(01-17-2018 03:46 PM)green Wrote: indulge me ...
why was pitino fired ...
PRESUMED INNOCENT
Really? You honestly don't know why he was fired?
OK ... let's give him the benefit of the doubt. Pitino knew NOTHING about EITHER scandal. His assistants acted on their own in both instances.
Based on this assumption, Pitino is fired because he has ZERO control over his assistant coaches, who go out of their way to break NCAA rules, and in the last case, was caught on FBI undercover surveillance video saying "we have to be careful because we are on probation already".
THAT is fireable. And that is taking Pitino totally at his word.
But if you honestly believe Pitino knew nothing about this, you're naïve.
The second instance involved an assistant who was hired into his first college gig ever. You think he's going to "free lance" an effort to get a shoe company to arrange for a $100,000 payment to a recruits family WITHOUT the head coaches knowledge???? If so, he has balls bigger than an elephant.
Either way ... Pitino should be fired. He either knew of these things, or he can't control the assistants he hires to follow NCAA rules.