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Rick Pitino (HC St. John's)

I mean, Kelvin Sampson gets an NCAA violation putting his socks on, and Calipari has left more probation in his wake than a common pleas court, but is this guy the real King of Sleaze? (note: Dave Bliss does not count, because that's more Pol Pot than sleaze).
 
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I mean, Kelvin Sampson gets an NCAA violation putting his socks on, and Calipari has left more probation in his wake than a common pleas court, but is this guy the real King of Sleaze? (note: Dave Bliss does not count, because that's more Pol Pot than sleaze).

We need to have a Sleaze-off....Pitino, Calipari, the ghost of Tark, Sean Miller, Vince McMahon and Tiger Woods.

Steel cage match. No DQs or pancake waitresses or underage hookers allowed.
 
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We need to have a Sleaze-off....Pitino, Calipari, the ghost of Tark, Sean Miller, Vince McMahon and Tiger Woods.

Steel cage match. No DQs or pancake waitresses or underage hookers allowed.
There's different kinds of sleaze...maybe we need separate brackets? Like in one we have Sampson, Pitino, Calipari, Miller, Pearl, etc...and then maybe in a second its Bliss, Beard, and guys like that. I think Woods at least would fit into the first group...but I don't think you'd have to stray outside of college hoops to fill the bracket.
 
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Rick Pitino says NCAA enforcement arm 'of no value anymore'​

With legal disputes escalating over the use of name, image and likeness compensation in the recruitment of college athletes, Hall of Fame basketball coach Rick Pitino believes it's time for the NCAA to stand down when it comes to policing member schools.

"It's a very difficult time in college basketball, because it's free agency," the first-year St. John's coach said Saturday. "And now I think what's going to happen is, they're going to say everybody can transfer, and then if they don't like it, they're going to take 'em to court.

"So, I think the NCAA enforcement staff just should be disbanded. It's a joke. Not because I dislike them. But they're of no value anymore. Because just, Tennessee now will take 'em to court, Virginia will take 'em to court."

The attorneys general of Tennessee and Virginia filed an antitrust lawsuit against the NCAA on Wednesday that challenged its ban on the use of NIL compensation in recruiting, and in response to the association's investigation of the University of Tennessee.

A judge will hear their request on Feb. 13 for a preliminary injunction that would put on hold NCAA rules banning recruiting inducements and pay-for-play, the court posted Friday.

The NCAA, meanwhile, asked a judge to deny both motions in its 25-page response filed Saturday with the U.S. District Court of the Eastern District of Tennessee.

Pitino, 71, volunteered his thoughts on the NCAA following his team's 77-64 loss to top-ranked UConn at Madison Square Garden. His comments came at the postgame news conference in response to a reporter's question about stoking a renewed rivalry with the powerhouse Huskies, the defending national champions, as he rebuilds the St. John's program.

"The enforcement staff needs to go away," Pitino said. "We need to stop all the hypocrisy of NIL. We need to stop it. Because they can't stop it. Whether I'm for it or against it doesn't matter.
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Rick Pitino says NCAA enforcement arm 'of no value anymore'​

With legal disputes escalating over the use of name, image and likeness compensation in the recruitment of college athletes, Hall of Fame basketball coach Rick Pitino believes it's time for the NCAA to stand down when it comes to policing member schools.

"It's a very difficult time in college basketball, because it's free agency," the first-year St. John's coach said Saturday. "And now I think what's going to happen is, they're going to say everybody can transfer, and then if they don't like it, they're going to take 'em to court.

"So, I think the NCAA enforcement staff just should be disbanded. It's a joke. Not because I dislike them. But they're of no value anymore. Because just, Tennessee now will take 'em to court, Virginia will take 'em to court."

The attorneys general of Tennessee and Virginia filed an antitrust lawsuit against the NCAA on Wednesday that challenged its ban on the use of NIL compensation in recruiting, and in response to the association's investigation of the University of Tennessee.

A judge will hear their request on Feb. 13 for a preliminary injunction that would put on hold NCAA rules banning recruiting inducements and pay-for-play, the court posted Friday.

The NCAA, meanwhile, asked a judge to deny both motions in its 25-page response filed Saturday with the U.S. District Court of the Eastern District of Tennessee.

Pitino, 71, volunteered his thoughts on the NCAA following his team's 77-64 loss to top-ranked UConn at Madison Square Garden. His comments came at the postgame news conference in response to a reporter's question about stoking a renewed rivalry with the powerhouse Huskies, the defending national champions, as he rebuilds the St. John's program.

"The enforcement staff needs to go away," Pitino said. "We need to stop all the hypocrisy of NIL. We need to stop it. Because they can't stop it. Whether I'm for it or against it doesn't matter.
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I think what he meant to say was: “cheating isn’t as fun as it was in the good old days“.
 
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