Scale for top basketball recruits set. Now what?
Rick Pitino accomplished at least one thing before being unceremoniously dumped by the University of Louisville.
He set the going market rate for five-star prospects in college basketball.
Turns out it’s a cool $100,000, doled out through your favorite shoe company in four convenient payments. A bargain, really, considering an entire starting five would come in at a cool $500,000 — coincidentally, the same figure that Pitino would get as a bonus if his team won a national championship.
Pitino, of course, knows nothing about that.