Days after Rick Pitino was fired amid the latest Louisville men's basketball scandal, the school hired former player David Padgett to be its interim head coach. The deal is for six months, reports the Courier-Journal.
Padgett, 33, served as an assistant to Pitino last year, and he played at Louisville from 2005-08. He met with Louisville's interim president, Greg Postel, on the school's campus on Friday.
Pitino was fired after an FBI investigation revealed that a coach within the program facilitated a $100,000 payment to secure the commitment of a player believed to be Brian Bowen, who has been suspended indefinitely.