Because I thought he could clean up their reputation and move ahead. He didn't start the fire.
Rick pitino
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Because RP is still coaching… and now UL is flaunting/skirting the NIL rules. What a cesspool…
If they would have just been honest in the beginning, it would have been over years ago. Lying and hiding drags it out.
Lol at all the people who want to bring this scumbag back. Same with the Tom Jurich fangirls.
If Rick says he "didn't know nothing about anything", then that's good enough for me.
UofLol needs to pull a Dook and do an internal investigation and determine nothing happened. Problem solved.
I will never believe that Rick Pitino was unaware of all the shenanigans going on with that program while he was at the helm. This is a guy who tracked the calorie intake and body fat percentage of every single player and was always in their personal business. This is a guy who is a control freak, a type-A personality who knew everything that was going on. Of course he arranged the Bowen deal! And, at the very least, he was aware of the hookers scandal and arranged for plausible deniability, blaming the entire thing on assistant Andre McGee. I've said from the get-go, Rick instructed McGee to do whatever was needed to get and keep recruits and then he looked the other way. Trust me, nothing happened in that program without his knowledge.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
I kinda like it that way. Feels like there's always something hanging over their heads.
Yep...keep dragging it out as long as possible.
Louisville fans really expected us and everyone to believe that Rick was a victim in all this
I believe Rick Pitino is innocent of all charges and has been scape
’d by Jurich and several other highly influential administrators. Rick is a lot of things but he’s not a liar. If he said he didn’t do it he didn’t do it.One thing I've noticed going to the Louisville board, is they'd rather attack Sullivan, the story, or the paper itself. That's not exclusive to that base though, as everyone wants to run into their perfect little bubble now days where everything is fine and if there's bad news, then deny and attack, deny and attack.
The Courier Journal as well as the Lexington Herald Leader are agenda driven rags. Fake news experts. I wouldn’t believe anything either paper prints about anybody.
Still the best coach in the game.
Im just thankful nobody big has hired him. If Pitino went to Indiana or UNC, look out.
Im just thankful nobody big has hired him. If Pitino went to Indiana or UNC, look out.
No doubt about that, it’s not like Rick was some first time coach either. He was El Presidente and he ran that entire school with Jurich. They controlled everything.
I agree he's a great coach, but at louisville, Cal owned him. His record against Kentucky was dismal.
Too bad he has no morals NCAA needs to
Put a show cause on him for the Bowen bribery and drive his career into the dust
He should have taken the UNLV job. He would have been a Tark 2.0.
Sidenote: Pitino's previous recruiting strategies are a little less frowned upon in Vegas, IYKWIM
Damn, BOOM goes the dy-no-mite !
Drop the frikkin' Mic, IL!
post of the week right there ....
Rick, by his own admission, stated the same when asked about the Katina Powell scandal. “If a player of mine has a beer on 4th street, I know it within minutes. There is nothing that goes on with my players that I’m not aware of, BUT I didn’t know about this”. Lol, yeah ok Rick……
Why? I dont understand hating a man to the point you want his life over. Its a game, let him be.
Wait, i thought we all hated Cal and think he stinks?
Louisville is a city school, theyre the Mets. Not really a fair comparison. Pitino wouldve been deadly at a UNC or Kansas, somewhere that just the letterhead alone gets kids. Pitino is better than Bill Self, and he's faired pretty well against us.
Ive always maintained, and I don’t think people who grew up in Kentucky realize this, that Louisville damaged Pitino’s brand badly. I think he thought he could turn them into a modern blue blood but miscalculated their position on the national stage.
Outside of Kentucky nobody thinks about Louisville. I was a die hard UK fan growing up in Tennessee just 30 minutes from the state line - nobody ever spoke about Louisville. I didn’t even realize it was a rival really.
They are small time nationally. And that’s especially true before the ACC move. Not only are they totally overshadowed by UK, but it’s worse than even that. Walk up to anyone outside of Kentucky and tell them to start rattling off the 30 best programs in basketball. I guarantee you Louisville doesn’t even come up. People just forget about them outside of the state.
Pitino is the best coach of the modern era and the reason the record doesn’t reflect that is because Louisville is that much an afterthought. He never could get past that.
