Re: Pitino's stupid things? Okay.

["Jim Meninno" <jim_meninno@hotmail.com>]

>From: "Christopher J. Littlefield" <cjlitt@erols.com>
>To: Jim Meninno <jim_meninno@hotmail.com>
>Subject: Re: Pitino's stupid things? Okay.
>
>Hey, Jim, 
>
>
>Williams re-upped for a 6 year extension valued at $26-32 mil,
>incentive-laden.  Not $50 mil, but not peanuts.

This is much less than I realized and is not out of line for him.  I'm 
now sure the entire reason for letting him go was the attitude regarding 
Rick's autority and workouts.

>That Mills was signed and then turned out to be tradeable is spinning
>the fact that Pitino dropped
>$33 million on a guy who subsequently turned out to be a bust relative
>to contract.  

This is not spinning at all. One thing Pitino has preached all along 
(since before signing Mills) was to build talent that other teams will 
be willing to trade for.  Not to give large contracts to undeserving 
players (eg. Minor, Brown, Ellison).  All of the "busts" that you 
mention were taken on by some other team.  Any garbage the Cs have taken 
in return (eg. Dontae) has been short term.  I think this is a far 
better philosophy than that of the previous regime.  You think Pitino 
was rash in signing Knight and Mills, but if other teams want these 
players at the contracts Pitino gave them, they couldn't have been that 
outrageous, could they?

Jim

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