this will never get anything close to being where this program was at one point under Stallings
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Heather Lyke should pull trigger
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It's too soon.
Lyke has to at least wait until the end of the season when they are 1-18 or 0-19 and have finished dead last in the ACC. But, in the meantime, Lyke should be be quietly searching for a replacement who can hit the ground running in March and not be waiting for weeks or months for some research firm to propose a candidate or candidates.
Lyke has to at least wait until the end of the season when they are 1-18 or 0-19 and have finished dead last in the ACC. But, in the meantime, Lyke should be be quietly searching for a replacement who can hit the ground running in March and not be waiting for weeks or months for some research firm to propose a candidate or candidates.
Three key words! With whose money??
Lyke and Pitt fans are stuck with Stalling for the remainder of this season, atleast thru next season, maybe one more season putting KS in year 4 of his ridiculous six year contract signed by Barnes, Gallagher, and the rest of the Pitt dopes who signed off on this fraud!
Lyke will continue to take the path of least resistance and work to improve non revenue sports ( her expertise) which may be the future of Pitt athletics as basketball slides into obilvion, football struggles to move past 5-7 and 6-6 seasons!
Get ready to bring your folding chairs to men's & women's soccer games and watch women's volleyball yelling Go Pitt!
"it's five o'clock somewhere"
Signed: Mr Buffett
Go Pitt & CSU Rams!
Lyke and Pitt fans are stuck with Stalling for the remainder of this season, atleast thru next season, maybe one more season putting KS in year 4 of his ridiculous six year contract signed by Barnes, Gallagher, and the rest of the Pitt dopes who signed off on this fraud!
Lyke will continue to take the path of least resistance and work to improve non revenue sports ( her expertise) which may be the future of Pitt athletics as basketball slides into obilvion, football struggles to move past 5-7 and 6-6 seasons!
Get ready to bring your folding chairs to men's & women's soccer games and watch women's volleyball yelling Go Pitt!
"it's five o'clock somewhere"
Signed: Mr Buffett
Go Pitt & CSU Rams!
Let me fix this for you.
Lyke CANNOT do anything because her hands are tied, and doesn’t have enough money to buyout the idiotic contact that was given to Stallings.
Not only that, it's just bad business to pull the trigger this soon. I know it sucks, but this isn't fantasy basketball. He was hired and needs 3 years minimum.
Are we really going to have thread after thread after thread talking about this after every single game?
We all know this season was going to be brutal coming into it yet game after game we have these same conversations.
Just as bad are the morons on twitter talking about how Duke plays all kinds of freshmen and they are not in our situation. Good lord are some of our fans delusional.
We all know this season was going to be brutal coming into it yet game after game we have these same conversations.
Just as bad are the morons on twitter talking about how Duke plays all kinds of freshmen and they are not in our situation. Good lord are some of our fans delusional.
Exactly. There's no need to continue with this topic. No one on this board expects more than 1 or 2 wins this year so why do people feel the need to react to losses that they are already expecting.
LOL! I don't do twitter so I don't see that nonsense. But how ignorant can you be if you say Duke plays all of those freshmen and try to compare that to Pitt's situation? That's beyond delusional. That's plain dumb.
If Lyke has a real good candidate lined up like Crean, Matta, etc, ok. But at this point, I wouldn't pay Stallings's buyout to hire King Rice or some other mid-major lottery ticket.
Speaking of Duke, how the hell did they lose two games. During most of the game, they literally had 5 NBA players on the floor. And Bagley is simply unreal.
It's how they are losing. The long stretches game after game without scoring. The lack of rebounding, the lack of effort of rebounding. Should I go on?
I understand that, but you are surprised by this how Poker? The team has 7 freshmen in the rotation, many of whom came late and off the radar, so of course they are going to get completely outclassed by ACC competition. Now, if you want to talk about last year and how that stuff happened with a senior-laden roster, then that's at least a little more fair.
It’s not surprising, but that certainly doesn’t make it excuseable. Stallings dismantled the roster and built this team. He deserves the criticisms associated with the predictable results he’s getting.
