By all accounts, Orlando Antigua is a good guy. My interactions with him were always pleasant, and as far as I know, he’s always been friendly and engaging with the staff here, and the media in general.
He was also, if nothing else, a proven, valuable asset at the highest level of college basketball. That’s not to say that Antigua was a sure-fire hire when Mark Harlan inked him to a deal in March 2014— far from it. USF was Coach O’s first major head coaching job of any sort, and fantastic assistant coaches don’t always translate into fantastic, or even passable, head coaches. But that’s the thing: he was, by any measure, a fantastic assistant coach. It’s not very often that you get the…
