First of all, are blatantly guilty and disgraced sports figures who are being gifted an opportunity to fruitlessly defend themselves on a national platform solely because it's guaranteed to drive traffic not privy to ESPN's team of makeup artists? Rick Pitino has never been tall, dark, nor handsome, but surely they could have made him up to look a little more put together than Charlie in the episode of 'It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia' where he's convinced he's addicted to eating human flesh. More importantly, I respect the passed polygraph defense , but - unfortunately - I'm not at liberty to buy the bullshit that Rick Pitino has proven adept at selling. I'm sure he actually did ace the lie detector test, but isn't that exactly what an expert liar should do? I wouldn't commend his (now former) players for making their foul shots because that's a fundamental requirement of the role they fill for the program, so why would I grant Rick Pitino some sort of pardon for being able to sociopathically convince himself that he's innocent in building said program? If anything, those results run counter to me taking his word for it. I was already about 99.99% sure that Rick Pitino was guilty, but I'm at 100% now that I know he truly believes he's not. We're talking about the type of serpent that snaked his way to the top of his insanely public profession, and I'm supposed to let the fact that he's cold-blooded in the face of questioning change my opinion of his character? Hell no. I'd be more likely to believe he was capable of using his hypothetical conscience to answer questions if that needle spiked proving that he actually has a pulse for what's right and wrong.
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