Odds are high he wouldn't produce. In its present state, this program would chew up far better and more accomplished coaches than BK, and spit them out to career assistantship. Watch and see where Capel goes from here.
Would you rather have Dixon come back next year or have Brandin Knight?
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Where is Capel going to go from here for quality players?
The only hope is to get Horton and Burton back and right this ship this year and hope Mintz and Buchanan both wait for the late period to see how we actually progress this year as a team and how much we improve. If by some sort of miracle we get 2 of our best players back this season and win 6 or 7 acc games, then sure. But I dont think this Horton situation is going to be over anytime soon.
The bigger problem with this is Team Durant. We are heavily involved with Team Durant players in 2022 and 2023 where we put a lot of focus, including players that can reclass. Losing Mintz from Team Durant is such a giant blow I dont have words for it. His teammate Buchanan, also from Team Durant and most likely is going to start shooting up the national rankings, there is no way he is coming here without Mintz. And this puts a bigger problem on our Team Durant recruiting for 2023, real quality players we have a chance with. Without Mintz, this is going to crumble.
Capel is absolutely not here for 2 more seasons. That is absurd. In March, he's going to have 2-3 players on his roster, no recruits, a 6-26 record, and games with crowd sizes of 200-300, smaller than many middle school games.
Could Pitt get BK for 1.75 and Antigua as AHC for 1.5? Would Antigua take a $500K for an extremely difficult job over the easiest in the country?
Exactly. Miller/Pitino sell 10K tickets if priced cheap. Mid-major guy sells 1000. Massive difference
In my opinion, we have to at least double Antigua's salary and in that case he would be out of his mind not to take it. But that is the benefit of getting Knight, he is a cheap head coach. If certain people don't like Antigua, there are a lot of other high quality assistants that would jump ship immediately for Pitt when we throw well over a million dollar offer on the table for an assistant, something no one else is paying.
All very good points. I think I’m falling a bit too much for the PR story that would be very positive. Not too much positive right now.
She has to be close to being canned. She definitely will be if the next coach doesn't get to the NCAAT
He also said X was better than Femi. I said nope. Another W
Femi has played like 6 good games in his career and we’ve won 1 of them. Congratulations
He's way better than your boy and also not a crappy human.
1. You don’t know either of them.
2. XJ was second leading scorer for a tournament team on opening night and also put up huge numbers on bad teams.
3. Our coaching staff and every other coaching staff in America, do not agree.
yeah I'm not certain Femi is better than X.
X clearly raised the floor here. It's pretty amazing actually.
Hugley is a mid-major? He is phenomenal. Going to average 18 and 10 (on a terrible team) and name his team
Check back with me in March when Johnson is pouting on the bench. He sucks dude.
Do you wanna bet he doesn’t average 18/10?
I will be literally any amount of money he doesn’t average 10 rebounds or 18 points. He may be able to do that at RMU, but I doubt it.
I hate saying this and I need to see Big John at least in a few more games this year, but Femi and Big John would likely kill it at a school like Michigan State under Izzo and Tom Izzo would be all over these 2. If they did decide to transfer, it would be cool to see them join up together somewhere else if Capel is not here. I could also see them killing it at a school like Florida State where there is an emphasis on size and the bigs.
I mean if we had anyone that could shoot last game, both of their assist numbers would have doubled last game.
Femi and Hugley are big-time and if they were on a good team, would be national stars. Its ashame they are the only P6 level players on the team.
I get it DT. There's an appeal to the thought of BK helping elevate/save the program as a player and then coming back to do it again as the coach.
There are players like Hugley and Femi on every team that put up numbers because of opportunities and don’t win. If they were actually that good we win vs the effing citadel.
Ashton Gibbs collapsed his senior year without Wanamaker and Brown. Take a look at how a 1st team All Big East player does without his sidekicks when Gibbs tried to shoulder the load without Wanamaker and Brown. Wanamaker was the glue and anchor of the 2011 team. When you dont have other elite players taking the pressure off, that's what happens.
You put Femi on a team like Michigan State, look out.
Femi and Hugley would come off the bench if they got any minutes at Michigan State. And if Pitt traded Michigan state for their best big and guard, they’d beat the Citadel. Not get blown the eff out. You sound silly.
you keep using Gibbs as some parallel like the Gibbs teams ever were THIS bad. If those guys were THAT good, we wouldn’t be THIS bad. You guys sound ridiculous.
You know I'm going to remind you 100 times when Hugley is averaging 16 and 9 for like Michigan State next year. He is extremely skilled for his frame and could be one of the best Bigs in college basketball.
That’s literally the funniest thing you’ve ever said and u sent 1000 posts about May Madness. He’s like the 8th-12th best big in the ACC. MSU passed on him as did OSU.
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I think Ashton Gibbs had a subpar senior season because he had to play a helluva a lot of point guard?
And they still won a ton of games… we’re talking about guys who lost by 15 to the effing citadel
Tray Woodall was the point guard who averaged 6.2 assists per game that season. The 2010-2011 team earned a 1 seed. The 2011-2012 team lost 17 games and went to the cbi.
Ashton Gibbs had the worst shooting performance of his entire high school and college career as a senior at Pitt. He shot 38% from the field and 34% from 3.
When you play with good or great players around you that can score inside and outside and dribble drive, it takes the scoring pressure off of you to shoulder the entire team. When Gibbs faced the pressure and the top defender every night without Wanamaker and Brown, his stats and shooting percentages collapsed.
The point is, if Femi played on a much better team with better players, his stats could be insanely good this year. The same may or may not be true for Big John, I need to see more this year. But when a good player doesnt have talent around him to help him and 1 or 2 players have to carry the entire team on their back, that player, in most cases at the college level unless you are like a Jordan, isnt going to be near as good statistically.
If we want to be the 11th-12th best program in the ACC, bring Jamie back. There are worse things as we now know. But perhaps we should aspire for more.
I don’t understand how anyone can say Jamie has done great in Fort Worth. Consistently finishing 8th in an 11 team league and aside from an occasional win vs an Oklahoma St or someone else…the only teams Jamie beats in that league since settling into the job are the teams who finish below him. Then when he has to play them in the 1st round of his conference tourney, he finds a way to lose.
He was fantastic here for a long time. HE WAS OUR PROGRAM. But he hit his expiration and that’s ok. It happens to the best of them.
it would be nice to find someone who can build this program back to respectability and then hand it off to someone who can take the ball and run with it. When Jamie left here, we were in a downward trajectory, but were still perceived as a respectable program. If we had only handed things off to the right coach then.
I don’t understand how anyone can say Jamie has done great in Fort Worth. Consistently finishing 8th in an 11 team league and aside from an occasional win vs an Oklahoma St or someone else…the only teams Jamie beats in that league since settling into the job are the teams who finish below him. Then when he has to play them in the 1st round of his conference tourney, he finds a way to lose.
He was fantastic here for a long time. HE WAS OUR PROGRAM. But he hit his expiration and that’s ok. It happens to the best of them.
it would be nice to find someone who can build this program back to respectability and then hand it off to someone who can take the ball and run with it. When Jamie left here, we were in a downward trajectory, but were still perceived as a respectable program. If we had only handed things off to the right coach then.
Femi and John. Just guys on a bad basketball team. 2 like them everywhere in America
