Far better than staying at crappy PItt, which doesn't know how to manage an athletic program.
Any news of Cameron Johnson's sitting out if transferring to an ACC
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Or playing for Pitt, that has no coach at all and an AD that doesn't even know enough yet to know if she has a clue.
Then you need to change the rules .
If you want a free education , coaching and all the perks athletes receive then you need to abide by the rules.
If you think if kids can leave any school they want and instantly be eligible to play that it wouldn't wreck havoc on all college sports your wrong .
The only times I think it's wrong to penalize the players is when there's a coaching change or serious family issues .
Making them sit out a yr allows then to put some serious thought into transferring for athletic gain .
If Cam is a legitimate 3.9 student who was able to graduate in three yrs from Pitt then he should transfer to an Ivy , Vanderbilt or to Stanford not UNC .
I wonder if he has talked to anyone from the academic side at any of the colleges he's considering or just the bb coaches ?
Who cares what they say on the Internet. I think most sane people would agree you shouldn't allow a player to transfer to a conference opponent that you may play against 5-6 times.
I have said if Cam wants to go to UNC, then Stallings should let him if him and old oal Roy have a handshake agreement that he cant play against us.
I agree....the rules need changed. The rules as they exist today are archaic and don't benefit the student/athlete (if there is any such thing in this day and age). And if they wreak havoc on college sports, college sports can deal with it. Just another reason to know that college sports is going deeper and deeper into the toilet.
Why? Seriously, give me one good, sane reason why? Don't tell me because he knows Pitt and could use that against us. That's a lame excuse.
And that's the reason college sports has been flushed down the dumper along with all of the other s$%t. This should be about the student/athlete, not the almighty $$$. If you want to make it about the almighty $$, call it what it is: professional sports, pay the kids top dollar (not tuition), and they play professionally for the school as their sports team only. No classes, no GPA's, no entrance requirements (as if there are now). If they fail, it's up to them to get trained somewhere to get a real job. But this facade of professional sports posing as some college sports teams is a joke.
I've felt this way for awhile now . Offer the athletes a college eduction if they want one for the others make life skill training reading ,basic math skills available . Stop pretending it's about education it's not it's about $ and W&L.
I agree. Let the kids get an education if they want it, but quit pretending this is about student/athletes. The kids do need some life skills to function in the real world, no matter what they do. But give them decent pay for playing a sport for the university, at least in the 2 revenue generating sports.
If they want to get a degree at the same time, they pay for it. No athletic scholarships.
"Go to Pitt and they won't let you transfer to an ACC team. Come here and we will!
Somehow I think that sales pitch misses the mark.
I don't know if Pitt managed their hoops program at all. They won the lottery with Howland then when they stupidly thought they were too clean for Calipari and Prosser turned them down, they got lucky that Dixon turned out to be a good coach.
I would call it luck more than good management. When recruiting fell off under Dixon, Pitt reverted back to what they were.
Your sample size is one year and mine is 40. Going 6-12 in conference and not making the NCAA tournament doesn't change anything.
Are you really arguing that Pitt basketball has been successful for the last 40 years? Have you ever looked at our Big East Tournament record prior to Howland?
I was responding to a post by the now anti-Pitt, pro TCU troll who can't get over his butt hurt. Apparently, you didn't follow.
And your response was wrong. Pitt has not been an above average program for the majority of those 40 years.
In a response to why Cam doesn't go to Ft. Worth, butthurt posted:
Far better than staying at crappy PItt, which doesn't know how to manage an athletic program.
Try and put two and two together slowly. I'll give you a hint, it has to do with TCU sucking balls as a basketball program forever.
Indeed. Pitt's meager success over the years almost totally can be attributed to luck.
hey Jeff- had been trying to contact you via the email address listed on the game trading site. Is that email still good? thanks
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