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per ESPN:
Almost a year after the FBI investigation into college basketball led to his termination at Louisville, Rick Pitino thinks it's unlikely he will return to coaching at the college level.
In a book released Tuesday entitled "Pitino: My Story," co-written with Seth Kaufman, Pitino writes that "my coaching career is possibly finished."
When asked to expand by ESPN in a wide-ranging interview prior to the book's release, Pitino admitted he doesn't believe he will get a coaching job again.
"There was one job this past year, that I really did want. They called the NCAA and the NCAA said, 'We're handcuffed. The FBI will not allow us to investigate, we can't give you a yes or no on Rick Pitino because we're not allowed to investigate,'" Pitino said. "I'm not really thinking about coaching again in the future because I'm not in control of that. I feel it's over for me."
While also a memoir of his 40-year coaching career, Pitino focused much of the book on three key aspects of the past few years: the 2015 sex scandal, the 2017 FBI investigation into shoe company influence in college basketball, and his eventual termination from Louisville.
He took responsibility for hiring former staffer Andre McGee and assistant Jordan Fair, writing "that the buck stops with me," but also laid much of the blame at the feet of the Southern District of New York, the FBI investigators and the Louisville Board of Trustees.
As Pitino, 65, has done since Katina Powell's book in the fall of 2015, he denied any knowledge of the stripper parties organized by McGee.
"My inquisitors had no evidence I knew about Andre McGee's stripper events because none existed," Pitino wrote. "As I just explained, I had no clue. No one they interviewed said I was complicit in any way. Additionally, they had no evidence that any other employee in my program knew about Andre's antics either. There are probably multiple reasons for that -- starting with the fact Andre knew I would have fired him the moment I learned of a single compliance infraction and ending with the fact that his 'events' reportedly involved potentially criminal acts like prostitution and underage sex."
http://www.espn.com/mens-college-ba...new-book-my-coaching-career-possibly-finished
Go Gophers!!
Almost a year after the FBI investigation into college basketball led to his termination at Louisville, Rick Pitino thinks it's unlikely he will return to coaching at the college level.
In a book released Tuesday entitled "Pitino: My Story," co-written with Seth Kaufman, Pitino writes that "my coaching career is possibly finished."
When asked to expand by ESPN in a wide-ranging interview prior to the book's release, Pitino admitted he doesn't believe he will get a coaching job again.
"There was one job this past year, that I really did want. They called the NCAA and the NCAA said, 'We're handcuffed. The FBI will not allow us to investigate, we can't give you a yes or no on Rick Pitino because we're not allowed to investigate,'" Pitino said. "I'm not really thinking about coaching again in the future because I'm not in control of that. I feel it's over for me."
While also a memoir of his 40-year coaching career, Pitino focused much of the book on three key aspects of the past few years: the 2015 sex scandal, the 2017 FBI investigation into shoe company influence in college basketball, and his eventual termination from Louisville.
He took responsibility for hiring former staffer Andre McGee and assistant Jordan Fair, writing "that the buck stops with me," but also laid much of the blame at the feet of the Southern District of New York, the FBI investigators and the Louisville Board of Trustees.
As Pitino, 65, has done since Katina Powell's book in the fall of 2015, he denied any knowledge of the stripper parties organized by McGee.
"My inquisitors had no evidence I knew about Andre McGee's stripper events because none existed," Pitino wrote. "As I just explained, I had no clue. No one they interviewed said I was complicit in any way. Additionally, they had no evidence that any other employee in my program knew about Andre's antics either. There are probably multiple reasons for that -- starting with the fact Andre knew I would have fired him the moment I learned of a single compliance infraction and ending with the fact that his 'events' reportedly involved potentially criminal acts like prostitution and underage sex."
http://www.espn.com/mens-college-ba...new-book-my-coaching-career-possibly-finished
Go Gophers!!
