Well, after listening to every talking head today on both the radio and TV, the consensus is Rick Pitino has coached his last game at the University of Louisville. Of course no one knows what's going to happen in the coming months but I'm fearful they will be proven right. When you get down to the pros and cons of this thing, even now without knowing everything that happened, it's still difficult for me to see a happy ending. Even if Tom Jurich is 100 percent behind Pitino and is ready to take the heat to keep him, I believe Pitino would resign to avoid more stress on the program and his returning players.
I think the process will be made easier if there's a worthy successor and I think that person is Kevin Willard. He's hot right now as Seton Hall won the Big East tournament and we all know of his Pitino connections. Seton Hall also loses their best players after the tournament so the Pirates may have to rebuild next season. I think we all would agree Willard would take the job in a heartbeat.
I think a lot of hard choices are going to have to be made and having someone that Pitino would be high on taking over would make his decision less hard. I believe that Pitino does want what's best for UofL than himself in this thing. I could be totally off with all of this but I'm just trying to prepare myself for what's to come.
I think the process will be made easier if there's a worthy successor and I think that person is Kevin Willard. He's hot right now as Seton Hall won the Big East tournament and we all know of his Pitino connections. Seton Hall also loses their best players after the tournament so the Pirates may have to rebuild next season. I think we all would agree Willard would take the job in a heartbeat.
I think a lot of hard choices are going to have to be made and having someone that Pitino would be high on taking over would make his decision less hard. I believe that Pitino does want what's best for UofL than himself in this thing. I could be totally off with all of this but I'm just trying to prepare myself for what's to come.