Rick, you stepped on a land mine. No sense defusing a bomb after it’s gone off. The best thing to do is to keep your head down & weather the scorn. Don’t get me wrong, nailing a probably attractive, cougar, of a woman, someplace in a restaurant, after closing, has got to be on every straight man’s fantasy list. So I don’t begrudge him. Plenty of men I wouldn’t hate have cheated on their wives. It’s needlessly risky, sure, but that’s all part of the fantasy. She might be a total psycho, that’s the wager. I mean she did have sex w/ a stranger in her place of business. So zero pity for Rick.

But what does it mean for his career/recruiting/legacy? Honestly, probably not that much. Pop Culture has a pretty short memory. & we ultimately seem to embrace our cheaters. Somebody mentioned Bill Clinton. Popular Culture LOVES Bill Clinton. Not sure they’ll ever LOVE Pitino that way b/c he wears his ego so overtly, but we’d have left him alone ultimately. Pay the price, RIck. Are you new here? Do you not know the greatest joy the Plebians get, is when a powerful person makes a dumb, human, mistake & a bomb goes off. I wouldn’t care if it happened to my neighbor. Might giggle if it happened to a co-worker. But it’s hilarious when it happens to someone thinks they operate above it. You screwed up, & got caught Rick. We get to rip you. We get to watch you squirm. Price of fame, bub.

But he will still recruit. They will win. Probably the best/worst part of it will be that he has to live w/ the worry that, no matter what accomplishment he might garner, the next question out of any reporter’s mouth could be about the girl he knocked up on the floor of a restaurant. The worst part will be having to, or trying, to look in the eyes of all his peers. & not b/c he cheated (I’m sure he’s not alone in that), but b/c he dropped the ball. He flew too close to the sun. He went for that sweet, dangerous, fantasy, tail & he got bit. Someone should tell Rick to pay for his fantasies the old fashioned way. Somebody get him Bob Saget’s number already. Or Charlie Sheen’s.

From here on out, RIck, Popular Culture advises you just keep your head down & your mouth shut. If you give them nothing to print, then ultimately they will go away.

Also, what a low life he is. Hanging on Ted Kennedy’s death to defend himself. Scum.