The ink has dried.
And now, Richard Pitino is really the coach of the UNM Lobo men’s basketball team.
Six months after their college basketball marriage was announced, and one week before the first official practices begin for the 2021-22 season, attorneys have crossed all the t’s and dotted all the i’s on the six-year contract between the university and the 39-year-old Pitino.
Pitino actually signed the contract in July, and UNM President Garnett Stokes and athletic director Eddie Nuñez signed the final version on Aug. 26. The Journal received a copy of the contract Monday.