I like workaday types.

Still waiting to see if Dominique McKoy who visited DU this weekend (see my prior post) committed to DU.

apluski wrote:

CLK wrote:

Saw this post on the Pitt Scout Board.  Another transfer at Pitt  Transfers and booting are epidemic in college basketball.


Jon Rothstein ‏ @ JonRothstein 10mPitt's J.J. Moore will transfer, per a source. 6-6 wing has one year of eligibility remaining.

I posted this on the Rivals board and it was blocked.

By my count, we will have lost nine players over two years when next season is over.

These next twelve months will determine the next five to ten years of Pitt basketball. If coach can't hit on some recruits and has to reach to give out all of these scholarships, we are in trouble.

Duing the men's NCAA tournament I predicted that Dixon would not come back to Pitt (win some and lose some) and one of the reasons I predicted that was because of Pitt's move to the ACC. Pitt's team is/was not built for ACC ball but for the Big East style of play. I still believe Dixon will (is?) regret not leaving. The wheels are continuing to fall off the wagon out at the zoo (how appropriate a name) and I sense Mr "Plastic Smile" is now coming to grips with the fact that unless something happens pretty quickly, he and his "plastic smile" reputation are going to take a real beating next year. As the escalader slowly reverses upwards at Duquesne it may also as slowly being reversed at **itt. Not to any real noticeable degree (at least for us right now), but probably a lot more so out at "let's play every non-conference game at Peterson" land. I predict our experience next year will be a bit more pleasant than someone else. Perhaps Huggins can read Dixon a bedtime story about taking a Big East team into a new league. I'm sure Dixon can come up with a nice plastic smile in case someone's watching.

Truthfully, who really cares? We need to take care of our own business. This reminds me of a Pitt board, where there are more threads about Penn State and WVU than there are about Pitt. Pitt sucked during the 90's, and it did us no good at all.

ElDuque wrote:

Actually, it brought me many hours of great joy.

 
Ditto!

duq81 wrote:

apluski wrote:

CLK wrote:

Saw this post on the Pitt Scout Board.  Another transfer at Pitt  Transfers and booting are epidemic in college basketball.


Jon Rothstein ‏ @ JonRothstein 10mPitt's J.J. Moore will transfer, per a source. 6-6 wing has one year of eligibility remaining.

I posted this on the Rivals board and it was blocked.

By my count, we will have lost nine players over two years when next season is over.

These next twelve months will determine the next five to ten years of Pitt basketball. If coach can't hit on some recruits and has to reach to give out all of these scholarships, we are in trouble.

Duing the men's NCAA tournament I predicted that Dixon would not come back to Pitt (win some and lose some) and one of the reasons I predicted that was because of Pitt's move to the ACC. Pitt's team is/was not built for ACC ball but for the Big East style of play. I still believe Dixon will (is?) regret not leaving. The wheels are continuing to fall off the wagon out at the zoo (how appropriate a name) and I sense Mr "Plastic Smile" is now coming to grips with the fact that unless something happens pretty quickly, he and his "plastic smile" reputation are going to take a real beating next year. As the escalader slowly reverses upwards at Duquesne it may also as slowly being reversed at **itt. Not to any real noticeable degree (at least for us right now), but probably a lot more so out at "let's play every non-conference game at Peterson" land. I predict our experience next year will be a bit more pleasant than someone else. Perhaps Huggins can read Dixon a bedtime story about taking a Big East team into a new league. I'm sure Dixon can come up with a nice plastic smile in case someone's watching.

Truthfully, who really cares? We need to take care of our own business. This reminds me of a Pitt board, where there are more threads about Penn State and WVU than there are about Pitt. Pitt sucked during the 90's, and it did us no good at all.

Truthfully, there are people that care. I apologize if I did not make my point more clear but my point is that I sense the beginnings of a reversal of fortunes for men's BB at Duquesne and Pitt. As with all major change, the bigger the change, the longer it takes and the more slowly it happens. But I sense the Duquesne-Pitt (sorry to use the name of another school on the fourm) change happening. And I sense people really do care...about both changes. 
 

ElDuque wrote:

Reading a Pitt board is like pooping where you sleep.

 Actually, it's very entertaining.

Jaw drops. Loyola Marymount?

Poor choice gabe.

I think Levin wants to be a big fish in a small pond. First choice was Hofstra. If that's where he's comfortable, then the A-10 and playing the likes of Pitt and WVU won't appeal to him. Wolfe, McKoy and I guess the other SF - his name escapes me - are still in the mix. I think we have two open, right?

Errick Peck planning to visit Duquesne next week.

http://www.indystar.com/article/20130502/SPORTS02/305020054/Recruiting-Notes-Former-Cathedral-standout-Errick-Peck-considering-transfer-Purdue

 

Bilgy wrote:

Levin is not going to play near Chicago, he's going to play in Los Angeles.

He must have been thinking about Loyola of Chicago. LMU is the school that Paul Westhead used to coach, and that Hank Gathers and Bo Kimble played for. Hard to blame a young kid for picking the sunny land of beautiful women over Pittsburgh.

CLK wrote:

Duquesne offers other Luther twin

http://blogs.post-gazette.com/sports/varsity-blog/37917-duquesne-offers-other-luther-twin?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed
 

Looks like the talent level in Pittsburgh is starting to heat up again.


If they do decide to play together, Duquesne certainly has a history of twins and brothers (Nelsons, Barrs, Ricketts).


And on an unrelated but funny note regarding twins ...  

 

Thanks for the clarification Phil.

Another pain in the assumption on my part.