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Post by damnstraight on Mar 16, 2018 16:59:27 GMT -8
The Big mess that is now left behind at Pittsburg is spelled out in this article. After the Gary Anderson debacle, my antenna is up for questionable decisions by athletic directors. Today, 8 Pittsburg basketball players asked for their release. What a mess.
ll/news/pitt-basketballs-bungling-of-jamie-dixon-and-kevin-stallings-gets-dumber-by-thday/e-
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Post by damnstraight on Mar 16, 2018 17:12:40 GMT -8
Sorry guys, I tried to cut n paste the article from CBS Sports. My tablet is not cooperating today
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Post by blueheron on Mar 16, 2018 18:01:10 GMT -8
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Post by damnstraight on Mar 16, 2018 18:14:35 GMT -8
Thanks blueheron for bailing me out!! Yes this article is disturbing to say the least.
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Post by lebaneaver on Mar 16, 2018 20:56:53 GMT -8
EIGHT??!! Judas Priest. :-(
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Post by obf on Mar 19, 2018 15:59:41 GMT -8
Yup, the Pitt basketball situation blew up in the schools face big time. Sucks for them. I am sure Barnes would tell you he wishes things went differently, and that he regrets some of his decisions too, but that article is pretty flimsy if you ask me... Lots of blather in there, but really the author only has two complaints of Barnes: - Lowering Jamie Dixon's buyout
- Hiring Stallings
Of course only hind sight and some strange tea leaf reading even makes those complaints...
The author reads the buyout lowering as a subtle "pseudo firing", which is a really odd and perverse way to read it. The much more obvious interpretation is that Jamie Dixon was a long time, successful basketball coach at Pitt and got the offer of a lifetime to coach his alma mater, he was taking it regardless, and in a move of gratitude for his years of service Pitt (via the AD) lets him go cheaper than they had to. One could view this as pushing out a successful coach, or as being magnanimous to a successful coach who was leaving. Occam's Razor would certainly fall on the side of Pitt being thankful instead of resentful.
We would have been besides ourselves if we had hired Stallings back when WT was hired. Yes he failed miserably at Pitt, but that doesn't mean the hiring or process was bad. He was quite successful everywhere else he went. Heck, I would be tempted to hire him still!
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