Rick Pitino coaching at Iona is like Pavarotti singing at a county fair in Iowa. He is dramatically overqualified. If you can hire a coaching master at a mid-major, low-budget school, why on earth wouldn’t you?
Well, here’s why on earth you might not do it:
There is an NCAA notice of allegations circling the University of Louisville, waiting to land, sometime in the coming weeks according to school sources. The coronavirus outbreak that has shut down universities and basically crippled the entire country could obviously delay things—no school president should have to deal with that when they’re trying to decide when it is safe to reopen a campus.