OT: Rick Pitino New Head Coach at St. John's
It's a 6-year contract with the 70 year old Pitino. A huge gamble for St John's, IMO, to take a chance on hiring a coach with that much baggage and at that age, but then again, obviously nothing is sacred anymore in the pursuit of wins.
Bastard
Ruthless Dictator
Not many of History's greatest dictators have passed out free hookers and blow to their oppressed masses, so you have to give credit to Tricky Ricky for innovation.
Edit: I just noticed robf was calling HP a ruthless dictator, not Rick Pitino. Well, that's just perfect...
New York City. Easiest place in the world to get hookers and blow. A match made in heaven.
This, humorously, escalated quickly.
In other news they dropped Saint from their name and from now on will be known as Johns University.
does brandon have any eligibility left?
I love Flushing Meadows.
With the hookers, all the players are "Johns".
Is there anything wrong with any of this?
Nope. America is the land of 11th chances!
It's worse than just hiring a scumbag like Pitino. St. John's apparently fired the prior coach "for cause" in an attempt to avoid paying his buyout according to this ESPN story .
It's pretty amazing how low some will go in pursuit of the W.
They deserve each other then…
Oops! They double deserve each other.
Yes, Rick Pitino looks like a walking corpse.
March 20th, 2023 at 10:34 PM ^
He looks like he's rotting. Like some kind of college basketball Dorian Gray
He'll get St. John's to the dance. I imagine within a couple of years.
Still doesn't change what a bag of shit Prick Ritino is.
Big dance or lap dance?
The Big Lap Dance.
I wonder how Providence feels considering they're losing Cooley to Georgetown... Would be a nice full circle for good ole Rick if he were to go back to Providence where it all began lol
FUN FACTS:
Providence was NOT "where it all began" in Rick Pitino's head-coaching career. Before coaching at Providence for just two seasons, Rick Pitino spent five seasons coaching the men's basketball team at NCAA hockey school Boston University where he was 91-51 and took the 1982-83 team to a regular-season championship, a conference-tournament championship and an NCAA Tournament.
One of the players on Pitino's 1982-83 Boston University team was Brett Brown, former head coach of the Philadelphia 76ers.
+1 [Informative]
To be truly technical --- Pitino's first 6 games as Head Coach were at Hawaii (!!!). He was an interim coach for 6 games in 1975-76. I never knew that until looking at his Wiki page.
We also have this from his time at Hawaii: Pitino was implicated in 8 of the 64 infractions (in a 1977 NCAA report) that led Hawaii to be placed on probation. The violations involving Pitino included providing round-trip air fare for a player between New York and Honolulu, arranging for student-athletes to receive used cars for season tickets, and handing out coupons to players for free food at McDonald's.
He started early!
+1 for the Prick Ritino reference 👍
I hope that douchebag of a human fails miserably.
Can't stand to even look at him/it....
i would give john beilein 6 years at 70 years old :)
lot less baggage of course
I'd give him six years just to come back as an offensive analyst.
We had hookers and blow. It was crazy.
Just doesn't have the same ring to it...
If Hugh Freeze, Chris Beard and others can come back, why not him? Sports is not and has never been a bastion of morality. If anything, it reflects the lack of morality in at least the sporting and advertising world. Sorry for the dark take, but the only way those guys don't get hired is if the culture that promotes these sports say enough is enough.
I would think that a small, Roman Catholic university would be a little more discerning . . . .
Idk, the Roman Catholic Church hasn’t exactly been a bastion of morality itself either. Why should their universities treat sports any differently? I mean Brian Kelly essentially killed someone with no consequences.
Regardless of where you fall on the religious spectrum, I don’t know how you can view the Roman Catholic Church (as an entity) as a beacon of morality. They’ve been far from that for virtually their entire existence.
March 20th, 2023 at 10:54 PM ^
It was weird watching him coach against Durkin this past season.
Thanks for your insight. The Catholic Church is good overall. I am Catholic and our history is filled with shortcomings and with tremendous good deeds. Feel free to message me! Justin. sedlejus@aquinas.edu. Peace!
As a victim of being raised and educated Catholic, this was the funniest/most ironic comment I've seen today. LOLz.
Terrible things do happen. I hope you have a great weekend! AMDG
Here's a clip from his interview...
It's a result oriented business - if Alabama wins a title, do you think they're going to be talking about this brandon miller thing five years from now?
I don't get the hate. In fact, I've grown to appreciate the characters that make up college ball - will make it fun to root for or against St. Johns in the coming years.
Just keep him the hell away from my team.
"Sports is not and has never been a bastion of morality."
Replace "Sports" with "The world"
This is just an athletic director being lazy as hell. Why not get Boeheim? Or Martelli? I hear Denny Crum is still alive!
Because Pitino can still coach, unlike those corpses.
I am skeptical of Pitino's big fish /small pond success at Iona, but Ed Cooley was sitting there available in the same conference and is 17 years younger. Just seems like very short-term thinking for limited reward.
St Johns will likely be in the Dance next season. I don't doubt that. How far will they get in it? That's the question.
I don't like Pitino but don't really see this as much of a gamble by St. John's. He'll get them back to competitive within two years. They don't have any downside at this point.
He wants to be a big deal in NY
If he can make it there, he can make it anywhere.
March 20th, 2023 at 11:23 PM ^
If he can make it with a hooker there,...
This guy should be selling used Pontiacs somewhere in Kentucky.
I mean, given Pitino's history, he certainly could build excitement (nod to Pontiac, of course) into the program, maybe even without the help of dancers this time, although this apparently helps.
These days, “used” is an unnecessary modifier. There’s no other kind of Pontiac.
A university named after John the Baptist hires a man who was terminated for involvement in prostitution and bribery scandals. Classic religion.
Not as bad as liberty who hired the rape culture AD from Baylor and Hugh Freeze also of hooker infamy.