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Post by tristramshandy on Mar 23, 2018 4:39:05 GMT
Pitt is an ACC school. They have struggled in the conference but they were doormats in the Big East until they hired the right coach, Ben Howland. It's a big boon to sell recruits on playing against Duke and North Carolina instead of East Carolina and Tulsa. It won't be easy for whoever they hire. I'm betting Univ. of Buffalo coach Nate Oats (sigh). Oats and Washington coach Mike Hopkins are the two main candidates, not that Hurley and Tom Crean are off the board. I'm not sure if Hopkins will want to coach in the same conference as Syracuse, he was an assistant at Syracuse for a thousand years and the heir apparent until Boeheim decided he would coach until he's 110 years old. I don't know. For me, personally, I would rather play for a good mid-major that has a shot at making the tournament and possibly make some noise than play for a laughing stock of the ACC. AAC has some good teams, but it is a complete mutt of a league. I'm not sure how you sell your program in Connecticut to play teams in Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Louisiana - - Temple is the closest thing they have to a "rival" and how often have they ever played one another? If I was a New England kid and wanted to stay in the region, I'd pick Boston College or Providence over UConn now. |
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