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auror said:
I doubt it will be that difficult. ACC is the premiere basketball conference in the country right now and there's a chance it gets to SEC football status at some point. They earned 21 tournament units last year and will earn at least 19 this year.
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Pitt will get a decent coach, but a top coach is going to be cautious due to the league pecking order. Top coaches want to go to one of the top programs in a conference. Would any coach choose Pitt over Duke, UNC, Syracuse, Louisville, Notre Dame, Maryland, Ohio St., Michigan, Michigan St., Indiana, Wisconsin, Kentucky, Florida, Texas, Kansas, Arizona, UCLA, UConn, Villanova, Georgetown? Nope. Would a coach choose Pitt over Miami, Florida St., NC St., Virginia, Illinois, Oregon, Utah, Tennessee, Xavier...? Maybe, but not a slam dunk. Would Sean Miller leave Arizona, the top Pac 12 program to go to his alma mater Pitt? Very doubtful.

Plus, the AD has basically stated that making the NCAAs almost every year, winning conference championships every so often, and winning 73% of your games and 64% of your conference (Big East and ACC) games is not good enough. Who can live up to those expectations? Be careful what you wish for.
 
Well this is further proof that UConn is going to the Big XII. Right, Conspiracy Kitty? @CL82 Follow me on this: Dixon recruits NYC. Dixon leaves a conference that has access to NYC to go to a league without access to NYC. Why? Because TCU told him that UConn will be joining and therefore he will still get to use the pitch that their parents/family will get to drive to see them play at least once a year.
 
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UConnStats said:
If Young or Jeter wants to transfer for their last year of eligibility, I hope we go after them. Both would give us a great Shonn Miller replacement.
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The new standing joke on the Pitt boards is that when Young bumped James Robinson while the latter was going for the winning shot on Friday, it was the best defense Young played all year.

Jeter will make a lot more stupid mistakes than Shonn did, without all the positives.
 
UConnJim said:
Pitt will get a decent coach, but a top coach is going to be cautious due to the league pecking order. Top coaches want to go to one of the top programs in a conference. Would any coach choose Pitt over Duke, UNC, Syracuse, Louisville, Notre Dame, Maryland, Ohio St., Michigan, Michigan St., Indiana, Wisconsin, Kentucky, Florida, Texas, Kansas, Arizona, UCLA, UConn, Villanova, Georgetown? Nope. Would a coach choose Pitt over Miami, Florida St., NC St., Virginia, Illinois, Oregon, Utah, Tennessee, Xavier...? Maybe, but not a slam dunk. Would Sean Miller leave Arizona, the top Pac 12 program to go to his alma mater Pitt? Very doubtful.

Plus, the AD has basically stated that making the NCAAs almost every year, winning conference championships every so often, and winning 73% of your games and 64% of your conference (Big East and ACC) games is not good enough. Who can live up to those expectations? Be careful what you wish for.
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While I get your point, any coach would pick a P5 (Pitt) over a non P5 (eg Xavier).
 
beakumhawks said:
He is in a no-win position. The Toads will never be any good in hoops. Too much to overcome.
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I would be surprised if he did not improve them a very great deal. Whether that would amount to relevance is another matter.
 
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storrsroars said:
The new standing joke on the Pitt boards is that when Young bumped James Robinson while the latter was going for the winning shot on Friday, it was the best defense Young played all year.

Jeter will make a lot more stupid mistakes than Shonn did, without all the positives.
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We criticized Hamilton a ton this year too. That doesn't mean the team was better off without him. People also criticized Miller's defense too.

I'm not saying Jeter would totally replace Miller, but he shot 57% inside of the arc and is a better rebounder than Miller. He'd still be the best inside scorer on our team next year barring a huge improvement from Brimah or Enoch.

I understand some people not wanting to take on transfers, but if you're open to the idea, I don't know how you'd say no to either of those guys.
 
Tough job I would expect Pitt being in the ACC will have some good names available to them.

The Toads will be battlers that's for sure.
 
Chuck Carlton ‏@ChuckCarltonDMN · 2h2 hours ago
Pittsburgh AD Scott Barnes says the school "softened" Dixon's buyout, helping him move to TCU.

Chuck Carlton ‏@ChuckCarltonDMN · 2h2 hours ago
@theDudeofWV Paraphrasing, said school didn't want to hold Dixon hostage with above market buyout. Said Dixon really wanted to go to TCU.
 
jostar1 said:
Chuck Carlton ‏@ChuckCarltonDMN · 2h2 hours ago
Pittsburgh AD Scott Barnes says the school "softened" Dixon's buyout, helping him move to TCU.

Chuck Carlton ‏@ChuckCarltonDMN · 2h2 hours ago
@theDudeofWV Paraphrasing, said school didn't want to hold Dixon hostage with above market buyout. Said Dixon really wanted to go to TCU.
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If they really wanted him, they would not have "softened" the buyout. imo
 
Pitt is going to be a bottom feeder in the ACC within the next 3 years.
 
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Didn't Dixon lose his NYC recruiter a year or two ago? I think he's bailing out.
 
better to act as if you're leaving on your own terms, I think the pressure was building

DO SOMETHING
 
bobbygt said:
I really wish there was a 'not like' option.

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a little empathy is not such a bad thing :)

at the end of the day, you don't feel bad for good teams y'know
 
New AD Scott Barnes has indicated Pitt wants proven success, will pay top dollar and is going to "make a splash".

I can only take that to mean they're going after Geno :eek:
 
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TCU hiring a P5 coach who pretty much goes to the tourney every year. What is this world coming to?
 
In his 13 years at Pitt, he made the tourney 11 times, TCU has not made the tourney since like 1998.

Good luck with that.
 
On a slightly serious note. What is Howland up to? Not sure if that was brought up already. Did he leave on good terms?
 
NDakotaHusky said:
On a slightly serious note. What is Howland up to? Not sure if that was brought up already. Did he leave on good terms?
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Howland is HC at Mississippi State. A few people on the Pitt boards brought his name up, but he didn't leave on great terms, although that was under a different AD. Don't think that's the play AD Barnes has in mind. The Pitt insiders are strongly hinting Sean Miller is coming home.
 
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storrsroars said:
Howland is HC at Mississippi State. A few people on the Pitt boards brought his name up, but he didn't leave on great terms, although that was under a different AD. Don't think that's the play AD Barnes has in mind. The Pitt insiders are strongly hinting Sean Miller is coming home.
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Would be shocked if Miller left AZ
 
Dixon had Pitt a legit national title contender, especially in '09. Was bad luck against Villanova, not a choke job. They've fallen off since then, but not sure that's an indication of a hard ceiling
 
Miller to Pitt would be insane. That would be like leaving UNC for...Pitt.
 
Anyway, they're obviously hiring KO.
 
Looking at recruiting, that bastard Dixon didn't even have a single recruit worth trying to poach.
 
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