Posters continue to make excuses for Capel.
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vucommodores.com
athlonsports.com
A garbage hire... Media makes no difference in my assessment..which was..time to quit watching Pitt Basketball.
Some do. No question.
He was ok to good at Vandy for a while and I said the same at the time. And maybe he was a good fit there for a while. Him getting them into the tourney as much as he did should be praised. Especially in hindsight.Know who you are talking about
Kevin Stallings
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Kevin Stallings
Ranking the nation's top college basketball coaches
Through the last two weeks, Athlon Sports ranked each coach in the ACC, Atlantic 10, Big 12, Big East, Big Ten, Pac-12 and SEC along with the top 20 coaches
| 2011-2012 25-11 (10-6) - lost in round of 32
15-16 (7-11)
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Considering what you said in your first paragraph, how do you square that with your last sentence?
In 2012-2013 and 2013-2014, he had a Trey, X, Toney and Hugley on his team?
His last few years weren’t great. And if I recall correctly he had NBA first rounders and another marginal guy and they lost a play in.
Was not trying to "make excuses." I am not even interested in discussing whether Capel has performed to date as I and many others hoped he would perform. That subject has been beaten to death on here. Point of fact--I am very disappointed in the results so far.
| 2011-2012 23-11 (9-7) - lost to 12 seed in first round |
| 2010-2011 25-11 (10-6) - lost to 4 seed in 2nd round |
| 2009-2010 24-9 (12-4) - lost to 13 seed in first round |
| 2008-2009 19-12 (8-8) |
| 2006-2007 22-12 (10-6) - lost to 2 seed in sweet 16. beat a 3 seed as a 6 seed |
| 2004-2005 20-14 (8-8) - lost in 3rd round of NIT |
Can we agree he was not a bum or garbage? The man deserved a chance here. He did not get it.
I know I would gladly accept a case of Covid not requiring hospitalization for a Happy Wife.
Who forced him to take this job? You act like Barnes put a gun to his head.
There was no reason for not taking the job before the press conference.
He was a garbage hire, I don't call people themselves garbage or bums. Work situation costing you your family? Step down. I'd say my family wasn't happy being in Pittsburgh and leave. I don't know the ins and outs of his family situation, I gave up on the program when they hired him via the same analysis I just presented to you.
His family died? Cmon man. I’m sure his wife was taken aback but life as a D1 family has all kinds of strains.
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You sat in your house and hired a real estate agent , not exactly the same as managing 13 different individuals of college age .
I don’t believe you are giving this posters encounter with Covid the respect it deserves.
Are you delusional , if KS personal life interfered with his performance than that’s an issue for him to deal with not the AD. If your putting a marriage you treasure at risk you resign for personal reasons. He didn’t need the money he’d been compensated very well at Vanderbilt for yrs .
Was he hospitalized? How sick was he ? Didn’t he just downplay JCs encounter . Most people who caught Covid who weren’t hospitalized fully recovered in 2-3 weeks . You need to get a grip .I don’t believe you are giving this posters encounter with Covid the respect it deserves.
I apologies.Trying to be funny or sarcastic is not my strong suit, others do that much better than I.
No problem , but you need to forget KS and relax with your issues with JC . He’s got at least 2 more season here .
First off....I'd get a new girlfriend. Hugley had one decent game, and looks more like a 4 than 5.
I nominate this for most unhinged post of all time.
You can’t handle the truth?
I never would have been greedy or stupid enough to put myself in that situation.
You don’t think he expected his wife to eventually relent?
It was pathetic.
It’s beyond weird the lengths you’re going to over this. Absolutely bizarre. I could see a family member doing it or someone who had a very personal interest. But this is an extremely odd agenda to keep carrying on for a random internet fan.
Not many thought so at the time of hiring. But if things don’t turn around within a year or so that will turn out to be 100% true.
He's been a failed hire but was not a garbage hire. I was pretty excited..thought he could get us some quality players quickly. The pro's of Stallings that I heard were his X's and O's..but I was so tired of X's and O's by the end of JD's tenure and didn't care. I still don't care about X's and O's, just want to see a team full of good players, which sleepy jeff has failed to obtain so far. But based off the initial perception, he can't be a garbage hire, only a failure. And he's clearly on the brink of failure.
That's a good point, I wasn't thinking of him as the failed OK head coach, just as the Duke Assistant, also who recruited blake griffin to OK. I still think there was reason to hope he'd be able to pull quality recruits to Pitt..but if another P5 program took him after Pitt fires him, that'd be a garbage hire. Spending those years at Duke with Coach K gets you some goodwill.
