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Well, I mean, everybody’s got baggage. ... You know, he did his time. He’s serving his sentence. He lost a great, great job, and ... so what. That’s a life sentence? I don’t know, I don’t think so.” Connecticut women’s basketball coach Geno Auriemma, on a Barstool Sports podcast, saying he would hire former Louisville coach Rick Pitino, who was fired amid an FBI probe and pay-forplay scandal that has rocked college men’s basketball.