OT- Rick Pitino likely to be fired today
https://twitter.com/michaeleaves/status/913024353520013313
Can't embed, but this should come at no surprise at this point. Adios Ricky, Hello 2013 National Championship! (Even if they vacate and don't officially recognize Michigan, I'm still gonna celebrate)
September 27th, 2017 at 9:26 AM ^
The school's first attempt at staving off the death penalty. Kind of like appealing to the state Supreme Court to hear the case. More desperate measures (clemency appeal to the governor) come later.
September 27th, 2017 at 9:29 AM ^
You really think the NCAA has the stones to hand out a death penalty?
After Penn State and UNC (where the investigation is supposely still ongoing)?
The NCAA punishes the misdemeanors not the felonies.
September 27th, 2017 at 10:16 AM ^
September 27th, 2017 at 11:03 AM ^
September 27th, 2017 at 9:48 AM ^
Nuke the fuckers.
And take Kentucky with them.
September 27th, 2017 at 10:45 AM ^
Chapel Hill. Still waiting for that shoe to drop.
As if!
September 27th, 2017 at 12:04 PM ^
Wait for that shoe to drop, and wait for Godot, and see which shows up first. My bet's on Godot.
September 27th, 2017 at 12:21 PM ^
September 27th, 2017 at 9:26 AM ^
good. Makes university look bad for keeping him after the previous scandal. wouldnt be suprised to see AD follow him out the door.
September 27th, 2017 at 9:27 AM ^
please allow me to introduce myself,
i'm a hoops coach of wealth and taste
i've been around a long long year,
stole many a recruit, only to waste
Pleased to meet you
Hope you guess my name
Is the nature of my game
September 27th, 2017 at 9:33 AM ^
woo woo
September 27th, 2017 at 9:42 AM ^
Such a shame, he was really good in 'Devil's Advocate'.
September 27th, 2017 at 12:06 PM ^
September 27th, 2017 at 9:49 AM ^
Signing that petition to get him to coach at Michigan back in 2003. Feels good to be able to cheer for the good guys because they are actually good guys and not just the team at the school I attended.
September 27th, 2017 at 9:58 AM ^
Dodged a bullet.
September 27th, 2017 at 10:27 AM ^
Great post. We are now viewed as a pristine pure program, where if we woud have hired Pitino, it would have resulted in the second and likely worse stain on the program and Michigan basketball would be viewed like an SEC football program...like Auburn or a Mississippi school.
For whatever wins were sacrificed by doing it the clean way, it is BEYOND WORTH IT for the sake of the universty and the basketball program.
September 27th, 2017 at 9:56 AM ^
September 27th, 2017 at 10:13 AM ^
Scumbag coach has been the
Problem not solution:
Improper benefits
Such as prostitution.
Righteous indignation
Now sweeps through the nation,
But soon we all can chill,
Say goodbye to the 'ville.
September 27th, 2017 at 9:27 AM ^
September 27th, 2017 at 9:27 AM ^
He was totally surprised he said.
Wow.
Just wow.
September 27th, 2017 at 10:32 AM ^
He was totally surprised he said.
A) It's his job to not be surprised and to know what is going on.
B) It's a moot point anyway, because of course he knew.
September 27th, 2017 at 9:28 AM ^
September 27th, 2017 at 9:28 AM ^
Wait. So the playing dumb routine is no longer going to work?
September 27th, 2017 at 10:33 AM ^
Who said he was playing?
September 27th, 2017 at 12:37 PM ^
Correct. Because the Feds have subpoena power.
September 27th, 2017 at 9:29 AM ^
But I thought he said he was innocent....
September 27th, 2017 at 9:46 AM ^
September 27th, 2017 at 9:34 AM ^
will either get another job or an ESPN announcing gig where people simply pretend nothing happenned. The number of times that Mike and Mike had him on their show this year and acted like he had anything valuable to say about the college basketball world was embarrassing.
Pitino and Calipari actually make people engage in double-think. On one hand, everybody who talks to them know they are dirty. On the other hand, many people simply disregard what they know to be true and allow themselves to become convinced that they are something other than completely crooked. It is an odd phenomenon.
September 27th, 2017 at 9:48 AM ^
They just don't care. Once you get good enough at your chosen profession people tend to ignore the pile of corpses you had to climb to get there.
September 27th, 2017 at 9:53 AM ^
Then people pay a lot of attention to the corpses that got you there.
September 27th, 2017 at 12:09 PM ^
September 27th, 2017 at 10:16 AM ^
...of the fawning articles about "coach roy" and north carolina this past season. hundreds of words about what a great guy he is, without any mention of the academic scandal that percolated under his very nose.
September 27th, 2017 at 10:18 AM ^
double goddamned post.
September 27th, 2017 at 9:32 AM ^
Pitino is facing a federal organization that puts people in prison. That's why his latest problem trumps the previous incidents tenfold.
"These allegations come as a complete shock to me," Pitino said in a statement Tuesday night.
September 27th, 2017 at 10:41 AM ^
I hope they waterboard him. That ought to come as a shock too.
Too far? Naw.
September 27th, 2017 at 9:51 AM ^
but late is better than never. How he survived the first two (public) scandals still a head-scratcher. What a boon to have missed out on the Pitino Sweepstakes 15 years ago.
September 27th, 2017 at 9:39 AM ^
Anyone still disappointed we didn't hire him years ago?
Could you imagine if UofM had moved past the Ed Martin scandal and then had to deal with this too?
September 27th, 2017 at 9:50 AM ^
Do the Louisville recruits and Louisville hookers now say "Goodby Felicia" or "Goodbye Fellatio"?
September 27th, 2017 at 9:42 AM ^
I was at a work conference where Rick Pitino spoke, and he came across really poorly to me. One of the only speakers I've ever listened to where it was extremely obvious that his presence was only about the check he was going to recieve. He finished speaking and speed walked off the stage and out the side door like he wanted to be anywhere else. Nothing he has done since has improved my opinion of him.
September 27th, 2017 at 11:09 AM ^
One of the coaches in my family had a similar experience with the son.
I'm not sure there's much correlation between personal asshattery and recruiting sleaze, though. I used to love hearing my father's stories when he'd come home from coaches' clinics. There was one big-name coach who would always seek him out, talk basketball with him, ask him how his season had gone (and it couldn't have been even the tiniest bit self-interested because Dad was coaching girls at the time...and now that I think about it this even goes back to when he was coaching a junior high team)...John Wooden.
Who of course was dirty as hell from a recruiting standpoint. But also the nicest guy in the world.
September 27th, 2017 at 9:42 AM ^
September 27th, 2017 at 9:44 AM ^
Fucker should have been fired in February, 2013.
September 27th, 2017 at 9:45 AM ^
Paging Mr. Calipari. Mr. Calipari, you're up next.
September 27th, 2017 at 11:09 AM ^
is the Kentucky fans on Twitter calling out Louisville and acting like their program is so clean and pure. I dont think they're being ironic, but then again its hard to believe so many people could be that dumb. But then again again, it is Twitter, so anythings possible I guess.
Pretty funny, none the less
September 27th, 2017 at 9:49 AM ^
Pitino like Sgt.Schultz,,,,,,,I know nothing.
September 27th, 2017 at 9:49 AM ^
Clean house and pray...
September 27th, 2017 at 9:53 AM ^
Rick Pitino usually likes to have several options ...
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(wait for it)
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on the table.
September 27th, 2017 at 9:58 AM ^
I'll have MOAR of that,please...