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Message: [QUOTE="nelsonmuntz, post: 3831172, member: 833"] Pitt's decline was completely predictable. With no natural local recruiting region, no ex-Big East program was more dependent on a NYC pipeline than Pitt. Pitt could effectively recruit NYC when it was in the Big East because it would be playing SJU, SHU, Rutgers, Syracuse and UConn every year, but in the ACC, it has no advantage over any other major conference program recruiting the same players. Howland and Dixon had built that program on NYC talent, and Dixon left Pitt for a glorified mid-major TCU program once he saw the writing on the wall. I do not think Pitt will ever return to its glory years unless a Top 20 recruit miraculously develops in Pittsburgh, which seems unlikely. [/QUOTE]