Jebus W. Chryst, for the final time, Pitt had an active booster community at one time. It was slammed shut. Today, they still want the money donated for sure, but the donors are to stay the $%^& out of things and let the suits use it for the Transgender Pokemon team or some other sort of rot.
People who give meaningful money are Type A's, and you can decide for yourself what the A should stand for, but they are not donating for the Love Of Dear Old Pittsburgh alone. Sure there is some of that. But like all egotistical leaders, they want to brag and boast about the W's they facilitated.
Somebody at this point seems to get some kind of Toady Alert on their phone to come to the administration's defense. "They listened to donors and got rid of Dixon and see what happened!" IF that is even true, and I challenge it ... it was half-assery at best. They conveniently "listened" only as justification to dump Jamie's big contract. They certainly didn't "listen" in the replacement process! NOBODY of right or even wrong mind would have been rooting for crap like Stallings. And if the claim is that the boosters didn't respond with coin to warrant a valid replacement, the university was moronic to have listened to them about dumping Dixon at all.
When allowed the freedom to really influence, Pitt boosters HAVE delivered great players and coaches in the past (the long ago past at this point, granted. And it is still no guarantee of winning big (Bama, OSU etc likely would always likely still excel at those levels). But the way Pitt does it today ASSURES there will never be top results.