Richard Pitino best option to salvage Louisville AD Josh Heird's botched coaching search

Boxed into a corner by ineptitude, Louisville administrators only have one viable option to avoid significant fan outrage

Louisville athletic director Josh Heird’s search for a new basketball coach has been so botched, mangled and fumbled it deserves to end with the hiring of Pat Kelsey from Charleston. Hopefully, for supporters of the program, Heird will surprise and make one good decision — hiring Richard Pitino from New Mexico. 

For Louisville’s deeply fractured fanbase,…