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HailtoPitt

HailtoPitt

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Once again, Pitt went from having a great sports program... to a complete cluster**** in a relatively short period of time. They did it to football in the early to late 80s. And now it has happened to basketball. Maybe in 20-30 years things will turn around, but at this point there isn't much they can do to fix the problem they also created. It's the Pitt way.
 
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HailtoPitt said:
Once again, Pitt went from having a great sports program... to a complete cluster**** in a relatively short period of time. They did it to football in the early to late 80s. And now it has happened to basketball. Maybe in 20-30 years things will turn around, but at this point there isn't much they can do to fix the problem they also created. It's the Pitt way.
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Never ever ends
 
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HailtoPitt said:
Once again, Pitt went from having a great sports program... to a complete cluster**** in a relatively short period of time. They did it to football in the early to late 80s. And now it has happened to basketball. Maybe in 20-30 years things will turn around, but at this point there isn't much they can do to fix the problem they also created. It's the Pitt way.
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All because hoops moved off campus , right ?
#scriptlogoiscursed
 
Franb said:
How is it the NBA’s fault of they are willing to actually pay the top players for their time and effort?
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They draft players based on potential and a lot of them are never going to play meaningful minutes in the league. That's absolutely fine. The NBA is well within their right to do so. I'm not saying there is anything wrong with it. Just saying it's ruined the college game, imo.
 
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Rutherford21 said:
College Basketball is going to lose alot of fans if these kids can just up and leave without sitting out a year as soon as they feel like it when the going gets tough.
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This is how I feel. Its the right thing to do for the player but the fans pay the bills and if 20%-30% of players switch schools every season, its going to piss off a lot of customers.
 
Sean Miller Fan said:
This is how I feel. Its the right thing to do for the player but the fans pay the bills and if 20%-30% of players switch schools every season, its going to piss off a lot of customers.
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That happens in pretty much every single professional sport which is effectively what high level division 1 ncaa basketball and football are.
 
SoufOaklin4Life said:
All because hoops moved off campus , right ?
#scriptlogoiscursed
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We sold out the football program and moved them off campus ... all for what was then a reasonably successful basketball program. And because the AD and the fans/alumni did not have the resources for an on-campus football stadium. Now, we have a lousy basketball program AND an underachieving football program -- the worst of both worlds.
 
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djbpitt said:
We sold out the football program and moved them off campus ... all for what was then a reasonably successful basketball program. And because the AD and the fans/alumni did not have the resources for an on-campus football stadium. Now, we have a lousy basketball program AND an underachieving football program -- the worst of both worlds.
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Pitt football is still better now than the last decade at Pitt stadium
The only selling out we did was the huge increase in revenue that occurred
 
S.R.M. said:
The ship has sailed for the on campus stadium and it would be great if people stopped belaboring the point but let's not pretend playing off campus is somehow a good thing.
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I wasn't reviving the on-campus stadium debate. As I said at the time, I would have closed off Alequippa Street, done some demolishing of Trees Hall and some other properties and built a new hoops arena AND a right-sized on-campus football stadium. That said, I an not an architect, planner or engineer.
 
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SoufOaklin4Life said:
The increased revenue for a revenue starved program is absolutely a good thing
Pitt stadium was a financial albatross
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Heinz field is better than pitt stadium in 1999 but much worse than a modern right sized on campus stadium. The two aren't mutually exclusive.

I go to at least one away game a year and the feel of an on campus game at pretty much any school is far superior to the atmosphere at Heinz field. The administration may have made the right decision for the short term but a terrible decision for the long run in the late 90's when they decided to move off campus. With that said it isn't changing any time soon and I still go and tailgate in the half empty soulless parking lots at Heinz and accept that an on campus stadium isn't happening anytime soon.
 
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S.R.M. said:
Heinz field is better than pitt stadium in 1999 but much worse than a modern right sized on campus stadium. The two aren't mutually exclusive.

I go to at least one away game a year and the feel of an on campus game at pretty much any school is far superior to the atmosphere at Heinz field. The administration may have made the right decision for the short term but a terrible decision for the long run in the late 90's when they decided to move off campus. With that said it isn't changing any time soon and I still go and tailgate in the half empty soulless parking lots at Heinz and accept that an on campus stadium isn't happening anytime soon.
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They are absolutely mutually exclusive
 
S.R.M. said:
The ship has sailed for the on campus stadium and it would be great if people stopped belaboring the point but let's not pretend playing off campus is somehow a good thing.
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Then the "ship has sailed" on support. People don't support mediocrity. You would think all the folks in Pitt's Katz School of Business would get that principle. Somehow it eludes the leaders at Pitt and always has.
 
Panther_in_Kentucky said:
Then the "ship has sailed" on support. People don't support mediocrity. You would think all the folks in Pitt's Katz School of Business would get that principle. Somehow it eludes the leaders at Pitt and always has.
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This, I know many families that said F it when they hired Pedey back for round 2, Bucktooth Nordy, intellectual moron
 
HailtoPitt said:
Once again, Pitt went from having a great sports program... to a complete cluster**** in a relatively short period of time. They did it to football in the early to late 80s. And now it has happened to basketball. Maybe in 20-30 years things will turn around, but at this point there isn't much they can do to fix the problem they also created. It's the Pitt way.
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drama queen
 
Panther_in_Kentucky said:
Then the "ship has sailed" on support. People don't support mediocrity. You would think all the folks in Pitt's Katz School of Business would get that principle. Somehow it eludes the leaders at Pitt and always has.
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Pitt is collecting ACC welfare and thats the goal , winning is gravy , but support is eroding more and more because many don't support TRIED MEDIOCRITY
 
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