College bb recruiting is a cesspool , there’s simply too much money up for grabs that little things like honesty and integrity have anything to do with anything .
Successful coaches ( and some unsuccessful ones ! ) make millions of dollars a yr for coaching supposedly unpaid players , seems like a very odd system doesn’t it !
No , a college education is not what most of these kids want and if asked whether they’d like to attend classes or be paid the tuition money in cash what do you think the choice would be $$$$$
JC knows the kind of players he needs to succeed in the ACC and if he only recruits kids who would be thrilled to play for Pitt everyone on this site would be bitching . I refer to Pitt Fb as home of the three stars , your not beating Duke ,UNC , Louisville , Virginia ,FSU in bb consistently with three stars .
I’ve felt for a long time that a school like Pitt needs to find kids who the big boys overlook , too skinny , an inch or two shorter than ideal , a half a step slow , but kids who can play D and shoot . Time after time going back to JD Pitt just doesn’t win the recruiting battles for their priority targets .
Did anyone really think that Pitt was going to beat out LSU or FSU for this kid ? Really !!
JC would have to be stupid to take it upon himself to do what’s ever necessary to sign kids like Ried without the total consent of his bosses . He’s guaranteed millions for yrs why give them an easy out of his contract .
Going forward with the new transfer rule in effect this only makes Pitts chances of competing with the big boys even less likely . The kids slipping through the cracks like a Justin C won’t hesitate to move on from a program like Pitt if they put up big numbers as freshman .
Under the current circumstances wining bb at Pitt ( in conference) really is a .500 record or close to it . Until Pitts willing to get its hands a little dirty they just won’t get the players they need to be better and I don’t care what the coaches name is .
