Would Rick Pitino be welcomed back to Rupp Arena? | Kentucky Basketball
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- We wanted to find out what would happen if Rick Pitino were to be invited back to be honored alongside the 96-98 teams. So, we asked Kentucky fans what they would do if the hypothetical became reality.
Do you think Pitino should be welcomed back? Let us know in the comments.
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Absolutely. His contribution. His achievements. All should be recognized.
Yes we should bring him back and say thank you !!!
His teams were brash, tuff, and athletic. They were exciting and never played with fear. They had an edge to them that was part of his personality. Bring him back and give him his due.
Hell yes he should. His teams were a huge part of my childhood and were some of the best teams ever. I think the vast majority of UK fans appreciate him
Never hated him, always loved Pitino. Haters always hate, welcome the man home where he belongs
Fans cheered Laettner when he towel wiped the floor as coach of the "Villains" team. Yes, I believe fans would overwhelmingly welcome and cheer Pitino.
He is like a EX. You don’t want to see him. But you can’t help bot think of the time with them.
I would give him a standing ovation if I could be there for his return. Not only did he turn the program around with misfits and almost beat one of college best basketball teams in Duke. But won a championship, fell just short of another and passed a great team to Tubby Smith who won with his players. I wished he would of never left Kentucky to go pro and mess up at Louisville, he truly is one of the greatest coaches of his time.
My dad’s been wanting him back ever since he left lol
Rick pitinos teams is what made me a lifelong member of the BBN, but he cut us deep by ending up at Louisville,at the end of the day he gave us some of the greatest most memorable years in our history.
Absolutely! We loved him as our coach and what he did for us. We are not bringing him back celebrating him being the Louisville A554ole. But as the coach that brought us back from what Eddie Sutton did to us. Rick actually said pubically that his greatest regret in his whole coaching career was that he left the University of Kentucky and the best fans in the world. And yes I hated the ground he walked on at Louisville and actually was sick at my stomach the whole day after hearing he was taking the job at Louisville. Literally sick! But it is time.
Regardless of Pitino's personal life, this man can flat out coach. He can take players with lesser talent and mold them to be the best player they can be. He plays them to their strengths, and they know what role they play to win. Unlike Calipari, who looks for quick fixes.
Bring back Rick he brought UK back to prominence. I still like Rick
This Kentucky 47 yo wishes Kentucky Basketball was fun like in the 90s as a teen. Now it a chore to watch. Pitino deserves recogniton for that time was greatest period of UK basketball modern era, Going from probation to 96 champs
Yes!! To a standing ovation.
People need to get behind Cal!! Coach P done great things at ky. But that’s in the past… the future is now ! Coach Cal!!! Go Big Blue!
Yes, hire him today.
Yes I would, I listened and watched that man when i was a child do great things at UK. He had great teams, players and lifted the program. Hated like Hell when he left, alot of nostalgia with Rick and his days at Kentucky. The guy is a legendary coach.
once you see him on that court. surrounded by the guys he coached here.. I think he would be almost UNIVERALLY appreciated.
he put UK back on top...
He was great why wouldn’t he come back! That’s the craziest thing I’ve heard. I’m a life long fan and still think he’s the greatest! His style of play was so fun to watch. Watch those teams watch the 97 team when Anderson and Mercer where both playing that was the beat team I have watched it was something to watch all out effort the other teams didn’t know WhT hit them! I have never understood how anybody could dislike him!
KY fans have baked his family, everything Rick they have bad mouthed since he left. That's why
i like rick pentino he is a very good coach
Yeah coach Pentino was great.
Pinto bean😂
He is a great coach! 90s Kentucky basketball is incredible.
Yes. Honor that guy for the grand rebuilding of Rupp’s wildcats! Who knows what would’ve been possible if he stayed. He could’ve had the ‘96, ‘98, ‘12, and ‘13 titles.
YES he should be honored he restored our program that was a national disgrace. Rick should be welcomed back and if he had the players Cal has had he won at least 5 NCAA championships. He is a better game time Coach the Cal could ever be. In my humble opinion.
I wish Pitino had come back (but I think he's too busy coaching) or at least had a video. I'd welcome him back to honor him anytime. It was amazing how quickly he turned things around. During the television ban seasons, his UK games were so fun to be at and listen to on radio. Often, they would run out to early leads like 22-4 and such. Part of the reason is that other teams had a hard time getting video on them. 😂
I've always liked both Rick Pitino and John Calipari. Both had some incredible teams. They each build the type of team that they wanted to coach to pursue national championships.
