Louisville men’s basketball coach Rick Pitino is in a state about the new schedule for the Big East conference, which forces his team to play Georgetown and Marquette twice and away games at Pittsburgh and Connecticut. When asked by the Washington Post‘s Camille Powell about his feelings toward Big East commissioner Mike Tranghese, Pitino responded:
‘I’m very close with Mike Tranghese and [senior associate commissioner] John Marinatto. They’re both Italian. I was coaching at Providence when they both were there. They like me a great deal; we’re very close friends. But they like God more. They’re much closer to the Catholics than they are friendships. They could care less if I’m floating in the East River. They just threw me into the East River, floating with a lot of my Italian friends, because that’s the way that schedule was made.’
Also: Marinatto is a pimp. He could’ve never outfought Santino. But I didn’t know until this day that it was Tranghese all along. …
