Rick Pitino's Remarkable Impact at St. John's & Beyond

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00:00We continue playing by herself on this friday with a conversation around the big east winning head coach

00:07That would be rick patino only in year number two in queens

00:11He has led st. John's to their first outright big east title since

00:161985 four decades of work in only two years and it's not just at st

00:22John's drs the illustrious career of patino on display

00:27880 wins the only head coach in men's college basketball to lead two different programs to a national championship

00:35Kentucky and louisville. He has made seven final four appearances

00:39He is the first head coach in men's basketball d1 history to lead three different programs providence

00:45Kentucky and louisville to a final four berth and he is soon

00:50To be the first and only head coach to lead six different programs to an ncaa tournament appearance

00:57You add in boston university and iona as well and soon to be of course

01:02St. John's the red storm looking for their first ncaa tournament win since the year 2000

01:09I'll just give the caveat to the by yourself question with this

01:12Naturally at first I looked at it and said come on like what are we doing some recency bias?

01:18And then you start to dive in and the question does have to be asked pound for pound

01:23Rick patino is the best coach in college basketball history

01:28Yeah, we're selling that we are rick patino's fantastic and there are people on this network that thank him every day for rescuing a school

01:34Called iona that was down in the dumps

01:38Could not could not win anything and he rescued them and look how good they are

01:42So there we go. We'll get that out of the way

01:44But also can we understand the fact is yes recency bias

01:47Which means the single best coach in the history of college athletics is mike. Krzyzewski who won over 1200 games

01:55100 tournament games 13 final fours and five championships here

02:00That sounds like the pound for pound champion of all time here and then you might even go like hey donny

02:05What does your grandfather think about that? Well, doesn't he remember john wooden was the greatest of all time 10

02:11Ncaa championship come on now. I like patino, but are we really arguing?

02:16He's pound for pound the best college coach of all time whether she's chesky and wooden still roaming out there saying uh, uh