We were at Gophers basketball media day this afternoon getting all the hot scoops, up to and including what is up with Oto Osenieks and his parrot videos. (We'll have a #onequirk video with him shortly on that).
But the real topic of conversation came up on Twitter after we posted a picture of new head coach Richard Pitino. Now, it's not like he's been invisible in his time here. People know what he looks like. But for whatever reason, the picture we took elicited separate tweets about how he looks like:
Tobey Maguire:
Nic Cage:
Jake Gyllenhaal:
Just so you know.
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