St. John’s men’s basketball coach Rick Pitino called out the football calendar after a high-profile coach made a lane change.

In the wake of Lane Kiffin announcing Sunday that he was leaving Ole Miss ahead of the College Football Playoff to take over at LSU, Pitino took to social media to comment.

“I’m not knocking football, but there’s something wrong with their calendar,” the Naismith Hall of Fame coach posted. “I’m at SJU and we are potentially a one seed and can win a National Championship this year, and I leave in March??? What’s going on here?”

Pitino, the only coach to lead six different schools to the NCAA Tournament and the only coach to win titles at two different schools, has a point.

On the other hand, nothing is new here and this has been going on forever.

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