An alternate hypothesis about Pitino: Suppose he really is telling the truth???

Has anyone stopped to think that maybe, just maybe, Pitino is telling the truth and he had no knowledge of what his assistant coach was doing?

Hear me out. I think Pitino is about as slimy and sleazy as they come and I don't trust him as far as I could throw him. But think of it this way: He was already hanging on by a thread due to the hooker scandal. He had to know that even one minor misstep could cost him his job. All of what happened in this case started in June. Pitino claimed in June that the commitment from Bowen was a total, but pleasant surprise. Is it possible that he just thought his assistant was a hell of a recruiter and took him at his word? I think it is entirely possible the assistant cooked up this scheme all on his own and stood to profit from it and did not WANT anyone else to know about it, let alone Pitino.

Look at the Auburn situation. The Auburn president today said the FBI told him that as far as he could tell, Chuck Person was the only person at Auburn that would be implicated and that this was an isolated incident not indicative of a program-wide issue. Person was running low on cash and got involved in this scheme for the money...and like the Louisville assistant, I am sure he probably didn't want anyone else to know about it either. Nobody seems to be calling for Bruce Pearl's job, and in fact all signs point to his job being safe at the moment.

One could argue that Pitino is guilty of hiring a non-trustworthy assistant coach...but how well can we truly know anyone? Chuck Person is one of the top 5 beloved athletes in Auburn sports history, and if you can't trust him, then who can you truly trust?

Now I agree that one major thing could poke a hole in my notion that Pitino really was oblivious to the whole thing. After they got Bowen to commit, and if Pitino truly was surprised, shouldn't he have asked the assistant how it happened, and what went down? But even that is shaky ground from a legal standpoint. The assistant did his job and got a player. Is the head coach obligated to question the guy about what means he used to get the job done?

It seems like this is headed toward a situation where Pitino will be fired and he will likely sue the university for being fired "with cause" and he will try to prove that he had no knowledge of any of this. A poster in another thread suggested that if such a lawsuit happens, Louisville will do everything in their power to "leak" any little thing that Pitino did wrong that the University "overlooked" to prove their point. I would love to see this go to court and see both side's dirty laundry hung out to dry in front of the whole world, but of course that is getting way ahead of things.

Just trying to provide a different view of things....attack away!