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

Just read a 3 part article on Rick with interviews from 15 players from Cuse days to SJU. Wish Vice had captured his individual sessions with players. PS--they are all positive.
 
Rick Pitino appreciates his assistant coaches .......even unpaid volunteer coaches who get to cut down the net after winning the Big East tournament.
This is a friend of a friend who is living his dream!
 

Attachments

  • 827685675.jpg
    827685675.jpg
    690.5 KB · Views: 43
Does Pitino know how to build teams? Before college basketball became the only game in recruiting, three seasons ago these guys played for Pitino at little Iona college:
Walt Clayton, Daniss Jenkins, Nelly Joseph, Ayo and Slazinski..........all who went to other elite programs.
 
Rocket said:
Does Pitino know how to build teams? Before college basketball became the only game in recruiting, three seasons ago these guys played for Pitino at little Iona college:
Walt Clayton, Daniss Jenkins, Nelly Joseph, Ayo and Slazinski..........all who went to other elite programs.
Click to expand...
And Jenkins to NBA, Clayton 1st team AA
 
dk423 said:
I really would enjoy it if its this format.

1) Add Dayton. 30 teams.

2) Break it into geography/historic rivalries:
West: Stanford, Cal, Creighton, SMU, Marquette, DePaul, Xavier, Dayton, Butler, Louisville
South: UNC, Duke, NC State, Virginia, Virginia Tech, Miami, Georgia Tech, Florida State, Clemson, Wake Forest
East: UConn, Boston College, Providence, Syracuse, St. John's, Seton Hall, Villanova, Georgetown, Notre Dame, Pittsburgh

3) Expand conference games to 22 or 24

4) Implement round robin within divisional opponents, play two (or four) games per year against other divisional foes. Marquee match-ups only, so ESPN/FOX/Turner are happy.

5) 16 team tournament at MSG. No byes.
Click to expand...

I love the vision, but don't think this will ever happen. The teams I crossed out make too much in football to do this. I could be wrong, but just don't see how the schools above do this.


Here's my whacky idea (critique away):

A huge basketball-centric, small / private school, super conference... The league could be STOUT, and generate tons of bids for the tourney year-in and year-out...

Coast-to-coast... there are a LOT of schools to choose from... They could form regional conferences, similar to what you referenced above. How many conferences and teams per conference? No clue. It's just a concept, but I think it could help protect some of the smaller schools with good hoops programs.
 
Amaseinyourface said:
Respectfully agree with the Pope on this one

Click to expand...

Bull$hit; so Hurley, Neptune, Cooley, Smart just from the BE can come under criticism here but Pitino is beyond reproach? I say again, BS.
He is a great basketball coach, NO question, but beyond criticism, not even close, absolutely comes with the territory.
And he is charming, funny and personable when on top of the world, very much less than that when not.
Luis has played that way at times for TWO years and yesterday was the time to throw him under the bus? Not in my world, in my world you sit in front of that microphone, explain professionally why you made a decision that is yours and only yours to make and then heap praise on Luis for his two years of maximum effort and significant success here.
You DO NOT classlessly throw him under the bus but I know I expect too much.
 
SJU61982 said:
Not entirely true. I've been harping on this "first half two fouls" rule he has since day one. That's not a new thing, with me.

I can acknowledge that Rick did a great job this year while also pointing out a fly in the ointment. Both things can be true.
Click to expand...
Agree. As several posters have pointed out, Pitino is an incredible coach, but he is not infallible. I don’t know enough to criticize his decision to sit RJ the last four minutes, although from the outside looking in, it did appear that RJ being on the floor was our best chance to win.

But Pitino’s press conference was cringe worthy. He said he wasn’t going to knock one of his players, but that’s precisely what he did. And not just any player, but his best player who by all appearances is a great kid.

Notwithstanding the fact that we went on a win steak last year following Pitino’s criticism of his players’ “lack of lateral quickness,” I found those statements to also be cringe worthy.

Perhaps Pitino is a motivational genius and there is a purpose behind some of the uncharitable things he says. But I think most would agree that our incredible coach has an ego that from time-to-time gets the better of him.
 
logen said:
Bull$hit; so Hurley, Neptune, Cooley, Smart just from the BE can come under criticism here but Pitino is beyond reproach? I say again, BS.
He is a great basketball coach, NO question, but beyond criticism, not even close, absolutely comes with the territory.
And he is charming, funny and personable when on top of the world, very much less than that when not.
Luis has played that way at times for TWO years and yesterday was the time to throw him under the bus? Not in my world, in my world you sit in front of that microphone, explain professionally why you made a decision that is yours and only yours to make and then heap praise on Luis for his two years of maximum effort and significant success here.
You DO NOT classlessly throw him under the bus but I know I expect too much.
Click to expand...
You’re welcome to that opinion. I wasn’t discussing his response. I was discussing his decision. Asking respectfully, do you think there’s a situation where you’d agree with sitting him?
 
passitback said:
I love the vision, but don't think this will ever happen. The teams I crossed out make too much in football to do this. I could be wrong, but just don't see how the schools above do this.


Here's my whacky idea (critique away):

A huge basketball-centric, small / private school, super conference... The league could be STOUT, and generate tons of bids for the tourney year-in and year-out...

Coast-to-coast... there are a LOT of schools to choose from... They could form regional conferences, similar to what you referenced above. How many teams? No clue. It's just a concept, but I think it would help protect some of the smaller schools with good hoops programs.
Click to expand...
I agree with most of your cross outs, but I think they’ll stay until the buy out in 2030. By then, the conference will be far more manageable. The real long term questions would be Pitt, Duke, Louisville, and SMU. Would they really choose the Big 12 over that new conference? And, why wouldn’t Kansas or Arizona be interested in joining the mega basketball conference?

Big East has to act.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top