Most here won’t care about this feat, but it’s better than six straight losing seasons. They can still finish .500 if they lose out, but impossible to finish below .500 on the season. The fact they keep getting down each game and then win or make it close, makes me wonder what could have been. Save the few blowouts, this has been a competitive team.
FWIW Pitt clinches 3rd straight non losing season
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Cool. So Capel and Tomlin share more than a waistline.
We used to take winning seasons for granted, and we never should. However, based on how awful the ACC is, this is barely any sort of feat.
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I can appreciate this after the prior six straight losing seasons, yet it still feels like we’ve underwhelmed.
When about 1/3 of your season is played against teams with a massive talent deficit, this isn't much of an accomplishment.
Unfortunately, even going .500 in conference isn't much of a feat lately.
Unfortunately, even going .500 in conference isn't much of a feat lately.
Any time Pitt has a winning record in a varsity sport it is an achievement considering the university doesn't really give a damn.
Except for the fact the university's spending on athletics says the complete opposite.
Have to spend some in order to ensure those ACC checks keep coming in. History shows when it gets good, it soon goes bad. I wonder why?
The university has spent more in supplementing the athletic department than most ACC schools.
It's obviously a subjective question about what you value spending tuition and tax dollars on but I think Pitt probably subsidizes the athletic department too much, sometimes to pay the salaries of coaches who left several years ago or for sports like baseball that generate little interest (fwiw I would be in favor of adding women's wrestling here in this incredible hotbed of national wrestling talent.)
All that said, I don't think there is a big financial obstacle to Pitt competing at a high level in ACC basketball at least. Capel will be back next year and I'll be rooting for him both because I like him and because I don't like buying out coaches contracts. But he will have a hotter seat if we miss the tournament, which is an appropriate situation considering his salary is substantial.
All that said, I don't think there is a big financial obstacle to Pitt competing at a high level in ACC basketball at least. Capel will be back next year and I'll be rooting for him both because I like him and because I don't like buying out coaches contracts. But he will have a hotter seat if we miss the tournament, which is an appropriate situation considering his salary is substantial.
Because it's extremely hard to sustain success indefinitely? It's certainly not due to the school's financial commitment to athletics in comparison to its peers in the P4.
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