Things starting to accumulate. Oh, how I’ll wish for such a problem by mid-May.
Um, wow. Love to know the story behind this photo.
Let’s see, Savon Goodman still hasn’t made a decision but if you are a glass half-full person, you will like this from HoopScoop:
When I told our Philadelphia/Eastern Pennsylvania/South Jersey Editor Allen Rubin that I was going to put a gun to his head and he had to be right, he finally put it on the line and predicted that 6’6 Savon Goodman from Philadelphia (Constitution) PA will pick the University of Pittsburgh over schools like Missouri, St. John’s, UCLA, Kentucky, Connecticut, Kansas, and Temple.
For what it is worth. Oh, and Savon Goodman was named to USA Basketball’s U17 team.
Things proceeding apace for Pitt and Cuse heading to the ACC in 2013. Everyone is attending meetings.
Pitt and Syracuse representatives won’t be at the Big East meetings, but they will be at the ACC meetings in May. The respective coaches will be at the ACC meetings, too.
When will the two schools join the ACC? “Hopefully, we’ll get everything worked out here soon,” Pitt athletic director Steve Pederson said. “Their league is reconfigured and ready to move, and when you get to that point where everybody is on the next page, everybody should move on.”
Pederson wouldn’t commit to the fall of 2013, but that seems to be the goal. The ACC is ready to receive Pitt and Syracuse, and the Big East is ready to move on with its new members.
No sense at being at the Big East meetings. Pitt and Cuse don’t get votes on the league, and they would probably have to have left the room when it came to topics such as media rights and strategic plans. No votes in the ACC yet, but at least they will know what’s coming.
Not that Pitt fans aren’t already eager to get Steven Adams into the Blue and Gold, but SI.com named him the high school player of the week. Here’s the video.
Should be interesting.
Just a hell of a story about Billy Hahn. He used to the be LaSalle head coach until the rape scandal. Warning: Bob Huggins comes across as a decent human being.
Bobby Petrino, the wanderlust (now with so many other meanings) Arkansas head football coach, may be fired or may not be fired for his indiscretions with a 25-year old, ex-volleyball player, turned Arkansas athletic department employee, then recently hired by Petrino to work in the football portion.
To be clear, Petrino is most certainly not the only coach in America who has stepped out on his wife. The affair isn’t the reason Long placed Petrino on paid administrative leave Thursday night.
This is why. It appears the highest-paid state employee in Arkansas hired his mistress to a department job. Later, he lied to his boss, in turn allowing the department to release the lie and appear — at least for a moment — complicit in the cover-up. (Which it was not.)
Now, Long must review the situation and weigh that information against this information: Petrino is 21-5 over the past two seasons, and the 2012 team appears to be better than the 2010 or 2011 teams.
“I’m at the beginning of the review,” Long said. “I don’t know what I’m going to find.”
Even if that is all he finds, Long probably has enough to fire Petrino. Petrino’s contract is pretty clear on this, forbidding the coach from “engaging in conduct, as solely determined by the University, which is clearly contrary to the character and responsibilities of a person occupying the position of Head Football Coach or which negatively or adversely affects the reputation of the University or UAF’s athletics programs in any way.” In legal parlance, “review” could mean “meeting with the general counsel to make sure we’re allowed to can this guy without paying him.” After all, what manager can trust an employee who would lie to his face and put the entire organization at risk?
But there is that 21-5 record in two seasons.
Remember, this is Arkansas. A place where fans used FOIAs to get Houston Nutt’s cell phone records to try and prove he was having an affair with a local TV reporter (he wasn’t) in an effort to get him fired. The problem is, Petrino is winning big. So you now have those same fanatical Arkansas fans arguing that this is a private matter between Petrino, his wife and 4 children, and the woman (and her fiance).
In Alabama in 1998, Mike DuBose lied about his affair with his secretary. He kept his job, and Alabama fired the woman (and later had to cut her a six-figure check). Times have changed, so I’m not sure Arkansas can get away with that.
I’ll say it now: It has always been Todd Graham’s dream job to coach Arkansas in the SEC.
Duquesne still doesn’t have a replacement for Ron Everhart. Keith Dambrot at Akron wouldn’t touch it.
Sources with knowledge of the situation said that Dambrot was offered a “considerable financial package” to join the Atlantic 10 school, but the coach is unmoved.
“I’m a Zip,” he told the Beacon Journal Thursday morning. Beyond that he wouldn’t discuss the length of any contract offer or what it was worth.
A recent report out of Pittsburgh said that Duquesne offered a salary that at least doubled his salary. Dambrot makes more than $300,000 with incentives at UA.
Why would Dambrot turn down a salary of more than $600,000?
Because it is a coaching graveyard! Beware Orlando Antigua! BEWARE!
Unrelated. My wife came home from a board meeting at our son’s preschool in September and told me I was now the new Treasurer. This is what I’ve been dealing with since the start of 2012 when I finally got a hold of the books from the former president.
