You must be solely focused on football reputation. Otherwise, those schools aren't highly valued and even their football (excepting Ole Miss) is marginal.
Not now. They once was, just like Pitt 40 yrs ago. Its been since Cam for Auburn.
Kentucky is definitely a stretch, but we’re unfortunately below Auburn, Ole Miss, and Arkansas. Consider that these are three programs who are historically more successful than us (according to the AP All-Time Rankings), draw higher TV ratings than us, and have much larger fanbases in the college football hotbed of the south.
I think Acrisure Stadium would be an asset in that case. A 70,000 seat stadium that would be routinely filled by several B1G fan bases located nearby (Michigan, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Penn State, etc.) can’t be a bad thing. Schools such as Colorado, Kansas, or Utah wouldn’t have the same benefit.
I've saying this for the longest time. Most of the models used by the people who matter are very similar to the one on the original post. Trust me. They look at the entire university when considering membership.
Why are you here? You're not a Pitt fan. You're only here to spin every positive post negatively under the guise of being "realistic"...
I think there could be two game-changers in realignment in the near-future that could benefit Pitt:
Very true because I actually think there is no hope for us to get into either of the top two Conferences.
If we’re talking production, then Arkansas is not ahead of us in football. They’ve had losing records 5 of the last 7 seasons. We are pretty much equal with Kentucky. Ole Miss is ahead of us right now with Kiffin, but they aren’t a traditional power. Auburn has been average for the last 10 years, but they have shown the ability to be really good (i.e. Cam Newton).
Arkansas has limited potential because it’s Arkansas.
Kiffin has been the lynchpin. He’s doing a great job, but if he leaves then my money is on them going back to the middle of the pack.
Time will tell. If they are able to lock up Kiffin, then you will be right. If he leaves though, then the smart money says they fall back. Ed Orgeron went 10-25 there, but then went onto winning a National Championship at LSU.
People like you have recency bias. You watch them spank Ped St in a bowl game and forget they went 123- 112 over the last 20 seasons.
Their record the last 6 years:
Let me know when they finish in the top-10 in the actual result rankings.
I agree that we’ve had more production than Arkansas, but they’re still going to be ranked ahead of us because they draw in bigger TV ratings and have a much larger fanbase, both the product of being the flagship university of their state. Historically, I think it comes down to how you view success; we had higher peaks than them, but they’ve consistently had more success than us over time.
Pitt has had 15 players drafted over the last 4 seasons and Arkansas has had 8 players drafted.
