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GoLocalProv | Sports | NEW: President Dooley Kills Hiring of Pitino at URI
The University of Rhode Island Athletic Director Thorr Bjorn had come to a rough agreement in principle with Rick Pitino to succeed Dan Hurley as the Head Men’s Basketball Coach at the University late last week.

According to multiple sources, the deal would have paid the embattled Hall of Fame Coach Pitino $2 million a year. Pitino's salary at Rhode Island would have been less than Hurley's new contract at the University of Connecticut and less than a third of Pitino’s total package he had received at Louisville before his ouster.

But, when Bjorn took the offer to URI President David Dooley the hiring was shot down. According to multiple sources, Dooley balked due to Pitino’s ties to an FBI probe of the NCAA and other controversies.
 
tcf15 said:
GoLocalProv | Sports | NEW: President Dooley Kills Hiring of Pitino at URI
The University of Rhode Island Athletic Director Thorr Bjorn had come to a rough agreement in principle with Rick Pitino to succeed Dan Hurley as the Head Men’s Basketball Coach at the University late last week.

According to multiple sources, the deal would have paid the embattled Hall of Fame Coach Pitino $2 million a year. Pitino's salary at Rhode Island would have been less than Hurley's new contract at the University of Connecticut and less than a third of Pitino’s total package he had received at Louisville before his ouster.

But, when Bjorn took the offer to URI President David Dooley the hiring was shot down. According to multiple sources, Dooley balked due to Pitino’s ties to an FBI probe of the NCAA and other controversies.
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WOW
 
tcf15 said:
GoLocalProv | Sports | NEW: President Dooley Kills Hiring of Pitino at URI
The University of Rhode Island Athletic Director Thorr Bjorn had come to a rough agreement in principle with Rick Pitino to succeed Dan Hurley as the Head Men’s Basketball Coach at the University late last week.

According to multiple sources, the deal would have paid the embattled Hall of Fame Coach Pitino $2 million a year. Pitino's salary at Rhode Island would have been less than Hurley's new contract at the University of Connecticut and less than a third of Pitino’s total package he had received at Louisville before his ouster.

But, when Bjorn took the offer to URI President David Dooley the hiring was shot down. According to multiple sources, Dooley balked due to Pitino’s ties to an FBI probe of the NCAA and other controversies.
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I wonder if he knew it would get shot down and it was just fan service. I can't imagine you get that far along in the process and have no idea that your president won't allow it
 
tcf15 said:
GoLocalProv | Sports | NEW: President Dooley Kills Hiring of Pitino at URI
The University of Rhode Island Athletic Director Thorr Bjorn had come to a rough agreement in principle with Rick Pitino to succeed Dan Hurley as the Head Men’s Basketball Coach at the University late last week.

According to multiple sources, the deal would have paid the embattled Hall of Fame Coach Pitino $2 million a year. Pitino's salary at Rhode Island would have been less than Hurley's new contract at the University of Connecticut and less than a third of Pitino’s total package he had received at Louisville before his ouster.

But, when Bjorn took the offer to URI President David Dooley the hiring was shot down. According to multiple sources, Dooley balked due to Pitino’s ties to an FBI probe of the NCAA and other controversies.
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auror said:
WOW
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Any program looking to hire Pitino looks desperate. Glad the president did his job and shot it down.
 
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URI immediately denied it, going as far to release an official statement: University Denies False Story

On Monday, April 2, 2018, GoLocalProv posted a story claiming, "President Dooley kills hiring of Pitino at URI." This story is false. University President David M. Dooley and Athletic Director Thorr Bjorn have not spoken with Rick Pitino. Athletic Director Bjorn never presented an offer to President Dooley related to Rick Pitino.

The University takes journalistic integrity very seriously and denies the validity of this story in its entirety. The University has requested the story be removed from the GoLocalProv website.
 
tcf15 said:
URI immediately denied it, going as far to release an official statement: University Denies False Story

On Monday, April 2, 2018, GoLocalProv posted a story claiming, "President Dooley kills hiring of Pitino at URI." This story is false. University President David M. Dooley and Athletic Director Thorr Bjorn have not spoken with Rick Pitino. Athletic Director Bjorn never presented an offer to President Dooley related to Rick Pitino.

The University takes journalistic integrity very seriously and denies the validity of this story in its entirety. The University has requested the story be removed from the GoLocalProv website.
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WOW.
 
tcf15 said:
URI immediately denied it, going as far to release an official statement: University Denies False Story

On Monday, April 2, 2018, GoLocalProv posted a story claiming, "President Dooley kills hiring of Pitino at URI." This story is false. University President David M. Dooley and Athletic Director Thorr Bjorn have not spoken with Rick Pitino. Athletic Director Bjorn never presented an offer to President Dooley related to Rick Pitino.

The University takes journalistic integrity very seriously and denies the validity of this story in its entirety. The University has requested the story be removed from the GoLocalProv website.
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GLP was one of our sources from the 'Some Guy...' thread lol
 
tcf15 said:
URI immediately denied it, going as far to release an official statement: University Denies False Story

On Monday, April 2, 2018, GoLocalProv posted a story claiming, "President Dooley kills hiring of Pitino at URI." This story is false. University President David M. Dooley and Athletic Director Thorr Bjorn have not spoken with Rick Pitino. Athletic Director Bjorn never presented an offer to President Dooley related to Rick Pitino.

