Dom Amore’s Sunday Read: Are basketball blue bloods becoming extinct? … Turmoil at Yale, and more
With so many college basketball heavyweights in one place, the discussions in Washington, D. C. , were bound to be macro in nature.
As Michigan State’s Tom Izzo, UConn’s Dan Hurley, St. John’s Rick Pitino and Duke’s Jon Scheyer arrived at the NCAA East Regional, they were asked to weigh un on everything from today’s youth, social media’s corruptive influences to a society gone soft and, of course, NIL and the transfer portal. Pitino, who has rapidly turned his program, downtrodden for a generation, into a title contender, led off with a dismissal of the concept of “blue bloods,” poking the pretentious in ribs.
“Blue bloods no longer control basketball,” said Pitino, who was eliminated by blue blood Duke on Friday night. “There’s no difference between Kentucky, North Carolina than Illinois or St. John’s.
There’s no difference anymore. There’s no difference between Michigan State, who is a blue blood, to any of the other teams from the conferences, from Mississippi, when they get it going. It’s all going to be the same.
“You’re going to see 40 to 50 teams all the same. There’s no such thing as a blue blood anymore. There’s no difference between North Carolina State and somebody else.
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