Rick Pitino

[CougEd]

There is probably another bad point in there but what exactly are you trying to say?

Auto edit I am sorry... here you go ..If we hire a Ken Bone Jr, a squeaky clean candidate and we suck without progress for the next five years, is the program in a better position than hiring a coach whether it is Pitino or someone else with baggage? Especially if WSU can put bumpers in place to limit the damage they do?.

 

[Flatlandcoug]

Auto edit I am sorry... here you go ..If we hire a Ken Bone Jr, a squeaky clean candidate and we suck without progress for the next five years, is the program in a better position than hiring a coach whether it is Pitino or someone else with baggage? Especially if WSU can put bumpers in place to limit the damage they do?.

At what point did you decide that the only way to succeed is to cheat or hire a scumbag? There are good coaches out there that aren't dirty as hell.

 

[SaveFerris]

Auto edit I am sorry... here you go ..If we hire a Ken Bone Jr, a squeaky clean candidate and we suck without progress for the next five years, is the program in a better position than hiring a coach whether it is Pitino or someone else with baggage? Especially if WSU can put bumpers in place to limit the damage they do?.

I don't know what Bone has to do with this but Chun spoke to him a bit.

"...We just need a coach that knows how they want this thing to look like and have a track record of building toward that.”

That wasn't Bone at least at WSU whether it was over thinking himself, listening too much to other voices, or just general lack of confidence. Whatever it was that guy doesn't win in Pullman. After the New Mexico debacle did Leach change his philosophy? Did Dick go a different direction after losing to OSU 81-29? Bone's issue wasn't being "squeaky clean". IMO a big reason it didn't ultimately work out was because he was his own worst enemy. We didn't see the UCLA Ken Bone nearly enough even though it was definitely in him.

Back to the Pitino discussion. Flat said it perfectly. Pitino is a great coach other than the part of having any moral backbone to speak of. He is what he is and that's a recipe for probation.

 

[etowncoug]

When God made Ken Bone he suped up the integrity stat and had nothing left over for the personality stat. Great guy but wasn't going to convince anyone to move from the city out to the Palouse.

 

[CougEd]

I don't know what Bone has to do with this but Chun spoke to him a bit.

"...We just need a coach that knows how they want this thing to look like and have a track record of building toward that.”

That wasn't Bone at least at WSU whether it was over thinking himself, listening too much to other voices, or just general lack of confidence. Whatever it was that guy doesn't win in Pullman. After the New Mexico debacle did Leach change his philosophy? Did Dick go a different direction after losing to OSU 81-29? Bone's issue wasn't being "squeaky clean". IMO a big reason it didn't ultimately work out was because he was his own worst enemy. We didn't see the UCLA Ken Bone nearly enough even though it was definitely in him.

Back to the Pitino discussion. Flat said it perfectly. Pitino is a great coach other than the part of having any moral backbone to speak of. He is what he is and that's a recipe for probation.

"Bone Jr" was used SOLELY as a reference as a high character guy, a fictional coach in the future as you said "two wrongs don't make a right in reference to Pitino and Kent and their personal indiscretions. That would be a Bone Junior. He checks the boxes of no baggage and even had success wherever he went. So this wasn't about his good games or bad. I am simply saying if you hire another guy who seems to be of good character, and has good success but falls to the wayside like Stevens, Eastman, Graham, Bone and even Kent, how do we not at least look at the cost vs reward of someone who has baggage. I get the NCAA enforcement should scare off some people. I am not sure that part of it can't be mitigated in Pullman. And not to look at it and simply say he had sex with a woman is a bit narrow, as I have never been one to believe they are all choir boys.