UCLA coach Mick Cronin joked during a press conference last week that if he had Rick Pitino’s money, “I’d be on a private plane for Cabo right now.”
Well, Rick Pitino has Rick Pitino’s money and he’s not on a plane to Cabo. On the contrary: He's about to win the Big East in Year 2 at St. John’s.
At 72 years old, Pitino’s contemporaries are pretty much gone from college basketball. Jim Boeheim talks on television. Mike Krzyzewski does a podcast. Roy Williams sits in the stands at North Carolina games like a fan. Leonard Hamilton announced Monday he’s calling it a career.
And here’s Pitino, about to take a sixth school to the NCAA Tournament and maybe make his case as the best college basketbal...