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Rick Pitino returns to college basketball as Iona coach
The NCAA has not announced penalties for any of the programs connected to the FBI investigation, but the expectation is they could come down sometime this spring or summer. It's unclear whether there will be any penalties handed down to Pitino.
"We have no reason to believe that would happen," Iona director of athletics Matthew Glovaski said when asked about the NCAA potentially punishing Pitino. "Because we've had such a thorough interview process. ... Rick's values aligned with the goals and values for the college. He was the right leader at the right time in his life for this job."
Entire article: https://www.espn.com/mens-college-b...-pitino-returns-college-basketball-iona-coach
Re: The NCAA has not announced penalties for any of the programs connected to the FBI investigation, but the expectation is they could come down sometime this spring or summer. It's unclear whether there will be any penalties handed down to Pitino.
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Re: Report: Rick Pitino Is the Man the FBI Refers to as ‘Coach-2’
“Dawkins then said that he had spoken with Coach-2 about getting additional money for Player-10’s family and informed Coach-2 that ‘I need you to call Jim Gatto, who’s the head of everything’,” the complaint reads.
Pitino did call Gatto, phone records show—twice on May 27 and once on June 1. Bowen committed to Louisville on June 3.
https://www.si.com/college/2017/09/28/rick-pitino-louisville-fbi-investigation-coach-2
Just sayin': The NCAA giving Pitino a lengthy "show cause" wouldn't surprise me.
The NCAA has not announced penalties for any of the programs connected to the FBI investigation, but the expectation is they could come down sometime this spring or summer. It's unclear whether there will be any penalties handed down to Pitino.
"We have no reason to believe that would happen," Iona director of athletics Matthew Glovaski said when asked about the NCAA potentially punishing Pitino. "Because we've had such a thorough interview process. ... Rick's values aligned with the goals and values for the college. He was the right leader at the right time in his life for this job."
Entire article: https://www.espn.com/mens-college-b...-pitino-returns-college-basketball-iona-coach
Re: The NCAA has not announced penalties for any of the programs connected to the FBI investigation, but the expectation is they could come down sometime this spring or summer. It's unclear whether there will be any penalties handed down to Pitino.
and
Re: Report: Rick Pitino Is the Man the FBI Refers to as ‘Coach-2’
“Dawkins then said that he had spoken with Coach-2 about getting additional money for Player-10’s family and informed Coach-2 that ‘I need you to call Jim Gatto, who’s the head of everything’,” the complaint reads.
Pitino did call Gatto, phone records show—twice on May 27 and once on June 1. Bowen committed to Louisville on June 3.
https://www.si.com/college/2017/09/28/rick-pitino-louisville-fbi-investigation-coach-2
Just sayin': The NCAA giving Pitino a lengthy "show cause" wouldn't surprise me.
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Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
Despite Rick Pitino's baggage after scandals at Louisville, another school was bound to give him another shot
Rick Pitino was run out of Louisville, but Iona proved it was just a matter of time before someone would take a chance on him
There will be jokes in some circles because people always have jokes. And there will be scathing commentary in other places because outrage gets attention. But if you're genuinely surprised by Iona's decision to hire Rick Pitino, I guess I have just one question for you: Do you even follow college athletics?
If so, you should not be surprised.
Because if there's one thing administrators have shown us over and over again, for decades and decades and decades, it's that your checkered past is rarely an issue as long as you're a lock to win big. And if ever there were a lock to win big, relative to whatever level he's coaching collegiality, it's probably Rick Pitino.
"At Iona," Pitino said Saturday via a statement released in conjunction with the announcement of his hire, "I will work with the same passion, hunger and drive that I've had for over 40 years."
To be clear, not all college administrators -- not even most college administrators -- would pull the trigger on something like this; it's why Pitino -- one of the sport's all-time greats, and the only man to ever lead two different schools to national championships -- will be working at a place like Iona instead of a place like Indiana, why he'll be coaching in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference instead of the Atlantic Coast Conference. But, as they say, it only takes one. And the one, in this case, is Seamus Carey, who became president of Iona College last July after holding the same position at Transylvania University in Kentucky since 2014. Put another way, Carey, like Pitino, is a native New Yorker who recently worked in Kentucky; they have mutual close friends. And when you combine that with the fact that Pitino once owned horses with prominent Iona booster Robert V. LaPenta, well, it's not difficult to connect the dots.
So Rick Pitino is back in college coaching.
Entire article: https://www.cbssports.com/college-b...er-school-was-bound-to-give-him-another-shot/
Rick Pitino was run out of Louisville, but Iona proved it was just a matter of time before someone would take a chance on him
There will be jokes in some circles because people always have jokes. And there will be scathing commentary in other places because outrage gets attention. But if you're genuinely surprised by Iona's decision to hire Rick Pitino, I guess I have just one question for you: Do you even follow college athletics?
If so, you should not be surprised.
Because if there's one thing administrators have shown us over and over again, for decades and decades and decades, it's that your checkered past is rarely an issue as long as you're a lock to win big. And if ever there were a lock to win big, relative to whatever level he's coaching collegiality, it's probably Rick Pitino.
"At Iona," Pitino said Saturday via a statement released in conjunction with the announcement of his hire, "I will work with the same passion, hunger and drive that I've had for over 40 years."
To be clear, not all college administrators -- not even most college administrators -- would pull the trigger on something like this; it's why Pitino -- one of the sport's all-time greats, and the only man to ever lead two different schools to national championships -- will be working at a place like Iona instead of a place like Indiana, why he'll be coaching in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference instead of the Atlantic Coast Conference. But, as they say, it only takes one. And the one, in this case, is Seamus Carey, who became president of Iona College last July after holding the same position at Transylvania University in Kentucky since 2014. Put another way, Carey, like Pitino, is a native New Yorker who recently worked in Kentucky; they have mutual close friends. And when you combine that with the fact that Pitino once owned horses with prominent Iona booster Robert V. LaPenta, well, it's not difficult to connect the dots.
So Rick Pitino is back in college coaching.
Entire article: https://www.cbssports.com/college-b...er-school-was-bound-to-give-him-another-shot/
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Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
“You could come to me with the greatest job on earth and I would not consider it,” Pitino said on Tuesday during a press conference. “I came home to coach and end my career at a small, Catholic school.”
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“You could come to me with the greatest job on earth and I would not consider it,” Pitino said on Tuesday during a press conference. “I came home to coach and end my career at a small, Catholic school.”
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