Part 2 of my look at the Big East past to future is at College Basketball (Part 1, here) is up. I’ll be re-posting it on PSB next week. My little co-guest-blogging stint at Yoni’s site is over, and I want to thank him for the invite. If you’re not reading College Basketball Blog, you should. Yoni does a great job covering a subject he truly loves.

We’ve had a spike in traffic in the last couple weeks here. Pitt fans and alumni are trying to find out what is going on with the coach search. We’re sharing what we know, and adding to the speculation. Hopefully, without taking ourselves or the subject matter too seriously.

We do appreciate the comments and there have been some very kind e-mails to us. It is gratifying. So I just want to take a moment first to thank some of our earliest readers, commenters and e-mailers. B.B., JFC, Tony in Harrisburg, Matt, James and Steve — all of you have been great. Thanks for the comments, thoughts, challenging assumptions, extra info. Everything.

To the newer readers, thanks for coming back. I’m sure you’ve figured out that this is not an unbiased source of information.

Considering we do this for fun, and without much in the way of self-promotion, it’s almost funny and at times a little unnerving to realize people are coming here to get information.

Hopefully Pitt will make a good hire in the next week or two and we can get back to actually discussing the games.