it's amazing how Pitino has become a spokesman for the league.
Which league, the ACC?
Slick Rick is a weasel and an opportunist. He learned from one of the best weasels in college basketball. He made his bones at Providence, and quickly abandoned them for bigger fish. The Knicks, Kentucky and now Louisville......whoever paid his ransom.
But, yes, he is a great basketball coach. I lost all respect for him when he got caught banging a MILF in the back of Luigi's and then trying to cover it up.....all while the misses was shopping on 5th Avenue. ...
Have you also lost all respect for Mark Jackson (a licensed minister, no less) for banging a stripper, the nude photos, etc.? Or does he get a pass because he's one of our all-time greats?
No. Not because he is a licensed phony minister (think Al Sharpton phony) but because Mark is in the professional ranks and coaches adults. He can screw all the hookers in Vegas for all I care. That is between him and his spouse.
I did not lose respect for Rick because he cheated on his wife but because he is "teaching" young teens the art of basketball and these kids look up to their coach and his image of integrity and honesty. He tarnished that image....publicly and there will always be that asterisk in his history.
High school and college coaches are still viewed as much "teachers" as coaches and such public indiscretion has a price attached.
Being a Hall of Fame coach does not get them passes either. That Jim Boeheim was in such public denial about the Fines was more about him defending his own image than that of Bernie Fine....or Mrs. Fine.