OT - Louisville Blogdom Implosion is Great Reading
Head over to any number of Louisville BBall blogs for some fun reading if you are enjoying their crash and burn. https://www.cardchronicle.com/2017/9/26/16369670/louisville-basketball-…
My favorite is the suggestion that they hire Beilein away from UM to be as squeaky clean as possible.
September 27th, 2017 at 4:09 PM ^
September 27th, 2017 at 3:45 PM ^
I'm sure Patrick Beilein would happily take over the tire fire Louisville job right now.
September 27th, 2017 at 4:17 PM ^
I hope this is the tip of the iceberg for Louisville. I hope they get cratered for about the next 20 years. Pitino has been so dirty for so long and they went along for the ride. I can't wait to watch this unfold. A lot of blue blood programs have to be sweating right now.
September 27th, 2017 at 3:50 PM ^
...first banner we hang in Crisler should be 2013 National Champs
September 27th, 2017 at 4:02 PM ^
Got excited for a minute and thought you were UMBig11 and were back on mgoblog going by the profile pic.
September 27th, 2017 at 3:51 PM ^
This and more possibilities are intriguing.
September 27th, 2017 at 5:38 PM ^
September 27th, 2017 at 6:14 PM ^
Why doesn't the FBI make it's way down to Lexington as coach cal will make pitino look like an amateur when it comes to cheating.
September 27th, 2017 at 7:03 PM ^
September 27th, 2017 at 7:53 PM ^
And the flow of stories has not slowed. It doesn't matter if they need them or not; it's got a life of its own. I don't know if they could stop it if they tried and I don't think they try.
September 27th, 2017 at 6:39 PM ^
He needs cashiered for spelling his name like that.
September 27th, 2017 at 3:55 PM ^
September 27th, 2017 at 4:00 PM ^
But we'd rather not hold your endorsement if you know what I mean. Now leave us alone and go back to your Louisville lives please. You may wish to note that federal prisons allow you to send mail to inmates and no doubt your loyalty to your basketball heroes will compel you to bolster their incarcerated spirits.
September 27th, 2017 at 8:24 PM ^
going to be a destination job anymore. For ever.
September 27th, 2017 at 4:10 PM ^
Time to pay the piper, Louisville. You hired a scumbag coach, and now you get to reap what you sewed.
Hope you enjoyed your run, because you could be heading to mediocrity for a long time. If it makes you feel any better, Kentucky should one day be joining you. No one on this planet can convince me that Calipari isn't dealing in seedy shit either.
September 27th, 2017 at 4:41 PM ^
They should have sewed Pitino and several recruits flies shut; but what they sowed, they don't want to reap.
September 27th, 2017 at 4:11 PM ^
with Timothy Olyphant. Raylan Givens could hunt down Louisville and Kentucky bagmen in a new series.
September 27th, 2017 at 6:41 PM ^
You know you'd find a Crowder or two there.
September 27th, 2017 at 7:41 PM ^
Boyd would get 'em with his silver tongue. No need for bags.
September 27th, 2017 at 4:12 PM ^
A king of shreds and patches
September 27th, 2017 at 4:18 PM ^
September 27th, 2017 at 4:31 PM ^
September 27th, 2017 at 4:44 PM ^
you promote. He has a nice history of cheating, lying and stealing.
In six months, there probably will be a job for Pitino somewhere. I can see ESPN hiring him as an in studio talking head.
September 27th, 2017 at 5:01 PM ^
Pitino's gotta be getting a show cause after this, no? Multi-year, I would hope. Is he young enough to survive through a multi-year show cause? Read earlier where someone was speculating he'd get a TV gig. I don't wanna see his face on TV.
September 27th, 2017 at 5:19 PM ^
Looks like he paid money for that face.
September 28th, 2017 at 9:11 AM ^
his face looks like a test run for the Indiana Jones opening of the ark scene.
September 27th, 2017 at 4:48 PM ^
Who knows where all of this will end up, but it sure is a good feeling having JB as the coach and the worry meter is at 0.
September 27th, 2017 at 4:51 PM ^
September 27th, 2017 at 5:04 PM ^
Johnny Orr is the only football, basketball, hockey, or baseball coach I remember leaving without being asked to leave (I go back to the mid-70's). Am I not remembering someone else?
September 27th, 2017 at 5:08 PM ^
September 27th, 2017 at 7:59 PM ^
I don't think I'm alone in believing that Frieder was getting out of Dodge, that Bo had had enough of the unpleasant smell coming from the basketball wing.
