Yesterday, in a piece for Forbes.com, college basketball blogger Adam Zagoria wrote:
Rick Pitino is a top target of influential boosters to be the next head men’s basketball coach at UCLA, an industry source told me.
Casey Wasserman, a billionaire UCLA alum who was influential in the hiring of Chip Kelly as UCLA’s new football coach, and John Branca, a graduate of the UCLA Law School and an entertainment lawyer who is the co-executor of Michael Jackson’s Estate, both want Pitino, the source said.
Obviously, if this were true, it could be an indication on where the search is going and it wouldn’t be a good thing because, frankly, Rick Pitino is still radioactive in collegiate athletics, due to the circumstances of his departure from Louisville.