Rick Pitino was wrong.
The Louisville coach is glad that he was but he can admit now that he was wrong about Kevin Keatts.
When Keatts left Pitino and Louisville in 2014 to take over a flailing UNC Wilmington program, Pitino figured it would take Keatts some time to fix the Seahawks, who had suffered through six straight losing seasons.
“I knew he would turn it around,” Pitino said in an interview with The News & Observer. “It was how quickly he did that surprised me.”
It didn’t take Keatts – one of the primary targets in N.