We didn’t rebound or play good enough defense today to win and it was disappointing. But FFS it is January 11th and there’s a ton of basketball to be played. Quit being a pu##y and keep supporting the team. Louisville is one of the top 5 teams in the ACC and will be in the Big Dance.

And incredibly, Clemson shot better than their season 3P% in all 13 games. That's hard to do.

Jerry should go after tomlin, take him off our hands, and then have the same exact coach in Dallas that he had with McCarthy.

I really wanted to be all in on Capel and thought we had turned a corner. If we miss another tournament it will really be hard for me to have any hope that he is the right guy to be leading the program. I don’t think it is irrational to hope for a change after 7 seasons and only one trip to the tournament - it is becoming pretty evident that capels ceiling as a coach here is bubble team.


I know that the contract makes it unlikely that any change will be made, but I don’t know how anyone will be able to get invested in another Capel coached team coming off of this collapse. At least some of the post Dixon dark ages you could watch a team that wasn’t tournament worthy and try to envision how some of the younger guys can grow into a tournament-level team as their careers progressed, but anymore it appears that players staying for 3-4 years with the same program are unicorns. Even in stallings final year I was able to watch with interest to see if he was going to make things so bad that we had no choice but to get rid of him.


I see a lot of people posting about how Pitt fans have unrealistic expectations and about how in the current landscape we are destined to be also-rans. I am not expecting us to be a Duke level program competing for a national championship each year, but I don’t think it is too much to ask to be one of the best 40 or so teams in the country more than once every 7 years. Are schools like Creighton, Texas Tech, Utah state, Iowa state etc. really better off than Pitt?

Nothing would make me happier than if we were able to pull out of this tailspin, get hot, make it into the dance, and have me feel silly for making this post (my first), but I just don’t see it happening.


I have a pit in my stomach thinking about how not only will I be forced to watch fairly meaningless uninspired basketball for the remainder of the year - next year will be more of the same. I usually don’t get too down after a loss, but it has been 4 in a row with little to indicate our problems will get better (the fact that I had high hopes going into the year doesn’t help). Does anyone have any thoughts that can cheer me up, or are things really this bad?

I think both of our coaches (Narduzzi and Capel) are basically dead men walking in their jobs, but you can’t afford to buy both of them out (thanks Heather)

So, which one goes? Has to be Capel, right? Easier to fire a basketball coach. You can talk yourself into Narduzzi really righting the ship when Eli was healthy last season.

Absolutely no excuses for Capel. None.

First, congrats to two former Yankees, CC and Ichiro. Congrats to Billy Wagner too.

But it’s a joke that Bonds, Clemens, and ARod haven’t made it. If you want to keep all performance enhancing drug users out, fine. But no way David Ortiz and Mike Piazza should be in and not Bond, Clemens, and ARod.

Chris and Jim, enjoyed the show and value your insights but I have to disagree somewhat on the take that all Pitt has to worry about competing with is ACC Teams and not worry about tOSU, Michigan, Alabama, Oregon, etc.

Sure they can make the playoff by winning the ACC but to go to the playoff as just fodder as a road opponent where we supply the stadium's fans with the "Washington Generals" is not entirely appealing. Would it be better than losing to a MAC team in Detroit? Sure. However, Pitt winning the "Big Least Part Deux" every once in a while and getting rolled in the playoff should not be the goal.

I would also say that you do have to worry about and try to compete with the big time programs, if you have one or two on the regular season schedule and you win a game like that, it's going to position you better in the playoff, where maybe you get a bye and/or a better seed.

I realize it's a tough row to hoe but I think Pitt has to approach things with a little more big picture thinking - and hopefully some answers - than just backing in as an ACC Team and being a one and done. Yes, winning the ACC is the first step but also have to be thinking and preparing beyond that.

Watched a couple of minutes of Duke/Miss. Broadcaster said Duke paid $9M NIL for Tulane QB. Can't believable Duke has that much NIL money. I guess their standards were bought out by NIL.

Also, it was great watching Oregon get stomped. I guess Nike's unlimited NIL wasn't enough.

I don’t think this was a previously known issue, was it? Hopefully a one time thing

Notre Dame or Ohio State