Rick Pitino Walks back Previous Remarks: Should He Stay or Go?
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00:03 >> Patino had a meltdown the other day talking about how much he hates this
00:07 season.
00:07 He's never been so miserable, talked about his team being miserable,
00:12 the facilities being miserable.
00:14 Before that he complained about NIL being miserable.
00:17 Then he said there should be a union so that they could pay the players.
00:21 My man has been losing his mind lately.
00:24 Here he is walking it back.
00:28 >> Yeah, but I should never ever mention a name.
00:30 I'm a veteran coach.
00:31 I tell every young coach in the business, show class when you win,
00:36 show class when you lose, give the other team credit.
00:38 I've been really, really frustrated this year for a lot of different reasons.
00:43 But understand something, I recruited this man.
00:47 I recruited this man.
00:48 My staff did not recruit these guys.
00:49 It was all me.
00:51 And I'm really, really proud to have them.
00:53 But I totally apologize to them for doing that.
00:56 It was no intent.
00:57 I was very calm, very collected.
01:00 And I wasn't ripping them.
01:01 That wasn't my intent.
01:02 But words matter.
01:03 >> Are you kidding me?
01:06 This guy went on record.
01:08 He literally went on record, live on television, and
01:12 said that his team sucks and has no talent, no lateral speed.
01:17 They don't hustle.
01:18 They don't play hard.
01:19 They're awful.
01:20 They're small.
01:21 And he recruited, it's his team.
01:23 He brought the entire team to Queens.
01:27 They are all his choices.
01:29 And I have said this, Cam, over and over.
01:32 Nobody wants to hear it.
01:34 But I am telling you, I put him in the old geezers club.
01:37 I think Patino's gotta go.
01:39 I think it's over.
01:40 I think his days of coaching are over.
01:42 If he wanted to keep coaching, he should have stayed at Iona.
01:45 The days of him coaching a big time program successfully,
01:50 it's proven to pudding, it's over.
01:52 He has done a terrible job at St. John's.
01:54 And if they don't see that, I cannot believe those religious Jesuits
01:59 that no one is gonna say anything about this guy having this meltdown.
02:03 I'd be like, you know what?
02:04 You don't like it here that much?
02:05 Then get out.
02:06 >> Beat it.
02:06 I'm with you.
02:07 That's the thing.
02:08 You can't walk it back.
02:09 When you have an emotional response like that, sure, you can forget.
02:12 You can say I'm sorry, but are you?
02:14 Are you really that sorry?
02:15 You wouldn't have said it in the first place.
02:16 Great call by you, Pharrell.
02:18 Stay at Iona.
02:18 You wanna be a big fish in a little pond?
02:20 Now you're with the big boys, you're getting hammered.
02:22 Here's the deal, Patino.
02:23 I'm with you.
02:24 You like horses?
02:25 Go down to Gulfstream and breed horses.
02:27 That's what you like anyway.
02:28 You're in the horse racing game?
02:30 Get out of basketball.
02:31 Time to go down, race some ponies.
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