Louisville self-imposed post-season ban/Rick Pitino interested in UNLV?

[hoosierpap]

Chip Miller @BLUEChip_Miller
Report: Rick Pitino Interested in the UNLV Coaching Job .

 

STORY

 

"It might be fantasy, but now is the time for that. This is the beginning stage of a search for the next UNLV basketball coach, a search expected to extend at least two more months, and the right answer when it ends could be Rick Pitino.

 

 

Many observers will immediately dismiss the idea as laughable and unrealistic. But there are some reasons to entertain the possibility.

 

First and foremost, a source with connections to Pitino insists he is interested in the job, 15 years after his brief flirtation with Las Vegas. He went to Louisville in March 2001 and has not looked back — until now."

 

"Still, Pitino has several influential friends in Las Vegas, and if the most powerful boosters are serious about returning the program to the big time, it's time for the deepest-pocketed boosters and some of the university's clumsy administrators to lose a small-time mentality and shoot for a major star."

 

Even if the cost is around $4 million per year?

"If Pitino is interested, the money would be there," a source close to UNLV said Friday."

 

 

 

 

Dick Vitale ‏@DickieV  13h13 hours ago
No way RICK PITINO will be the next coach of UNLV / I have a better chance of  being a sex sympol in Hollywood!

 

 

 

Probably just wild rumors, but given the investigation who knows.

[Alford Bailey]

Would suit him well. All the glitz and glamor.

[Hovadipo]

Would suit him well. All the glitz and glamor.

And cheap hookers.

[Class of '66 Old Fart]

Would suit him well. All the glitz and glamor.

And allows him to escape the current cloud at L'ville. and secure a job for sonny boy who hasn't exactly set the world on fire with his coaching at Minny.

[Str8Hoosiers]

Kelvin Sampson also listed... Wow how soon the NCAA forgives and forgets

[USMCHoosier]

As the saying goes, what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. My guess, recruit visits will be a blast.

[ccgeneral]

I posted this in another thread and it probably should go here.

 

‏@WHAS11Kent: UofL calls press conference for 1:30 involving Ramsey, Jurich, and Pitino.... This could be significant news.

[WayneFleekHoosier]

I posted this in another thread and it probably should go here.

‏@WHAS11Kent: UofL calls press conference for 1:30 involving Ramsey, Jurich, and Pitino.... This could be significant news.

bury it on Friday of course.

[biteoftheapple]

From what I have read, they have called a team meeting just prior to this presser

[Naturalhoosier]

Dominoes about to fall in The 'Ville.

[Str8Hoosiers]

I am guessing/hearing Post Season Ban.... That would be 2 good teams (SMU) with no chance in the Tourney this year in a year when anybody could potentially get on a streak and win it all.... 

[Class of '66 Old Fart]

http://www.courier-journal.com/story/sports/college/louisville/2016/02/05/sources-u-l-imposing-postseason-hoops-ban/79878760/

 

Sources: U of L imposing postseason hoops ban

 

The University of Louisville plans to announce on Friday a self-imposed postseason ban on its men’s basketball team for the 2015-16 campaign, multiple sources told The Courier-Journal.

The school informed the team’s players in a meeting early Friday afternoon, a source close to the program said, and will hold a press conference at 1:30 p.m. to announce the decision.

(Watch the 1:30 p.m. press conference live here)

The coaches told the players they only had nine games left, another source said, which is the remainder of the regular season.

The decision comes as the NCAA continues to investigate a woman’s claims that she and other escorts were paid thousands of dollars and given game tickets in exchange for dancing for and having sex with U of L basketball players and recruits from 2010-14.

It is a significant blow to coach Rick Pitino and his current team, which has an 18-4 record and is in second place in the competitive Atlantic Coast Conference.

Louisville, ranked 19th in the latest AP poll, had high hopes for deep runs in the ACC and NCAA tournaments, and has a team built around two graduate transfers, Damion Lee and Trey Lewis, who came to U of L to play their final college season and pursue their first NCAA tournament bid.

[Class of '66 Old Fart]

Dan Dakich ‏@dandakich 4m4 minutes ago

Louisville Post Season Ban..what happened to Pitino"s claim of innocence "we've got signed affidavits"?

[Chips&Dipo]

Surely, one post season ban isn't enough for this type of behavior?

[FortWayneHoosier]

Surely, one post season ban isn't enough for this type of behavior?

I would hope there is more to come from this. We all know the ncaa takes their time with things.

[Class of '66 Old Fart]

Might be the first strike theory hoping to avoid harsher penalties from the NCAA by puffing their chest and saying 'see what we did'!

[Striper]

Vegas really offers everything Pitino could want:

 

1) Plenty of Italian restaurants filled with loose women.

 

2) An inordinate number of strippers and working girls.

 

3) A place where the white suit is absolutely acceptable fashion.

[chitown hoosier]

There's no way they will get off this lightly with 1 self imposed post season ban.

[HoosierRob]

Louisville fans are actually mad about this.

I guess they don't care about the future of they're program? Because if they didn't do this i believe the death penalty was coming.

[ccgeneral]

‏@ESPNStatsInfo: Last time Rick Pitino didn’t coach in NCAA tourney- 2006 (NIT).

Last time Pitino didn’t coach in postseason- 1991 (Kentucky ineligible).