After winning an NCAA Tournament game for the Golden Gophers in 2013, Tubby Smith was fired a few weeks later by new Minnesota athletic director Norwood Teague. It was weird. It was even weirder when Richard Pitino replaced him. But really, it was much worse.
Pam Borton was one of Tubby’s former Minnesota colleagues. Now the former women’s basketball coach is publishing a book about her time in the college ranks. When discussing Norwood Teague and Tubby’s untimely departure, she holds nothing back.
“Tubby’s firing was a lesson in how not to do things,” Borton writes.