By no means do I want to imply that success is impossible. He’s also damn near untouchable at this point. Former Louisville coach Rick Pitino expected to take job in Greece. He’s right at home, though his front door is over 5,500 miles away. of the EuroLeague for long and said so following the team's 12th loss of the season Thursday. Rick Pitino is a coaching genius. He is also a rules compliance disaster. More than once during the trip, and several times that evening, he told me, “I’ve never seen anything like this.” Rick Pitino is one of the most brilliant x’s-and-o’s tacticians that we have seem in the college basketball ranks in the modern era. Rick Pitino is coaching again. It’s sinking in that the FBI investigation into corruption in college basketball that led to his firing at Louisville likely will be the end of his coa… Rick Pitino seems resigned to his fate. What is Rick Pitino doing these days? Rick Pitino paces up and down the sideline, gesturing, pointing, posturing, barking instructions and begging for explanations from referees.
Now, he's returning to college basketball, and Iona will own every criticism out there for its craven, just-win hire. Pitino will, unless I’m vastly overestimating a coach who has been very successful on-court at the college level, be able to come in and make adjustments to his system and philosophy based on what does and … Rick Pitino has no plans of coaching Panathinaikos B.C.
This is where Rick Pitino works now, who he works for and with. The former University of Louisville basketball coach, whose long career was mired in scandal, opened… Rick Pitino wants to tell his side of the story.