Dixon gonna Dixon

[SoufOaklin4Life]

I miss under performing in the tournament

 

[bobfree]

Like most things...there is nuance and there can be multiple thoughts at once.

Good coach with a great run here. But pressure mounted because of those exits. Meanwhile, he slipped his last 5 years and sonits the GAP that widened between performance and expectations.

Probably a divorce was eventually needed at that rate. The problem to me was timing and then the replacement.

Agree. And we hire Kevin Keatts or someone that made sense we are fine

 

[bobfree]

I really don’t understand all the hate for Jamie. I’ve criticized his in game coaching a lot over the years. But he was an awesome coach and a great guy. He’s not perfect but he was a great coach who is nationally known. His first 8 years his teams were usually dominant and full of great players. Now since 2009 he did underperform in the tournament. I think he needs a great game manager as his top assistant. It’s no secret he lost that when Tom Herrion left in 2010 and he never seemed to come close to replacing him. The results in the tournament after Herrion left reflect this

I can’t speak for others but for me I don’t hate him at all.

I just can’t for the life of me understand how some posters openly rooted for him to succeed and Pitt to fail. Some are Dixon fans not Pitt fans

 

[Fsgolfdr]

Let’s see : TCU with JD
Year one at TCU = NIT championship
Year two at TCU = NCAA appearance


Pitt without JD
Year one w/o JD = 4 conference wins
Year two w/o JD =0 conference wins

Sure JDs team lost to Cuse. ,but don’t forget they’re playing without their best player . Take Blair out of Pitts lineup ...
JDs last yr here Pitt made the tourney , how many yrs will it be until we can say that again .
Pitt was heading in the wrong direction JDs last few seasons no doubt , but Pitts bb program is now in total shambles without him ...fact !
His biggest fault was that he couldn’t make Pitt into an elite program guess what the next coach and the one that folllows him won’t either .

 

[jtownknowitall]

You either settle for sustained mediocrity or try for something else. If you try for something else you may get better. You might not. Do you try again? Or do you settle for losing to an 11 seed in the first round?

 

[rmf05]

He only started coaching that way when he stopped recruiting kids who knew how to play the Pitt way. He was not that uptight when he had Carl Krauser or Levance Fields running the show

He was always like that. The loss to Pacific for instance. Even the Marquette loss.

 

[AlFromDadeville]

Let’s see : TCU with JD
Year one at TCU = NIT championship
Year two at TCU = NCAA appearance


Pitt without JD
Year one w/o JD = 4 conference wins
Year two w/o JD =0 conference wins

Let's edit this post.


Let’s see : TCU with JD
Year one at TCU = NIT championship
Year two at TCU = NCAA appearance


Pitt with KS
Year one w/o JD = 4 conference wins
Year two w/o JD =0 conference wins

I mostly agree with the rest of your post. I respect Jamie for everything he did here but when they made the move to go in another direction I agreed with it and thought it was best for both sides. It was who we brought in that murdered us. Making the decision to move on from JD wasn't egregious. Hiring stallings was.

My point is I don't like the "Pitt can't win without Dixon" narrative. We can. But under no circumstances could we have won with Kevin stallings.

 

[Fsgolfdr]

Let's edit this post.


Let’s see : TCU with JD
Year one at TCU = NIT championship
Year two at TCU = NCAA appearance


Pitt with KS
Year one w/o JD = 4 conference wins
Year two w/o JD =0 conference wins

I mostly agree with the rest of your post. I respect Jamie for everything he did here but when they made the move to go in another direction I agreed with it and thought it was best for both sides. It was who we brought in that murdered us. Making the decision to move on from JD wasn't egregious. Hiring stallings was.

My point is I don't like the "Pitt can't win without Dixon" narrative. We can. But under no circumstances could we have won with Kevin stallings.

JD was struggling to recruit the players he needed at Pitt and unless something changed I didn’t see this issue going away . Pitt made a bold move and it backfired big time because of who they hired .
I’m not saying Pitt can’t win without JD , but Pitt just isn’t in the elite class of bb powers . Pitt just will never be a Duke or Kentucky , but there’s nothing wrong with being in the next group and that’s where they WHERE .

 

[PittPoker]

JD was struggling to recruit the players he needed at Pitt and unless something changed I didn’t see this issue going away . Pitt made a bold move and it backfired big time because of who they hired .
I’m not saying Pitt can’t win without JD , but Pitt just isn’t in the elite class of bb powers . Pitt just will never be a Duke or Kentucky , but there’s nothing wrong with being in the next group and that’s where they WHERE .

Pitt didn't make a bold move, they made a shitty and laughable move because of Barnes' connection to his buddy at the search firm.

 

[Fsgolfdr]

Pitt didn't make a bold move, they made a shitty and laughable move because of Barnes' connection to his buddy at the search firm.

The bold move wasn’t hiring KS .

