Pitino Wants to Move on and Frankly we Should too
Rick Pitino spoke out pretty angrily yesterday about the allegations that have been made against him and I don’t blame him. As one who has had a lot of stuff printed about incorrectly I have a special fondness for people who go through this sort of garbage with people talking and writing about things that they don’t know are facts or not. If I were Pitino I’d be beyond tired of this.
Pitino admits to the affair and admits that it was a mistake. We make mistakes as people and he has admitted to that mistake. That mistake is what this is all about in this case and is a case of how our decisions today can effect our future. Pitino knew this and we all do yet we still do things dumb and wrong all the time and that is what happened here. He screwed and admitted it and just wanted to move on.
Imagine the wife here. She has to hear about this story day in and day out. People look at her funny at the grocery store and she has to put up with constant questioning from family members and friends. It’s broken trust between people and that’s a tough bridge to reestablish. The children are getting the same treatment and it can’t be easy to listen to things said about your father that may or may not all be true.
Rick Pitino has done a lot of good with his life and had a positive effect on a lot of people. By worldly standards he’s a very successful person who has a wonderful family. I want articles to come out and talk about those things and I want people to talk to his wife and children about the good that he has done. Sometimes we all want to knock someone off a pedastal to make ourselves feel better and that could be what is going on.
Pitino has given us the best example of how adultery or extra marital affairs can effect lives in a negative way and the list on this is pretty high, but it’s time we move on from this story because the story shouldn’t be about Pitino and the affair, it should be about the crazy woman who tried to extort him for milllions of dollars and the investigation into her criminal behavior.
To the Pitino’s i can only say that we can’t change the past and the consequences that were set when that route was chosen but you can choose how it is handled. You handle it with dignity and class. You admit when mistakes were made and you apologize for the way it effects your family. Then you love those close to you and call it good. That’s all that counts and all that cares. Then you make absolutely sure that you are never in that situation again.