September 27th, 2017 at 5:03 PM ^
little richard can take his papa's job... the coach pitino sign can stay on the door.
September 27th, 2017 at 9:50 PM ^
September 27th, 2017 at 5:24 PM ^
the JB talk is hilarious. Ya Im sure he would be jumping at the bit to go to that trash program.
September 27th, 2017 at 5:27 PM ^
Prior to hiring John Beilein, supposedly Michigan considered hiring Rick Pitino. Uh, no.
September 27th, 2017 at 5:38 PM ^
How have they not caught Calipari yet?
September 27th, 2017 at 5:52 PM ^
They will soon enough. It's not like he's ever been able to escape NCAA sanctions before.
September 27th, 2017 at 5:51 PM ^
It's stuff like this that makes it hard to feel too bad for them.
There is no “he said, she said” this time around. This is the FBI. They have tapes, taps and recordings of all sorts of incriminating behavior, including Louisville assistants taking active measures to pay $100,000 for a kid that, to be honest, the 2017-18 team didn’t even really need.
So yeah, definitely don't cheat, but especially when the player in question isn't all that good. I know every fan base has this rationalization, but it always sounds just as dumb and petty as the last. The Cardinals knew what they were getting with Pitino, and just like how I assume UK fans will feel when Calipari is found out, they accepted that because it meant more wins. So stop acting like victims in all this, and stop thinking that a guy like Beilein (or really any semi-moral coach) is going to want to go clean up your garbage program while it's on fire. Take your lumps, welcome to a decade of being nationally irrelevant except as a punchline, and stop acting like you got screwed because the team you root for hired a guy with a history of skirting the rules and, oops, he got caught.
Also, and I can't stress this enough, Louisville is at best a lateral move for a guy like Beilein or Mike Brey, two names I saw thrown out there. You think guys at nationally-renowed universities with top-notch facilities want to go to a mediocre school with a huge cloud over its head because you technically won a title (that was later removed due to a completely different rules violation involving hookers(!!)) and made a couple of weekends into the NCAA tournament? Yeah, good luck with that.
September 27th, 2017 at 6:58 PM ^
Yeah, I thought it was odd they were talking only $100k for a player. IIRC Webber got over $600k from Ed Martin back in the early 90s, so I would expect some players get some big cheddar.
September 27th, 2017 at 7:11 PM ^
September 27th, 2017 at 8:16 PM ^
600K? Is that real?
September 27th, 2017 at 9:37 PM ^
No. Slightly less than half of that. $280k, IIRC
Maybe the $600k is the poster's attempt at adjusting for nominal inflation.
September 28th, 2017 at 11:50 AM ^
And, IIRC, virtually all of that payout came in smaller chunks and when Weber was still at Detroit Country Day. I still remember when Chris was still in HS and Steve Fisher brought him around to a tailgate I was at. Immediately a crown gathered --- mostly HS kids and mostly girls--- to ask for his autograph. A 17-18 year old kid signing autographs? Even at the time a part of me said this might not turn out well. Little did I know . . .
September 27th, 2017 at 8:34 PM ^
But let 's not pretend it isn't a destination job, otherwise. They're a historical power, #10 in all-time wins (just ahead of Indiana), #7 in winning percentage, #6 in all-time NCAA tourney victories.
And they've never had a coach hired away. Not counting the interim guy that took over when Dromo had his heart attack, they've only had four coaches since WWII.
September 28th, 2017 at 9:52 AM ^
Was a coach never hired away because coaches there get full reign, and can do anything (illegal) they want? If so, that will stop, making it harder to find clean coaches who can win at the same level.
September 28th, 2017 at 11:06 AM ^
Crum wasn't especially dirty; there was a lot of complaining about their poor recruiting towards the end of his tenure. In retrospect, people at the Louisville blogs see that as related to the fact that their contract at the time was with Converse, who wasn't a player in AAU ball.
September 27th, 2017 at 8:17 PM ^
September 27th, 2017 at 8:32 PM ^
They've only made three hires since the 40s. The last two I knew; the first I had no idea.
Pitino of course had come from UK via the Celtics. Crum had been a Wooden assistant.
John Dromo was an internal hire, but before he took the assistant job at UL he had been coach of "everything" at Cincinnati St. Xavier (which is actually in the suburb of Finneytown, where I grew up). St. X is a major rival of Moeller High School. I thought Gerry Faust had been a strange, one-off idea. Apparently not--and this earlier version was actually a good hire. We've got a couple of good young coaches in town if they want to try this again. Denny Crum is not walking in that door....