Originally Posted by
Seattle Slew
He was in the Big East for many years with Louisville, but not the same as the 1980s heyday. Pitino had run-in with most of the coaches back then, like John Thompson and Rollie Massimino, even though he was only there for 2 years.
For his second year, there is a story he was not on speaking terms with Thompson and Massimino, so when they had the pre-season coaches meeting/golf outing, Dave Gavitt put them all in the same foursome. Gavitt was brilliant, too bad he never wrote a book on the first 10 years of the Big East.