Rick Pitino: "My Window's Closing In Coaching"

As Scott posted earlier, Louisville did indeed get taken down yesterday and while all of BBN was watching UK and worrying about our own team, Rick Pitino was off hinting at retirement following U of L's loss.

A video of some post-game comments from Pitino can be found here but the key points from it are when he makes comments such as:

"This is as tough of a loss as I've had in coaching and I've been coaching a long time and after tonight, maybe too long"

"My windows closing in coaching"

"I said I could leave this year and be a happy man"

"You always want to coach team like this in the last years that you coach the game...and I did"

What does all this mean? Probably only that it's been a long year, Pitino was frustrated, and will end up starting to plan for next year soon. It certainly was an interesting set of comments though and seems to suggest that the yearly Kentucky duel between the top two Italian men in the state may soon come to an end.