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Another reason not to save a 'ship.
Another reason not to save a 'ship.
Does Not Look Good for Ignas
- Thread starter DiehardPanther
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He has mentioned Pitt as being after him in a big way but I agree it doesn't look great.
I was told we had a decent chance if he reclassified to 2017. Very long shot for 2018.
Iggy committed to Michigan last night for 2018. Beilien has the #6 2018 class so far.
Saw that - JB is putting together a good class. We have been out of the running for awhile.
I know--just thought it was "of interest" since at one time we were in the mix.
Need to $tart making good eye contact with parents.
So why is it a shock to people when Pitt is mediocre at sports? Their own fans are saying this.
Where would you go if you were an 18 y/o kid with game and with a great offer sheet ? Pitt ?
That's kind of an odd question. I mean I assume that a lot of us here went to Pitt, and I assume that at least a few other people here had other options. Even so, when I was 17 years old I chose Pitt.
How many us had ten or twenty schools begging for us to go to their school ? For free no less , most likely with some nice extras ?
I choose Pitt over OSU and Miami for one reason .... MONEY . I was accepted to Penn , Pitt and Temple for dental school . Throw Temple out right off the bat due to being in a really rough section of Philly . I choose Pitt over Penn for one reason only ....money !
These kids are choosing winning programs and finances have no influence in their decisions, can you blame them ?
Right now I don't ! There's no administrative support .
Pitt needs to find a niche right now , there's no way even up they can out recruit teams like Michigan , Duke , UNC , ND , and so on for elite talent . I don't react negatively to KS losing recruits to these schools because he should , they're just way more attractive places to go to school and play . He has to design a system and find the pieces that fit with players these other schools overlook . He has to outwork other coaches in finding the diamonds in the ruff . He has to get lucky with someone whose overlooked like a Stephan Curry or a local kid who wants to stay home. Once you can establish your program as a winner and a place where your game can develop to were you can have a chance of a professional career it will become easier to recruit some better players . JDs great yrs were the result of having physcial mature teams , not teams made up of #1 draft picks . When JD tried to go after the elite kids is when Pitts program started to falter . These kids had better offers and left JD struggling to find decent players . Hard work , patience and luck is Pitts path to winning right now .
Or Pitt needs to go out and buy a great coach and give him a budget to hire great assistants with a large enough recruiting budget to recruit with the big boys . Build plush athletic dorms and throw money around with an active booster group . We know that this option is not a possibility at Pitt .
Were you happy with Dixon? That is what he did and was the best we could hope for.
I wasn't happy with his departure . I think he earned another two yrs to see if he could rebuild the program . I'm not sure he could of , at least not with the staff he had , but he earned that opportunity . I'd love to hear the truth as JD knew it , but we'll never get that opportunity . He has too much much class and what's there to be gained by his telling what really went down . In retrospect he's in a much better place now which is something Pitt cannot say .
