Too many good players?? That would seem odd for Pitt over the past 5+ years, I suppose...
No idea. Don’t know him or the family at all. Just reading tea leaves based on other offers.
1. he pulled a trio of kids from there. 1 wasn’t even D1 early. Maybe they packaged all 3 together.
We need shooters so bad. Iowa is a perfect example of this. They can come back on anyone and stretch the floor so much. They aren’t great athletes but they can light it up. Who knows what Hortons problems are but we still need more than Toney and X when he is hot that can hit 3 pointers.
Simple answer. Our assistant coaches have few connections and haven’t been primary recruiters for a very long time. Remember they had previous stints as head coaches. We could be handing out money but without aggressive primary recruiters on staff you won’t land the top 50-75 guys often unless you have a connection like with Jeffress who really wanted to come to Pitt.
Anytime ANY of these kids who may have committed to a Pitt or a BC or a school like that. switches High Schools to a Monteverde or an IMG, you know you are in trouble. Because if they already had P5 offers and flipped on their high schools, you know people around him are whispering sweet Kentucky's and UNC's and Duke's and Kansas's in their ears.
Think about it, you are a kid, you have room and board and tuition paid. $40K? That buys alot of pizzas.
Antigua or BK would’ve opened doors to get studs by now
Who do you think was the best recruiter at Pitt while you were there? Were BK’s hands tied at all when he was an assistant here?
This is extremely true and why the BS I’ve been fed for 3 years about how “what stallings left him was a mess” “give him time” we’re just that. Bullshit. A coach’s dream to be able to turn over a roster with no expectations for 3 years!!!
There was talk about him leaving for Duke after being 9-29 in the ACC! Who wouldn’t want that kind of job security!!!
I think Brad Stevens can name his job if he ever decides to coach college basketball and why wouldn’t duke want him
In fairness, the other half of this sentiment is that we’re at the point as a program now where landing a stud guy like the ones you mentioned can put us over the top. But to get there, we hit on 3/3 guys in recruiting cycle one (with Trey transferring), hit on 2/3 guys in recruiting cycle two, and, while it’s too early to tell on recruiting cycle three, I think the hit rate will be pretty good there, too. Yeah, you don’t need as many guys to fill out a roster as you do for football, but you still need to build a roster around the studs, too, and we’ve done a pretty good job of that as much as the misses have hurt (and I think Wahab is the bigger miss versus Cockburn)
Carr was right around 50 when he committed; Stevens was right around 100. In other words, pretty close to what Jeffress and Hugley were ranked when they committed to us - and I don’t think we paid them. Whether Penn State had to pay a bit of a premium is another matter, and I have no idea whether they did or they didn’t. But I know Chambers was recruiting those two guys specifically from the time they were in the eighth grade, and was able to build enough credibility in Philadelphia through his Villanova connections, plus having success with Watkins, DJ Newbill (who got screwed by Buzz Williams) and Shep Garner that Carr and Stevens pulled the trigger.
Yeah not only is he way off on their rankings, but that ain’t the going rate for any top kids. It’s way off actually
Fran Dunphy, the coach at Temple at the time put out a few comments on Chambers recruiting of these three men. It could have just been sour grapes. I don't recall the exact comments,but, he clearly indicated that he thought Chambers was up to no good.
Antigua ran into a little trouble following the rules and as far as BK goes it wasn’t exactly like he was bringing in studs to Pitt while he was here . I also,doubt that he wanted to stay at Pitt once JC got the job .
Lol and there it is! Everyone else is cheating!!!
