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Mates,
Its official now, Louisville fired Pitino.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - Louisville's Athletic Association has officially fired coach Rick Pitino nearly three weeks after the school acknowledged that its men's basketball program is being investigated as part of a federal corruption probe.
So sad to see him go. Grief Counseling is available.
XM
Poor Slick Rick Pitino. The hookers of Kentucky will observe a moment of silence at 4:00 PM sharp today...
That moment of silence will last longer than he did.
Well done. This thread is gonna be great
AND there will still be a mess to clean up once he's gone!
I've said it before and I'll say it here: What Pitino lacked in endurance he made up for in fertility.
Am I the only one that questions the quality of the hookers, it is Kentucky
Wait...I don't know if that's a good thing or not.
they can do amazing things ...
...a moment of silence from Louisville area waitresses.
....as well as all the blow dealers.
Wait...so he wasn't already??
He is even less nice than you thought
Yes, he got $1.5 million when the ENTIRE DEPARTMENT got $10,000. Granted, that $10k is probably a bit underselling it, but you get the point.
Score another for the maybe-we-should-start-paying-the-people-doing-the-work argument.
We are. They get a quarter million dollar education in return for playing a game.
I think the only people who don't get that are people who've not written the checks to pay for it out of their own pockets.
quarter million dollar education
Louisville.
*snort*
is $40,778.
So it's a sixth-of-a-million education.
"playing a game" what is this hop-scotch?
They are out there taking on some serious risks (Grant Newsome, Speight..etc.) whilst entertaining us bitching fans.
...the recruiting hostesses got paid.
Aren't they called Southern Belles at Bama? Just watched 30 for 30 tonight on SMU, the ones involved still seem to not be bothered by what they did just that they got caught
“All for me, none for you” mentality that is so prevalent today.
I hope never to see his face on a CBB bench again.
I think his contract requird a 10-day suspension prior to firing for cause.
I've been very confused by this entire thing. How is Kentucky still safe, btw?
Had fall guys.
More truth to this than you think.
Cheaters rule #1: Always give the head guy plausible deniability.
Calipari has William Wesley. He is untouchable. There is no need for a fall guy. No one has fallen.
than Slicl Rick, I guess?
I'm serious about this. Calipari's not suing Nike if the shit ever hits the fan. He does things the right way (it may be more of a mobster's "right" than what right is for most of us, but it's a code of honor nonetheless) and it's going to be a lot harder to get someone to roll over on him than it was to get them to rat out Pitino.
not disputing it, but genuinely curious where it comes from.
It's speculation; I don't really know anything. I've got family in the business so I hear vague stuff, rarely any specifics, more just a matter of noticing how different people are talked about.
But some obvious (at least to me) differences:
1. Calipari's already gone down a couple of times and we've seen how he behaved. He might have played dumb, but he was pretty low-key about it and as far as I know he never stabbed anybody in the back.
2. Calipari's not nearly as personally reckless as Pitino. We aren't making jokes about his staying power in bed--he keeps that crap out of the newspapers and blogs.
3. Calipari's network's entrenched. Do you think Christian Dawkins was hustling players at UK last year? Maybe I'm wrong but I don't see them being that desperate.
I honestly think it's Calipari's primary attribute as a coach. He's completely trustworthy, from this point of view. Agents love landing players there, which means he gets to work with the best people, which means players can trust that they're not to going to get hooked up with some "financial advisor" who's stealing their credit cards. Maybe you won't learn a whole lot of basketball there but you'll get showcased and nothing's going to happen that could jeopardize your career. I can't believe I'm defending the guy--to me the measure of a coach is how much basketball he teaches, not the size of his rolodex--but in his own way he's the perfect coach for this era.
sounds very reasonable
what a piece of shit he is
What did shit ever do to deserve that kind of insult?
I suppose by design...
I swear this is like the fourth iteration of him getting canned in the last few weeks. So anticlimatic... I want more fireworks.
have another career in professional body building.
For what?? That guy squeaks he is so clean. This is truly a shocking development.
Said nobody.....ever.
So you're saying he'll end up at North Carolina when Roy Williams retires? Isn't that were all squeaky clean coaches go to wind down?
Championship finally awarded.
Trey's block was clean.
Karma is a bitch.
I wonder if pitino includes a valtrex clause in his severance
In the NCAA, cheaters do prosper. People will always remember Louisville as the 2013 National Champions despite it being inevitably vacated.Until the NCAA actually gives the death penalty to someone big, teams will keep cheating because it makes sense to. Louisville got rich, Pitino got rich, and the players got paid and everyone got their rings.
Meanwhile Michigan did it clean, got nothing, and will get nothing. If anything it stings a little more now.
Keep firing, assholes!!! (Or just keep firing assholes would work too, I guess).
There was really no way they could keep him. I wouldn't be surprised if they contemplated, though.
While it certainly does not feel the same as how winning the national title would've felt, it feels good to know that justice was served for Michigan on some level.
Pitino, arguably the biggest slimeball in the college basketball, coached his last game and lost to John Beilein, the cleanest coach in the college basketball.
Now the real fight begins. This one is gonna get real ugly as Pitino claiming he was wrongfully terminated "for cause". At issue is $44m in contractual obligations. Pitino has gone so far as taken a lie detector test administered by FBI (inadmissible) and released personal text messages in support of his claim that he was w/o knowledge of payment(s) to Bowen.
Btw his contract required 10 day notice and today the UofL Athletic Ass'n (his employer) voted unanimously 12-0 to axe him.
or something very close to that, he is going to have to go about suing for his $44MM very carefully. If/when he gives a deposition he will be exposing himself to potentially big time federal and possibly state criminal charges. if i was advising U of L i would tell them to stand pat and to tell pitino, 'come and get it little satan'.
...they haven't said so. What they have is metadata showing three calls between Gatto and Pitino's phone during the week before Bowen's commitment. Pitino says they were talking about Terry Rozier and the subject of Bowen never came up.
As for the polygraph, I'm reminded of Dave Bliss doubling down last year on his claim that Dennehy was dealing drugs. You start out with a CYA lie and if you have a certain personality type you pretty quickly convince yourself the lie is actually true. I think most successful con men are skilled at self-delusion.
Well, I think we all saw that coming - we call those "decision making leaves" here, and more often than not, it ends with that person not returning to their position. As for Pitino, it will be interesting to see if he ends up somewhere eventually, even at some no-name place if he doesn't somehow end up in criminal trouble, possibly one with a much less developed adult entertainment market and booster who are not as willing to bring local talent straight through the back door of the dormitory (and out again mere hours later).
will be offering the Pitino special for the rest of the week.
That's an under-the-table appetizer.
After the recent NCAA debacle with U North Carolina, it is clear that it will take a Federal indictment or threat of one to get anything to happen.
Consider that UNC much rather everyone know that they basically created fake courses and was OK with that FOR THE WHOLE STUDENT BODY, than to cop to admitting they were helping their athletes stay eligible. If that doesn't say "lack of institutional oversight", nothing wil.
At least I have plenty of stuff to razz more colleagues from UNC :)
Pitino just sold me a pair of Addidas at the Footlocker at the Genesee Valley Mall in Flint
Are you a high school basketball player? Were they stuffed with cash?
Personally, I am shocked he's the only one to go yet. If the FBI can find the money trail to pitino, they have to be able to find the money 8 lane double decker superhighway to calipari.
XM. I actually consider this a POSBANG!! :)
He was already fired. They just had to give him a 10 day notice. His lawer even said "yeah, he's been fired." Add to the fact that he put his house on the market, this is no surprise to anyone.
Pitino firing POSBANG!
yassssss, finally. bang me
