BleedGopher
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per Pat Forde:
Rick Pitino is paid roughly $6 million a year. You’d think part of earning that salary would be handling defeat – even bitter defeat – with an ounce of grace and accountability.
The coach of the Louisville Cardinals displayed none of that Saturday. On a day when his team played reasonably well and extremely hard before falling 75-73 to archrival Kentucky, Pitino made himself the talking point by bailing on postgame interviews and (perhaps) flipping off Wildcats fans on his way off the Rupp Arena floor.
Failing to face this particular music, after the Cardinals pretty much played their guts out, was an embarrassment. Sending out associate coach Ralph Willard to handle the press conference was a colossal copout. Willard has done a few other postgame media ops in Pitino’s place this season – including their only other loss, at Michigan State – but you don’t pull that maneuver here and now. Not after the Kentucky game.
If Pitino’s intention all along was not to do interviews after this game, that was never relayed to the media. And, again, this isn’t the game for that. This is no time for Ralph Willard. This is the time for the $6 million man.
http://sports.yahoo.com/news/louisv...e-after-loss-to-kentucky-215617608-ncaab.html
Go Gophers!!
Rick Pitino is paid roughly $6 million a year. You’d think part of earning that salary would be handling defeat – even bitter defeat – with an ounce of grace and accountability.
The coach of the Louisville Cardinals displayed none of that Saturday. On a day when his team played reasonably well and extremely hard before falling 75-73 to archrival Kentucky, Pitino made himself the talking point by bailing on postgame interviews and (perhaps) flipping off Wildcats fans on his way off the Rupp Arena floor.
Failing to face this particular music, after the Cardinals pretty much played their guts out, was an embarrassment. Sending out associate coach Ralph Willard to handle the press conference was a colossal copout. Willard has done a few other postgame media ops in Pitino’s place this season – including their only other loss, at Michigan State – but you don’t pull that maneuver here and now. Not after the Kentucky game.
If Pitino’s intention all along was not to do interviews after this game, that was never relayed to the media. And, again, this isn’t the game for that. This is no time for Ralph Willard. This is the time for the $6 million man.
http://sports.yahoo.com/news/louisv...e-after-loss-to-kentucky-215617608-ncaab.html
Go Gophers!!
