the times for power 4 hoops.
Schiano don’t like is bully stick, or consistent lies and moving the needle and he is over his skis.
Liked flood the person
But if they lead winning programs and were winning big, I think they would have been punished, but not fired.
If they did get fired for what happened, you can bet another college program would have them running their program instead of them being out of the college basketball game.
He was hired before the Nit pervert protection became public and despite all who are painting him with the same paintbrush they hasn't been one shred of proof he was involved excepting someone saying someone said something.
Unless your sketchy past is about something else, or you have proof more than unfounded accusation I'd agree with you , but until I know different, the benefit of doubt prevails . Especially since what was claimed said was denied by the person ( Tom Bradley) who McQueery claimed to have said it