Pitt Blog Asking for Louisville or *gulp* Cincinnati over UConn

[WestHartHusk]

Because our major program is not easy to love. 90% of the stories about it over the last 10 years have been negative, negative, negative- based on negative events.

The other 10% every other school would kill to get. But that 90% is still 90%.

Don't give them ammo.

Don't stick up for laptop thieves using technicalities. Don't throw academics in the trash bin. Don't leak drug tests to the press. Don't have former managers running the program into the mud. Don't function as openly hostile to the media at every single turn. Don't make spiteful statements towards the ACC for ten years. Don't totally ignore marketing. Don't totally tick off the season-ticket base that built two national powerhouse programs.

These were preventable things. All of them.

You have made my list of people not to get in a bunker with. It is a list of 1.

 

[MattMang23]

I seem to remember Cam Newton stealing a laptop but shhhhhhhh it's Florida!

 

[johnhuskies95]

I seem to remember Cam Newton stealing a laptop but shhhhhhhh it's Florida!

I also loved how UConn got killed when Calhoun suspended one of his three ball handlers for an entire season, and his starting point guard for one semester, and then UCLA's starter does the same exact thing and sits out for ONE GAME. And nobody bats an eyelash.

 

[The Viking]

Let me remind you that this school has almost single-handedly carried this basketball conference for the past 20 years- a time period in which the Big East was widely considered the best bball conference in the country...

This school has done as much as anyone to build this conference and be the heart and soul and backbone of the league. We have been the cash cow. We have been our league's breadwinner. As the wheels of realignment roll, no one gives a **** about any of it.

I'm sick of the disrespect.

Oh, you mean like two years ago when the conference (yeah, I'm talking to you Louisville, Cuse and Pitt) dropped a massive s*** on the conference brand to the delight of Charles Barkley and the entire ACC fandom while we won the national championship for the 3rd time in 12 years?

You mean like that?

 

[MattMang23]

I also loved how UConn got killed when Calhoun suspended one of his three ball handlers for an entire season, and his starting point guard for one semester, and then UCLA's starter does the same exact thing and sits out for ONE GAME. And nobody bats an eyelash.

Calhoun was damned if he did and damned if he didn't. If he did, he gets the reaction he got- and his players he recruits are bad characters, he cheats and is dirty.

If he doesn't, he promotes cheating, is dirty and has no control over his bad characters.

Ben Howland? Great coach!!

 

[MattMang23]

Oh, you mean like two years ago when the conference (yeah, I'm talking to you Louisville, Cuse and Pitt) dropped a massive s*** on the conference brand to the delight of Charles Barkley and the entire ACC fandom while we won the national championship for the 3rd time in 12 years?

You mean like that?

That might be an example of what I'm referring to.

 

[mavblues]

I also loved how UConn got killed when Calhoun suspended one of his three ball handlers for an entire season, and his starting point guard for one semester, and then UCLA's starter does the same exact thing and sits out for ONE GAME. And nobody bats an eyelash.

I liked your post, simply because you snuck the phrase "ball handlers" past the auto censor.

 

[huskymedic]

We are. And that's precisely why we should be considered desirable.

But that's why "the others" no likey us.

 

[businesslawyer]

90% of the stuff you write is garbage. We all wish we could prevent it.

Would you mind terribly pointing me to the 10%?

 

[UconnFamily]

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/...ig-12-expansion-the-perfect-storm-against-acc

I'm confident we go somewhere, the reason for the silence may be more than we think. According to the link above SEC could be looking to add Florida State and Georgia Tech, or Clemson, which pairs them up with in state rivals Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina. Plus, I don't think the Big 12 sits around, they may pick up Louisville and Cincinnati who knows. There's more going on with these conferences behind closed doors. BUT, if we do get left behind these conferences will make a foolish decision not choosing a great University like Uconn.

 

[rich1122]

It's not about athletic success it's about academic success - not football players, but overall.

