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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Mar 23, 2018 5:22:38 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. Not sure I’d call Pitt a laughingstock yet. They were this year but Stallings was as idiot. I can put them in a class with Rutgers or DePaul. And the right coach can do wonders. Georgia Tech WAS the laughingstock of the ACC before they hired Bobby Cremins. Hurley can be Pitt’s Cremins. And the ceiling is higher in the ACC than the AAC. UConn has to fight the ghost of Calhoun and play second fiddle to the ladies. |
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