Richard Pitino Jr is the next head coach.

[Caveat]

Or someone on the hiring committee spoke up saying, "Enough of this ‘I'm really staying at X this time’ BS from former coaches. Mack is a hard no for me and I should be for everyone."

You can not like Mack, but his resume absolutely washes Pitino.

[GIMMFD]

Interesting hire, I'm going to support it until he proves me wrong, even if he leaves in 5 years or so, it should hopefully be because he brought X to a better place, his New Mexico team plays hard, and is outside the box in the grand scheme of things. I'm not excited or sad, I'm just... intrigued I guess.

[XUBand]

Interesting hire, I'm going to support it until he proves me wrong, even if he leaves in 5 years or so, it should hopefully be because he brought X to a better place, his New Mexico team plays hard, and is outside the box in the grand scheme of things. I'm not excited or sad, I'm just... intrigued I guess.

Intrigued won't open my wallet. Mack would have.

[Strange Brew]

Welcome to Xavier and the Big East Coach Pitino.

I like what his Father said about the current state of the game and I believe/hope he wants to build programs, teams and players.

Once all the money logically dries up for basketball to go to football universally (and esp baseball in the SEC). I hope this will work out well for our Muskies.

Let’s go X! Because in the present, the Brand is going to have to buy one heck of a roster. Which is something that will likely pass. :)

[bleedXblue]

Small time programs let weak Presidents and AD’s make big decisions. To not hire Mack may go down in history as the biggest blunder in this programs history. I just don’t get it at this juncture. NO ONE questions the Mack hire. At all. Huge risk taken from a guy who hasn’t made good hire since he’s been here. I’ll support Pitino and give it a go. The school and board better get serious about the leadership at this school. Extremely important to have the right people at the top.

[N67ER]

Who hired Tay Baker or dropped football? Maybe that was before we had an AD?

Are you kidding? Tay Baker was a breath of fresh air after Dick Campbell. Campbell coached 1971 to 1973. His record was 15 and 37. In 1972-73 we finished 3 and 23. He was a complete fraud and lied to our AD about his resume to get the job. Baker could not recruit but at least he knew something about the game!

[Xavier]

From what Norlander reported- the messiness of the rehire in miller impacted Greg and his decision for Mack. You literally just went thru the process of selling everyone on “I know he left but he had promised he is staying this time” and the hundreds of other lies out of miller. It’s hard to trust Mack. I did, I wanted Mack first. But I can understand the hesitation and X hasn’t been Xavier in 7 years.

Maybe it needs a breath of fresh air. It’s bold, it’s not the first time Greg took the easy way out. I think it can work out despite thinking Mack was an easy choice

[D-West & PO-Z]

You can not like Mack, but his resume absolutely washes Pitino.

Yes, but Pitino was in a tough spot at Minnesota.

Also, there is no doubt in my mind that Pitino is a hungrier coach than Mack. I am excited about his youth and his recruiting chops.

If Mack wasn't a Xavier guy and you just purely looked at his resume, you see he had a lot of success at Xavier, a place all his predecessors had success at as well and then a disastrous run at Louisville followed by some years off and a good but non tournament season at a low major team.

[Strange Brew]

Are you kidding? Tay Baker was a breath of fresh air after Dick Campbell. Campbell coached 1971 to 1973. His record was 15 and 37. In 1972-73 we finished 3 and 23. He was a complete fraud and lied to our AD about his resume to get the job. Baker could not recruit but at least he knew something about the game!

Sorry, responding to the quote in your post. Let’s be honest, Title 9 ended Xavier football. The timing is obvious. Sorry if no one wants to talk about it.

That said, X figured out that hoops was the way to promote the SCHOOL. X adapted and went “All In” (sorry) on it. Then again, that was Fr. Hoff’s vision.

Again, let’s go X!

[D-West & PO-Z]

Small time programs let weak Presidents and AD’s make big decisions. To not hire Mack may go down in history as the biggest blunder in this programs history. I just don’t get it at this juncture. NO ONE questions the Mack hire. At all. Huge risk taken from a guy who hasn’t made good hire since he’s been here. I’ll support Pitino and give it a go. The school and board better get serious about the leadership at this school. Extremely important to have the right people at the top.

I think the small time program hire would have been the safe higher, which would have been Mack.

We just got a guy who was in the running for two other jobs at two other high major programs. Mack had no other suitors and was tweeting his return to CoC as soon as X said no.

It may not work out, but it was not a small time program decision. Pitino has a lower floor but a higher ceiling. I am excited for a blank slate!