When you are a Cardinal fan there is no such thing as time off. And there are no slow news days. Today is especially not a slow one. Today Coach Pitino had a press conference to talk about his Makers Mark bottle being released this Friday the 7th. But like any press conference other topics were discussed.

The Makers Mark bottles will be on store shelves starting Friday and there will be a bottle signing that will happen on June 13th at 5:00pm in the KFC Yum Center. Tickets will go on sale for that signing on the 10th and will cost 1 dollar. Here are some of Coach Pitino’s comments about Makers Mark:

Coach Pitino on being on Maker’s bottle: “it has happened before……in a different color.”

Coach Pitino: “we couldn’t do what we are doing for our student athletes without sponsors like maker’s mark.”

Anyone who hasn’t been under a rock over the past couple of weeks are very familiar with the controversy surrounding comments made by the Ohio State President Gordon Gee. Coach Pitino made headlines last week when he shared some very choice words for Mr Gee. Today Coach Pitino had some other things to share about this controversy:

Coach Pitino: “Gordon Gee has agreed to a gift of $500,000 for the academic center (jokingly).”

Coach Pitino on Gee’s apology being genuine: “No, he did it because the board of directors made him.”

Coach Pitino on Gee: “it is a pompous attitude.”

Coach Pitino: “it is low self esteem, jealously, we’ll need a psychologist to determine.”

During the press conference Coach Pitino updated everyone on some of the players and talked about the success of the athletic program. It sounds like Kevin is making great progress, all the incoming guys are on schedule, Russ playing ball in Spain, NBA GMs are amazed at genuine attitude of Gorgui/Peyton and one of the big shockers of the day Zach Price is moving on. Here are some of the comments from Coach:

Coach Pitino: “we are 3rd in the Capital Cup with half of the sports.”

Coach Pitino: “it is unusual to see so much success in a single year.”

Coach Pitino: “Kevin is shooting jump shots.”

Coach Pitino: “Kevin is just off crutches two weeks ago.”

Coach Pitino: “everyone is on campus but Rozier and Hancock. Rozier will be here soon.”

Coach Pitino: “I don’t like my guys playing pick-up basketball.”

Coach Pitino: “Russ may go to Spain to play on a touring team.”

Coach Pitino: “Rozier will be here this week.”

Coach Pitino on Zach Price: “I’d say he is gone, because our players don’t tweet.”

Coach Pitino on Gorgui and Peyton: “GMs ask me if this is fake, are these guys this nice?”

Coach Pitino closed it out today by talking about some of his activities during the break. He mentioned his fishing trip and talked about his horse not winning the Derby and hanging out with Pitt Bull.

Coach Pitino on his fishing trip: “it was great fun, but the chances of me going again are remote. Kenny couldn’t catch the big fish.”

Coach Pitino on Goldencents: “I am a bad loser, since didn’t win the derby haven’t paid attention. been hanging out with Pitbull on the west coast.”

Coach Pitino will be making an appearance at the Cardinal Caravan tonight at Captain’s Quarters in Louisville at 6:30pm. The Caravan started today and will be making stops around the Bluegrass area over the next 3 days. Below is a schedule of the stops. The Cardinal’s Beak will be at a few of these stops along the way and I will have video and photos from the event.

Just as the Pitino press conference came to an end twitter started to buzz about the news of Louisville Football’s 2014 schedule. We learned today that the Cards will be playing Notre Dame, Florida State, Miami, Clemson, NC State, Kentucky, BC, Virginia, among others in 2014. It’s going to be tough during this transition year but great things await for the football team and the fans in the future. Below is the crossover schedule of future ACC football opponents:

(Special Thanks and H/T to @UofLSheriff50 for all of his great updates via Twitter. Cards Fans go give him a follow)