The nice thing about the SI report it helps ease my concerns about Steve stepping up immediately to the big stage. It does not however ease my fears about Jamie and his obsessive conservative approach to talented atheletes. Will he start Adams (he is a fool if he does not)will he restrict his game by not letting use his full array of skills, being an offensive force facing the basket and shooting the jump shot.
He will make mistakes but these mistakes will be erased by the things he can do that no onther 7′ college player can do. Jamie please let him play.
Also the only true PG on the team is Robinson. Play him early and ofen. Like Adams let him make mistakes. If you play Woodall at PG Pitt will waste the inside stregth it now has.
Woodall is a potential danger because of Dixon penchant toward favortism with his anontonned guards each year. Gibbs this year, Fields keeping us out of the final four, Krasuer playing one on five. Each of these guards of moderate talent were told it was “their team” and each was each did not know how to spell team; including Woodall.
Robinson was the 2G at DeMatha since his sophmore year oftten the high scorer on a team with 2 other 4 and 5 star players. For the good of the team he move to PG this year so a 5 star sophmore couuld start. His ballhandling, passing skills, and court sense allowed him to easily make the transition and be ranked the number 5 PG in the country for 2012. Of course there are no guarentees but from simply a temperment stand point I would prefer Robinson to Woodall at the point.
with the right coach and 1 great player and 4 good players you can turn any school around.
it may only last for 4 or 5 years but it can be done that is the nice thing abought BB you dont need 80 good players just a few
but it would have to be a special coach for most coachs it would be a grave yard.
Oh, and my goodness, saying that Levance couldn’t spell team is just ridiculous. Check out his assist to turnover ratio and then try to support that statement. Please get a clue before your next post. PLEASE!
just saying that schools can be brought back with right coach little schools win big from time to time with right coach
all it takes is one great player and a special coach to bring teams like the dukes back.
will they get that coach not mutch chance but it can be done it has been done at outher schools.
Then how does one tout Woodall for next year. Give me a break, he had the worst turnover to assist ratio of any PG in the Howland/Dixon era. Btw his ratio was barely 2 to 1. That stinks !
RIP Joe, you were one of the great ones.
Avezzano graduated from Jackson High School in Miami, Florida, in 1961.[2] He played college football at Florida State University, where he was a center. He was drafted and played professionally in the American Football League for the Boston Patriots in 1966. Avezzano wore #50 and played in three regular season games for the Patriots during the 1966 AFL Season. He was also on the 1967 preseason roster of the Pittsburgh Steelers, wearing #50.
[edit]Coaching career
Avezzano began his coaching career at Washington High School in Massillon, Ohio, and then coached at Florida State, his alma mater, in 1968 and at Iowa State University from 1969 to 1972 under head coach Johnny Majors. He followed Majors to the University of Pittsburgh, where he was offensive line coach from 1973 to 1976, helping the 1976 Panthers to the national championship. Avezzano went with Majors to the University of Tennessee in 1977, where he was the offensive coordinator for three seasons in the SEC.
I am telling you right here and right now….Las Vegas….want to act like a 20 year old and get away with it??? Las Vegas, maybe Montreal or Toronto, but what in the world happens to middle age men…when their weenie shrinks, their brains move to the little head below the belt….
Duquesne is in trouble…..so too Amadio
Young really struggled his sophomore year and could barely run and jump in some games because of his knees. He really struggled to master the 4 position because he was more of 3 skill set but failed miserably every time they tried him to play facing the bucket…
Although Kendall was maddening at times, he did exactly what Dixon wanted from his 4 position. If Sam Young didn’t totally excel at the 3 his junior and senior year this argument would have died long ago…
Age does strange things to us but at least you have to admit Petrino has good taste in blonds.
Behavior patterns in people don’t change much over the long haul, Petrino probably was doing this for a very long time throughout his entire career with various partners.
One last thing I’m 53 and my weenie hasn’t shrunk and my brain is still in tact because marriage with 4 kids gives you a perspective on life and keeps your behavior in line, I guess it’s called responsibility and maturity.
Your wife either
1. Thinks your honest, or
2. Hopes you’re smarter!!
🙂
I’d be psyched to add Zeigler; he sounds like he fits the Pitt mold in terms of all around play. Goodman’s an unknown quantity.
I just can’t get excited about Adams. How much do I care about a kid who will be in Pittsburgh A TOTAL of about 9-10 months?
Btw, Emel, Young’s problem wasnt that he had less skill than Kendall (he obviously had more), but that he didn’t get it. He was out of place on offense, tried to hard and or made bad choices (see JJ Moore) and he was out of place on defense. Say what you will about Kendall but he knew his assignments and was a ‘glue guy’. The rotation that year made total sense (though i’ll give you that i think Young maybe could have played more — but again if he hadn’t he may not have developed the obsessive drive that defined his career and turned him into an NBA player…)
NCAA says no postseason next year
i would think Omar Calhoun would be back on the recruiting board fair game . any one hear any thing
he had not signed a loi that i know just had a virbel with them.
I also agree that he had much better players around him (which is why I cut Tray some slack this year and Carl also), but Levance also was able to get his teammates the ball in position to score and hit a ton of big shots in his career.