It’s not the Duke loss
This is a disaster
End it
This will never get to where it was and this only continues to be an embarrassment
Have the chancellor figure out where the money comes from ... he along with Barnes thoughts this was such a wonderful idea in the first place
This is a disaster
End it
This will never get to where it was and this only continues to be an embarrassment
Have the chancellor figure out where the money comes from ... he along with Barnes thoughts this was such a wonderful idea in the first place
Who in their right mind would want this job if they’re a desirable candidate for other D1 jobs .
I'm sure other coaching candidates look favorably on a school that let's a coach go after 1 1/2 years and doesn't allow the opportunity to develop a freshman class.
We are in such a tough spot . Fair or not our perception took a hit when all coaches came to the defense of us “pushing” jamie out . If we fire stallings it can go either way
Pitts choices are very limited because to hire anyone who’d creat a buzz would require a hugh over payment and that’s just not the Pitt way .
Which is another reason you keep him.
If anything, if we go 3-15 next year and you fire him at the end of Year 3, the job would look better to a new coach inheriting a bunch of juniors.
We did push Jamie out. What's there to discuss?
And those are just excuses that no good D1 coach would want to come here if we fire our current coach after 2 or 3 seasons. Very lame excuses. If a coach is in any way worth their pay, they're not afraid to put their nuts on the line and take over a once proud, top program like Pitt's and return it to that status. In fact, it would be the type of challenge that he would welcome.
The question is...do we have the administration in place right now that has any kind of commitment to the hoops program to do what it would take to get this done? So far, it appears that we don't.
My group was discussing that last night at the game. It's unimaginable that that team could lose 2 games so far, and to lose them to whom they lost. Just Bagley alone would assure a win if he just walks on the floor and makes a token effort.
Let the main dope/fraud pay it..........Gallagher
John Wooden he's not busy these days??
"it's five o'clock somewhere"
Signed: Mr Buffett
Go Pitt & CSU Rams!
I thought Sean Miller was coming to Pitt?
Do you have an update for us on this?
This basketball program has gotten so out of control it's actually humorous at this point?
"it's five o'clock somewhere"
Signed: Mr Buffett
Go Pitt & CSU Rams!
I can see keeping him a tad longer (max of 1 more season) so as to not let a prospective replacement coach believe he only has a year and a half to fix things.
On the other hand, I don't buy the argument that buying out Stallings is too costly to be considered. We are and will lose more than his buyout as a result of the attendance disaster we are experiencing.
On the other hand, I don't buy the argument that buying out Stallings is too costly to be considered. We are and will lose more than his buyout as a result of the attendance disaster we are experiencing.
Maybe we should launch an investigation, charge anyone at Pitt who signed off on the KS hire with University Management Malpractise, convict them of that crime, fire Stalling, and have them sentenced to paying off the Stalling I'm A Terrible Coach Costs that resulted in his firing, buyout, and the costs to find and hire a new basketball coach who actually knows how to coach.
Or some variation of this plan!?
This ridiculous post illustrates how bad the Pitt basketball situation actually is and IMO someone at Pitt should take a hit on this one. It wasn't all on Barnes or his search committee. All they do is recommend candidates for other top brass at Pitt to approve. Anyone with a PC would be able to determine that Stallings would be a bad hire!
Additionally who do we trust to hire the next Pitt basketball coach since the same group of incompetents + Lyke will be taking a second swing at this ball?
Lyke should conduct a post audit of how the basketball coach process to see where it broke down and who didnt perform the required do diligence.
Lyke should revise the coach selection process so it works from now on.
If she gets talked into following the same process with the same Pitt dopes making the decisions we can expect similar results!
"it's five o'clock somewhere"
Signed: Mr Buffett
Go Pitt & CSU Rams!
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The bum asked for another raise...wasn't in the cards so he tucked tail and ran
No it means absolutely nothing in this instance.
