But all the board experts told me he’s not ready to be a head coach!'He's ready to be a head coach': Rutgers assistant Brandin Knight helping lift Scarlet Knights
Brandin Knight has been an instrumental member of Steve Pikiell’s coaching staff at Rutgers. Here's how he got here.amp.app.com
There were a few, citing his “chair” at Rutgers. Learning how to win at a dead program like Rutgers should qualify him for any job where it’s tough to win.
Was going to add technically Ashton Gibbs is on Duquesne’s staff. Didn’t know about Greer and I’m dumb/too young (though I met him when I was in middle school) to forget Antigua.
Looked up his coaching resume, he’s won everywhere he’s been so far. Good for him! If Schmidt takes a job elsewhere, is there any way he’s considered for that position?
Listening to Cook and Starkey discussing Mason Rudolph. They say he can’t throw receivers open. They say it is not experience, you either have it or you don’t.
You are twisting words. Many, including me, who have been against the talk of him being qualified to run Pitt don't doubt he's ready to be a head coach at a lower D1 school. NJIT, St. Peter's, Fairfield or somewhere like that is where he needs to start. But there is no example of someone with his resume being hired from another program to run an ACC school.
Exactly. Dixon was elevated within a successful program. There is a major difference between his resume circa 2003 and Knight's right now. What exactly are Knight's 3 biggest accomplishments and/or attributes as a coaching candidate anyway?
1 - Character
I will never, and I mean NEVER, understand your obsession with Rice. He coached at Pitt for ONE year. He was mediocre at Rutgers. He hasn’t blown a whistle in 8 years. He couldn’t get approved to be the THIRD chair at Robert Morris after being the head coach there. His coaching style could never survive in the era of social media. He shopped himself with 2 top 10 kids to every program in the nation and received ZERO job offers.
Blair would be a great mentor to some of the harder to reach guys and also really help develop our bigs.
I think I remember him saying a few years ago that he doesn’t usually hire any. Thought it was dumb then and still think it is now.
Yeah except in order to be a GA you need to be in graduate school. Does Blair have a degree? Honestly not sure.
As of last year, he was back enrolled finishing up his undergrad credits. I know his father passed during that time period, though, so I don’t know what track he’s on now. But I remember him saying at the time that he was finishing up his degree and wanted to get into coaching, and I thought he’d be a perfect fit as a GA. He’s already around the program quite a bit (before the pandemic when people were allowed to do that sort of thing).
Definitely. I understand it a little more in the first year or two if you want to take some time to make sure all of your logistics and systems are in place before opening things up to the GA revolving door, but it’s definitely a vital role that can be utilized now a few years in - especially in recruiting and actually interacting with guys at practice. Ramon and Richards just can’t do that to anything near the same degree.
The question that was asked was, “Who are some other notable Pitt alum coaches out there?”
Ashton Gibbs is at Duquesne. I must have missed that one because I had no idea until I just it on Twitter.
