Yep. And that is why I say if we miss the tourney this year and lose Young and Artis, I think Jamie may bail for a lesser program but still a power conference school. If the right job opens up, I think he'd be pretty foolish not to take it........if he loses Artis and Young and would be having a bad team return in 16-17.
Thoughts on NC St, Jamie..
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Yep. And that is why I say if we miss the tourney this year and lose Young and Artis, I think Jamie may bail for a lesser program but still a power conference school. If the right job opens up, I think he'd be pretty foolish not to take it........if he loses Artis and Young and would be having a bad team return in 16-17.
Artis is 23 years old. Does he want to be a 24 year old playing college basketball?
Mike Young is certainly playing well enough that he at least owes it to himself to see what his prospects are.
If things really spiral out of control, I could see either, or both, leaving. Ultimately, I think mike young comes back. Artis is tougher only because he is so old.
Both would be silly to not at least declare and go to the workouts and get feedback. Artis is talented enough to make a roster so I think he leaves and goes 2nd round. Young is too much of a tweener. I think the scouts will tell him to come back and work on ball handling and shooting.
Your post ignores financial reality and essentially all reality. JD will not resign unless it's part of an all around contract termination/ settlement arrangement- given the number of years left on his contract it makes no sense for him to resign. If he resigns he loses his salary over the remaining life of his contract. As forPitt firing him, that won't happen unless the bottom falls out over an additional 2-3 year period-the length of the Dixon's contract prevents Pitt from doing anything for an additional 2-3 years. If the bottom does fall out Pitt, as you suggest, won't be tarnished for firing him. Coaches get fired all the time. HC positions at ACC schools are high profile jobs and it's all about what the coach has done lately. If the Pitt orogram continues to slide for another 2-3 years and Pitt were to fire Dixon Pitt won't criticized for the firing because a decade ago Dixon was running a top program. It's all about what you've done lately unless a HC has really gone great things like multiple final 4 appearances- Dixon's accomplishments aren't so great that his firing after 5-7 years of poor results would be viewed nationally as Pitt having discarded a coaching icon, which is what your post indirectly suggests.
Lastly, the whole idea of Duxon jumping ship to another program, unless it's a lower tier one, is just nonsense. AD's are conscious of the PR ramifications of their hi rings and want to be able to sell the hire they make as a positive development. Given Dixon's record the last 5 years and assuming hypothetically that Pitt were not to make the tournament 2 out of the next 3 years or 3 out of the next 4 years, that's not the kind of recent track record or trend line that any AD will be able to positively sell to his team's fan base.
In sum, your post doesn't realistically project what is likely to occur if Dixon and the Pitt hoops fortunes continue to slide backwards.
I'm not going to turn this into a back-and-forth, because frankly the state of this board and this thread are chaos...
Clearly there is money wrapped up in Dixon's contract, but we're not talking about a Mike Rice or something. Dixon is a respected coach nationally based on the full body of his work. Just as UCLA was a laughing stock within the industry for firing Howland, Pitt would be in a rough spot should they fire a coach with almost 20 years of mostly very successful seasons. An exit package would be arranged that Dixon would take ~25-50% of his payout in exchange for a quiet resignation. That, or he requests freedom to interview at School X and Pitt waives the buyout in order to be rid of him.
There are plenty of workable options. Your mind is so clouded by this ridiculous idea that "he'll never work again" a la Pedersen that you can't understand anything else. There are plenty of mid-majors who would jump at the chance to have a guy who won multiple Big East titles, and there are probably more than several doormats in power conferences who would take the gamble too.
Again, I have never suggested "the bottom will fall out". My entire point was that a move will be made before that ever happens. Neither Pitt nor Dixon can take the risk of letting it get that far.
Clearly there is money wrapped up in Dixon's contract, but we're not talking about a Mike Rice or something. Dixon is a respected coach nationally based on the full body of his work. Just as UCLA was a laughing stock within the industry for firing Howland, Pitt would be in a rough spot should they fire a coach with almost 20 years of mostly very successful seasons. An exit package would be arranged that Dixon would take ~25-50% of his payout in exchange for a quiet resignation. That, or he requests freedom to interview at School X and Pitt waives the buyout in order to be rid of him.
There are plenty of workable options. Your mind is so clouded by this ridiculous idea that "he'll never work again" a la Pedersen that you can't understand anything else. There are plenty of mid-majors who would jump at the chance to have a guy who won multiple Big East titles, and there are probably more than several doormats in power conferences who would take the gamble too.
Again, I have never suggested "the bottom will fall out". My entire point was that a move will be made before that ever happens. Neither Pitt nor Dixon can take the risk of letting it get that far.
