Pull the Plug Already
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Lol I don’t believe that. That woild be funny though since he’d hire his son to reboot his career and we’d get another family hire
I guess he thinks maybe us idiots on a message board will jinx it or some such thing.
Hell yes. One of the best X and O coaches in basketball and knows how to build a staff that recruits to shoot.
She has been
But since u posted
What about BK as first chair
And yea aware of the son
NJIT or Bobby Mo for BK this off-season or it’ll never happen for him
As HC? Yea long time assistant i wouldn't mind seeing him as first chair here then see if he can take over in 5 years
Also that belien contract is long so
Or he come here and not Belien son and funny I mentioned that In a DM to someone several hours ago
But yes shes speaking to Belien
Everyone should tweet him tell him to come here
Wrong! Buzz Ridl, Roy Chipman, and Paul Evans were all good basketball coaches. Ridl lead a putrid program to the 22 straight wins and elite eight in 73-74 and took over bball supremacy in the city at a time when Duquesne bball was more popular than the Steelers. Chipman lead Pitt to 2 ECA and 2 A 10 championships. At least 2 were played at a raucous, sold out civic arena on Friday and Saturday nights. The 2 day/4 team tournaments usually featured Pitt, Duquesne, WVU, Nova, or Rutgers. And Paul Evans lead Pitt to 5 NCAA appearances. He stepped in to what was widely regarded as a talented but undisciplined group, (Smith, Lane, Gore, Aiken etc), and turned them into a winning team and turned Smith and Lane into first round NBA picks. So we have had good coaches at times when there was very little commitment to bball and our facilities were among the worst.
Ridl hated to recruit, Chipman and Timmy G quit preamturely. Evans underachieved. All average hires.
Commitment, facilities . . no wonder the history of the program is so uninspiring.
We made the NCAA tournament 13 times from 2002 to 2016. It wasn’t all that long ago that we won a lot of games.
$3 million in buyout savings and a black mark for Heather for firing a coach you gave a wreckless extension to
No one will watch Dennis Gates from Cleveland State coach this team either. Attendance next year doesn't factor in. If it does, you hire Pitino or Miller. The Pete is going to be a ghost town next year regardless.
Since we have absolutely nothing interesting going on with our basketball program now, I'm going to attempt to name our losses in those tournaments off the top of my head:
Pacific
Bradley
Xavier
Wichita State
Butler
Kent State
Marquette
Villanova
Oklahoma State
Michigan State
Florida
Wisconsin
UCLA
Hmm, somehow even this is less depressing than the current state of our program.
She.
Has.
The.
Money.
And you're acting crazy
This roster will turnover
Sibande sucks
Oh whoop de doooo he's back.
Great
Horton back
Omg so nice
Made no difference tonight
Femi gone
Hugley done
Gueye gone
Please stop talking. He’s done. It’s not a negative for HL to fire him. It’s a negative if she doesn’t/can’t
Not a negative? Her horrific mistake will cost $12 million and I am sorry but I don't believe Pitt has the boosters to cover anywhere close to that in this day and age. Their focus has to be on buying players.
No it wont dude
Yeah but if TO Hugley comes back we’ll have the 6th best big in the ACC! God did you whiff on that AA call
Won’t cost that much and who cares. That’s the cost of D1 athletics. Coaching hires fail. Is what it is. Just needs to get the next one right and nobody will care
I love how he came up with this 12 million number. Chris Mack made more money and amicably split with Louisville for 4.8 mill and no offset cost. He had one less year on his contract
He did make the NCAA tournament in 5 of his eight years.
Our competition/Coaching Openings:
Louisville
Maryland
Pitt
Georgia?
Arizona State?
Georgetown?
Kansas State?
Nebraska?
Am I missing anyone?
Louisville
Maryland
Pitt
Georgia?
Arizona State?
Georgetown?
Kansas State?
Nebraska?
Am I missing anyone?
And every one of his teams was loaded with high-end talent. Those were my formative Pitt hoops years and boy were those fun teams — until March, of course.
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