According to the headline in the courier journal it sounds as though everyone’s favorite coach arranged the scheme with Brian Bowen. Haven’t read it because I refuse to pay for that rag tag paper. Things might start to get interesting 
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Louisville fans really expected us and everyone to believe that Rick was a victim in all this 
Sell your soul and don’t be surprised when the Devil shows up.
Rick can coach but he’s not worth the baggage and crap that comes with him.
Rick can coach but he’s not worth the baggage and crap that comes with him.
UofL & Pitino: The gift that keeps on giving. I mean like for freakin' ever.
The challenging part is UL might be saying this because he is gone. So NCAA blame Pitino not us.
Reminder of the interview Pitino gave after Bowen originally committed to Louisville:
“We got lucky on this one. I had an AAU director call me and ask me if I’d be interested in a great player. I saw him against another great player from Indiana. I said, ‘Yeah, I’d be really interested.’ They had to come in unofficially, pay for their hotel, pay for their meals. We spent zero dollars recruiting a five-star athlete who I loved when I saw him play. In my 40 years of coaching, this is the luckiest I’ve been.”
“We got lucky on this one. I had an AAU director call me and ask me if I’d be interested in a great player. I saw him against another great player from Indiana. I said, ‘Yeah, I’d be really interested.’ They had to come in unofficially, pay for their hotel, pay for their meals. We spent zero dollars recruiting a five-star athlete who I loved when I saw him play. In my 40 years of coaching, this is the luckiest I’ve been.”
Watched a documentary on the 1996 team yesterday entitled "Simply the Best." If you have not seen it it is a must see on YouTube. As I watched I marveled at that team and Pitino, all I could think about was how great a coach he is. How he coached. In many instances how he made each player so much better. What a great preparation and in-game coach he is. I know he has had a lot of off court issues since he made the biggest coaching mistake of his life and went to the Celtics, but, if he had stayed, we would have surpassed UCLA for all time NCAA titles and he not Kareuoaugbnerfjaio8ski would have been the modern era best of all time. He might not have been the greatest recruiter, but he got his share and then got a bunch of sound fundamental kids and really coached them up.
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The whole time Pitino was talking his nose was getting bigger.
I love to watch Loserville fans boil in their own juices NCAA will curb stomp those clowns
Ummmm….that’s jail time. Of course he will never do it. But yeah. Ricky P might be further talking with the feds.
Pitino is a liar and cheater but the saddest part is that fans on this board recently wanted to bring that slime back to UK.
That's quite the understatement. He dynamited his coaching career and legacy with the embarrassing **** with Karen Sypher and his inability to compete with UK and Cal, which drove him to cheating with the strippers and Adidas. He's probably going to be hit with a show cause before long, and that will wind his coaching days up.
Pitino has issued a statement. Pretty convincing:
"I am shocked and saddened that one month before the 13th anniversary of Ted Kennedy's death the NCAA finds it appropriate to reopen this matter.
As for the charges, I remember the day in question very well. I was visiting the 9/11 Memorial Site in New York where my brother-in-law Billy Minardi was tragically killed on one of the darkest days in American history. Whatever the allegations about some recruit who I didn't personally ever watch play and who my assistant coaches were totally responsible for signing, all I can say is, 'shame on you for reviving the memory of that day when all I was trying to accomplish was to comfort my beloved wife.”
"I am shocked and saddened that one month before the 13th anniversary of Ted Kennedy's death the NCAA finds it appropriate to reopen this matter.
As for the charges, I remember the day in question very well. I was visiting the 9/11 Memorial Site in New York where my brother-in-law Billy Minardi was tragically killed on one of the darkest days in American history. Whatever the allegations about some recruit who I didn't personally ever watch play and who my assistant coaches were totally responsible for signing, all I can say is, 'shame on you for reviving the memory of that day when all I was trying to accomplish was to comfort my beloved wife.”
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According to the headline in the courier journal it sounds as though everyone’s favorite coach arranged the scheme with Brian Bowen. Haven’t read it because I refuse to pay for that rag tag paper. Things might start to get interesting
"The great thing about this recruitment is that the university had to spend zero dollaaaz in the recruitment of Brian Bowen." -3 stax
This was SOOOO long ago that it now just appears to be a vendetta or just insanity. Of course Pitino was responsible, so why didn't the NCAA take action against him years ago and stick with a 10 year show cause? Bringing it up now is ridiculous. Maybe they're going to hit UL hard and it's one more point to justify sanctions. I feel bad for KP.
Does anyone know the $ amount that Andre McGee made off with hush money to go away?
Great coach but that’s supposition. More likely he would have self destructed in Lexington.
Why do you feel bad for Kenny he knew what he was getting into when he took the job
Not Rick “The Crypt” Pimptino!
Say it aint so Pimpo!!!
This day just keeps getting better and better!
Say it aint so Pimpo!!!
This day just keeps getting better and better!
Respect your opinion. I think the infrastructure at UK would have kept him between the rails.
Little Brother, you have a track record for hiring sus coaches. You hired Bobby “Roadkill” Petrino TWICE.
I honestly believe that had Rick gone to any major program, other than UofL, he'd have a few more titles and be a Mt Rushmore coach. Trying to keep up with Cal at UK wore than man down. All the way down to selling his soul. The Rick Pitino story would be a lot different had he just taken the Michigan job instead. Don't get me wrong, he turned into a slime ball and made his table top. But, he could flat out coach basketball.
No, the NCAA has turned it over to their CCU (complex case unit, seriously) so there should be movement in 4 1/2 years.
The Courier-Journal was the first to report the news about the NCAA's Complex Case Unit submitting the additional allegations after gaining information through an open records request. The CCU had issued its original amended notice of allegations last September and will be decided by the Independent Accountability Resolution Process.
Then it goes to the Fair Process Division, then reviewed by the department of infractions, then we have a senate hearing on live tv, then UofLs rebuttal. So yeah, 4 1/2 - 5 years
Wrenches. I'd like it even better with wrenches.
UL is still in deny, deny mode… according to article on yahoo