I don't think you're getting it. We are mostly dealing in three star athletes, right?
We're not reeling in a bunch of elite "five star" athletes and we never will. That's just reality.
So, in reality, we are really arguing over whose three star athletes are best, medium and worst. Yeah, we might sprinkle on some four stars and the occasional once in a blue moon five star local kid, but for the most part we're talking about three-star guys on the macro level... just like almost everyone else.
If we're talking about schools like Alabama, Ohio State, Clemson, etc., that's a different deal. However we are not in their tax bracket and we never will be. We won't have a waterfall cascading in our locker room and we won't have a giant indoor amusement park as part of our training facilities. However, that doesn't make us destitute.
It also doesn't preclude us from competing with those schools if we recruit wisely and develop well. However, the people who are dreaming about us recruiting at the level of high-end Big Ten or SEC schools are going to be perpetually disappointed no matter who is coaching this program. We simply lack the basic financial infrastructure for that to ever happen.
That's why this argument is so dumb from a Pitt perspective. Almost all of this conversation is completely irrelevant and every bit as dumb as when a guy from Cranberry and a guy from Mt. Lebanon are having a heated argument about a border wall in Sierra Vista, Arizona or a bathroom in Cary, North Carolina.
It simply doesn't impact us at all.
It's an exceedingly dumb argument for about 10,000 different reasons.
