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wow

@ESPNAndyKatz 1m
Enfield was making $157,000 a year at FGCU. According to source with direct knowledge USC deal pays him "well over a $1 million a year.''

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
--yet I can't look away."

Yep, UCLA is on my list now.

And really? I mean, heck yeah..."get your guns up!" ( ) and all that...but it's still TEXAS TECH we're talking about.

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I follow where my mind goes...

Note I said "in the mix in the Big 12" and not "a national contender"...

...just look at the landscape in the conference...outside of Kansas, there isn't a heavyweight...I mean, you could include OSU in there, but I don't...and KSU has Bruce Weber, so give that a few years to fizzle out...so I'd say it's fair that a Tubby Smith led Red Raiders squad could quite easily compete with those teams, along with Iowa State, Oklahoma and Baylor for second place in the Big 12.

How is the Rutgers job not open and how is Bernstein not going nuts of this coach? Probably because its an ESPN story and not a deadspin story. Regardless of who has the story, videotape of the coach chucking balls at the players time and time again is crazy.

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That's my purse! I don't know you!

He brought it up and said the coach needs to be fired right now, along with anyone above him on the food chain who saw the video and didn't fire him on the spot.

He'll be on it tomorrow after some of his Twitter sycophants send him the story.

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I always pause when a coach wins for one year with someone elses players.


Minnesota, Richard Pitino agree

By Andy Katz | ESPN.com


Minnesota has reached an agreement with Florida International's Richard Pitino to be the Gophers' new coach.

The school will introduce Pitino at a news conference Friday.

"Richard Pitino has been selected as the finalist for the position of University of Minnesota men's head basketball coach," the school said in a statement. "Pitino and the university have reached an understanding in principle on the key terms of an agreement."

The two sides met Tuesday in Fort Myers, Fla., according to a source.

A source said Arizona State assistant coach Eric Musselman was supposed to interview for the job, but was told Tuesday not to fly to Fort Myers because the Gophers had their coach.
Chip Off The Old Block

Richard Pitino certainly learned something from his dad -- how to force turnovers. FIU ranked fifth in the nation in turnover percentage, a 123-spot improvement over Isiah Thomas' last year at the helm. The net result: 10 more wins. Here's the steal percentage leaders in 2012-13:
School Pct.
VCU 28.5
Louisville 27.5
Denver 26.2
Savannah State 26.0
Fla. International 25.6
-- Kenpom.com

The son of NCAA coaching legend Rick Pitino, Richard Pitino was with his father's team, the Louisville Cardinals, Sunday in Indianapolis and then went to see Kevin Ware with his father Monday in an Indianapolis hospital. Richard Pitino was a former Louisville assistant who also has served as an assistant at Florida and Providence.

Pitino replaced Isiah Thomas at FIU and coached the Golden Panthers to a surprising 11-9 record in the Sun Belt, 18-14 overall. They shocked league favorite Middle Tennessee State in the conference tournament semifinals before losing the automatic NCAA berth to Western Kentucky.

Minnesota athletic director Norwood Teague fired Tubby Smith last week after Smith led the Gophers to a round of 64 win over UCLA and a round of 32 loss to Florida. Smith was hired this week by Texas Tech.

Teague, the former VCU AD, has long looked for up-and-coming hires and tabbed Anthony Grant (Alabama) and Shaka Smart (VCU) as head coaches with the Rams. Minnesota looked at Smart and made a play for Gophers alumnus, former NBA coach and now ESPN NBA analyst Flip Saunders as well as Cincinnati coach Mick Cronin, but all decided against going to Minnesota.

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Well must be nice for Pitino to escape after a year.



Isaiah Thomas. The gift that keeps on giving.

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