So much to choose from on topics. Pitt basketball and the IUP exhibition tomorrow? Pitt football trying to remember how to score in the red zone? Mindless babble on expansion of the Big East and candidates?
Fine. Basketball it is.
In case you didn’t know, Coach Dixon has no problem expecting big things from this team this year. No downplaying goals. No excuses about youth, talent, size, etc.
Dixon has been vocal about the Panthers taking the next step and winning a title, but he shrugged off the importance of reaching a Final Four. The goal, he said, has always been to win it all. Nothing less.
“The goal is to win the national championship,” Dixon said. “If you get it, it’s not going to change anything. North Carolina won a national championship [in 2009] and what were they trying to do this past year? They weren’t thinking about their national championship last year.”
And the players feel the same way.
“We always have high expectations, so that hasn’t changed,” forward Gilbert Brown said. “But our goal is to exceed expectations. We’ve come close, but we want to do something very special this year.
As much as there is a part of me that fears the letdown if they fall short, I love the fact that the coach and players are willing to embrace the expectations and goals. Taking the pressure with it.
