To quote The Sports Curmudgeon, Don’t Get Me Wrong, I Love Sports…
... lot of lessons to be learned from the lurid revelations about Rick Pitino, not the least of which are that moral depravity and dishonesty may not mean what you think and that the president of the University of Louisville should be a little more careful in choosing his words.
...A coach is only as great as the assistants underneath who work for him.
Vinnie Tatum was such a good soldier that he kept guard over Pitino in the back of a restaurant even as the coach was having drunken sex with a woman he had met just hours earlier....
....latest word from Pitino's lawyer is that the basketball coach was simply so concerned Karen Sypher had no health insurance that he reached into his pocket for a wad of bills to pay for it. Sypher was apparently posted upstairs at the clandestine rendezvous to make sure Pitino got a receipt for his largesse.
.....If only every rich person in America were as generous as Pitino, there would be no need for President Obama to campaign for health care reform.
None of this seems to particularly bother the people in charge at Louisville, ....hiding from questions about a hugely popular coach who went 31-6 last season and came within one game of the Final Four. The athletic director ... praising Pitino for being truthful, while president James Ramsey said only that some details of the whole sordid mess were "surprising."
Disgusting would be a more accurate description, but, hey, Pitino wins games and lots of them. No reason to jeopardize that, especially now that archrival Kentucky has its own superstar coach.
...Winning basketball games is a lot more important than taking the high moral ground at most universities.
Pitino said Wednesday he was at Louisville "as long as they will have me" and ... that figures to be as long as he keeps winning.
Yet he's drunk in a restaurant having sex with a woman he just met while his assistant listens in? He's giving her money in a secret meeting at another assistant's place after she tells him she's pregnant with his baby and plans to get an abortion?
Say what you will about Bobby Knight, but this wouldn't happen on his watch. He might throw a few chairs in a restaurant, but he wouldn't be having sex on top of one.
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