Several weeks ago I made clear that I thought we should can the “fire Pitino” talk in the comments because he wasn’t going to get fired during a COVID year, especially not when the team was still poised to make the NCAA Tournament. We’ve now reached the point where if it was a normal year, we’d feel certain the Minnesota Gophers were getting a new coach after the year was done. Alas, it is not a normal year.
With the uncertainty of COVID finances (and the PR hit of already announced non-rev program cuts) looming over the whole process it’s really not easy to forecast what will happen.