Pitino recruited well and developed players into a competitive team team in years. If Pitino thought that he could get the best team from one-and-dones, he would have recruited them. But, he wouldn't have 4 years to develop them.
Calipari recruits great and develops players into a competitive team in months. It's a lot of work trying to take 4- and 5-star high school players with egos and teach them how to play as a team in the college game. The disastrous COVID-19 season where his players couldn't bond really highlighted this, in my opinion.
Their various teams have gone head-to-head many times, and Calipari has proven that he's the better coach. Even in close games between the two, I stopped sweating it. If just the times that they faced each other is too small of a sample size, consider who has reached 38 wins in a season. Calipari's done it in 2 or 3 different seasons, each years apart. Pitino's never done it. In fact, no other NCAA men's basketball coach in the top division has ever reached 38 wins in a season. So, if Pitino had the players Calipari has had, Pitino probably would have won 0 NCAA championships. Calipari is a better game time coach than Pitino has ever demonstrated. In my humble opinion.
He was a central part in the greatest era of College basketball. Him and Coach K conducted THE GREATEST Basketball game in history. And the 90s Wildcats as a whole........theres been nothing like them in College basketball since. 1991-1998 was a hell of a ride of excitement. They were running the NCAA while the Bulls were running the NBA and the Cowboys were running the NFL.
Pitino done more for kentucky than he could’ve ever done against it. Let him back and give him a standing ovation
For sure. He would have had some national championships with the teams Cal has had
Rick Pitino was exonerated of any wrongdoing regarding the goings on at Louisville. He said he deserved to be fired, because he was the leader and he should have been on top of things, but the powers that be said HE was exonerated of ANY wrongdoing.
I was a huge Kentucky basketball fan at the time he arrived, a holdover from Joe B. Hall, and I was a huge fan when he left. I saved the Courier-Journal that had his picture on the front with the headline "He's gone". Unfortunately it burned up in the fire that took my childhood home. He came to our program at a time when we were in bad shape, having been sanctioned by the NCAA, allowed no TV broadcasts, and no post-season play. He and C.M. Newton rebuilt the program from the ground up. He started with a team of all Kentucky-born boys, who played their hearts out and are still remembered for it to this day. In time we routinely scored close to 100 points a game, if not over. We won all but one of the SEC Conference titles in the years he was here, and the one we lost in '96 I will always believe he let them lose to teach them a lesson that ensured the 1996 NCAA Championship. We were part of what has been called the greatest college basketball game ever played. We were a monster when he was here. We ran teams into the ground. They might keep up with us in the first half, but they would run out of steam in the second while we were fresh as daisies We loved our coach, and he loved us. It hurt so much when he left. But I never blamed him for going to the Celtics. In the basketball world, that's like getting offered to coach the New York Yankees or the Olympic hockey team. I could tell it hurt him to leave, but it was a chance he couldn't pass up. He has said numerous times he wished he had made a different decision. He wished he had stayed at Kentucky. There are people meant to be NBA coaches, and there are people meant to be college coaches. Rick Pitino, is a college coach. His union with the Celtics did not work out. But when he left the Celtics and went to coach Louisville, that was a blow. I was mad and I was hurt - truly hurt. It was like he left me and went to shack up with the red-headed floozy down the street. I started calling him Prick Pitino and talking smack about him. But I came to realize the reason he went to Louisville was because he was trying to recapture the life he'd had at UK. He was trying to in some way, undo for himself, the mistake he had made.
I still miss Rick Pitino, 27 years after he left. I miss those days, days of planning life around the next Kentucky game. There's all kinds of talk about John Calipari being fired right now, and my heart goes out to him for that, but, it is unforgivable in the UK universe, for Kentucky to have a losing record in the NCAA tournament. They are throwing names around as to who would replace him. I wish, if that happens, that Rick Pitino would come back. I know it won't happen and I know there are people who are still mad at him, but I wish we would just say to him, "Come on home, Son. All is forgiven."
Bring him back. Outstanding coach for us that brought us back from the ashes. I prefer him over Cal.
I would always welcome Pitino back
Bring him back as head coach
That's a tough question to answer. 😁⚡😡
He deserves Kentucky Basketballs,And Big Blue Nations respect I'm old Enough to remember what He came into Here AT KENTUCKY I'm old Enough nuff said come Back And be recognized ..,
My cousin's on here!
