Duke's sister school in NY, St. John's, doesn't technically have an opening yet, but it sounds like there's some buzz building for Pitino there:
https://nypost.com/2023/03/09/rick-p...rce=NYPTwitter
If he wins there - and if he gets the job, he will win there - he'll wake the sleeping giant and get more fawning NY media coverage than anyone this side of whichever coach gets the Knicks their next title in the year 2934. The Post will start covering them home and away again and they'll play most of their home games at MSG. He will make them an "it" team and be an "it" coach again. He likes playing fast and loose at Iona, which has never had any scruples, and giving a middle finger to the NCAA. But he can't handle being an afterthought. He'll be back on center stage at least until the next scandal, but no one will care when that happens because St. John's will have finally played on Friday at the Big East tournament and likely won a few NCAA games at long last.
I'm a little surprised this might be happening with or without Lou's blessing. But it's one thing to turn away Tim Cluess because he quit on Lou in the 80s, or to cut out Calipari because he once told a recruit Lou was dying (just a rumor, but it definitely sounds like something Cal would do). Maybe at nearly a century, Lou is willing to sign off on Pitino. But if you're St. John's, you have to do it even if he's not.