Jamie Dixon's last 2 recruiting classes at pitt

[Fk_Pitt]

When you are paid to play a game -
It makes you a pro

granted the concept of being paid is likely foreign to you

Ok so he played for basketballs version of the riverhounds. If you want to earn pennies and keep the dream alive, there’s a team for just about anyone who can dribble or dunk a ball at a collegiate level

 

[TD_6082]

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.

Probably would have been a NBA lottery pick if he had been coached by Dixon for 2 more years.

 

[TD_6082]

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.

You have some atrocious takes.

Maybe we should hang some kenpom banners.

Those teams weren't bad. They weren't anything special either. The 2013 team went to the NCAA and got throttled in the first round by a 9 seed. Unfortunately, those 2 teams were best two of the last 5 Dixon years.

 

[pittjas]

Those classes sucked

What sucks even more

2021
Nate Santos

2022

 

[hoclaw]

When Rohrssen left to become HC @ Manhattan, the change was obvious; the good east coast kids, especially the
guards, no longer came

 

[DT_PITT]

When Rohrssen left to become HC @ Manhattan, the change was obvious; the good east coast kids, especially the
guards, no longer came

I've always thought the legend of Rohrssen's recruiting was overrated somewhat. He brought Taft and Fields from Xaverian High School. But that was all that he ever brought us from NYC (that was about it at all, actually). And I also think we did fine after he left with East Coast kids -- Wannamaker from Philly, Woodall and Gibbs from New Jersey, Patterson from Lancaster

 

[Pitt79]

In Cyprus. Was probably making $10,000/year. That's not really "pro."

I know a guy who played like a dozen years in Cyprus, actually a black dude from Louisiana, he lived well there, married a Greek doctor, speaks fluent Greek, has three tall dark, Greek looking daughters and is a basketball coach in Maryland now. He is like a hall of famer there, not sure what he made, but he sure made it in many ways.

 

[Pitt79]

Those classes sucked

What sucks even more

2021
Nate Santos

2022

And what's up with this? How can you have those 4-5 guys sitting there and the TV announcers talking them up about their head coaching experience and you can't get one kid, NOT ONE to join your team?

 

[eastcoasthoops]

I've always thought the legend of Rohrssen's recruiting was overrated somewhat. He brought Taft and Fields from Xaverian High School. But that was all that he ever brought us from NYC (that was about it at all, actually). And I also think we did fine after he left with East Coast kids -- Wannamaker from Philly, Woodall and Gibbs from New Jersey, Patterson from Lancaster

That we haven’t been able to pull kids out of eastern PA/Philly for what seems like a decade astonishes me.

They all cant play at Nova.

 

[DT_PITT]

That we haven’t been able to pull kids out of eastern PA/Philly for what seems like a decade astonishes me.

They all cant play at Nova.

We were on a bit of a roll there with Nasir, Brad, John Johnson and even Malcolm Gilbert and Jaylen Brown. It's fallen off a cliff since.

 

[HailToPitt1985]

I've always thought the legend of Rohrssen's recruiting was overrated somewhat. He brought Taft and Fields from Xaverian High School. But that was all that he ever brought us from NYC (that was about it at all, actually). And I also think we did fine after he left with East Coast kids -- Wannamaker from Philly, Woodall and Gibbs from New Jersey, Patterson from Lancaster

Wannamaker, Woodall, Gibbs, Patterson. Those were some very good players for this program. I loved watching them play because they loved the game.