Being a Memphis fan this reminds me of the initial rumors related to Cal going to Kentucky. At first you’ll say to yourself, there’s no way Rick would do this, he has so much going here. Then he’ll deny ever having conversations with the Kings and probably state that Louisville is where he wants to be. Louisville fans be ready. For the next few days there are going to be a million rumors from a million experts “close to the situation”. The days will turn into weeks, the weeks will turn into months waiting for the final outcome. All I can say, is good luck in your journey. By the way, I’ve been a Tiger fan since 1968. I really enjoyed all of the battles with you guys through the years. I recall such great players as Jim Price, Darryl Griffith, the McCray brothers, Never nervous Pervis and of course your great coach Denny Crum. I loved all of our great battles and wish we could schedule some games in the future. It was a great rivalry. Your new stadium looks great, keep up the great work.

This is how I see things working out.

First, the KY State Legislature will legalize gambling in the Commonwealth in 2011. The Maloofs will then team up with the Blue brothers and build a huge Casino on the their property next to Slugger Field.

After two years of booming profits the Maloofs will decide to move a still struggling Sacramento franchise to Louisville in 2013 to play as a secondary tennant at the World Renowned Downtown Arena. In an attempt to lure the local fan base to the new team the Maloofs will hire the recently retired 65 year old Pitino who just won his second consecutive National Title with a dominant backcourt of senior point guard Peyton Siva and National Player of the Year junior shooting guard Marques Teague.

By 2016, the wild success of the Pitino led Kentucky Kings and the Jay Wright led Louisville Cardinals will draw enormous crowds to the downtown entertainment district and will cause an influx of monies into the TIF District that contains the Palms East Casino and the Downtown Arena and creates huge amounts of capital for the city. Mayor Tom Jurich uses the profits to lure Fortune 500 medical technology companies to invest in the steadily expanding Healthcare Disrtict which is only a few blocks away.

By 2025 the collaboration and concentration of so many great minds leads to unprecedented research that allows for the development of cures to some of the worst diseases that plague our society such as cancer, AIDS, and heart disease. Due to the elimination of sickness, nationalized healthcare becomes useless and the government can invest all that money into education.

By 2035, after being made obsolute due to the elimination of most sickness, the drug companies will hire the new graduates of a highly efficient education system and shift their focus to solving the world’s energy and environmental crisis. The new research will develop affordable technologies to power and feed a clean and sustainable society.

By 2050, With the world healthy, educated, well fed, entertained, and safe, nations around the world sign treaties declaring peace with their enemies and eventually the idea of conflict will disappear from the planet leading to true World Peace.

…at least that’s how I hope this all works out.

Now dont get me wrong I DONT want to see Pitino leave. As we all know hes a world class coach. However if he did would it really be the end of the world. Lets think about it. When Pitino went to KY everyone knew he was good, however I doubt people thought he was going to have the success he had. When your on top the only place to go is down and there are alot of guys out there nipping at his heals. Ya never know we could pick up the next rising star.

Now I say again I would rather just stick with Pitino.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=4151041

It would be very bad if Pitino left. But check the ESPN story above. He ain’t going anywhere.