March 14, 20188 yr Agreed, until the Coach 2 mess is over anyone hiring him is looking at possibly having to suspend him or fire him when the NCAA gets done with the Bowen recruitment saga. Yep. Lower-level program, it's a risk worth taking. One of the Big 6 conference schools? Nope, not worth it.
March 14, 20188 yr 2 words....Show Cause. Have they placed that on him yet? If not you are right its coming.
March 14, 20188 yr Have they placed that on him yet? If not you are right its coming. Nope, but you said "if not I see no reason why a team who is desperate to start winning wouldn't hire him". I'm giving you the reason.
March 14, 20188 yr Author Yep. Lower-level program, it's a risk worth taking. One of the Big 6 conference schools? Nope, not worth it. If you are Pitt what are you risking? Didn't they just go Ofer? UConn has historically shown they value winning over not stepping outside the NCAA lines. Are they really risking anything? You hire Pitino. He starts to work putting a team/program together, he gets suspended and misses part (or all) of a season - so what? It is going to take a while to get the ship turned at any of these schools anyway. Where is the risk if you are already a bottom feeder school with a pedigree?
March 14, 20188 yr True, Pitino will coach again. But not until his legal entanglements are cleared. Age? In the new millennium, age is a state of mind and Pitino thinks he's 50, again.
March 14, 20188 yr Idk if a power five school would risk it. EKU would be really interesting. They’d have nothing to lose.
March 14, 20188 yr I am not seeing it. I guess it helps with more and more coming out each day exposing the ineptitude of the NCAA, but that still doesn't absolve him of what has happened.
March 14, 20188 yr Would Rick's ego allow him to coach at a low tier mid-major? And that is not just Rick, but any of these guys that have risen through the ranks and to the top like he has. Edited March 14, 20188 yr by bugatti
March 14, 20188 yr Author Not in the foreseeable future. No one gambles on him in the short term? Even with baggage that is hard to believe.
March 15, 20188 yr Hey, according to this pic I got last night at the Chicken Bucket, Rick is spoken for …
March 15, 20188 yr Would Rick's ego allow him to coach at a low tier mid-major? And that is not just Rick, but any of these guys that have risen through the ranks and to the top like he has. If I was him I’d do it. He’d be larger than life at EKU.
March 15, 20188 yr If I was him I’d do it. He’d be larger than life at EKU. Sounds great until you are on an eight hour bus ride to Jacksonville, Alabama.
March 15, 20188 yr Sounds great until you are on an eight hour bus ride to Jacksonville, Alabama. Maybe he’d just meet them there. I think the state would eat it up.
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