‘No good guy/gal in this story. Both worthless louses.’
I’m disappointed to see that Pitino went this route. I remember when he was coaching Providence in the NCAA Tournament several years ago. He had a very, very young child - a baby son, I think - who passed away around tournament time. He stayed with his team until they were finally eliminated from the tourney before he went home to mourn and bury his child. After losing a child in such a tragic way, it’s unfortunate that he was involved in the premeditated death of another...
Well, his bio may give us some clues...
"Their son's death was not the last tragedy for Rick and Joanne. Both were especially hard-hit by 9/11, as Joanne's brother and Rick's closest friend, Billy Minardi, was working as a bond trader for Cantor Fitzgerald on the 105th floor of the north tower of the World Trade Center when it was struck by American Airlines Flight 11. Since 2002, UofL has designated a December home game as the Billy Minardi Classic, and the university named a dorm on campus as "Billy Minardi Hall". Only a few months earlier, another brother-in-law of Rick, Don Vogt, was killed after being hit by a New York City cab."
Clearly his experiences left him rudderless. It takes a good pastor to get a man through stuff like this.