Pitino to St John’s Now DONE
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SIAP, the coach they just fired is suing St Johns because they don't want to pay him the remaining part of his contract, $11 million.
THIS^^^^.
March 2020 NYT article:
“My passion in basketball started in New York and will end there at Iona College,” Pitino said in a statement released by Iona, a Catholic school in Westchester County with an undergraduate enrollment of about 3,300 students.
What a world we live in! GO RU!
Why no reporting of Pitino’s compensation plan?
The founder of Vitamin Water, Mike Repole worth $1.5B, is a big SJU booster and is promoting big NIL dollars to basketball under Ricky. He was on the sidelines under Mike Anderson the past 4 years.
Ricky at SJU and Cooley at Georgetown, both with big NIL support, raises the ante for the other teams in the BE.
The founder of Vitamin Water, Mike Repole worth $1.5B, is a big SJU booster and is promoting big NIL dollars to basketball under Ricky. He was on the sidelines under Mike Anderson the past 4 years.
Ricky at SJU and Cooley at Georgetown, both with big NIL support, raises the ante for the other teams in the BE.
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Yeah but he wins basketball games
He once wrote the book "Success is a Choice." But with the Celtics, "Quitting is an Option."
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Actually Lou " The Cheater" Holtz gave Pitino that "Quitting is an Option." book.
In 1976 he left the NY Jets to coach Arkansas before the Jets season ended
Probably because they don't have it or can't afford to be paying both guys.
Tell those alums who are funding this hire of Pitino to dig deeper.
That’s what I was thinking. Or they just floated this to see if they would be successful in the event they couldn’t come up with the cash. They may have been able to pull the funding together since Anderson’s firing. There were will probably be a settlement that will get them off the hook for some of it.
3 teams to a National Championship! Wins every where he goes including Iona.
Ok he cheated on his wife morally terrible. Nothing to do with basketball.
He paid players and got caught . Everyone did and that was the biggest joke in college sports. So much so that the NCAA created NIL to avoid the government investigation which would have showed everyone was paying players. Yes, RU has been paying players going back to the 90’s . Fact!
Ok parties and hookers also morally horrible and also nothing to do with basketball. Definitely not the only coach or program who does .
Bottom line he can coach and will win at a high level.
Forget about big east teams Pike better be on Alert . They are recruiting in the same backyard .
You may not like it but it’s true.
If Hobbs hired Pitino to replace Eddie Jordan would y’all have been offended? He’s a coach not your son in law. That said, he truly is Slick Rick.
Honestly, I don’t see too many posters here trying to claim the moral high ground. No need for the drive-by lectures from Hall fans.
Iona was his purgatory until he served his penance. WTH the Catholic President of the US is head cheerleader for abortion.
Huh ??? It’s college basketball. Literally no one cares about what these people do off the court or what moral code they don’t live by
Yes for cause related to academics . Kinda slippery slope for St. John’s to try to save a few bucks. Rick pitino doesn’t exactly recruit Rhodes scholars
You’re so thin skinned. There is a minority at this and our board so offended by Pitino that they state never Pitino. I wasn’t lecturing you. I come here in peace. It’s an interesting issue. I raise it because both of us are left waiting for next season.
So you say I’m thin skinned, calling me a name in the process, then agree with me that it’s only a few posters claiming the moral high ground. Okay… why are you here again?
Funny I have a book signed by him called “one day contract”
Got it signed when I went to watch Rutgers vs Louisville back when flood was the coach. Pitino was out in a tent signing books so figured why not get one.
Sorry, the church and Catholic schools are run by people, and we’ve seen plainly in the last two elections that character doesn’t matter to almost half of all Americans, religious or rebellious. I don’t blame St. Johns any more than I point my finger at half of America for immorality. If you wonder why character doesn’t matter, many of you should look in the mirror to see the answer. People in glass houses….
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I'm thinking Providence might look at the Vermont HC .
He's been sucessfule there for years, even though it's a low level.
Great coach wouldnt want him at ru. Our moderate success, and how we did it, made it all the more enjoyable. Dont want to be a part of or follow anything that looks the other way.
Don’t think St. John’s will be a slow rebuild. Instantly competitive especially now with the portal
You weren't exactly going out on a limb there Plum, especially as far as Iona was concerned
yeah its easy to do when you are recruiting thugs and cheaters and providing hookers and blow.... Try doing it with kids having to go to class. Not sure St. Johns will allow that
Can’t speak to St. John’s acceptance of these things. Pitinfo said he intends to change the culture of SJU basketball. At Kentucky and Louisville, it was win at all costs. Maybe someone like RU72 has incite.
NLI practically condones this type of culture. And Pitino stressed he’s going to embrace NLI , especially with their high profile donor from vitamin water
It’s premature to say he’s gonna have this turned around in 15 seconds. I think it’s going to be hard.