Are these the final days of Rick Pitino at Louisville?
Rick Pitino said he will be thinking about his three departing players Tuesday night against Georgia Tech, the final Louisville home game of the season, and not about the possibility that he'll going out the door with them. This will be a night for the graduate transfers Damion Lee and Trey Lewis, and for Dillon Avare, the walk-on son of the coach's business manager who is on schedule to earn his degree in three years and to play on scholarship next season for Eastern Kentucky.
This will not be a night, Pitino said, to think about the terms of his own near-future or distant goodbye. But that time is coming. Pitino didn't shoot down the claim that he'd started privately discussing plans to step down at season's end this past fall, just weeks after his program was rocked to its core. Nor did he reject another contention that the university's decision to institute a postseason ban last month in the wake of an alleged pay-for-sex scandal inspired Pitino to waver on his plans to leave, in part to avoid appearing as if he were fleeing a mess made on his watch.
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Rick Pitino said he will be thinking about his three departing players Tuesday night against Georgia Tech, the final Louisville home game of the season, and not about the possibility that he'll going out the door with them. This will be a night for the graduate transfers Damion Lee and Trey Lewis, and for Dillon Avare, the walk-on son of the coach's business manager who is on schedule to earn his degree in three years and to play on scholarship next season for Eastern Kentucky.
This will not be a night, Pitino said, to think about the terms of his own near-future or distant goodbye. But that time is coming. Pitino didn't shoot down the claim that he'd started privately discussing plans to step down at season's end this past fall, just weeks after his program was rocked to its core. Nor did he reject another contention that the university's decision to institute a postseason ban last month in the wake of an alleged pay-for-sex scandal inspired Pitino to waver on his plans to leave, in part to avoid appearing as if he were fleeing a mess made on his watch.
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http://espn.go.com/mens-college-bas...-pitino-needs-some-decide-run-louisville-over
