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Rick Pitino Calls Writer to Complain About Article, Hints That He Wants the Siena Job

Rick Pitino sure sounds like a man who misses basketball and wants to be the next head coach at Siena.

Pitino called a reporter at the Albany Times Union to complain about an article he (the reporter) had written recently.

Check out this excerpt:

“The only thing I’m looking for, wherever I’m going to coach, is to impact the lives of people in some positive way,” Pitino said. “I’m not looking to become wealthy. I’m not looking to be famous. I want to impact lives.”

That isn’t a no, you’ll notice.

Skeptics have suggested that the Albany area and Siena, with its enrollment of 3,100, are too small to attract a coach with two national championships on his resume.