TFD: People seem to think Gophers coach Richard Pitino looks like a lot of celebrities

Good times

October 29, 2013 at 11:43AM
(The Minnesota Star Tribune)
(The Minnesota Star Tribune)

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:

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Jake Gyllenhaal:

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Just so you know.

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Michael Rand

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Michael Rand is the Minnesota Star Tribune's Digital Sports Senior Writer and host/creator of the Daily Delivery podcast. In 25 years covering Minnesota sports at the Minnesota Star Tribune, he has seen just about everything (except, of course, a Vikings Super Bowl).

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