Average SAT Scores mind you.

 

[zls44]

I'd love to know what UConn could've done to prevent Josh Nochimson from meeting Nate Miles.

Is UConn supposed to baby sit all the former managers? Hold weekly progress reports on what they're doing in life?

It's called monitoring. It's done at every university. This is a basic tenant of enforcement.

Solution: fund the enforcement office as an obligation, not a meaningless inconvenience.

 

[zls44]

Laptop thieves. Because no one misbehaves at other schools. Academics in the trash bin. Because no one cheats on academics and reports bogus APR scores when APR is bogus in the first place. Former managers run us into the muck. But the most pristine program in the universe, Duke, doesn't have any runners or agents associated.

I would say come back from bizarro world, but it's too late. You're a goner.

Then why does UConn get it so much harder than everyone else? Did you ever stop to ask why? Do you think it's all just a coincidence?

Are you all really that naive?

They should have tossed Williams and Price. Period. You don't toss them, you get the stigma of Father Flanigan, and you have no defense against it. You create an aura around your program that feeds off itself. This crap adds up.

 

[zls44]

Yah Yah, everyone is talking about how great UConn is, that's what's going on. You see it everywhere. It's an epidemic!!

I meant the posters on here, not the people in the media (hence the problem).

There's a MASSIVE cognitive dissonance ongoing. You can stand on the mountain screaming at the world that they're all bastards, or you can look inward and try and figure out how to fix it.

 

[businesslawyer]

Enforcement Officer: "Josh, these contacts could get us in trouble. Would you mind backing off?

Nochimson: "I'm not backing off, there is money to be made here and you have no control over me.

Enforcement Officer: "o.k., I tried.

Yes, that would have solved the problem alright.

 

[zls44]

Would you mind terribly pointing me to the 10%?

I'm the truth you are afraid to face. The university has made a million preventable mistakes in the last five years across several programs. Death by a thousand cuts.

 

[zls44]

Enforcement Officer: "Josh, these contacts could get us in trouble. Would you mind backing off?

Nochimson: "I'm not backing off, there is money to be made here and you have no control over me.

Enforcement Officer: "o.k., I tried.

Yes, that would have solved the problem alright.

They didn't even try. They didn't staff the office.

Everyone was busy saying the NCAA was out to get UConn, while UConn didnt even properly staff the enforcement office.

 

[businesslawyer]

I'm the truth you are afraid to face. The university has made a million preventable mistakes in the last five years across several programs. Death by a thousand cuts.

Yes, it has. And we've just changed administrations and ADs. And others have made the same preventable mistakes, and worse, and are not in our position.

The only thing we did wrong that is weakening our current position is we came to the big time football party too late and it will take forever for outsiders to take our football seriosly. Not a lack of marketing. Not a bad previous AD. Not that our fans aren't in their seats by kickoff.

 

[ConnHuskBask]

I'm the truth you are afraid to face. The university has made a million preventable mistakes in the last five years across several programs. Death by a thousand cuts.

Oh cut the .

People hate UConn because Calhoun was abrasive as all hell and we kicked ass in basketball for 25 years while not being a member of the old boys club.

Every single school has issues with compliance and we could have handled some of ours better, but to act like we're the only school with transgression is BS.

 

[johnhuskies95]

It's called monitoring. It's done at every university. This is a basic tenant of enforcement.

Solution: fund the enforcement office as an obligation, not a meaningless inconvenience.

There are at least three different managers on every single team, every year. Are they supposed to put all of them under surveillance? What exactly is "done at every university"?

Is it like UNC's tremendous "monitoring" of its athletic department?

 

[storrsroars]

I wouldn't concern myself with PantherLair. They whined about the sky falling when the annual PSU game went away. They whined about the sky falling when WVU bolted for the B12, eliminating the 'backyard brawl'. Old-timey Pitt fans want football to be relevant. Everybody else (the majority) are more realistic and just want Pitt to make the Final Four for once (and they have a great team with Robinson and the NZ giant).