I'll never deny Pitino is a great coach, but his methods and over the top controlling of his players kept him from being able to recruit the top talents. Now, he turned some marginally talented guys into some excellent players and was always able to get the most of the talent he had. But as I say, the top players didn't want to play for him, which is what drove him to cheat. So, IF he could get top talent and could keep them (by using whatever methods- paying them, getting hookers for them, and etc) then he could be one of the top coaches even now. Problem is, because of his lying and cheating, he is likely to get a show-cause penalty from the NCAA. If he is still coaching after that is over, he's always gonna be stuck trying to get elite results from average players. In other words, he's done. No elite program will give him a serious look now.
Seriously? I didn't see anyone saying to bring him back. Glad I missed that nonsense because that is exceeding U of L fans "lets bring back Bobby Pitrino" levels of madness.
I dont think his methods kept great recruits away, he was a great recruiter at one point, he had many amazing players come through UK. I just dont think he evolved with what high school kids want. There was just better options. Who wants to go to UL when NBA scouts are at every game in Lexington and every UK, UNC, Duke, KU game is televised? They all want the NBA, Pitino didnt push the NBA, and one recruit even mentioned that he'd likely sit the bench at UL his first year. UL doesn't even have enough fan interest to get a Midnight Madness thing. Talking a John Wall to UL over Duke and UK isn't easy.
If all players were exactly equal, and it was just up to coaching, Pitino would be the best. And dont count him out yet, it wasn't even a year ago that a legit program tried to hire him. Wasn't it UGA, cant remember. But that was a wise move by the AD.....he's the only coach that can make anyone a title contender quickly. Edit- besides Cal
he had 1 great class at UK then 2 great players after that class and 1 great player before that class
he also had a few good players that took 4-5 years to develop (rarely happens now)
he also had 1 great transfer and a few good ones
he was not a great recruiter
Antione Walker, Mercer, Derek Anderson, Wayne Turner, Delk, Walter McCarty, Mashburn, who else am i missing?
Thats a great group he brought in. I wasn't expecting talent till after probation, but UK was awfully good when all was clear and he got the ball rolling.
Pitino has, IMHO, the best basketball mind of the modern era. He's top flight at X's and O's, and he gets the very best from all his players, and perhaps most importantly, he wins.
He's a highly driven individual, as most coaches tend to be, and even though he had it all at Kentucky, when the Celtics came calling his ego took over and he bolted. None of us were happy about it of course, but most of us understood why he took the job. THAT didn't pan out so......
He then opts to return to the college game that had been so good to him. There were several openings, and most people I talked to felt certain he's take the Michigan job.
Nope, he did the one thing UK fans could never forgive: he took the UL job. He then struggled to recruit and compete against Cal and he became desperate, so he began cheating and lying his *** off. Everyone always knew he was an *******, it was just that when the whole big UL scandal broke everyone realized he was not just an *******, but a lying cheating one to boot.
Keep that scumbag as far away from UK as possible.
He's a highly driven individual, as most coaches tend to be, and even though he had it all at Kentucky, when the Celtics came calling his ego took over and he bolted. None of us were happy about it of course, but most of us understood why he took the job. THAT didn't pan out so......
He then opts to return to the college game that had been so good to him. There were several openings, and most people I talked to felt certain he's take the Michigan job.
Nope, he did the one thing UK fans could never forgive: he took the UL job. He then struggled to recruit and compete against Cal and he became desperate, so he began cheating and lying his *** off. Everyone always knew he was an *******, it was just that when the whole big UL scandal broke everyone realized he was not just an *******, but a lying cheating one to boot.
Keep that scumbag as far away from UK as possible.
I agree with everything except the last sentence. I think it'd be nice to see him get an ovation at Rupp. He brought UK out of the darkness, those were some really really fun times. How can anyone be upset he went to UL? He nearly destroyed that program, embarrassed them for years, lost to us regularly and even got eliminated by us TWICE. I dont get it. Its not like he stole Anthony Davis or John Wall.
The man even said he shouldve never left UK.....WHILE HE WAS STILL AT UL.
Could you imagine if any UK coach said something like that? They'd burn his house down.
It literally went as perfect as we couldve planned it.
Delk and McCarty were part of his one great class that won it their senior year
how things have changed not just at UK but across the country
you would not see that amount of talent at any school stay past 1 year, maybe 1 or 2 might stay 2 years like Delk. McCarty and Turner (was a good college player but his shot was broken)