Rick Pitino will be welcomed permanently back home to Ky, with his confession that he ran into a problem with his ego that led him astray for a while. And caused him some problems with his personal judgments and choices. He has earned his way back by depending on his talents for college basketball, loyalty, family and God. Those things are enough!
I don't blame Pitino for not showing up. I'm sure he still has a lot of love and respect for the players he coached at UK but I'm sure he wants nothing to do with the school and the organization as a whole. While Louisville was getting a banner taken down for a championship they won, UK's Coach Cal was getting inducted into the HOF after one single championship. That's after having two banners of his own taken down at UMass and Memphis for paying players off. But hey. The SEC is untouchable in the NCAA. Nobody can tell me that these SEC schools haven't been paying players off for decades and then having the NCAA destroy other schools from different conferences after they have some success. UK is a large part of the reason why Louisville had their2013 title taken away from them. Kinda refreshing now to see Calipari's short comings as an actual coach comin to light since he's no longer the only coach out there gettin big named prospects.
I burned my kentucky things that had pitino even on it...i vote hell no
Rick Pitino was a UK plant at Louisville. He destroyed the Louisville basketball program on purpose, bring him back!
It’s time for Pitino to come back and coach this team, get them back to an elite level, and then retire in Camelot!! I hated Pitino when he was at Louisville. I loved seeing Cal beat his ass in 2012 but those days are over.
The stain of the stripped championship will follow him his remaining coaching career, however I would love to see that awesome D they had again.
I think it’s a great idea.
Great video
his team played defense and had the eye of the tiger, hell...bring him back to coach
Time heals the wound, bring him back. We still remember what he did, he brought UK back. He knows he left and made a mistake. We all know he went to U** just trying to get back what he had in Lexington.
Pitino should be invited to any team celebration involving his teams and given a respectful clap when introduced. He should be able to submit a video for the video board if he cant attend, but that should be the extent of the Pitino worship from UK. He shouldn't be the 'Y', no bottlehead night silliness, no statue. He screwed up a dynasty by bailing on UK just when they were starting to really roll. When he failed in the NBA he couldve taken the Michigan or UNLV job, but just had to take the UL job. Then when at UL, he leaked Bledsoe's HS transcripts to Pat Forde to try to get UK and Cal in NCAA hot water.
#HIRE BACK PITINO OR HIS SON
GET CAL OUTTTA THERE. ALWAYS EVERY YEAR. NO TIMEOUT IN LAST 3 MINS
Tom Crean !!! Is the answer right now !!!!
I think so but i also think Rick spent too much time in Louisville and developed a general disdain for UK athletics. He couldn’t even make a short video for that celebration but he was able to make one for louisville celebrating a #1 ranking apparently. That tells me he feels stronger ties to UL despite how much worse it ended for him there than his time at Kentucky.
Pitino would have won 10 national championships by now if he coached the same talent that calipari has…
He gets a standing "golf clap".
Everyone knows he had 3 titles at Kentucky the 96 team his the 97 team if Anderson played wins period his players went out and won in 98 so that’s pretty good. Look at record with him. I
Nah, let’s be real if he’d choose between UK or UL he’d comeback to Louisville.
it's time
Rick sold Kentucky out. I really think he hurt Kentucky in 1997. I think he threw the game. He did the samething in 1992.
The only reason Tubby won a national championship.
I say he puts together a team of old players to play against cal and the proceeds go to charity
It would never happen. Barnhart has too much pride
fosho💯 deserves his due respect
Hand me the mic, I'll answer that question 🤣
Yes he did too much for UK not to.
3:40, "Boo''
02/26/2023
bring him back ASAP
When he gave us the finger, he became dead to me forever. He burned the last bridge on his way out. Maybe if he came to publicly apologize for his terrible behavior.
Back?? Hell he could coach here again anytime. Just a month ago most UK fans would have traded Cal for him. IMO he's the best coach inn the country andit ain't close.
it was either him or Oats but Oats got extended
@@GoatedAtNFS Agree
He needs to be the Y. He's the best coach to every coach at UK not named Rupp.
Not only should UK have him back he should be offered to come back as the coach
Are UK fans Christians? FORGIVE, Love
Do fans really not understand why the University of Kentucky would not want to be connected to Rick Pitino? Do they really think it's him leaving for the NBA or coming back to Louisville? It's none of those things, of course. They won't touch him with a 10-foot pole....think about it, I'm sure you can come up with the reason.
Hell no
I don't respect him because of what he did to our other state school.
i am sorry guys, he has his bad issues, but he brought us back from the wilderness. grow up.
No