Someone on sports radio this morning was throwing around Pitino as a possible replacement in Pitt.
Are they completely talking out of their posterior, or is this being discussed?
Lorenzo Romar to Pepperdine, Mark Gottfried to California State Northridge (per Los Angeles Times).
The article points out that both were assistant coaches on UCLA's 1995 title team. I mention that because...
This is fun. Bruce Pearl and Kelvin Sampson are back in the NCAA Tournament. Anything goes, and everything old and dirty is new and clean again. Where's the petition to make Rick Pitino the next ACC Commissioner?And former UCLA coach Jim Harrick could be joining Gottfried.
Harrick said Monday: "I'm back in it," but wouldn't reveal specifics pending a Tuesday news conference.
A number of years ago, a televised U-CON game featured a lot of their fans in DUCK FUKE tee shirts...and they weren't even playing Duke. Made me despise them even more (which was already at a high level, given the "screw Shavlik Randolph" semi final fiasco and Calhoun's smarmy comments afterwards.
Pitt using Fogler Consulting to help with its search
Yes, that Fogler. He's in the basketball headhunting business now! I like some of the guys he's placed (too bad Tony Bennett wasn't on that list), and I'm glad I don't see any unc retreads (DOH!) or suspected sleazeballs on there. So I see this as a good move by Pitt to use a firm run by someone who actually wasn't bad at coaching basketball.
Pitt is learning from its mistakes, when the former AD, Scott "West Coast Basketball Guy" Barnes paid some executive search firm run by his former boss (another AD, not a coach) at least $1,000,000,000,000 to dig up a 55 year old mediocrity like Kevin Stallings before beating feet to Oregon State.
And then those hypocrites had the nerve to give Cam Johnson a hard time when he wanted to transfer.