Richard Pitino Jr is the next head coach.

[bleedXblue]

NFW should walk ons get any NIL money. Free education is plenty. Please stop with this.

[Xavier]

NFW should walk ons get any NIL money. Free education is plenty. Please stop with this.

Walk ons get free education? Since when? Wouldn’t that make them scholarships players? Genuinely asking…

[IM4X]

On cue -- I had a few things wrong (as per usual):

https://sports.yahoo.com/college-bas...130005097.html

This is a good read about the future of the sport. I expect a ton of legal challenges to this new framework under both anti-trust and title-ix -- but the status quo isn't going to be the status quo for much longer imo.

That is some good information. Thanks for sharing.

[Xville]

NFW should walk ons get any NIL money. Free education is plenty. Please stop with this.

Well they aren’t getting free education so…..essentially what they are getting in terms of dollars (allegedly) is paying for their education

[IM4X]

Has anyone seen St John's season-long documentary (similar to what Paul is doing). It's very interesting, mostly because Pitino is super intriguing, and they spend alot of time talking about NIL.

They have a GM for NIL, who gets alot of screen time, and they have a billionaire booster who has basically said he will do whatever it takes to keep St John's in the conversation. You can tell the administration has agreed that NIL is here, and it's going to be embraced.

I think it's called Red Storm Rising or something like that. You can find it on Youtube. Lots of good NIL perspective in it.

Thanks for sharing. Will check it out.

[MuskiePimp23]

Home run hire for the program. Great hire by Greg. I am not sure why Pitino is getting much stick from fans on here but I am over the moon with the hire. Exciting times for the program ahead.

I'm generally curious to hear from the people who say this is a "home run hire" and "has more upside than Mack." He has 13 years of head coaching experience has been to a whopping 4 NCAA tourneys and won a grand total of 2 games. Not getting to the 2nd weekend twice but the 2nd round. Twice in 13 years. Where is all this upside and home run hire coming from? I see a guy who would have been fired years ago had he put up these results at Xavier and he was already fired from Monnesota. I think this is a terrible hire on a guy who will either be fired in 4 years or leave for a bigger program in 4 years. Either way we're starting over.

Mack left for Louisville and everyone knew that would always be a possibility with his wife from there and wanting to move back there to be closer to her family. Mack has also said he wants to retire at a young age in mid to late 50's which he is there now. If Mack missed coaching that, bad I trust him a lot more than Miller or Pitino to be at X for 8-10 years before officially retiring.

Also watching Pitino on Red Storm rising, I get the impression he does not want to work as hard as his dad to have that kind of success. Seeing him there versus his dad was very telling and not in a good way. I remember walking away from that thinking, I'm really glad he's not our coach...and now he is.

[bleedXblue]

Well they aren’t getting free education so…..essentially what they are getting in terms of dollars (allegedly) is paying for their education

fair enough, I guess it doesnt matter where it comes from......

[94GRAD]

Not sure how I feel about this. First outsider in my lifetime.

Thad was the last outsider. Did you start X after 2003?

The fact that Greg has a job after what he’s done to the women’s program is mind boggling. If Pitino doesn’t t work out and he’s still here, Xavier should just get rid of athletics

The Women's Basketball team is the only team in the Athletic Dept that is underachieving.

He will go down as the worst AD in X history.

You obviously don't remember Dawn Rogers

NFW should walk ons get any NIL money. Free education is plenty. Please stop with this.

They are called Walk-ons because they don't receive scholarships.

[xubrew]

thad was the last outsider. Did you start x after 2003?


The women's basketball team is the only team in the athletic dept that is underachieving.


You obviously don't remember dawn rogers


they are called walk-ons because they don't receive scholarships.

now this oughta clear a few things up around here!!!!!

[Tim]

I'm generally curious to hear from the people who say this is a "home run hire" and "has more upside than Mack." He has 13 years of head coaching experience has been to a whopping 4 NCAA tourneys and won a grand total of 2 games. Not getting to the 2nd weekend twice but the 2nd round. Twice in 13 years. Where is all this upside and home run hire coming from? I see a guy who would have been fired years ago had he put up these results at Xavier and he was already fired from Monnesota. I think this is a terrible hire on a guy who will either be fired in 4 years or leave for a bigger program in 4 years. Either way we're starting over.

Mack left for Louisville and everyone knew that would always be a possibility with his wife from there and wanting to move back there to be closer to her family. Mack has also said he wants to retire at a young age in mid to late 50's which he is there now. If Mack missed coaching that, bad I trust him a lot more than Miller or Pitino to be at X for 8-10 years before officially retiring.

Also watching Pitino on Red Storm rising, I get the impression he does not want to work as hard as his dad to have that kind of success. Seeing him there versus his dad was very telling and not in a good way. I remember walking away from that thinking, I'm really glad he's not our coach...and now he is.

Agree with every word. I hope I eat crow.

I mean, you can't NOT hire the best candidate because he left us once already. Most posters here are saying Pitino is gone in 3 to 4 years either because he's great or horrible. How is that better than rehiring an alum with past SOLID results who MIGHT leave again.

Instead of a high floor and a middle ceiling, we hired a low floor with a high ceiling. We desperately needed a high floor guy after what Steele did.

Again I truly truly hope I'm eating crow in 1 to 2 years.