The University takes journalistic integrity very seriously and denies the validity of this story in its entirety. The University has requested the story be removed from the GoLocalProv website.
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that's a pretty strong denial that shoots down my theory lol
 
JMick said:
that's a pretty strong denial that shoots down my theory lol
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Literally the strongest denial in print I've ever seen. They asked for a retraction straight out. And they brought up journalistic integrity as a moral concept while denying the story in entirety.
 
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whaler11 said:
Well they are dragging their feet for some reason....
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yeah I just don't get how if Cox is the guy, then why did they just get around to interviewing others
 
URI screwing around is starting to turn this into a circus. They even got fake news on this because this is taking so long. Being thorough is important but this should have been handled last week!
 
auror said:
Literally the strongest denial in print I've ever seen. They asked for a retraction straight out. And they brought up journalistic integrity as a moral concept while denying the story in entirety.
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yeah if it comes out that they did really offer the job to Pitino and then the President struck it down, and they came out with that denial, it's going to be a terrible look.
 
I think there's zero chance that Cox isn't named. Also, I can't imagine an AD in these times being dumb enough to actually interview and offer Pitino.
 
auror said:
Literally the strongest denial in print I've ever seen. They asked for a retraction straight out. And they brought up journalistic integrity as a moral concept while denying the story in entirety.
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The line about journalist integrity is odd. That is something the media entity would say not the subject of a story.

I have no opinion if it’s true but the ram doth protest too much.
 
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tcf15 said:
URI immediately denied it, going as far to release an official statement: University Denies False Story

On Monday, April 2, 2018, GoLocalProv posted a story claiming, "President Dooley kills hiring of Pitino at URI." This story is false. University President David M. Dooley and Athletic Director Thorr Bjorn have not spoken with Rick Pitino. Athletic Director Bjorn never presented an offer to President Dooley related to Rick Pitino.

The University takes journalistic integrity very seriously and denies the validity of this story in its entirety. The University has requested the story be removed from the GoLocalProv website.
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This is the most Rhode Island thing ever lol
 
JMick said:
yeah I just don't get how if Cox is the guy, then why did they just get around to interviewing others
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The article quoted multiple sources on the Pitino offer and had figures. If it's not true on bringing it to President front, there were at least discussions somewhere. Interestingly it says AD AND President didn't speak to Pitino. You could argue one spoke but not both, or intermediaries.
 
I guess when you’ve had Jim Harrick and have enrolled Lamar Odom - you can still play holier than thou. Who knew?
 
intlzncster said:
If Cox is the choice, then what are they doing?
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If Cox does come here it will be interesting to see what they do with the scholarships & URI recruits. You have to keep at least one open scholarship or take a fifth year guy this year in case there are any implications on scholarship reductions from the NCAA investigation. You don't want to go into 2019 with one open spot.
 
JMick said:
If Cox does come here it will be interesting to see what they do with the scholarships & URI recruits. You have to keep at least one open scholarship or take a fifth year guy this year in case there are any implications on scholarship reductions from the NCAA investigation. You don't want to go into 2019 with one open spot.
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I think you have to gamble some guys will transfer next year. They will.

Heck, one might happen over the summer. Just recruit the kids and find spots for them later.
 
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tcf15 said:
GoLocalProv | Sports | NEW: President Dooley Kills Hiring of Pitino at URI
The University of Rhode Island Athletic Director Thorr Bjorn had come to a rough agreement in principle with Rick Pitino to succeed Dan Hurley as the Head Men’s Basketball Coach at the University late last week.

According to multiple sources, the deal would have paid the embattled Hall of Fame Coach Pitino $2 million a year. Pitino's salary at Rhode Island would have been less than Hurley's new contract at the University of Connecticut and less than a third of Pitino’s total package he had received at Louisville before his ouster.

But, when Bjorn took the offer to URI President David Dooley the hiring was shot down. According to multiple sources, Dooley balked due to Pitino’s ties to an FBI probe of the NCAA and other controversies.
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There’s no chance that’s true.

Zero.

First, no athletic director at a reputable school is going to take Pitino’s call.

Second, if one was crazy enough to take the call, the school president would be consulted long before there was a ‘rough agreement.’

Third, Pitino would have had every media lackey he knows tweeting about it by now.
 
whaler11 said:
Well they are dragging their feet for some reason....
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Their AD on the day Hurley decided to leave indicated that they would try to have a new coach in place in about 2-2.5 weeks. That means late this week or early next week making them on schedule. I have read that URI must follow state hiring procedures which required the job to be posted for a length of time. It seems the required process for hiring is likely the reason it has not yet been officially wrapped up.
 
TJT said:
I have read that URI must follow state hiring procedures which required the job to be posted for a length of time. It seems the required process for hiring is likely the reason it has not yet been officially wrapped up.
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Most states have that. CT is like 5 days or something. That's not the obstacle.
 
intlzncster said:
Most states have that. CT is like 5 days or something. That's not the obstacle.
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They only posted the job last Monday and it was open for seven days which had it expiring yesterday (Monday). The process is fully on track with the initial schedule given at the AD's press conference two thursdays ago.
 
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Chin Diesel said:
Any program looking to hire Pitino looks desperate. Glad the president did his job and shot it down.
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I don't know, it's definitely a power move for Rhody. It's not like they have an academic rep to speak of.
 
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