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Nevadaref Sat Mar 14, 2020 04:06pm

Shame on Iona
 
For hiring Rick Pitino. Boo, hiss!

ilyazhito Sat Mar 14, 2020 11:29pm

What did Pitino do wrong? Does he have a history of mistreating officials in the past?

WhistlesAndStripes Sun Mar 15, 2020 01:08am

I wonder if Vegas sports books are taking action on how soon Zion’s makes the final four.


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LRZ Sun Mar 15, 2020 08:58am

"What did Pitino do wrong?"

ilyazhito, is this a sincere question or did you forget to use blue font? If serious, his history is a matter of public record, easily found on the 'net.

JRutledge Sun Mar 15, 2020 11:55am

Quote:

Originally Posted by LRZ (Post 1038259)
"What did Pitino do wrong?"

ilyazhito, is this a sincere question or did you forget to use blue font? If serious, his history is a matter of public record, easily found on the 'net.

OK, but what does this have to do with officiating? If you do not like the guy for other reasons, that is fine. But this topic of him being hired has little or nothing to do with officiating. So there does not have to be blue font if people are asking a "kind of serious" question.

Peace

LRZ Sun Mar 15, 2020 12:10pm

I meant my response to the first question seriously, not as an insult or derogatorily. Maybe I should have used blue font.

JRutledge Sun Mar 15, 2020 12:20pm

Quote:

Originally Posted by LRZ (Post 1038262)
Maybe I should have used blue font.

This entire thread should be in blue font. ;)

Peace

LRZ Sun Mar 15, 2020 12:24pm

Quote:

Originally Posted by JRutledge (Post 1038263)
This entire thread should be in blue font. ;)

Or invisible ink!

scrounge Sun Mar 15, 2020 01:19pm

Quote:

Originally Posted by ilyazhito (Post 1038256)
What did Pitino do wrong? Does he have a history of mistreating officials in the past?

Is that a serious question?

Player989random Sun Mar 15, 2020 08:47pm

Quote:

Originally Posted by scrounge (Post 1038265)
Is that a serious question?

You got to realize that in the DC area, we view Marion Barry as an idol. Pitino was set-up.

Raymond Mon Mar 16, 2020 07:41am

Quote:

Originally Posted by scrounge (Post 1038265)
Is that a serious question?

I think he is in his early 20's. Not everyone follows the personalities of college coaching or tracks the history.

ilyazhito Mon Mar 16, 2020 09:56am

I'm 25. I know where Rick Pitino used to coach, but I don't know anything about his personality or actions. I read that he "resigned" from Louisville for recruiting issues, but I am not aware of why Iona College should be shamed for hiring him. If Bobby Knight, Bob Huggins, or any of the other coaches famous for abusing officials, was hired somewhere, I would be very much against it due to how he treats officials, but I don't know of any history with Pitino that relates to officials.

JRutledge Mon Mar 16, 2020 10:10am

He is not being hired or not hired for his treatment of officials. He is being hired because he has been a very successful coach. He will bring attention to that school it has never had before and probably might get some kids to go to Iona that would not have considered them in the past. Let us not complicated this topic. Unless the NCAA takes specific action towards him, this is likely a decent hire.

Peace

Nevadaref Mon Mar 16, 2020 03:54pm

Quote:

Originally Posted by ilyazhito (Post 1038270)
I'm 25. I know where Rick Pitino used to coach, but I don't know anything about his personality or actions. I read that he "resigned" from Louisville for recruiting issues, but I am not aware of why Iona College should be shamed for hiring him. If Bobby Knight, Bob Huggins, or any of the other coaches famous for abusing officials, was hired somewhere, I would be very much against it due to how he treats officials, but I don't know of any history with Pitino that relates to officials.

No, he was fired for cause by Louisville.
The program was part of the FBI investigation into college basketball and the shoe companies, namely adidas.
The program was also flagged for a stripper scandal.
The 2013 National Championship was vacated. Louisville opted to not participate in the 2016 postseason.
Pitino himself was involved in a sex scandal at Louisville after admitting to having sex with a woman in a restaurant.

