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Richard Pitino - Florida Gators Coaching Search: The possibility is slim, but it's there.

There is no way Florida has Richard Pitino atop their coaching search list, but there is a good chance he's somewhere on their board.

When Anthony Grant was fired at Alabama the rumors flared up about Minnesota's Richard Pitino as a candidate Bama was considering.  This made no sense, at least not to me, and eventually the Tide hired Avery Johnson.  At this point I think I assumed the almost annual cycle of Gopher coach as candidate for other jobs to be over.  Partly because Pitino really has not proven nearly enough to boost his resume and parlay his time here into a better job.