Back in the MAAC, Patsos is grateful to commissioner Rich Ensor for helping to ensure the Greyhounds have the opportunity to defend their league title.
Before then, though, there are nine fellow MAAC members to visit for a final time.
At least for a while, anyway.
“I’m looking for a really enjoyable farewell tour,” Patsos said. “I know that people don’t think that. I look at it as, ‘Let’s go have a positive experience in all the places we’ve spent a lot of time.’ Down the road, I expect to play the MAAC teams. I’m sure that won’t happen right away, but we’re still a family. We’re just moving west. I just look at it as like life, but I know I’m a different guy. I look at it as like part of evolving life......”
His self-proclaimed Jimmy Patsos Farewell Tour (not to be confused with the circus) comes to the WBA in Bridgeport (not Beirut) on January 21, 2013 at 7:00 pm.
Patsos is wrong on on 2 counts......MAAC teams Will Not play Loyola and he will not enjoy his farewell tour unless he enjoys oppossing fans verbaly abusing his team.
“I expect a gift every place we go,” Patsos joked. “I want a rocking chair, buffalo wing sauce. I want a Chipper Jones farewell tour. I want gifts along the way. I look forward to participating in the ceremonies.”
What a horse's ass.
Last Edit: Nov 5, 2012 15:25:29 GMT -5 by HawkStag
My first reaction is good riddance to that jerk, Jim Pastos. However my second reaction is, being who he is, jim kind of brought some excitement to the games. I remember the abuse he took for comparing bridgeport to beirut. I'll kind of miss giving him the "business". Luckily, we have Steve Masiello from, Manhattan college who makes jim pastos look like a small timer.Was there any bigger idiot then massiello at the end of the CIT game in Fairfield?
If Jimmy Patsos' stomach is roiling at the thought of nine other Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference coaches taking aim at him, the Loyola basketball coach wears his tension well.
"I'm happy to be the hunted," says a grinning Patsos, sitting on stage at a downtown charity event with a panel of famous coaches, including Gary Williams, his former boss at Maryland.
"Coach Williams taught me that," Patsos continues. "He always said, 'I'd love to have all the problems that Duke and Carolina have.'"....
Players say the voluble Patsos has responded to success by changing hardly at all. The chip on his shoulder is just as solid, the fire in his belly just as hot.....