I think so, but honestly that is completely out of my wheelhouse.
I thought she also hired a new gymnastics coach too? Maybe I'm wrong.
Paul Zeise in his mailbag thinks Stallings is gone after the season
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I thought she also hired a new gymnastics coach too? Maybe I'm wrong.
Cronin would be the Buzz Williams WTF hire. I couldn't believe he almost took the UNLV job. Cincy only makes $1.5 million per year from their ESPN contract and Mick Cronin makes $2.2 million per year. Pitt makes $20 million from ESPN so if Cincy pays Mick $2.2 to coach in a small arena, couldn't Pitt pay him $3 million or $3.5 million?
I think he was close to taking the UNLV job then the thought of being away from his daughter kept him in Cincy. Cronin would be a huge get IMO.
Finally fun to watch, right, Paul??
Lots of issues with Cronin/UC. He could be gotten for the right price
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Following up a losing season where he set the ACC record for worst conference loss, ever.
With a real chance at breaking the most losses in school history.
In an empty arena.
Easiest decision ever
It’s not.
It’s really not.
This is a bad marriage .
The coach is failing in historic ways and the fan base is united in disdain for him.
Firing him is the easy part.
Paying for it and hiring a new coach is the hard part.
Pitt is not going to pay what it would take to get Cronin.
There is zero chance Wojo leaves Marquette for Pitt. 1) MU is a better job because they spend in the top 10 of all colleges. 2) He is not taking an ACC job not located in Durham. 3) Wojo makes $3 million. Got to add a million to get him even to notice and with the buyout for Stallings Pitt isn't going to be paying it's basketball coach $6 million a year for the length of Stallings contract. 4) Big East is on par with the ACC. Got 7 teams last year in the tournament or 70 percent of the league a NCAA record surpassing the Big East's old record. BE also plays in major cities so it's easy to get in an out of. 5) New arena and partnership with Milw Bucks opening next season. 6) Only one senior on this year's team.
Stallings could be here 5 more years - don't see ever more than 4-5 ACC wins possible even if the stars align
And even he hasn’t been great there.
Not saying he’s a bad option, I do think he’d probably be the best guy, it’s just that even as a good candidate I don’t think he’s a miracle worker.
I'd take Mick Cronin over the majority of names I see floating on here. Although I think Stallings will be back next year, so it doesn't really matter.
For being enemies in the Locker Room forum, we agree way too much on this forum
I totally get why a coach would stay in the BE (Jay Wright - right?
), but I also see where the allure of coaching in the ACC *might* draw a HC into the fold. In regards to Cronin, I have to believe a lot depends on where his team ends up this year. Cincinnati is top 10 right now, so we shall see. There are a few perennial HC's who do well every year and it's OK that they don't get to the FF. (Perhaps their fanbase is not as delusional as ours.)
It all depends on the school, fanbase and HC.
I would not bother with trading stallings for Cronin. They are the same type of hire right down to the chrome dome. He is KS 2.0.
Cronin has been to 1 sweet 16 in his tenure at UC. And there's always the "it's a tough place to win/recruit" crowd who said the same about stallings...
I'll admit I grew up in Cincy as a die hard Xavier fan, we joke how we hope he stays there forever so that annual beat down can countinue.
I don't think he'd be that interested in Pitt anyways. His whole UNLV stunt was to leverage the school to upgrade his arena which he succeeded in doing. I believe renovations will be finished in time for next season although their home games are at NKU next year. He won't leave once he gets that.
Cronin has been to 1 sweet 16 in his tenure at UC. And there's always the "it's a tough place to win/recruit" crowd who said the same about stallings...
I'll admit I grew up in Cincy as a die hard Xavier fan, we joke how we hope he stays there forever so that annual beat down can countinue.
I don't think he'd be that interested in Pitt anyways. His whole UNLV stunt was to leverage the school to upgrade his arena which he succeeded in doing. I believe renovations will be finished in time for next season although their home games are at NKU next year. He won't leave once he gets that.
Yeah, but those are all just different sides of the same coin. If you can't pay for it, you can't fire him. If you don't think you are going to get a better coach (OK, you'd have to think that you could) then firing him doesn't make any sense. You need to be able to do the second and third things to be able to do the first one.
We have a Saturday night game at UNC that nobody in Pittsburgh is televising. Let that sink in. That how far we’ve fallen.
Similar to when it felt like Dixon was pretty much gone, I think we are heading towards a really bad spot even compared to where we are now.
Dixon it felt like you were going to wind up with a retread or some generic mid-major guy.
Now it feels like Pitt is headed towards a Herb Sendek type of retread or a low-major guy who is like 3 tiers below where most low-major coaches are when they’re hired.
That, or Pitt is going to need to swallow some things they haven’t shown a willingness to swallow (e.g. double back on Enfield despite the FBI issues).
The decision should be made by now. Finding the new guy should begin as soon as a decision to change is reached. Contact through the target(s) agent to gauge interest. Quiet phone call.
My guess is that if Lyke had something up her sleeve, she wouldn’t have been playing so coy with the media.
Enfield was pulling a Dixon - He was just leveraging a raise - No coach leaves USC for Pitt (especially with Pitt's roster at the time) - It was never going to happen
He gone if they can secure one of the names that they are feeling out now. If they can't secure a name that will create some buzz and sell some tickets, They'll give KS another year. No retreads are coming; would be a disaster and they know it.
I have a source -- a very good one -- who said Enfield told Pitt that if they would give him was Dixon was getting that he would come here.
Believe this if you will.
I do.
If this is true, then the people who put the kabosh on it are f’in idiots.
That’s what I thought and the impression that I was given, too, given the balls he had to ask for what he did, but I’m willing to entertain that it was legitimate, particularly in this hypothetical. DT has good sources, good enough that I think he could have heard a different perspective than what I got.
Regardless, hard to say in hindsight it was a mistake given the FBI now sniffing around and his program (a darn solid one) kind of treading water at a level below where Dixon had Pitt.
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