{"id":436963,"date":"2025-04-07T14:11:35","date_gmt":"2025-04-07T12:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=436963"},"modified":"2025-04-07T14:11:35","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T12:11:35","slug":"rick-pitino-coach-k-and-jay-wright-wouldve-been-fired-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/rick-pitino-coach-k-and-jay-wright-wouldve-been-fired-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Rick Pitino: \u201cCoach K and Jay Wright would\u2019ve been fired today\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" data-start=\"999\" data-end=\"1470\"><strong data-start=\"1053\" data-end=\"1068\">Rick Pitino<\/strong> voiced concern about the <strong data-start=\"1094\" data-end=\"1115\">coaching turnover<\/strong> in college basketball. \u201cIn today\u2019s market, guys like <strong data-start=\"1169\" data-end=\"1180\">Coach K<\/strong> or <strong data-start=\"1184\" data-end=\"1198\">Jay Wright<\/strong> would have been <strong data-start=\"1215\" data-end=\"1230\">fired early<\/strong>,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"999\" data-end=\"1470\">Pitino recalled how he secured a long-term deal for <strong data-start=\"1294\" data-end=\"1311\">Billy Donovan<\/strong> at Florida in 1996 \u2014 something he believes wouldn\u2019t happen today. \u201cNobody gets time to build anymore,\u201d Pitino added, calling today\u2019s pressure unsustainable.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1472\" data-end=\"1502\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nj.com\/sports\/2025\/03\/st-johns-pitino-says-coach-k-and-jay-wright-probably-would-have-been-fired-early-in-todays-market.html\"><em data-start=\"1472\" data-end=\"1500\">Source: NJ Advance Media<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rick Pitino laments the current NCAA coaching climate: \u201cThere\u2019s no time to build anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":436154,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[401],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-436963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ncaa"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/04\/GnetNonXUAAK2Gs.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436963"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=436963"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=436963"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=436963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}