Comments on: Pitino Bombshell Confirms What Everybody Knew

By: KYGuy

KYGuy — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 20:43:11 +0000

DJ 65
When people decide to become public figures, everything they do becomes the public’s business. They give up their privacy and personal lives and are paid handsomely for it. This “deal with the Devil” seldom leaves people unscathed as we see time-and-again our public figures as what they are – - plain old men and women, humans, like the rest of us. It is WE who facilitate the fall from grace by giving them hero status in the first place. If we seem to be in a tizzy over this it’s because we PAID for the right (if not by money then by emotional energy) to care about a team, a university . . . or it could just as easily be an actor, a politician, a preacher or someone else who sold us some sort dream and backed it up with an image that supported that dream. When that image dissolves before our eyes we’re faced with reality. (And reality is a very hard sell.) For this to not be someone’s business they would not have to not care about it in the first place. But people DO care. For better or worse, there is a lot of psychic energy behind basketball in this city. While Petino’s personal pain and that of his family is real, people feel the need to speak out about the wound to this city. It’ll heal. But talking about it is part of the process and that makes it “our business.”

By: Just me

Just me — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 19:06:59 +0000

Yes…men, there are tests that will tell you if you’re pregnant two weeks out (even earlier).

By: DJ 65

DJ 65 — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 18:21:22 +0000

Gosh, where to start? James, thank you for stating what I have been saying since I read yesterdays article in the CJ. How can you know in two weeks if you are pregnant? If you can and you took the test then that to me screams “IT WAS PLANNED.”

Magruder, I agree with you, who the hell cares? While I see both sides of this, I have to side with the fact that it’s the man’s personal life and not our business. While Coach Pitino could have shown better judgement, and he is a coach for the university, it’s his PERSONAL life and shouldn’t be anyone’s business but his family’s.

MoneyPenny, If this was the coach at my child’s school, I still wouldn’t give a shit unless the person he was having a fling with was a student! How do you know the coach at your child’s school isn’t having an affair?

Paul, your info is incorrect. It’s not Theresa.

As for the rest of the comments, it just goes to show that everyone has an opinion about everything and feel like we have a right to pass judgement on others lives. It’s not our place to pass judgement or say what should be done or not unless we are one of the players in the game. We can offer our opinions all day long and gripe and moan but what does it really accomplish? I won’t stand in judgement of Coach Pitino as I don’t know the man personally and I’m not condoning what he did, it’s simply not my business.

By: Germantown Rez

Germantown Rez — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 15:58:53 +0000

Remember Ramsey’s big show of support for Dr. Flim Flam Felner?

By: Chuck

Chuck — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 12:30:28 +0000

Did anyone also notice that Pence made the comment that the 3000 dollars was actually for insurance for the pregnancy. Was it for the abortion or the insurance. One good night in the hospital these days costs about 6000 bucks and that was just for a non injury wreck.

By: Chuck

Chuck — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 12:10:12 +0000

Let’s see if I got this right. Rick Pitino is the highest paid public employee in the Commonwealth of Kentucky. The Courier Journal had Rick Pitino and his son Richard on the list of public employees. Which means that their salaries are paid via our tax dollars in some way or form. Which means that Rick Pitino is a public EMPLOYEE. Such as that fact, he either should be fired or resign by Ramsey and Jurich. Not only that but I have the opinion that Ramsey and Jurk need to both hit the road as well. Their constantly defending a known philanderer needs to be held to the light. He has brought disrepute to this city and this area as a whole. He needs to be fired immediately,

To those that say this isn’t a big deal, this is atrocious. Especially when it has became what it is. So its a public affair now with the whole debauched situation with Ms. Sypher and Slick Rick. He needs to be ran out of town on a railcar and soon. We don’t need people like this coaching the young. And what about the whole argument regarding public money. Oh yeah, we say a sports coach fired last week but I guess since its Ramsey and Jurks call then we can foot the bill again. These scumbags around Louisville are so chronically without morals or ethics. It must be in the water

By: Erick K

Erick K — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 04:52:33 +0000

A year ago Billy Gillespe was considered an unpolished, bachelor party boy who drank too much, picked up young women half his age, and was surly to all. Who would have known that Billy G was the classy basketball coach in the state of Kentucky.

By: KYguy

KYguy — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 04:23:50 +0000

The Patti thing makes more sense but, just rumors, right?

By: AB

AB — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 03:10:14 +0000

Enough slime to go around with Rick and Karen, but who cares – just a slimy basketball coach and a skank. It’s the bullshit statements from UL execs Ramsey and Jurich that are inexcuseable.

By: Germantown Rez

Germantown Rez — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 02:32:11 +0000

I think Pitino has also disgraced the memory of his late brother-in-law whom he considered his best friend – the brother of his own wife. Hmmm, with Karen married off to his employee, does Pitino solve all his personal relationships with arranged marriages???