Pitino at BBM
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Pope was quoted as saying…”I love Coach P, he changed the DNA in me as a person.”
That’s good enough for me…if Pope wants him around our program, I’m happy with it.
A few years down the road he might become an assistant for Mark.
That’s good enough for me…if Pope wants him around our program, I’m happy with it.
A few years down the road he might become an assistant for Mark.
I'm all for that. But I've yet to read an apology for any of that behavior. As far as the violations, lol. Cal wasn't "clean" but his violations were Camby taking money from an agent (supposedly without Cal knowing, and the NCAA saying he had no way to know) and then at Memphis Rose had someone else take a test for him (again NCAA saying Cal had know way to know); both those things were also off campus to my knowledge. The UofL stuff was much much worse. Prostitutes in dorms man. And there's no way that didn't get around campus. He knew. He may not of said "Ok, do that" but he sure didn't step up and correct it.
Again, I'm no Pollyanna, I know risqué stuff is done to attract recruits. But that was literally two crimes. 1 being the prostitution. The other being underage solicitation of minors. And that was by one of his right hand people. If you truly believe "he didn't know" I've got some oceanfront property to sell you in Wyoming.
Nah, him leaving when he implied he wouldn't and then coming back to take the UofL job over the Michigan job was the worst thing he did.
Leaving like coaches do all the time after saying they won’t? Is that what you mean? Louisville is a better job than Michigan at that time and it’s not debatable. It’s a better job today. He did what was best for him professionally just like any of us would do. He wasn’t born and bred into the rivalry like we were so his perspective is a little different than ours. If you think either of those were done specifically to be malicious to BBN, I don’t know what to tell you.
He left us as soon as he saw the opportunity to go back to the pros (which he wasn't great at btw- he lasted a grand total of 4 years at the Celtics and ;eft because he sucked). I'm not dissing what he did for us. But he left us as soon as he could and even he said it was a mistake. He used us and jumped. I'm not overly upset about it, but it was kind of crappy.
He didn’t leave as soon as he could. That is more revisionist history. He was approached yearly and didn’t leave until arguably the greatest sports franchise came calling. He had multiple opportunities to leave prior to the Celtics job but didn’t.
Regardless of what any of us think, our current coach loves Pitino and says he’s “my guy.” He is going to be around the program’s coach no matter what.
Pitino, is that you? Coming in for madness and have a CatsIllustrated account? Really took a 180.
Mark Pope is built of as solid character as a man can be expected to be. If he welcomes Pitino, will follow suit.
Not even close but the inaccuracies being posted in this account are absolutely ridiculous. I was a student at UK from 94 to 99 so I was there during most of Pitino's time. The posts in this thread like he left at the first chance he had are at best stretching the truth and at worst lies.
If you don't think Rick Pitino introducing Mark Pope to the crowd as "your next championship winning head coach" would blow the roof off that place, I don't know what to tell you.
Some people don’t want to be told anything- so no worries.
What’s accurate is that he’s selfish & one of the biggest liars the sport has known. A great coach, yes. So was Bobby Knight who was a total dick. I’m not going to share the same apartment complex with my hypothetical ex wife who wants to be friends now that she has nobody.
He is no worse than any other high major successful coach. He’s driven to win and with that comes characteristics that aren’t the best. Rupp had them. Call has them. All successful coaches have them. The only person who suffers if you let those things define a person is you. Everyone has redeeming qualities as well. However none of that changes the fabrications posted in this thread about him. You don’t have to be friends with your ex wife(depending on the reason for the divorce) but if you let that hate consume you than you lose in the end. It’s ok to forgive and move on. In fact it’s better physically, mentally, and emotionally if you do. Otherwise, you go through life as a miserable old man. More power to you if that’s how you want to live.
Glad to see him come back around he has said countless times that he regretted leaving Kentucky.
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Somebody once told me that holding a grudge is like drinking poison and then waiting for the other person to die. The older I get, the more I realize the absolute truth of that statement.
Hes 100% worse than 99% of coaches in the profession. And it’s about letting people back in that don’t deserve it. Who has proven time and time again he doesn’t deserve the benefit of the doubt. Never used the term hate either. I personally have no desire to be around somebody or let somebody back in who has proven to everybody who they really are. A great coach and a shitty person.
You cheer for him and give him what he wants & That’s fine.
I’ll pass.
Blah blah blah. You could have summed it up much faster by saying “I am a miserable person who hold a juvenile grudge because I don’t like people who choose to do what they feel is best for themselves personally.” I’m beginning to think you are a Card fan who is just trolling because the only fan base who may have legit complaints about him is them. Most of the stuff you say you are mad about happened when he was their coach. Otherwise, you choose to dislike him simply because he made what he thought were the correct professional decisions when he took other jobs.
Do you mean Forgiveness as in putting him in the HoF?
I’m not going to pretend I know everything Pete Rose did outside of betting on his teams to win. If that’s all it was, not point shaving, throwing games…then yeah I think he should’ve been allowed to be nominated for the HoF.
