Rick Pitino Reportedly UCLA Boosters’ Top Target for Head Coach Job

Author : Sam Published: January 04, 2019

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If UCLA boosters get their way, Rick Pitino will be the next head coach for the Bruins basketball team. 

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Per Forbes‘ Adam Zagoria, multiple “influential” UCLA boosters are targeting the Basketball Hall of Famer to take over the program. 

Casey Wasserman, whom Zagoria noted had a hand in the hiring of Chip Kelly as football coach, is among the boosters pushing for Pitino to be hired. 

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UCLA is in the market for a new head coach after firing Steve Alford on Monday after a four-game losing streak dropped the team’s record to 7-6. 

Pitino hasn’t coached in the United States since being fired by Louisville in October 2017. The 66-year-old lost his job after being implicated in a pay-for-play investigation conducted by the FBI that resulted in four assistant coaches at four different schools and an Adidas executive being arrested. 

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Panathinaikos B.C. of the EuroLeague hired Pitino as its head coach in December. He won his first game with the team on Dec. 28. 

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