Who was lobbying for Pitt to hire Stallings? That is the only way I told you so would be relevant. No one, literally I don't think one person lobbied for Pitt to hire Stallings. It might have been the most unpopular hire in the history of Pgh sports.
The reality though is Stallings is the coach and we all knew this season would be brutal so why post game after game after game and day after day after day after day about the same troubles, the same issues, every time we lose a game.
Heather Lyke should pull trigger
She has a pop gun, doesn't have anything to work with, or an administration that actually cares or makes Pitt revenue sports a top priority.
She Lyke and He Stalling will be miserable for the next two years at which time a change will be made if things don't improve.
But that's a concern since the same people will be making this decision all over again plus Lyke minus Barnes????
When the next basketball coach selection process begins it might be wise for Lyke to add an outside knowledgeable objective observer to the process to be sure it goes in a straight line and don't end up in a ditch.
"it's five o'clock somewhere"
Signed: Mr Buffett
Go Pitt & CSU Rams!
She has a pop gun, doesn't have anything to work with, or an administration that actually cares or makes Pitt revenue sports a top priority.
She Lyke and He Stalling will be miserable for the next two years at which time a change will be made if things don't improve.
But that's a concern since the same people will be making this decision all over again plus Lyke minus Barnes????
When the next basketball coach selection process begins it might be wise for Lyke to add an outside knowledgeable objective observer to the process to be sure it goes in a straight line and don't end up in a ditch.
"it's five o'clock somewhere"
Signed: Mr Buffett
Go Pitt & CSU Rams!
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IMO, probably because there is nothing remotely positive worth posting about this crappy team in his opinion. His alternative would be to just not post anything at all until Pitt again has a competitive team--whenever that may occur. Face it, many Pitt fans are going to post negative things about KS and his hire instead of the team or its individual players until things change for the better. So, you will have to live with these kinds of posts for a minimum of the rest of this year and perhaps for several years. Just like the quality of this team it is what it is; if you hold out no hope this team or the program will improve enough to be competitive in the ACC under KS your only optimism for a better team in the future is going to be in hoping for an early departure of KS.
Pitt fans are going to post negative things and they should, since alot of fans are disappointed with Pitt's management (or mismanagement) of revenue producing sports teams.
Fans bear some responsibility for not donating and showing up for football games and now basketball games.
On the other hand Pitt administration hasn't shown competencies nor have they shown support for revenue producing sports similar to programs that Pitt competes against.
+Extending HCPN was a good thing.
+/- Hire of Lyke is trending in the right direction but the hard work is ahead of her
-Supporting and retaining SP was disaster # 1
-The football coaching carosel was a disaster # 2
-Keeping SP, extending SP, having to buy-out SP, hiring Barnes, is disaster # 3
-Pushing Dixon out without a solid hiring Plan A, B, or C was disaster # 4
-Hiring Stallings a proven average to below average basketball coach and signing him to a six year deal was disaster # 5
-Keeping SP, extending SP, having to buy-out SP, hiring Barnes, is disaster # 6
After all of this which happened in a relatively short period of time, alot of fans have little confidence that Pitt management ( if there is such a thing) isn't capable of making effective decisions in the area of revenue producing sports!
It's really difficult to make all those mistakes in a short period of time!
"it's five o'clock somewhere"
Signed: Mr Buffett
Go Pitt & CSU Rams!
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It means everything
Specifically, at those who wanted Dixon gone, thinking that Pitt would do better without him.
Some of them even thought Stallings was an upgrade. Actually, I think many of them still do
That is a frightening thought, that there are actually people out there who think that Stallings is better than Dixon or any coach for that matter. I'm sure there are worse coaches than Stallings out there somewhere, but I think you can count them on one hand.
List of realistic, potential candidates.
Thad Matta - if he is healthy
Eric Musselman - only making about 1 million a year
Joe Dooley - FGCU
Sanchez - Head Asst at UVA
Boyle - He would come in like Danny Hurley did and make similar impact or better
This is absolutely 100% false. You can't find one person who thinks Stallings was an upgrade over Dixon. honestly if you find one person I would be stunned.
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