BillyMac Mon Mar 16, 2020 05:48pm

Technically Wasn't Fired ...
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Nevadaref (Post 1038275)
No, he was fired for cause by Louisville.

Later, after he was fired, Louisville allowed him retroactively resign.

Also, is the capital of Kentucky called Louieville, or Louisville?

bob jenkins Mon Mar 16, 2020 08:02pm

Quote:

Originally Posted by BillyMac (Post 1038276)
Later, after he was fired, Louisville allowed him retroactively resign.

Also, is the capital of Kentucky called Louieville, or Louisville?

Frankly, I don't care.

justacoach Tue Mar 17, 2020 03:19am

Quote:

Originally Posted by BillyMac (Post 1038276)
Later, after he was fired, Louisville allowed him retroactively resign.

Also, is the capital of Kentucky called Louieville, or Louisville?

Hot Dog.....

Have you stopped abusing your chickens?

SC Official Tue Mar 17, 2020 06:27am

Quote:

Originally Posted by BillyMac (Post 1038276)
Later, after he was fired, Louisville allowed him retroactively resign.

Also, is the capital of Kentucky called Louieville, or Louisville?

It’s actually called Frankfort.

BillyMac Tue Mar 17, 2020 09:29am

Dead Presidents ...
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by BillyMac (Post 1038276)
Also, is the capital of Kentucky called Louieville, or Louisville?

Quote:

Originally Posted by AremRed (Post 1038278)
The locals says Lew-uh-vul.

Nice try. Care to try again?

Quote:

Originally Posted by bob jenkins (Post 1038277)
Frankly ...

Quote:

Originally Posted by SC Official (Post 1038280)
It’s actually called Frankfort.

Excellent.

After more than thirty years in the classroom, I have a plethora of middle school jokes.

Every year my eighth graders were asked by their U.S. History teacher to pick a U.S. president and write "president report". The students would enter my science class talking about which president they would choose. I always suggested my favorite president, Benjamin Franklin, who before becoming president, invented the lightning rod, bifocals, and the Franklin stove, was a printer and a publisher, founded post offices and libraries, and studied electricity and ocean currents. And, after all, he is famously pictured on the one-hundred dollar bill.

Every year a few students would take me seriously, some middle school kids can be overly trusting of teachers and can be very gullible. After a few years of doing this the history teacher actually came down to my science classroom one day and scolded me in front of my students.

I deserved it.

BillyMac Tue Mar 17, 2020 09:31am

Pet Chickens ...
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by justacoach (Post 1038279)
Have you stopped abusing your chickens?

Proud to say, yes I have.

Wait a minute?

No I haven't.

Wait?

Huh?

ilyazhito Tue Mar 17, 2020 12:37pm

Quote:

Originally Posted by BillyMac (Post 1038276)
Later, after he was fired, Louisville allowed him retroactively resign.

Also, is the capital of Kentucky called Louieville, or Louisville?

That's why I put resign in scare quotes. He was allowed to resign to save face, but that doesn't hide the fact that he was effectively fired.

Can we delete this thread?

Raymond Tue Mar 17, 2020 12:44pm

Quote:

Originally Posted by ilyazhito (Post 1038290)
That's why I put resign in scare quotes. He was allowed to resign to save face, but that doesn't hide the fact that he was effectively fired.

Can we delete this thread?

Just ignore the thread.

BillyMac Tue Mar 17, 2020 12:53pm

Reading Is Fundamental ...
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by ilyazhito (Post 1038290)
That's why I put resign in scare quotes.

Response was to Nevadaref, not to ilyazhito.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nevadaref (Post 1038275)
No, he was fired for cause by Louisville.


chapmaja Mon Mar 23, 2020 02:14pm

Quote:

Originally Posted by ilyazhito (Post 1038256)
What did Pitino do wrong? Does he have a history of mistreating officials in the past?

He is a big name college basketball coach. I know of ZERO who have not mistreated officials in the past.


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