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Rick "Bada Bing" Pitino
Published: 8/13/2009 1:54 PM
Last Modified: 8/13/2009 1:54 PM


Taking one for the team?

The junk that is college basketball -- the overpaid coaches trying to cover up serious crimes (Bliss), the serial rules breakers (Sampson), the guys who overact for the cameras (Calipari), the Iowa State guy who got drunk with the coeds -- combined with the one and undone rule that encourages punks and dunderheads to hang at Campus Corner for a year, has a new spokesman in Rick "Hey, I Apologized for the Indiscretion, What Do You Want, A Scholarship?" Pitino.

Indiscretion?

An indiscretion is what you find on a daytime soap.

A teacher having friends and associates cover for immoral behavior, that's no indiscretion, that's hard core deceit.

He's a quote from a Kentucky recruit, paraphrased from a story in USA Today: Yo, I ain't going nowhere. Go Cats.

Team Teflon.


Reader Comments 7 Total
Arbythree (4 years ago)
Patino is a joke.
Ignatz (4 years ago)
yeah, but what a great NBA coach! seriously, should we expect big-time college bball coaches to be saints? Isn't his adultery a matter between he and the lucky lady who gave birth to his many kids?
Yiddish Engineer (4 years ago)
Pick – Doesn’t matter, as they like to say in a certain town 70 miles west of here “look what they’ve done for the communicty…”  Doesn’t matter if they get drunk and nearly kill someone, or rear end (and actually take  someones life), “look what they’ve done for the community…” Why would you think this will be any differenct at Louisville?
ken7 (4 years ago)
As long as he's winning, he stays......sad, really sad
Dr. Strangelove (4 years ago)
What difference does it make? Should he have fooled around? No. But at the end of the day he was the victim of a crime, extortion. The FBI went after the woman. His indescretion became public knowledge as a result and he and his family are having to deal with it.
MexiMike (4 years ago)
What did Pitino's actions have to do with his coaching? Did he illegally recruit? Did he party with co-eds? Last I checked, adultery wasn't a crime either.

This is a moral issue that he and his family with have to get through. But in now way should this have anything to do with his job.

You start out with using coaches that have committed "serious crimes" and then try to include Pitino in the same group.

Apples and oranges, Pick.
tulsapup (4 years ago)
Don't understand the "Team Teflon" reference to the Kentucky recruit. Why would a Kentucky recruit care about the morals of the Louisville coach?
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