The Washington Post published a scathing piece about Louisville head coach Rick Pitino on Sunday.
The article starts out by calling Pitino the devil.
Here is an excerpt:
Pitino and his current outpost for misconduct, Louisville, say the coach is not accountable for the following:
From 2010 to 2014 — which includes the Cardinals’ 2013 NCAA title team — a basketball staffer hired escorts and strippers for parties with recruits and players at a campus dormitory.
In its investigation this year, the NCAA faulted Pitino for failing to monitor the staffer.
In response, Pitino pulls off a bit of high-level linguistic derring-do — he denies having any knowledge of the on-campus gentlemen’s club and denies he failed to monitor the situation, saying, “I over-monitor my staff.”
Anyhow, let’s give credit where credit is due: Someone at Louisville, monitored or otherwise, realized that offering recruits free sex with strippers was an excellent recruiting tool; the staffer even provided stacks of dollar bills to spread around to the ecdysiasts.
The article goes on to say that Pitino also had violations as an assistant during his time at Hawaii:
At his first coaching stop, as an assistant at Hawaii from 1974 to 1976, Pitino was implicated in eight of the school’s 64 NCAA infractions that put the program on probation for two years. But when asked about the sanctions at a 1989 news conference, Pitino said, “There’s no one in this business with more integrity than Rick Pitino. . . . I didn’t make any mistakes at Hawaii, I don’t care what anybody says.”
At that same news conference — Pitino was head coach of the New York Knicks at the time — he said he was “not leaning toward taking the [Kentucky] job.”
He took the job one week later.
