Ian O'Connor of ESPN has a lengthy and informative story on ESPN this morning asking (as the headline reads) if these are the final days for Rick Pitino at Louisville.
According to O'Connor, Pitino didn't deny rumors that he'd started discussing plans to step down at Louisville back in the fall or the belief that those plans changed when the Cardinals were unexpectedly hit with a self-imposed postseason ban on Feb. 5.
What he does do is give an explanation of why he might have been feeling a certain way while all this was going down.