For Pitino, building a new roster from scratch, save Soriano, has only upside. If he is successful year 1, it re-confirms his coaching acumen. If they suck, it’s the rebuilding from scratch excuse. Holding on to underachieving players on the old roster sets him up for a lot of criticism if he can’t produce materially better results than CMA. Rick might not win humanitarian of the year while at SJU, but I don’t care. We have had a number of nice guy coaches who were awful. I haven’t been this optimistic about the program since Felipe was on the SI cover, and look at how well that turned out for us!