He seemed like a Danny Née hire from the beginning, all Jamie Dixon did was win over at Pitt.

Well, we will be saturated with who they should hire talk, then a week of "I cant believe they hired HIM" talk.

It is a shame tho!  

I am curious when they are firing SMS?  That program is as bad, and she's been there a while.  I know its not under as much pressure to win, but what has she done there?   Where did her recruiting magic go?  Or today's kids not remember she was a bad chic on the hoop court?

townsonkid wrote:

Well, we will be saturated with who they should hire talk, then a week of "I cant believe they hired HIM" talk.

It is a shame tho!  

I am curious when they are firing SMS?  That program is as bad, and she's been there a while.  I know its not under as much pressure to win, but what has she done there?   Where did her recruiting magic go?  Or today's kids not remember she was a bad chic on the hoop court?

The Suze is 67-87 overall and 22-58 in conference play. Stallings was 24-41 and 4-32 in the ACC. By comparison, she has been stellar. I think.

president wrote:

Pitt gig not that attractive to many I don't believe. Wonder if Hurley or Matta would even be interested. Certainly not the P5 program that most would jump at!

But still a P5  ("serve in Heaven") gig nonetheless

Tejas_Duke wrote:

president wrote:

Pitt gig not that attractive to many I don't believe. Wonder if Hurley or Matta would even be interested. Certainly not the P5 program that most would jump at!

But still a P5  ("serve in Heaven") gig nonetheless

Stallings made $5mm in his first two years, and walked away with a $9.4mm buyout on top of that.

$14.4 million for 2 years work, indeed, not a bad gig at all.

ElDuque wrote:

The scuttlebutt among reporters is that Dan Hurley and Thad Matta are/would be under consideration.

Mark Schmidt's name also out there.

I wouldn't speculate, because, frankly, I don't give a rat's asterisk about Pitt. I wonder out loud, though, if the local media will offer speculation and report on rumored hirings they way they did with us last year, and whether, after the rumors start buzzing, they'll take gratuitous pot shots at Pitt for rumors it's can't control.

You know, the way they did for us last season.

Trust me, the clowns in the local media will be up to the same tricks. It will be entertaining since we won't be the victim this time. As for Suzie, she's never been a great recruiter. The kind of players that get you to the WNIT from the A10 don't do so well in the ACC. The local talent has fallen off, and she's never shown the ability to get 4 and 5 star players. She also has a reputation of having a prickly personality. Pitt would like to get rid of her, but they don't want to have to eat her contract on top of Stallings', so she'll get at least one more year.

93.7 is already on the Thad Matta bandwagon cause someone, probably his friend, said that would be the best case for pitt.

They should look at all the coaches we were alleged to have been making offers to last year: King Rice, James Whitford, and Dane Fife. They should look at Mark Titus.

Then they can go eat .