Syracuse head coach Jim Boeheim, who has had his fair share of NCAA troubles in recent years, says the way Louisville axed Rick Pitino and Tom Jurich is ‘sickening’.
To the surprise of no one, Dick Vitale agrees.
Yes @therealboeheim says Rick Pitino & TomJurich got a bad deal & it is sickening what @GoCards did to them ! https://t.co/obhVLh8lB6
— Dick Vitale (@DickieV) November 1, 2017
Here’s an excerpt of Boeheim’s comments:
Boeheim said he didn’t know if Pitino would coach again and then lashed into the current Louisville administration for the way they have dealt with the firing of Pitino and athletic director Tom Jurich.
“We all know their tolerance was up and this was it,” Boeheim said. “They didn’t think about it. There was no thought process with this. I’m a little disappointed in some of the things that have come out of there.
“. . . What has (Pitino) done at Louisville, what has Tom Jurich done at Louisville? Now all of a sudden they’re like bad guys? To me that is sickening. It makes me sick to read the comments that have come out of there. Do you know where Louisville would be without Tom Jurich? They would be playing their games at Freedom Hall. They would be playing football wherever the hell they were playing. And now he’s a bad guy?”
