Cal vs. Pitino: Offseason Entertainment at its Finest

by Ken Howlett on Jun 12, 2011 2:34 AM EDT

I don't really have much commentary on this Calipari/Pitino exchange (excellently reported by ESPN.com's Eammon Brennan), except to say, this is exactly the type of heightened Blue vs. Red battle I wrote about a few weeks ago in this post for A Sea of Blue (I link the article because I think it really upset some UofL fans when I originally posted it, and what's more fun than riling up Card fans). I will say this, with these two guys, two guys that genuinely don't like one another, one never knows what compelling and downright entertaining bit of mischief they might conjure up.

Think Cal will have his team ready to rock the Cards' fragile world in Rupp Arena next season? Nahhh. Actually, before that beatdown, I would be for a charity boxing match between Cal and Pitino. Such a bout would pack either Rupp or the Bucket, and it would raise hundreds-of-thousands-of-dollars for a great cause, and man, it would be epic. Never happen, but hey, a guy can dream can't he?

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If I'm Billy D

I would think twice before doing RP another favor by giving Richard a job if/when he needs to put some distance between him and a scandal around his Pops. Just sayin’… ;-)

Blue... there is no other color to Bleed !!!

by a2d2 on Jun 12, 2011 7:26 AM EDT reply actions

I'd bet

Billy D didn’t take it too seriously, he has his NC’s.

by Feathered Biceps on Jun 13, 2011 3:13 PM EDT up reply actions

Charity Boxing Match

I’d pick Calipari.

Pitino has proven he can only last 15 seconds.

by FortyYearCatFan on Jun 12, 2011 7:54 AM EDT reply actions

Pitino at 6' .... no match for Cal at 6'2"

15 seconds …. and NO MAS

by ukcris on Jun 12, 2011 9:55 AM EDT up reply actions

I can't believe no one has brought up

the p—-ing contest that the head of an NCAA committee has started over UK recognizing Cal’s 500th win. If the NCAA doesn’t have bigger fish to fry in Columbus, Knoxville, and similar sites, then it just is as ignorant as many believe it to be.

by jdogblue on Jun 12, 2011 11:49 AM EDT reply actions

I see now that a2d2 has a fan shot on this

by jdogblue on Jun 12, 2011 11:58 AM EDT up reply actions

For what it's worth

When I saw this earlier in the week the first thing I went to do was look up Pitino’s record against the SEC since UL joined the Big East – he’s 5-5 during that span. Not exactly what you would expect against a “2nd rate league” ;-)

3 > 2, except for very large values of 2.

by JLeverenz on Jun 12, 2011 1:32 PM EDT reply actions

There is one problem with this whole Big East vs SEC debate.

Big East fans, especially UL fans, don’t care about facts. Over the last 20 years the SEC has done just as good, if not better, in the NCAA tournament. The SEC has just as many, if not more, Final Fours and National Championships as the Big East in that time frame. So if the SEC is a 2nd rate league, than so is the Big East. But Big East fans will never admit to any of this, even if they see the facts with their own eyes. Hell, just look at the last two years. The Big East got 19 teams in the NCAA tournament over that time period. WVU and UConn made it to the Final Four, and the rest were gone by the second round. That is no more dominating than the SEC getting 10 teams in the NCAA tournament over that time period and having 2 teams in the Elite 8 two years in a row and one making it to the Final Four.

The Big East is a very good conference, but the only thing they dominate is the number of teams that get in the NCAA tournament, and the number of teams that get beat in the first and second round.

Ricky P’s son left a 2nd rate conference, where he was an assitant coach for a team that won back to back titles in the not so distant past, to go be an assitant for a team that has been eliminated in the first round two years in a row and hasn’t won a National Championship in about 30 years. Over the last 2 years, UL would be consider 2nd rate, not Florida. But these facts elude UL fans.

by ScottWalls on Jun 12, 2011 4:07 PM EDT reply actions