It is a marriage and a merger of mutual salvation.
. And you are fooling yourself if you believe he will not have St. John’s sniffing the NCAA by this time next year, and probably making a deep run or three within the six-year confines of the contract he signed Monday. Whatever issues you may have with Pitino, this was always a sacrosanct truth: He does this job extraordinarily well.
“If you think Ricky is driven now,” Pat McGunnigle told me over the telephone 11 years ago, as Pitino prepared for his first Final Four trip with Louisville, “then you should have seen him when he was 13, 14, 15 years old.”
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