Richard Pitino’s young son, Jack, is starting to become a huge fan of basketball. Well, if you’re in the Pitino family, you’re almost guaranteed to love the game, right?
When the Gophers’ head coach decided to take his son on the team’s road trip to Purdue, he laid out the expectations beforehand. The main rule: when dad was coaching, he couldn’t be bothered.
“I tried to lecture him over and over again: ‘You can’t go on the court. You can’t bother daddy when he’s coaching,’ Pitino said. “He only bothered me twice…out of a timeout, he said, ‘daddy,’.