I’m not sure if this is good or bad, but Dick Vitale likes the hire of Tom Herrion as a Pitt assistant.
Herrion is a perfect hire as the Panthers assistant coach.
Look at what Florida has done winning two national titles. Billy Donovan has done a phenomenal job recruiting, motivating and inspiring his team. Why am I talking about the Gators? Donovan brought in Larry Shyatt as an assistant coach and it made a big difference.
Shyatt was a solid head coach at Wyoming and Clemson, and he has been an asset for the Gators. More and more former head coaches are popping up as assistants because they can’t get back to the same high-level positions. Let me tell you, these guys have a chip on their shoulder an attitude as they want to prove that people made mistakes. They work so hard to move back up.
It is a good hire when a smart man brings in a former head coach to be a second lieutenant. These guys are competitive, goal-oriented winners. They will work 24-7 to get the job done.
Of course, Vitale likes just about everybody — especially anyone who has ever been a head coach.
ESPN hands out grades on the basketball recruiting for the Big East:
- Syracuse — A
- Villanova — A
- Georgetown — B+
- Pitt — B+
- Cinci — B+
- Seton Hall — B+
- Marquette — B
- St. John’s — B
- Rutgers — B-
- Louisville — B-
- Notre Dame — B-
- WVU — B-
- DePaul — C
- USF — C
- Providence — C
- UConn — D
Here were the comments on Pitt:
With six signees, Pitt landed a well-balanced class. DeJuan Blair (Pittsburgh, Pa./Schenley), a 6-7 center, is tough and has a wide body. In addition to Blair, the Panthers added Bradley Wanamaker (Philadelphia/Roman Catholic), a quick scoring guard who will give coach Jamie Dixon a good inside-outside punch.
Nothing particularly different from prior stories, but it’s all that is out there right now.
There is a lot of Joepa ass kissing here but the other stuff is funny.
“This spring, six Penn State football players were arrested and charged for crimes stemming from an off-campus fight in which at least 15 Nittany Lions were present. The charged included a couple of star players, although what apparently bothered coach Joe Paterno the most was how many of his kids were willing to be involved.
According to Paterno, the Penn State football team will clean Beaver Stadium after each home football game this fall. It’ll gather garbage, sweep stairs and maybe even hose parts down.
“I just thought that, hey, we had 14, 15 kids – I don’t even know how many – that were involved in something embarrassing, and I think that we need to prove to people that we’re not a bunch of hoodlums,” he said.
The entire team also will have to build a house for Habitat for Humanity and volunteer for the Special Olympics this summer. But the worst punishment no doubt will be cleaning up Penn State’s mammoth 107,282-seat stadium.”
Calhoun has been quoted that he is not done yet and is possibly looking for an international player (an Israeli)
