Don’t let those low-functioning, refuse-to-think-for-themselves, tribalistic morons fool you. All that matters to UK fans is that Pitino spurned them and coached at UofL. They don’t care about anything he did or didn’t do outside of a game. Pitino was never a good guy. Not at UK, and not at UofL. He was incredibly narcissistic even for a high-level basketball coach. He functions barely above Trump in regard to his lack of character, respect for others, empathy, self-awareness, honesty and decency.
But Pitino was a heck of a basketball coach! And that’s all UK fans ever really cared about. They can’t separate the person from the number of basketball wins. Win a lot, especially an NCAA championship, and their coach could molest children on national TV and they wouldn’t care. They would talk wistfully about how great he was and how his actions were misconstrued. But lose enough games, especially if your skin is a little too dark, and they will spew hate, disgust and vitriol to a degree that one would think the coach personally committed a crime against them.
