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per the Providence Journal:
You can’t go home again?
Maybe not.
But you can stop by for a visit.
So it is for Richard Pitino, son of you know who, who once spent two years of his childhood in East Greenwich while his father was finding his fame as the young coach at Providence College. He had two older brothers, and a younger one who would die in infancy, but he was the one with his father’s first name, and the one who set out to be a coach, complete with all the obvious pressures that would come with that.
And he even has a few faint memories from that magical season in 1987, the one that changed both his father’s life, and his family’s life, too, even if he was only 5 at the time.
“I don’t remember a whole lot about that season. I was just too young,” he says. “But Rhode Island always has been a place that was important to me, because I’ve always known how important it was for my family.″
What I remember is the time he was crying in his father’s office one day because he had lost his jump rope.
“Can someone please find Ricky’s jump rope?″ Pitino barked one morning, in a tone of voice that made his assistants all but hide under their desks.
But those two years from 1985 to 1987 were a magical time for Providence College basketball, even if an occasional jump rope got lost along the way.
“It’s always been a place that puts a smile on my face,″ said Richard Pitino, the same Richard Pitino who will bring his No. 15 Minnesota Golden Gophers into the Dunk to play his alma mater on Monday night.
http://www.providencejournal.com/sports/20171111/richard-pitinos-journey-from-gofer-to-gophers
Go Gophers!!
You can’t go home again?
Maybe not.
But you can stop by for a visit.
So it is for Richard Pitino, son of you know who, who once spent two years of his childhood in East Greenwich while his father was finding his fame as the young coach at Providence College. He had two older brothers, and a younger one who would die in infancy, but he was the one with his father’s first name, and the one who set out to be a coach, complete with all the obvious pressures that would come with that.
And he even has a few faint memories from that magical season in 1987, the one that changed both his father’s life, and his family’s life, too, even if he was only 5 at the time.
“I don’t remember a whole lot about that season. I was just too young,” he says. “But Rhode Island always has been a place that was important to me, because I’ve always known how important it was for my family.″
What I remember is the time he was crying in his father’s office one day because he had lost his jump rope.
“Can someone please find Ricky’s jump rope?″ Pitino barked one morning, in a tone of voice that made his assistants all but hide under their desks.
But those two years from 1985 to 1987 were a magical time for Providence College basketball, even if an occasional jump rope got lost along the way.
“It’s always been a place that puts a smile on my face,″ said Richard Pitino, the same Richard Pitino who will bring his No. 15 Minnesota Golden Gophers into the Dunk to play his alma mater on Monday night.
http://www.providencejournal.com/sports/20171111/richard-pitinos-journey-from-gofer-to-gophers
Go Gophers!!