OT: Rick Pitino Rumored to be Candidate for Detroit Mercy Job
April 23rd, 2018 at 11:47 PM ^
Ballsy move
April 24th, 2018 at 10:19 AM ^
the collection plates at the church.
to hiring a guy who paid people to do it for his players? That would be a lovely transition for an upright Catholic institution.
Any program that hires this dude deserves all of the shit that's inevitably going to happen to them. Fucking idiots.
April 24th, 2018 at 11:45 AM ^
since he'd likely burst into flame the first time he comes into contact with Holy Water
April 24th, 2018 at 12:57 PM ^
Seems like a real odd couple match. Pitino obviously, and U of D has devolved over the last few years with some embarrassing off-court stuff (sex scandal with the AD I believe, and also Bacari was suspended in the middle of last season for some reason); plus their actual team has rarely even been good, and lately they have mostly sucked. Too bad because I always thought the Titans had potential--they are in one of the best basketball cities in America. I think that they just need the right young coach--somebody like Brad Stephens at Butler or the guy we just played at Loyola. Pitino at this point just looks desperate on both sides.
April 23rd, 2018 at 11:48 PM ^
Needs to just go away. You got caught, you tried to fight back for some reason, just leave.
Enjoy your millions, stop talking, and go to Florida. Buy a giant yacht, and leave basketball alone.
April 23rd, 2018 at 11:49 PM ^
Bring back Dick Vitale.
Smokey Gaines.
April 23rd, 2018 at 11:50 PM ^
They'll fit the bill when we knock them down to size.
April 23rd, 2018 at 11:54 PM ^
Wasn't the number Freeze was calling a Detroit (or Michigan) area code? Seems to have connections there already.
April 23rd, 2018 at 11:56 PM ^
Rumored where exactly?
April 24th, 2018 at 12:15 AM ^
April 24th, 2018 at 12:23 AM ^
doesn't make it true. Ricky P ain't allowed in this state to coach, recruit or ever talk bb. In fact, Ricky P. ain't allowed in this state atall. Done and out
April 24th, 2018 at 12:26 AM ^
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April 24th, 2018 at 12:02 AM ^
I am not sure about the rumor being true, but if i'm UDM I definitely reach out to Pitino. Frankly, the only way they would be able to get a coach of Pitino's caliber is if they have flaws. Probably the only way to get their program noticed in town.
What would it say about the school and what they value?
Pitino is unrepetetant, not someone who has earned the opportunity to redeem himself.
April 24th, 2018 at 10:22 AM ^
and he'd be good.
"Frankly, the only way they would be able to get a coach of Pitino's caliber is if they have flaws."
By "a coach of Pitino's caliber" you mean a coach who procures prostitutes for his players and commits adultery in places of public acommodation? Shouldn't be too hard to find.
Sure your program will get noticed, but for all the wrong reasons. As a Catholic school, do you really want to bring in a proven repeat offender who hired prostitutes to lure recruits to Louisville, who cheated on his wife when he railed some waitress in the back hallway of some restaurant somewhere, and then paid for her to get an abortion?
Isn't abortion pretty much grounds for ex-communication in the Catholic Church? Good coach, sure. But he stands for quite literally everything your school (and by proxy, your church) should stand against.
April 24th, 2018 at 12:52 PM ^
Hiring a guy that had assistants hire paid sex workers isn't nearly as atrocious as what the Catholic church has covered up over the last 50 years.
A fucking men!!
He is instead a walking and talking flaw who also coaches basketball.
I'll eat a lemon.
See it, or as they say in Florida "I seen it".
Confess his sins and ask for forgiveness? 3 Hail Mary's and you may get to coach again?
If true, not a good look for a religious school (or any for that matter).
Yeah if I'm UDM I jump up and down to get Pitino. The guy will be on his best behavior there and probably get some pretty damn good recruits.
It would look super hypocritical though to fire Bacari for saying smd, among other things such as losing a lot of games, and hire Pitino given his whole situation.
If UDM even considers hiring Pitino, the AD and school President should be run out of town as hypocrites that don't care about how they (try to) win. How you win does matter...
April 24th, 2018 at 12:54 PM ^
No, it really doesn't as we see time and time again.
April 24th, 2018 at 10:57 AM ^
I don't get that idea. He didn't stop cheating after the first time he got caught. He needs to win big to get considered for better jobs. Does anyone believe he'd rather fail honestly over winning dishonestly?
I think any school that hires a coach with Pitino's history is perfectly okay with him cheating for them.
Actually there is some very nice housing in the University District.
April 24th, 2018 at 10:19 AM ^
there definitely is, but you can bet your ass they'd be living in bloomfield hills
April 24th, 2018 at 11:27 AM ^
make this comment. Why has she stuck with that d-bag anyway?
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde
If this is a real thing, the Detroit press should be railing against it. Pitino goes aganst everything a good Catholic believes in. Not to mention that he's a proven repeat offender - and don't give me any crap about him never being caught. Shit follows him everywhere - the FBI has him cold, the entire world knows he ran a brothel for recruits in Louisville, and he continues to deny any knowledge of it, at all.
If that's what UDM wants representing them, then the Catholic church should excommunicate the school. And I'm not even Catholic!