Rick Pitino Says Former Louisville Assistant Is A ’Pathological Liar’ And Ruined His Life

Submitted by Indy Pete - Go Blue on January 9th, 2023 at 8:52 PM

Rick Pitino claims a former assistant ruined his life, but others see it differently:

“Let’s start with Coach Pitino fornicating on the table,” Grissom testified during a 2019 deposition. “In my world, that would have been reason to have him dismissed the next morning. That wasn’t done.”

But according to Pitino, who portrays himself as a family man, he is a victim from an assistant who failed to paint the picture of Pitino being honest and compliant: 

Pitino described Johnson as “a pathological liar,” said he intended to never speak to him again and that “I don’t think Kenny Johnson gives a shit what he did to me and my family.”

“(Johnson) may be on record, but I don’t believe a word that that man says,” Pitino said in a 2021 NCAA interview at his current post at Iona University. “. . .He would look me square in the eye when I said to him, ‘Is there anything wrong with any of this?’ and he said ‘Coach, there’s nothing wrong with this.’ He looked me square in the eye. So he’s a — in my estimation, you can take all the things that you have written down by Kenny Johnson and just throw that away.”

Pitino claims innocence because he asked, ‘Is there anything wrong with this?’  Wow, the fact that one would even need to ask that question pretty much sums it up. And yet Pitino uses the claim that he asked that question as his primary defense of your innocence?  Illogical and pathetic. This Pitino man is truly disgusting, and deserved his punishment… and then some.  

https://www.leoweekly.com/2023/01/rick-pitino-says-former-louisville-assistant-is-a-pathological-liar-and-ruined-his-life/

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Robbie Moore

January 9th, 2023 at 9:44 PM ^

Who doesn’t respect a straight talking guy who has sex with a waitress on a table in the back room of a restaurant? And then offers to pay for an abortion? I mean, don’t we all aspire to that high level of personal and family integrity? As for myself, when confronted with a moral quandary I consult my WWRD wristband. 

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Yeoman

January 10th, 2023 at 10:02 AM ^

Torn out page with a chart to help keep the difference straight...maybe it comes from a Louisville media guide?

  • Peter / Petey
  • motorcycles / restaurant tables
  • graduate students / waitresses, professionals
  • max protection / paid for abortions
  • kept to himself / shared with players and staff

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ST3

January 9th, 2023 at 9:33 PM ^

I’ll share this anecdote only because it’s UofM related. In grad school, a group of us used to go to the bar for trivia and wings night. I think you could get 10 wings for $2. So we entered usernames in the trivia game and start playing. My buddy entered your comment as his username, but the game only took 6 letters. So we spent a couple hours playing trivia with HAIRPI.

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Booted Blue in PA

January 9th, 2023 at 9:07 PM ^

The assistant coach?   No shit? Here I thought it was the waitress he knocked up on the table in the restaurant & the aftermath.....

Hiring that assistant didn't make the top 100 terrible decisions he made.

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HelloHeisman91

January 9th, 2023 at 9:22 PM ^

Reminds me of the Chappelle bit about how his white buddy would get out of trouble with the cops by saying,”I’m sorry officer, I didn’t know I couldn’t do that.” after doing obviously illegal shit. 

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1VaBlue1

January 9th, 2023 at 10:22 PM ^

I'm amazed that assistant coaches that make ~$150K/yr could drop $30K on a single party for recruits without any help from the multi-millionaire head coach, the AD budget itself, or any boosters.

But Pitino also says that happened, so...

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Yeoman

January 9th, 2023 at 10:29 PM ^

A logician vacationing in Louisville finds himself on a college campus inhabited by the age-old tribes of truth-tellers and basketball coaches. He comes to a fork in the road and has to ask one of the inhabitants which branch leads to the whorehouse. He only asks one question. What is it?

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The Blue Collar

January 9th, 2023 at 11:32 PM ^

"He would look me square in the eye when I said to him, ‘Is there anything wrong with any of this?’ and he said ‘Coach, there’s nothing wrong with this.’ He looked me square in the eye."

Wait, was he saying this while he was fornicating on the table?

Because that's weird.

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