What’s the harm in admitting that, by the way? Major college sports are big business, and big businesses are designed to crush the opposition.
Long before Christian Laettner broke his heart with the greatest shot in the greatest college basketball game of them all, Rick Pitino made quite an impression on the young prospect out of Buffalo.
So three decades later, it was fitting that St. John’s athletic director Mike Cragg gave the 70-year-old Pitino and a national title . As a Duke official and Coach K aide, Cragg jumped up from his scorer’s table seat and shouted when Laettner’s buzzer-beater landed before apologizing to his Kentucky counterpart for what would be his only in-game cheerleading moment as a college administrator.
Nobody has ever loved St. John’s, or represented it with more dignity, than Lou Carnesecca. So the question had to be asked: Was Looie OK with his school hiring a coach
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