 

[mo cheeks]

The Dixon Japostles will go to the Ends of the Earth to Defend him with Any and All excuses. Congrats to you for Being in that Club. He is an Annual Choke Artist in the NCAA Tourney. Plain and Simple. You can spin it any way you like..

Funny how Leveance and The Elderly Annoying Neighbor are nowhere to be found After TCU and Virginia Choke out? Hmmmmmm.......

sorry, you are i a dream world and have not a clue. you must be under 40 and only know a Pitt team that made the tourney most years. You obviously are oblivious to Pitt history in hoops, or the lack thereof.

 

[Pittx9]

He was always like that. The loss to Pacific for instance. Even the Marquette loss.

Marquette? So now we're blaming Dixon for that because howland had one foot out the door and he was his top assistant?

 

[Gep Dawg]

Marquette was all Howland. I don’t care how bitchy Zavachas was Howland should have told him to tie his shoes and get it there and tie that game up.

Dixon had nothing to do with that.

 

[BFo8]

and never lost to worse than a number 8 seed. TCU was a minor favorite last night. no big shocker they lost. I think Syracuse is more talented and they are coached by a HOF coach. I don't recall any real embarrassment losses, getting blown out, in the NCAA. the loss to Whisky was down to a last second shot.Wisconsin made an NCAA run. Wichita State went onto to a run, elite 8/final 4? Dixon may have been worn out here. I think he stayed at Pitt partially due to loyalty to the school which really stood by him when he tragically lost his sister. the guy can coach a team, he can keep a team together, he develops players and teams. He is a fighter and a damn good guy. When he had NBA type talent, Blair/Young, they missed the final 4 by a heartbeat. Hey, other coaches can win big at Pitt, they just have to be really good coaches and stay at Pitt when other schools go after him, like Dixon did. yes, he used other schools to get a raise, but he STAYED, he could have left many times.

4.5 points is not a small favorite. TCU was -200 to win that game outright.

 

[freddietee511]

For whatever reason? There is a big reason. The guy is a micro manager who slows down possessions and doesn't understand that a powerful offense is what gets it done in the dance. Bennett and Dixon are very similar.

I mean yea but cuses zone does that to everyone

 

[recruitsreadtheseboards]

You are way to focused on posts of about 3 people.

DT, honestly you are way too defensive of Jamie. You should be feeling a bit good about the results. Because the Dixon we knew, is the Dixon we thought we knew. It worked out. Let's look forward. I still like you and enjoy your posts.

But you know after all of these pro Dixon posts over the last 2 years, over and over and over again, that this result was inevitable when he would pull a one and done.

Just venting. It will run its course. And I think on a positive note, this maybe the necessary final step needed to purge us all of focusing on the past.

 

[Joe the Panther Fan]

It worked out.

4-14
0-18

It only worked out for people whose hatred of Dixon surpasses their love for Pitt.

 

[SoufOaklin4Life]

4.5 points is not a small favorite. TCU was -200 to win that game outright.

I don’t know what that means.

 

[BFo8]

I don’t know what that means.

It means if you wanted TCU to win on the pointspread you would have to bet $11 to win $10 and TCU would have to win the game by 5 or more to win your bet.

If you bet them -200 on the money line it means that you would have to bet $20 to win $10, but TCU only needs to win the game, it doesn’t matter by how many points.

 

[PittMiamiRivalry]

I'd take him back in a heartbeat because at least he gets to the tourney but he may be the worst coach in NCAAT history. In fact, I thought I saw something out there saying he was the worst by some stat or metric.

Now, he is off to 2 or 3 interviews before getting a raise/extension

I wouldn't Dixon messed this program up. His exit is not the problem.

 

[phxpanther]

I'd take him back in a heartbeat because at least he gets to the tourney but he may be the worst coach in NCAAT history. In fact, I thought I saw something out there saying he was the worst by some stat or metric.

Now, he is off to 2 or 3 interviews before getting a raise/extension

Yep, what a bum, took a team that hadn't been to the tourney in 20 years, to the tourney. And let's not forget he was without arguably his best player

 

[phxpanther]

And guess what Jay Wright has only done it one time himself in the last ten years. Now of course that one year he won it all. But it shows you how hard it is to make deep runs in the tournament.

You're wrong. He went to the Final Four in 2009

 

[Delpanther]

Yep, what a bum, took a team that hadn't been to the tourney in 20 years, to the tourney. And let's not forget he was without arguably his best player

Wha's that choking sound from Dallas Fort Worth.. oh it's March, it must be Dixon.

 

[BFo8]

You're wrong. He went to the Final Four in 2009

And with today’s win this is #3 in the last decade.

 

[Gep Dawg]

You're wrong. He went to the Final Four in 2009

The original quote said Jamie hadn’t won more than one game in the tournament in over 10 years. So I’m assuming since Jamie also won multiple games in 2009 that was the last time either of them did it

 

[Gunga_Galunga]

4.5 points is not a small favorite. TCU was -200 to win that game outright.

To put in in context further, Tennessee was about the same favorite over Loyola.