Maybe but what is holding Pitt basketball back? I ask that as a serious question. Pitt footballl I understand more because you are competing against schools who get 90K+ in attendance on a regular basis when we get 40K on most Saturdays. So that is understandable.
I mean at Dixon's high point and really include Howland in there, we were a Top 10 program playing in a brand new arena with a packed house of loud fans in the best or one of the best conferences in the country and we never recruited top tier kids. Dixon did a great job of getting those high 3 low 4 star kids and developing them into really good players but as recruits they were not exactly top of the line recruits.
I don't know. Maybe I am dumb or gullible but I don't understand how at that point recruiting did not take off. Maybe it isn't the coaches holding recruiting back but what is it then? Is it that we don't cheat and other schools do? I find that highly unlikely to be true. Just doesn't make sense that we can't recruit kids here at least on an average level. Best conference, good facilities, etc.. we might not be Kentucky but the program still has a lot to offer.