He recruited all those guys twice! Wow!!!!
This is true. . I love Jamie but those last couple years sucked
And his top assistant those years is a guy that half of our fan base is pining to hire.
lol show what? His earlier class with Luther and Johnson was eviscerated but it ended up a great class.
And all he did was make the tournament consistently
No doubt.
He was trending down. But you don't let him walk unless you can do better.
Manigault was an ok player in the MWC, might have been a good backup here but had mental problems. Milligan was awful.
For Stevens, it was Pitt, PSU, or Indiana. Chambers had he and Carr paid but Jamie was getting dirty around that time too with Birch and Adams. He needed to land Stevens and Carr. Carr was considering Pitt but not as much as Stevens. His 2 NCAATs at TCU are the result of 2 different package deal assistants. He needed to do that at Pitt.
Carr would have stepped in perfectly and filled the hole that Robinson left. He was limited and we would have complained about him a ton, but it would have been complete continuity at that position. And Stevens would have been an all-conference kid for us at wing to just fill in after Artis left.
I agree with you. But I think it's fair to point out we didn't see a product like Jamie has put on the court the last month at any point in his last 5 years at Pitt.
Let’s just have a little fun (read: this won’t be fun) projection/history revision:
not sure, maybe but maybe not. to say the program was in a decline is an under statement. i am not anti Dixon nor am i a JIG, just someone that gets annoyed by both sides..
Are you for real? The 13 and 14 teams finished 11th and 16th in kenpom respectively. They were also both massively underseeded. They were both very good teams...maybe not up to the pre 2011 teams, but still very good.
Manigualt actually went pro in Europe somewhere, was in the news for getting beaten really bad in some sort of bar fight.
I don’t know if he was a “bust” - he was a 10 minute per game backup as a freshman here and was perfectly fine in that role, then his sophomore year he was unlucky enough to be coached by Kevin Stallings, and he got run out of the program. He sat for a year, then had two fine, above-average seasons at Georgia State. But his most efficient season was probably his freshman year…which was under Dixon here. Who knows what he would have been if he was with Dixon for longer and not Stallings, but you can’t argue that his career wasn’t totally upended when Dixon left.
When you are paid to play a game -
Carr was never ever coming to Pitt. It’s not really a what if scenario with him. He really wanted to go to Temple but Chambers made a special move. You gotta do something egregious for Fran Dunphy to take a shot at you publicly.
We should never have faith in Pitt’s administration to make the right decision, sadly and frustratingly.
