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Cards' Pitino out on limb-o
From Bonesville.net staff reports
Louisville basketball coach Rick Pitino is stuck in a
verbal quandary over what he did or didnt say recently to a Syracuse
newspaper reporter.
Pitino was quoted in an article by Post-Standard
columnist
Bob Snyder as saying that ''Conference USA is God-awful. The worst thing
about Louisville is it's in Conference USA.''
The former Kentucky Wildcats and Boston Celtics coach
has denied the quote to C-USA officials, reports the Cincinnati Enquirer.
"He called me today (Monday) and said he was
misquoted," said Brian Teter, an assistant commissioner of the league, in a
Tuesday story in the Enquirer. "I take him at his word."
According to the Louisville Courier-Journal,
Pitino has also denied making a comment to Snyder implying that Louisville
would be in the Jimmy V Classic with Syracuse in two years.
Both quotes were in Sunday's editions of the Syracuse
Post-Standard in a piece by Snyder about the looming defection of Syracuse,
Boston College and Miami from the Big East Conference to the ACC and
Pitino's belief that Louisville would bolt Conference USA for the Big East
to fill part of the vacuum.
According to multiple newspaper and online media accounts, Snyder
says he wants to put the matter to rest but stands by his quotes.
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02/23/2007 11:03:09 AM
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