We make plenty of fun of Rick Pitino on this site, but sometimes it takes a bigger outlet making fun of him to really appreciate how demented Pitino has become over the years. Norman Chad writes the Couch Slouch column for the Washington Post, and this morning, he penned a piece in which he calls Rick Pitino the devil. Really, “Rick Pitino is the devil” is the first line of the article. Chad rakes Pitino over the coals for not taking any responsibility for his program’s sex scandal, the latest in a long line of improprieties.
Now, I am not an NCAA regulator and I have not seen the updated NCAA handbook, but my hunch is that sex with strippers falls under the category of “impermissible benefits.