Richard Pitino has done a fine job in two seasons as head coach of the Minnesota Golden Gophers but if you ask his Hall-of-Fame father, Rick, he almost left for another position.
Speaking to Jim Rome on “The Jim Rome Show,” as reported by Kami Mattioli of the Sporting News, the elder Pitino said that his son was actually quite close to accepting the head coach’s job at Alabama.
“I met with the Alabama athletic director in talking about different guys for that job and Richard’s name came up,” Rick told Rome.