If he was a POS human and repeatedly did stupid, selfish stuff (which I know nothing about whether he did or not) or bet on his team to lose, then no. I just haven’t done research on the matter.
Forgive Rose for what? Going to Philadelphia? No problem. For betting on baseball? Sure. For his failures of character? Nothing changed with Rose. He was who he was. And off the field he was never a person to be admired. I don't know where you come down on this FT, but I never really understood why many seem to not be able to separate being a fan of the player from idolizing the person.
If he only bet ON the Reds, I think he should be in the Hall. If he bet against them, not so much. Baseball could have a really amazing wing of it's Hall for disgraced but otherwise Hall worthy players. Rose. Cobb. Shoeless Joe. Bonds. Clemens. McGwire. Sosa. Palmeiro.
alright little fella calm down lmao, you are taking this way more serious than it actually is lmao
Argue with a wall, man. With Pope here, Pitino will have a standing invite. You might need to follow another team if this is going to bother you that bad.
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So you honestly willingly believe he took the UL to spite UK fans? That’s your rebuttal??? And did you consider him family while he was at UL? It sure doesn’t sound like it. Again you don’t know the vulgar words said to him so don’t judge him. You kinda sound like a bitter ex tbh. And I’d laugh and it would validate my wanting CCC gone 5 years ago if he flipped off fans not acting appropriately. You think all the fans that day said hi Rick your family and he flipped them off? You are nuttier than Kamala if you think that.
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Again, he is a freaking multimillionaire getting his feelings hurt by a more than likely drunk nobody fan. David Tepper throwing a drink at a his own fanbase vibes tbh. You don't know the words either so it could've been a big nothing burger that he overreacted to as well; given his ego that wouldn't surprise me at all.
Shows you just how tiny a person he really is. The kicker is if he had just owned up to it, it probably would've been brushed aside or even laughed off. But when asked he freaking straight up lied about it. Come on. That's crappy behavior. That's actually worse than flipping the bird itself. I could even respect it if he'd been like, "Yeah, some idiot said something and I threw the bird. " Like, ok. At least then you own it. He couldn't even do that. That's why I still have trouble respecting him. The man has lied his ass off at every turn.
I can appreciate everything he did for us, so don't got the bitter ex route. We've done damn fine over the years without him. No coach is EVER bigger than Kentucky. We make coaches; they don't make us- with the only exception being Rupp.
And bringing politics into this lol. Typical weak crap. Amazes me people's arguments are so feeble you can't go a paragraph without pulling that card. Like "Oh oh! I'll throw that out and be cool! That will get'em!"
Again, he is a freaking multimillionaire getting his feelings hurt by a more than likely drunk nobody fan. David Tepper throwing a drink at a his own fanbase vibes tbh. You don't know the words either so it could've been a big nothing burger that he overreacted to as well; given his ego that wouldn't surprise me at all.
Shows you just how tiny a person he really is. The kicker is if he had just owned up to it, it probably would've been brushed aside or even laughed off. But when asked he freaking straight up lied about it. Come on. That's crappy behavior. That's actually worse than flipping the bird itself. I could even respect it if he'd been like, "Yeah, some idiot said something and I threw the bird. " Like, ok. At least then you own it. He couldn't even do that. That's why I still have trouble respecting him. The man has lied his ass off at every turn.
I can appreciate everything he did for us, so don't got the bitter ex route. We've done damn fine over the years without him. No coach is EVER bigger than Kentucky. We make coaches; they don't make us- with the only exception being Rupp.
And bringing politics into this lol. Typical weak crap. Amazes me people's arguments are so feeble you can't go a paragraph without pulling that card. Like "Oh oh! I'll throw that out and be cool! That will get'em!"
The man is 72. I can't see him doing any coaching much longer than a couple of years. I mean, even legends can overstay their time (see Jim Boeheim). I could see him maybe being a part time consultant or something.
Oh it is, that’s fair. I’m just telling you to prepare yourself to be very upset. Coach Pope is here now and with that Pitino will be back around as well. I guess just be mad about it.
Some of the same guys who hate Pitino, that adulterous murderer of a man, also like to quote the Psalms written by David, who was an adulterous murderer.
Weird how that works.
Weird how that works.
Suck it up, buttercup. Pope is Pitino's boy and he is likely going to bring him around the program. Some of y'all can just be mad about it.
Not to get off on too much of a tangent, and this will likely surprise many on here, but if you were a boy growing up and playing sports in the 70s in EKy. your sports rock stars were likely the Great 8 of the Big Red Machine and their Manager, Sparky. More so, usually, than even UK basketball players. – and remember I’m talking about EKy., not Cincinnati. This wasn’t the case with our parents, but for that specific era it was often true for the kids. We didn’t get to see the basketball players as much, and we generally thought of UK basketball in a collective team way, more so than individual stars. So, we still got mad for days when UK lost and we knew all the players and some (e.g., Grevey, Goose, Macy) were on a pedestal. But until Rose left for Philadelphia, the individual sports superstars for us during that period were Rose, Griffey, Morgan, Bench, Perez, Foster, Concepcion, and Geronimo.
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