Just kiding...well maybe not.
http://www.sportingnews.com/ncaa-ba...ian-bowen-fbi-ncaa/1ehjkt4uf8lyc1mst1qfkh1ftc
http://www.sportingnews.com/ncaa-ba...ian-bowen-fbi-ncaa/1ehjkt4uf8lyc1mst1qfkh1ftc
Would we hire Pitino
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So, this basketball conference had to have Louisville and before that had to have scUM. Look what it brought upon the ACC.
This is why I would not make a good AD. I wanted Bruce Pearl at FSU and here he is again at Auburn possibly involved with this lol.
I don't think that anyone's going to have to worry about hiring Pitino ever again.
It is just not the issues with the basketball team that makes it a head scratcher as to why the ACC brought in UL. They have had a whole host of academic and admin issues that just reeks of corruption and poor mgmt.
I know you asked TIC, but there is no way FSU would bring Pitino in. Not with all his baggage.
I know you asked TIC, but there is no way FSU would bring Pitino in. Not with all his baggage.
So is the question would we rather have current staff and have mediocre results or risky (guaranteed issues) with better results? I'd stick with mid-pack results and a ho hum coach. Unless its football, then win at all costs, mediocrity isn't acceptable.
Agreed although I am not in favor of winning at all costs even for football. A program is tarnished much more so IMO for having issues like what basketball programs are experiencing now.
He'll go back to the NBA before he goes to a Division II school. His ego would never allow that.
I hadn't considered his ego, you may be right, but if he really wanted to coach more, I bet they'd take him.
They play fast and loose with the rules and they're a pretty poor academic institution so they're a better fit for the SEC, but there is no doubt swapping Louisville's overall athletic programs for Maryland was a win.
Plus who else was out there to replace Maryland other than Louisville? West Virginia? Too small of a footprint even though they're rabid fans and the academics are barely better than Louisville? UConn? Other than basketball they have a terrible athletic program. Cincinnati? No better than Louisville and likely to start a "war" we wouldn't win against the Big Ten. East Carolina? No need for another NC school. USF or UCF? No need for another FL school.
Now I do think we'll have better options later as I don't think the Big 12 is stable so we might be able to grab 1-4 schools from there. But at the time there was no better school to bring in than Louisville.
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I think we should take him if it get us past the first round of the NCAA Tourney...
NCAA sanctions would follow Pitino so he would need to get a job outside college.
Interestingly .......
http://www.tallahassee.com/story/sp...ive-line-weakness-jimbo-fisher-fsu/708840001/
Wake Forest coach Dave Clawson doesn't see Florida State's offensive line as a weakness
Is there a HC that tells the truth when asked questions about the other teams? It's usually how the other team is excellent in all three phases. I don't ever remember a Head Coach in college saying "you know, their left tackle is weak and has a slow first step so we are going to destroy him all game long".
There was also this.
https://www.diehards.com/florida-state/dabo-swinney-trust-florida-state-good-anybody
Dabo Swinney: ‘Trust me, Florida State is as good as anybody out there’
Pardon me if I don't take the heaping of praise from an opposing coach very seriously.
62Nole
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No way on earth should we take Pitino....................unless Petrino is in the "package".
Of course, Bobby would demand a Harley and a coed.
Of course, Bobby would demand a Harley and a coed.
My understanding is that he already fished around for an NBA job and didn't get any takers.
"Larry Bird is not walking through that door, fans. Kevin McHale is not walking through that door, and Robert Parish is not walking through that door. And if you expect them to walk through that door, they're going to be gray and old."
He'll get a "consulting" job with Addidas (he knows where all the bodies are buried) and, if he doesn't fall into a bottle of scotch, he'll get rehired by northeastern west school of the blind once all this all dies down. Where he will proceed to sign blue chip requires and take the blind to the final four.
A la Jerry Tarkanian @ Fresno State at the end of his career.
And his program will be caught again, and an assistant coach will take the fall again, and he will claim that he didn't know anything again. And the blind will say: "Coach, you said you were innocent, that you had reformed, that you were going to do things the right way if you got another chance. How could you do this again" And Coach Pitino will reply, like the scorpion, "don't blame me, it is who I am, it is what I do."
He'd make a great cadaver for aspiring morticians to practice on. The guy is ghoulish looking lately.
http://www.kentucky.com/sports/college/acc/university-of-louisville/article175848341.html
Ousted Louisville men’s basketball coach Rick Pitino is “Coach-2” as referred to in the criminal complaint released Tuesday by the Justice Department, according to several outlets, including CBS News, ABC News and the Wall Street Journal.
If true, that would put Pitino in the middle of the investigation as a known party to investigators. In public statements, Pitino has denied any knowledge of the activity described in the federal complaint.
Interim Louisville President Gregory Postel said Thursday that the university has been given enough information to determine who “Coach-1” and “Coach-2” are, but could not name them citing the ongoing federal investigation.
Ousted Louisville men’s basketball coach Rick Pitino is “Coach-2” as referred to in the criminal complaint released Tuesday by the Justice Department, according to several outlets, including CBS News, ABC News and the Wall Street Journal.
If true, that would put Pitino in the middle of the investigation as a known party to investigators. In public statements, Pitino has denied any knowledge of the activity described in the federal complaint.
Interim Louisville President Gregory Postel said Thursday that the university has been given enough information to determine who “Coach-1” and “Coach-2” are, but could not name them citing the ongoing federal investigation.
Nope. He's going to be running a men's league in federal prison
62Nole
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Would we hire Pitino?
At this point, I'd hire him as our O-Line coach.
At this point, I'd hire him as our O-Line coach.
That or didn't want to tip his hand to Jimbo about the tell that everyone else sees which Jimbo cannot.
He will spend the next year playing golf at Indian Creek Country Club in Miami while sycophants like Dick Vitale spend the year trying to wash the stink away and in 2018 CBS or ESPN will hire him for TV.
Unless Rick Barnes craps the bed at Tennessee and Pitino's best pal, a UT benefactor with building named after his family, can get him that job.
Unless Rick Barnes craps the bed at Tennessee and Pitino's best pal, a UT benefactor with building named after his family, can get him that job.
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