Rick Pitino - Head Coach at St John’s University!!!

paultzman said:
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Rick always goes full out with compliments for his former players , staff , etc .

Watching Auburn Vs Florida and Clayton jr going off in the 1 st half must have been a reasonably happy event for Rick .
I just keep wondering , as I’m sure he does , if we had Jenkins and Clayton last season and Clayton again this year .

The Lad can play and shoot .
 
paultzman said:
Not 35? Have to love Rick lol

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Love this about Rick. Fans can get giddy and speculate on who will be in the nba next year and how we will stick it to (name the team) when we play again. His job is to keep his players grounded by letting them know how much hard work is ahead and how much they need to improve game by game.

I'm not buying into this run the table talk or even how much better we are then our next opponent, say Villanova. Out there lurking is the potential for our version of the 85 game vs Niagara that we lost. If you consider how much better every Big East team is compared to 85 Niagara, we could let down and lose any of our remaining games.

Just one at a time. Each game must bring it 100%. Reduce turnovers, improve shot selection, rebound rebound rebound, cut out dumb fouls. 35 mistakes?? Could be 200.

Go to one practice and you will learn what makes Rick a great coach. The guy doesn't miss a thing, whether it's sealing off the baseline, coming off a pick leaving too much room. Anything.

I've seen Itzhak Perlman teach prodigy musicians at an open practice. He will stop them in the middle of a song they are practicing, single out a musician, and ask him to repeat a snippet of the song from a particular bar. Then he critiques it and teaches how to make it better. All while treating teenagers like they are peers of the world class violinist.

Rick is doing the same. We are casual observers. A win looks, sounds, and feels great to us. Rick sees how it can be better, how each kid can raise their play. It's what any great teacher does, but so few are capable of doing.
 
And so it begins.....

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Indiana basketball coaching search 2025: Two names the Hoosiers must pursue, including Rick Pitino

Indiana has two options at opposite ends of the pedigree spectrum
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Rick Pitino, St. John's

There's one guy out there who isn't on the initial Hot Board that I think Indiana should take a run at: Rick Pitino. I know, I know, he's getting up there in age (72) and it's tough to know how many more years he will want to do this. He's also a perfect fit in the Big East and the Big Apple.

I do know this, though -- Pitino is still as good of a coach as there is, commands respect and he would make Indiana relevant the second he was announced as a head coach. I don't need to list his accolades because anybody reading this knows them and his track record speaks for itself. Worried about past NCAA problems? Who cares. Do you want to win or worry about some missteps from over a decade ago? This is an elite coach who is highly motivated to win back the title that the NCAA took away from him. He could absolutely do that in Bloomington.

I can promise you this. No reasonable observer, basketball fan or media member would roll their eyes or think the Hoosiers are playing fast and loose if they were to go after Pitino. They'd think, "Those guys aren't playing around."
 
Redenbacher said:
And so it begins.....

www.cbssports.com

Indiana basketball coaching search 2025: Two names the Hoosiers must pursue, including Rick Pitino

Indiana has two options at opposite ends of the pedigree spectrum
www.cbssports.com www.cbssports.com

Rick Pitino, St. John's

There's one guy out there who isn't on the initial Hot Board that I think Indiana should take a run at: Rick Pitino. I know, I know, he's getting up there in age (72) and it's tough to know how many more years he will want to do this. He's also a perfect fit in the Big East and the Big Apple.

I do know this, though -- Pitino is still as good of a coach as there is, commands respect and he would make Indiana relevant the second he was announced as a head coach. I don't need to list his accolades because anybody reading this knows them and his track record speaks for itself. Worried about past NCAA problems? Who cares. Do you want to win or worry about some missteps from over a decade ago? This is an elite coach who is highly motivated to win back the title that the NCAA took away from him. He could absolutely do that in Bloomington.

I can promise you this. No reasonable observer, basketball fan or media member would roll their eyes or think the Hoosiers are playing fast and loose if they were to go after Pitino. They'd think, "Those guys aren't playing around."
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Winning at ST JOHNS will be pitino's greatest achievement. And he has achieved so much. Sorry indiana, move on to someone else.
 
Redenbacher said:
And so it begins.....

www.cbssports.com

Indiana basketball coaching search 2025: Two names the Hoosiers must pursue, including Rick Pitino

Indiana has two options at opposite ends of the pedigree spectrum
www.cbssports.com www.cbssports.com

Rick Pitino, St. John's

There's one guy out there who isn't on the initial Hot Board that I think Indiana should take a run at: Rick Pitino. I know, I know, he's getting up there in age (72) and it's tough to know how many more years he will want to do this. He's also a perfect fit in the Big East and the Big Apple.

I do know this, though -- Pitino is still as good of a coach as there is, commands respect and he would make Indiana relevant the second he was announced as a head coach. I don't need to list his accolades because anybody reading this knows them and his track record speaks for itself. Worried about past NCAA problems? Who cares. Do you want to win or worry about some missteps from over a decade ago? This is an elite coach who is highly motivated to win back the title that the NCAA took away from him. He could absolutely do that in Bloomington.

I can promise you this. No reasonable observer, basketball fan or media member would roll their eyes or think the Hoosiers are playing fast and loose if they were to go after Pitino. They'd think, "Those guys aren't playing around."
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Agree w him;

“I’ve been trying to get [the Big East on board], and obviously I jumped on your bandwagon with the suggestion that you had about combining with the ACC, because I’ve been trying to get them to start a super league basketball league,” Pitino said before St. John’s 68-62 road win over UConn. “And get up to 18 teams, 16 teams. Eleven is just not enough. And right now, a little bit like the ACC, we are not typical of the Big East of the past that was getting eight or nine, 10 teams in the NCAA tournament. So I think we are missing the boat if we don’t expand.”

It should be noted that the current iteration of the Big East inked a new six-year media rights deal with FOX, NBC, and TNT Sports last summer that will average nearly $80 million per year.

It is an improvement on the current deal with FOX and CBS that expires at the end of this season.
That was a 12-year contract that averaged $41.67 million per year.

 
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paultzman said:
Agree w him;

“I’ve been trying to get [the Big East on board], and obviously I jumped on your bandwagon with the suggestion that you had about combining with the ACC, because I’ve been trying to get them to start a super league basketball league,” Pitino said before St. John’s 68-62 road win over UConn. “And get up to 18 teams, 16 teams. Eleven is just not enough. And right now, a little bit like the ACC, we are not typical of the Big East of the past that was getting eight or nine, 10 teams in the NCAA tournament. So I think we are missing the boat if we don’t expand.”

It should be noted that the current iteration of the Big East inked a new six-year media rights deal with FOX, NBC, and TNT Sports last summer that will average nearly $80 million per year.

It is an improvement on the current deal with FOX and CBS that expires at the end of this season.


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Adding Dayton is equal to adding another Providence quality team this year, SLU is equal to adding a better DePaul. I don't think adding more mediocrity in the middle does anything.

We missed the boat not going all out for Gonzaga/St. Mary's, although it doesn't seem like they were interested in joining anyway.
 
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