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 10:05 AM ^
... and under it.
September 27th, 2017 at 2:17 PM ^
September 27th, 2017 at 9:49 AM ^
Which, yeah, go figure. The disappointing part is that I really, really liked watching how his teams played defense. I thought they were a very fun team to watch.
Luckily, Beilein also has very entertaining and also very clean.
September 27th, 2017 at 11:11 AM ^
Walt was such a genius and he keeps THAT book around? I'm one of the few, I know. Just not on the level of the Sopranos or the Wire, far as I'm concerned
September 27th, 2017 at 9:52 AM ^
September 27th, 2017 at 9:54 AM ^
September 27th, 2017 at 9:54 AM ^
So, didn't at least some of the alleged bribery take place after the "escort" scandal came to light? If so, wouldn't this indicate "lack of institutional control."?
September 27th, 2017 at 10:22 AM ^
So, definitely yes if the allegations are true.
September 27th, 2017 at 10:52 AM ^
How can the allegations not be true?
The accused might not be guilty of crimes: there could be arguments about whether the facts meet the legal standard for bribery, or whether the evidence was properly gathered. But there's tape and film of Louisville coaches arranging six-figure payments from Adidas to their recruits. How the hell they can argue that they didn't commit a pretty serious NCAA violation? They won't even try--they'll clean house and self-flagellate and cross their fingers that 100 other programs come tumbling down behind them.
September 27th, 2017 at 10:30 AM ^
Noting that University-6 was already on probation with the NCAA, DAWKINS indicated that they would have to particularly careful with how they passed money to Player-11 and his family. Coach-1 agreed, saying "we gotta be very low key."
They're completely hosed; their only chance is to delay and hope that by the time the NCAA gets around to leveling penalties there will be 40 or 50 other schools in the same boat. At that point the association might opt for sweeping structural changes instead of euthanizing a large chunk of their membership.
September 27th, 2017 at 11:16 AM ^
have to eliminate the one and done rule. It would not eliminate all manner of cheating but it would help. If the kids want to make money let them go pro.
September 27th, 2017 at 11:31 AM ^
The top 15-20 recruits would go into the draft. They aren't the only ones who want to make money, just the ones where going pro straight out of HS is the right career move.
The players aren't driving the cheating. It's the coaches and boosters and other adults. They are still going to want the top remaining players. I seriously doubt there was any less cheating before the one and done rule went into effect.
September 27th, 2017 at 12:42 PM ^
Louisville isn't in on most of the top 15-20 kids anyway. Pitino builds with guys who stay for a few years. When we have played them we have faced athletic, experienced sophomores and juniors and seniors, not one-and-done types. Louisville's recruiting classes have usually featured maybe one guy around #30 and one or two other top 100 guys. They then develop.
The bitter irony about this is that Louisville, ON the court, is exactly what you want to see from college basketball teamwork and effort and guys developing over years. Off the court it's a cesspool.
September 27th, 2017 at 11:35 AM ^
so, wouldn't this indicate "lack of institutional control."?
No, it indicates full institutional control.
Louisville knew exactly what it was doing and controlled every second of it.
September 27th, 2017 at 9:55 AM ^
CryptKeeper
September 27th, 2017 at 9:58 AM ^
Somebody that is dirty in college athletics is actually going to get in trouble.
September 27th, 2017 at 10:30 AM ^
...but not by the hands of the NCAA. At least that part still makes sense.
September 27th, 2017 at 9:58 AM ^
Rough year for scumbag coaches.
September 27th, 2017 at 9:59 AM ^
There aren't too many people I actually spend time hoping will fail in life - Rick Pitino is definitely one of them. Louisville is a trash school that deserves everything it has coming to it.
September 27th, 2017 at 10:01 AM ^
September 27th, 2017 at 10:04 AM ^
Louisville has already vacated the 2013 title, so uh, start celebrating?
September 27th, 2017 at 10:11 AM ^
The pity in this situation is that good guys like Coach B rarely get the opportunity to win it all - especially in a sport so rife with corruption. The 2013 CG game still smarts and knowing that Michigan was deprived by one of the most crooked asshats in the game doesn't make it any better. I hope he gets another shot at the championship and takes it home.
September 27th, 2017 at 10:36 AM ^
He'll get another shot. Especially since the next NCAA tournament will only have six teams in it.
September 27th, 2017 at 10:06 AM ^
September 27th, 2017 at 10:15 AM ^
That block and reacted the way he did, I knew the replay would make me sick.
I was right.
September 27th, 2017 at 10:11 AM ^
movie line can be used here:
"Most things end badly. That's why they end."
September 27th, 2017 at 10:11 AM ^
Minnesota is really going to miss him.
September 27th, 2017 at 10:11 AM ^
It's great and all, Pitino deserves to be fired and then some.
But there are so, so many dirty programs out there that the FBI won't get to - because if they got them all, that'd destroy the current incarnation of college basketball.
If it were up to me, though, I'd go ahead and push the re-set button. Nuke the NCAA - because you know they're complicit - and then just start from scratch.
September 27th, 2017 at 10:34 AM ^
Why would the FBI care about preserving the current incarnation of college basketball?
I think it's telling that they've kept the NCAA out of the loop up till now.
September 27th, 2017 at 11:03 AM ^
Why would the feds care about preserving GM?
Same reasons.
September 27th, 2017 at 12:44 PM ^
Federal investigations are what really exposes serious wrongdoing. We know this because that's how the Ed Martin situation was exposed and how Chris Webber was forced to cooperate with Michigan's investigation.
My guess is that we'll see more stuff come out as the histories of these corrupt coaches and execs is revealed by court order.
September 27th, 2017 at 12:51 PM ^
When Merl Code becomes a cooperating witness, it's going to hit the fan.
September 27th, 2017 at 10:11 AM ^
NCAA: Did you bribe players to come to your school?
— EL FOOSAY (@SheHatesJacoby) September 27, 2017
Rick Pitino : pic.twitter.com/SEnqCCRihp
September 27th, 2017 at 10:11 AM ^
reminds me that back in the dark days, idiots were flooding the board with "WE NEED RICK PITINO!" posts after we canned tommy amaker.
proving once again that the loudest fans are usually the dumbest.
i wouldn't trade john beilein for anyone in the country. period. full stop.
September 27th, 2017 at 10:13 AM ^
September 27th, 2017 at 10:38 AM ^
What's going on at Kentucky and Kansas right now?
September 27th, 2017 at 10:55 AM ^
...is glad they're a Nike school.
September 27th, 2017 at 11:05 AM ^
USC is implicated and they are a NIKE school...
September 27th, 2017 at 11:24 AM ^
Dawkins's start-up is small-time stuff though. The meat is in the Adidas/Gatto allegations, and where that will lead.
September 27th, 2017 at 10:14 AM ^
https://amp.courier-journal.com/amp/707272001
September 27th, 2017 at 10:41 AM ^
Amid a damning FBI investigation that reveals a "pay-for-play" scheme to lure top basketball recruits to the University of Louisville basketball program
He won't get a dime.
September 27th, 2017 at 11:01 AM ^
They may not have put a criminal/destroy the school escape clause to fire him. I'd be shocked if institutional control wasn't worded in there somehow though.
September 27th, 2017 at 12:46 PM ^
September 27th, 2017 at 10:15 AM ^
Tomato, Tomatoe
September 27th, 2017 at 11:04 AM ^
I really, really, really wouldn't put the two scandals, or the two people, on the same level.
September 27th, 2017 at 11:05 AM ^
September 27th, 2017 at 11:26 AM ^
What about providing hookers to underage kids? Is that a little closer?