To play against St Johns.
champagnie vs champagnie.
Good to be back in NYC again.
champagnie vs champagnie.
Good to be back in NYC again.
Pitt @ MSG 2021 Gotham Classic
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I love the idea of playing at MSG, but unfortunately that matchup might not occur.
Better chance neither are playing in it than both will be.
Maybe not but still great to be back playing at MSG.
This is the first scheduled game against a Big East opponent since we moved to the ACC, I believe. Good to see.
We have our eyes set on a "number" of New York Players in the 2022 recruiting cycle. Getting back into New York is a very good thing. A few of these players are not off the table for a reclass.
The force isn’t with him for actual names
We aren't going to land 1 recruit simply because we are going to play St. John's on ESPNU.
That would be a heck of a road trip, though. And the covid numbers would be low there.
It depends on your definitions of "scheduled" and "Big East", but Pitt has played Cincy (2014), Marquette (2017), and Rutgers (2020). Then of course there was also the tragic recent series we played with WVU.
Cincy was scheduled, sort of, in the Jimmy V. I forgot about that one though, not that I was thinking of cincy as a traditional BE school. Marquette was a 3rd place game in the 2K; not scheduled. Rutgers (schedule for us, not by us) and WVU were both no longer in the BE; we could count BC, Syracuse, VT, Miami, Louisville, and ND by that sort of criteria.
We have not been able (or have not seriously tried) to schedule GU, SJU, VU, UConn, SHU, or PC since we left, which I would guess are the BE schools fans would most care about, or I should say, this fan.
Are there really even Pitt fans who would get all that excited to play Providence or Seton Hall? Or even St. John's or Georgetown with where those programs are and have been recently? It was fun to play Georgetown because they were really good. Or St. John's because they were really good. Does playing a mediocre Georgetown team really move the needle because we played some really good games against them 20 years ago?
As opposed to Morgan State, yes. Dixon scheduled too light. Cant blame any scheduling on Stallings/Capel because their teams have been terrible.
Well sure. But if you are expecting that Pitt is going to move teams like Morgan State off the schedule to add more P6 games I think you are going to be let down.
Dixon should have. Needed SOMETHING in December. Fans were losing interest
If Pitt were as bad as they have been 2017-2021 in the Big East instead of the ACC, I think fans would have even less interest than they do in the ACC.
Yes. They were all regular opponents for 30 years. Most sit in good recruiting terrritorries. There is a nostalgia factor just like the 1000th tv or movie reboot that will make those games interesting for many beyond the random opponent there is no history with. They will generate a better media storyline. Those six schools are also recognized brand names in the east, although SHU and PC are at the bottom of a list of desirable former BE matchups, clearly the other four carry more name cache.
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I was way more interested in December, January, February, and March in Dixon’s last season than I have been at any point since the day he left.
we haven’t been in the same stratosphere as Dixon 2, which was basically NCAA tourney every other season and always competent. I still feel like if the team with Lamar and Zanna as seniors gets a different region could have been a sweet 16 team easily.
I thought Capel was going to have us back at Dixon II this year and we were trending that way. Maybe next year
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