Does anyone have any info on whether Capel WANTS to stay?
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No. But common sense would indicate that he would love to make a lateral move. Why wouldn't he? He will likely be fired in 11 months. However, the fact that he is going to have to add 10 new players isn't the reason he'd want to leave. Everyone has to do that every year. There are a tiny amount of teams who keep a good portion of their teams intact.
He is also being paid very well. Why would he walk away from guaranteed money.
He's 50 years old. I can think of about $20m reasons he might want to stick around.
So, HE is stuck with US. College sports is getting weirder and weirder. BTW, we are not the only school handing out 5+ year $30 and up contract extensions to coaches who show a flash of progress or promise with no real proof of mid or long term success. Wish the pro teams in town would improve soon.
This is his last high major job one way or another. I think he goes to an HCBU when his time here is done, so he has every incentive to make as much as he can here.
I think he goes higher than an HBCU. CAA or SoCon. Or maybe one of the 2 HBCU's in the CAA.
because if you are pitt, you make his time here miserable. WE cant buy him out, then you make him cut salary to his assistants, you lower the budget, you dont work with him on NIL. You do everything humanly possible to make him beg his agent to take a reduced buy out to get out of here..
that's the only way out of this. he doesnt want to be anywhere he isnt wanted and cant win. and he cant win here and he's not wanted. but he's no dummy who will just throw millions away. so you make him HAVE to leave to get on with his career elsewhere and the only way you do that is to make him miserable, dread going to work every day..
Let's say we went full extreme and took away all the scholarships so he had to play all walk-ons and goes 0-31. Why would he quit? Heather guaranteed him a fortune. The guy has what some people say, is a fully guaranteed contract. He can walk into work everyday and punch ADAG in the face and still not get fired. No matter how "tough" ADAG makes it, Capel isn't walking away from Heather's pot of gold
I think he could coach at a higher level than the SWAC or MEAC in theory, but it also appears he values things like having a coaching staff he's very comfortable more than maximizing wins with and I think he would rather coach at a level where he can feel like he's "building men of character" and follow in his dad's footsteps. Maybe that path puts him at a place like ODU instead of a place like NC A&T.
Regardless, he's not walking away from what will probably be the last 7 figure salary of his career.
Seeing how he floats his name for openings every time he has a winning record, I’d say no… he does not want to be here
Where else can he go? He’s better off staying, and collecting another year of salary. If he ends up with a buyout, bonus.
He wanted the Georgetown job, but they had no interest and probably didn’t even take the call.
He wanted the Georgetown job, but they had no interest and probably didn’t even take the call.
He hasn’t done enough to get MORE from another team. Other coaches have done more with less so he’d be hurting himself.
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If you cut his NIL and support. Why would we he quit? Did you see Pitino this year when he talked about Seton Hall. He said in a presser Holloway has no funding, they can't compete. Cutting his funding and support, why would he care? That would become the narrative for losing. You would be helping him by providing an excuse for his ineptitude.
Seton Hall men's basketball: how recent changes in NIL could reshape the future of the program
After a difficult season for Seton Hall's men's basketball team, the upcoming changes in NIL should benefit the program next season.
www.thesetonian.com
I wasn't following SHU but man they were bad. This says their $1.5 million payroll was the lowest in the Big East and fsgoldr doesn't believe me when I say Pitt's was $2 million because he thought that was too high.
Seems like a silly way to go. That route hurts Pitt more than it hurts Capel. He's still getting paid while the university embarasses itself, lose money, and hurts its reputation. It would surely be leaked to the press that the program isn't being funded and like someone else said Capel has the perfect excuse for losing.
Sabotaging your coach doesn’t seem like a very good way to attract your next coach .
Face it Pitt Bb isn’t much different than the Pirate baseball , you can’t compete without the proper bankroll .
Capel is going nowhere on his own , no one his age walks away without health issues with what is owed to him .
Face it Pitt Bb isn’t much different than the Pirate baseball , you can’t compete without the proper bankroll .
Capel is going nowhere on his own , no one his age walks away without health issues with what is owed to him .
Capel isn't even involved in the Pittsburgh community that I ever saw. Maybe he is somewhere, but he's not visible at all in Pittsburgh. He talks a lot on his pressers but his words are excuses and empty.
How do you know what he does or doesn’t do ? Maybe he’s not seeking recognition for any charitable activities ?
The only thing you should really care about is can he produce winning Bb under the circumstances he’s faced with . Quite obviously he’s having a difficult time and to be honest I believe that anyone that they could bring in here without a huge financial commitment will produce very similar results.
You mean like the huge financial commitment they made to Capel, who has the highest salary coming from the school in the ACC in this data: https://sportsdata.usatoday.com/ncaa/salaries/mens-basketball/coach
It's gonna take two things for Pitt to be able to consistently compete at an NCAA tournament-team level : a good coach, and a much better NIL payroll.
Right now Pitt has neither. And unless the NIL funding issue is solved, the quality of the coach won't matter much. There is no question that Pitt is overpaying Capel.
On a side note, not sure how much stock to put in that list, for example, Jon Scheyer makes over 6M a year. The list has him at 1.7M.
Penn State was $1.5m so Pitt at $2m is quite plausible.Seton Hall men's basketball: how recent changes in NIL could reshape the future of the program
After a difficult season for Seton Hall's men's basketball team, the upcoming changes in NIL should benefit the program next season.
I wasn't following SHU but man they were bad. This says their $1.5 million payroll was the lowest in the Big East and fsgoldr doesn't believe me when I say Pitt's was $2 million because he thought that was too high.
We'll see how committed the school is after the House settlement. I agree the fanbase needs to step up, but misallocation of resources is a serious issue.
I'm sure there are coaches who make more through endorsements and bonuses, but the list I mentioned is based on public records where available. Duke isn't public so I'm not sure where they got that salary number. Even if capel is second, we're still getting ripped off
Capel has his built in excuse. I need more money, meanwhile dude is a terrible coach.
Soo sick of watching terrible team after terrible team in this town.
Soo sick of watching terrible team after terrible team in this town.
Pitt will be paying its athletes $20 million directly starting July 1. How bad they want to win in basketball vs football or volleyball will be known then? I mean, hypothetically, we can pay $15 million for basketball players and win a NC. Probably go 2-10 in football though.
Serious question, we know that starting July 1 they will be allowed to pay up to $20M, but do we know that they are committed to doing this?
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