BleedGopher
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per Seth Davis:
SI.com: What about you? Did that prove that you belonged in the Big Ten? You're only 31 and this is just you're second season as a head coach.
Pitino: I don't look at it like that. Maybe it's because people have compared me to my father my whole life. I'm a guy with 30-something wins, and there are guys in this league with six or seven hundred. I'm just trying to prepare our guys as much as possible for each game.
SI.com: He once told me that you're better at this age than he was, because you're humble, whereas he didn't become humble until he was 50. Do you agree?
Pitino: Remember, while I was growing up he won a national championship at Kentucky, then he went to the national championship game the next year, then he signs this contract to be president of the Celtics. Everyone said he would set the NBA on fire and that didn't happen. So I kind of realized that you can be on top one day and on the bottom the next.
SI.com: You have one 2-year-old daughter and a son on the way. How has becoming a dad changed your life?
Pitino: There's something to be said in this type of business, where you get wrapped up in your own little world about winning and losing and recruiting, and you come home and your daughter doesn't care. She's just excited to see you and hang out with you. It's the greatest release you could ever have.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/co...hts-bruce-pearl-richard-pitino-wichita-state/
Go Gophers!!
SI.com: What about you? Did that prove that you belonged in the Big Ten? You're only 31 and this is just you're second season as a head coach.
Pitino: I don't look at it like that. Maybe it's because people have compared me to my father my whole life. I'm a guy with 30-something wins, and there are guys in this league with six or seven hundred. I'm just trying to prepare our guys as much as possible for each game.
SI.com: He once told me that you're better at this age than he was, because you're humble, whereas he didn't become humble until he was 50. Do you agree?
Pitino: Remember, while I was growing up he won a national championship at Kentucky, then he went to the national championship game the next year, then he signs this contract to be president of the Celtics. Everyone said he would set the NBA on fire and that didn't happen. So I kind of realized that you can be on top one day and on the bottom the next.
SI.com: You have one 2-year-old daughter and a son on the way. How has becoming a dad changed your life?
Pitino: There's something to be said in this type of business, where you get wrapped up in your own little world about winning and losing and recruiting, and you come home and your daughter doesn't care. She's just excited to see you and hang out with you. It's the greatest release you could ever have.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/co...hts-bruce-pearl-richard-pitino-wichita-state/
Go Gophers!!
