Rick Pitino has a plan for the Big East

His idea for adding Temple, the service academies, and calling it a day are ridiculous. For somebody that takes pride in being meticulously prepared, that solution is grossly oversimplified and does not put our other revenue sport in a position to compete for national championships. He’s the basketball coach, and his allegiance is where it is expected to be, but I think our Athletic Dept.‘s goal is to put all of our sports in situations to keep quality leadership, attract the best student-athletes, and compete for National Championships. Switching conferences doesn’t take that away from basketball, but staying arguably does for football.

I like that Bloggin’ Rick is weighing in on current events, and I really enjoy that we have a coach that is engaging and opinionated. In this case I completely disagree with his ideas

You would probably hear Rick Pitino yelling “Nooooooooooooooooooo.” In fact, that’s what I’m going to listen for to get confirmation.

I’m thinking this is false, because it’s not a tough decision.

Rick talks about how far away these B12 schools are for the non revenue sports, but it’s not like Syracuse, WV, S. Florida are right down the street either.

He was talking about what the Big East should do. Admitting the service academies might not fill seats at PJCS, but it would provide the Big East with a built-in national audience; and Temple makes sense on multiple levels.

The travel costs incurred by non-revenue sports is a valid concern, and I applaud CRP for considering that – and again, he was talking in the context of what schools the Big East should consider adding, not what conference UofL should be in. Nowhere did he say, and I read his entire post, what Tom Jurich should do. He did say that the Presidents of the various schools should listen to their ADs; he didn’t say they should defer to their basketball coaches.

ACC got mad that they weren’t getting enough attention. I think the Duke/UNC rivalry gets enough attention alone to make up for this ‘slight’. Weak.

I respect the service academies and love watching the occasional game between all of the schools, but would really not be excited about this. Remember when we played Army as a major independent and then in C-USA? Yeah, I barely do either.

Adding Temple is cool for basketball, fun road trips to a cool city, increasing academics, but I’m not sure about the football part.

I’m probably going to need to sit down and have a little talk with him

Let’s think of all of our other sports from this point on and make them a priority.

When him politic’n to stay in the BE with the collection of football playing members he mentioned is practically a death sentence to the football program and would almost certainly see HCCS exit as soon as a better offer came along.

Rick is thinking of Rick and, Basketball and that’s about it. Pisses me off because he’s only letting his displeasure with the idea of the Big12 be known for selfish reasons. He’s not thinking of Louisville First, he’s thinking of Rick first. There’s no reason for him to be this vocal about it unless he really just want’s people to know he’s against it; and there’s no reason to be against it if you’re really thinking about what’s best for Louisville Athletics as a whole.

Period.

But his whole mentality on this sounds like some rhetoric you would expect to hear from that gross school about 80 miles down the road.. We’re not a 1 sport centric school anymore…

Wasn’t it Rick that kind of called us out last year for not traveling well during the Big East tourney? Sighting reasons like the economy and that New York was too.expensive for us. Wel correct me if i’m wrong Mr. Pitino wouldn’t it be more economical for UofL fans to be in the Big 12? I mean i’m sure a glass of orange juice doesn’t cost $8 in Kansas City or Oklahoma City.

Or if he’s purposefully doing this to save face among old peers as his AD works a move to a shiny new conference. Or any other plausible theory. HIS WEBSITE HAS AUTO-PLAY MUSIC. This is the real issue, Cards fans. Let’s start a riot.

Not when, in one post, you say “Location, location, location” and “Let’s add Air Force,” and then continue to say “Let’s think about all of our other sports” but let’s add Army, Navy, and Temple.

Rick, I know you love the Big East, and I respect that. But I have little interest in solemnly playing “Nearer, my God, to Thee” as all the schools around us rush for the few remaining conference lifeboats.

Say hello to my little friend!!! (Temple).

Once thought unsinkable, but now we know that you have to fight for the lifeboats…

Although it is nice that CRP has some opinions on the matter, I too disagree… Adding those schools won’t help the Big East in Football, nor in the other non-revenue sports, where we are doing a pretty good job already. Tom needs to get us into the Big XII and call it a day.