Living here, what I'm hearing from media and sports forums is overwhelming support for UConn to get in, but ideally ND as a full member first. Or skipping the whole thing and praying for a B1G invite. And nobody gives a dump about Maryland or Rutgers.

 

[WestHartHusk]

I meant the posters on here, not the people in the media (hence the problem).

There's a MASSIVE cognitive dissonance ongoing. You can stand on the mountain screaming at the world that they're all bastards, or you can look inward and try and figure out how to fix it.

I am pretty sure you can't have a cognitive dissonance between what you think and what other people think, but nice try at using big phrases.

 

[businesslawyer]

I'm the truth you are afraid to face.

What kind of line is that? Do you want to write movie scripts for Jack Nicholson?

 

[upstater]

Then why does UConn get it so much harder than everyone else? Did you ever stop to ask why? Do you think it's all just a coincidence?

Are you all really that naive?

They should have tossed Williams and Price. Period. You don't toss them, you get the stigma of Father Flanigan, and you have no defense against it. You create an aura around your program that feeds off itself. This crap adds up.

Get what so much harder? What are you talking about anyway? The fact is, UConn faculty came out and said that Price was punished harder than the other 52 students on campus who were caught stealing laptops. Average punishment: 1 semester. Laptop stealing is an epidemic on every college campus, and perhaps it should be punished harder, but at UConn, they did punish Price harder than regular students, and elsewhere across the country where that's happened (at big programs) the punishment was teeny, so what's your problem?

 

[upstater]

It's called monitoring. It's done at every university. This is a basic tenant of enforcement.

Solution: fund the enforcement office as an obligation, not a meaningless inconvenience.

Coach K. should be fired, because he is an awful monitor, from Myron Piggie paying his players, to someone at the university giving a job to a recruit's mom, to Lance Thomas getting oodles of money from a runner, to Duke Alum Jay Williams handing $25k in bills in a paper bag to Duke recruit Kevin Love.

What do you have to say about that?

 

[nelsonmuntz]

They didn't even try. They didn't staff the office.

Everyone was busy saying the NCAA was out to get UConn, while UConn didnt even properly staff the enforcement office.

Will you STFU with this holier than thou and you are the only moral one nonsense? Kentucky gives kids envelopes full of cash and EVERYONE knows it. Cam Newton went out to bid, this was disclosed, and there were no consequences. UConn sent too many text messages.

 

[upstater]

My favorite post is ZLS "LIKING" the post by the BC troll.

 

[upstater]

I meant the posters on here, not the people in the media (hence the problem).

There's a MASSIVE cognitive dissonance ongoing. You can stand on the mountain screaming at the world that they're all bastards, or you can look inward and try and figure out how to fix it.

Nothing to fix. This is college sports. EVERYWHERE. perhaps you should look into another pasttime and stop bothering us.

 

[MattMang23]

Will you STFU with this holier than thou and you are the only moral one nonsense? Kentucky gives kids envelopes full of cash and EVERYONE knows it. Cam Newton went out to bid, this was disclosed, and there were no consequences. UConn sent too many text messages.

I physically saw World Wide Wes hand Kidd-Gilchrist's mother money then watched her walk over to MKG and hand it to him last year at Mohegan at the Hall of Fame Tip Off. They didn't even try to hide it.

 

[upstater]

Enforcement Officer: "Josh, these contacts could get us in trouble. Would you mind backing off?

Nochimson: "I'm not backing off, there is money to be made here and you have no control over me.

Enforcement Officer: "o.k., I tried.

Yes, that would have solved the problem alright.

Indeed, the Hartford Courant published a letter written by Calhoun 2 years prior to Miles coming to campus which told Nochimson that he must cut off communications with Miles and that UConn was aware of what he was doing. To top things off, this letter was sent to the NCAA by the compliance office!! I wonder how Wetzel got wind of all this...