The character thing is a fair point. I get that- the marital thing is inexcusable and perhaps an intentional blind eye to his prior program issues. But I do think this school needed some type of injection of talented coaching and he is a Hall of Famer so I think he can build it back up with some time.
SJ had no choice but to hire Pitino: he'd had success in their backyard and obviously he wanted the job and Cragg having bolluxed things up so stupendously last time around had no choice, despite the obvious fact that Pitino - again, one of the great coaches of his generation - is a arrogant narcissistic tortured little dwarf.
I'm not even talking about the public sex - who hasn't banged a subordinate's wife in a public place in front of a cheering crowd and anyway I don't doubt that Pitino and his wife have an understanding. I'm talking about his lack of character related to allegedly the great love of his life: basketball. He cheated at Hawaii, worked for Boeheim (another great coach who was a serial cheater, as are most college HOFers except maybe Bobby Knight), had success in the cesspool that is the NBA, and after catching lightning in a bottle at Providence went to Kentucky - the most corrupt program in the history of sports - and thereafter was fired from Louisville - a close second - for at best turning a blind eye to massive, pervasive and revolting institutional corruption, which when which malfeasance was exposed he compared the exposure to the murder of 3000 people on 9-11. As a human being Pitino's a reprehensible piece of sh
it, and that's me being kind.
The persecution rests.
The thing is, this team didn't have to suck. Which it does. Take away the half dozen island of misfit toys Pitino recruited and replace them with Posh, Storrs, Wusu, David Jones (21 and 7 at Memphis), Kolby King (12 and 4 at Tulane) and Omar Stanley (13 and 6 at Boise) and this would have been a team that might have made a run in the NCAA, as opposed to one that might get a favorable seed in the NIT. And don't give me BS about the character of the disappeared, every player who leaves SJ is addition by subtraction and every player who replaces them the second coming of Walter Berry until they morph into Alpha Bangura, or if you're a connoisseur, Curtis Redding. (Look him up.) And on the third hand we've already established that Pitino wouldn't recognize character if a character dressed as a character furrowed his way into his colon and etched the word character onto to one of his myriad polyps, the presence of polyps being characteristic of the colons of Mediterranean males. (Look it up.)
It crosses my mind that the game might have passed Pitino by (like at the end it did Lou C) reducing him to now complaining about the influence of money in college basketball, which I don't recall him complaining about the influence of money when he was at Kentucky. Which passing him by is odd, because Pitino helped create the modern game, where under the new rules the athletic superiority of talented African Americans is thwarted by the muscle memory of short white guys like Billy Donovan and Steph Curry. Obviously I hope that's the case, because every time Saint John's wins I die a little inside.
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