OT: Vanderbilt's HC Kevin Stallings leaves for Pitt job.

[TheHawkeyeDudeAbides]

Stallings at Pitt? The guy that looks like the evil boss in the Dilbert Cartoons. Pitt took a step down as the ACC is still the toughest conference top to bottom. Jumping from the SEC to the ACC in basketball is huge leap. SEC has its league touch bearer (Kentucky), some near annual competitors like Florida and LSU and then it's a heap of also rans. Kentucky is the basketball school that offers football as compared to other SEC members.

Stallings has not done much at Vanderbilt since 2006 with the program. Stallings left three former Iowa recruiting prospects at Vanderbilt . SF Joseph Toye , PF Samir Sehic , C D'Jery Baptiste. Baptiste redshirted and Toye and Sehic had below average freshman years. Not interested, if they (Toye and Sehic) become available. Maybe Baptiste but maybe better to avoid other people's problems.

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[Ronman]

You forgot Riley LaChance. If I remember correctly, we offered Ellingson after LaChance chose Vanderbilt.

 

[TheHawkeyeDudeAbides]

You're right. LaChance was a 2014 recruit. The other were 2015 recruits.

 

[HawkAttackDial911]

Toye looked solid later in the year. If a lot of wing players leave I wouldn't mind if Fran picked up Toye.

 

[iahawkeyes17]

Pretty sure Iowa made a run at Stallings when they hired Lick.

 

[And1Hawk]

He's a solid coach but did they get an upgrade over Dixon? Time will tell.

The PITT fan base got a huge serving of humble pie as they have been dissatisfied with 'just making the tourney' and not going deep under Dixon. They had their target set on Sean Miller a former player who flat out told them 'no thanks'. Here's a program that has been in the tourney most of the past 15 years. Fans talk a lot of crap about wanting to do this or that only to find out what they think is not what the larger basketball community thinks.

 

[TheHawkeyeDudeAbides]

He's a solid coach but did they get an upgrade over Dixon? Time will tell.

The PITT fan base got a huge serving of humble pie as they have been dissatisfied with 'just making the tourney' and not going deep under Dixon. They had their target set on Sean Miller a former player who flat out told them 'no thanks'. Here's a program that has been in the tourney most of the past 15 years. Fans talk a lot of crap about wanting to do this or that only to find out what they think is not what the larger basketball community thinks.

Word of Pitt fan boards was that USCal HC Andy Enfield (born and raised in Shippensburg, Pennsylvania) was the next guy in line to be offered after the Miller brothers. Enfield requested Dixon money but the AD balked at that notion and went with Stallings who had no large buyout clause pending. Enfield will be the candidate who got away if he continues to improve a basketball program at a major football school. Enfield's ex-model wife ( Amanda Marcum Enfield) can still enjoy the beach for a while longer.

 

[frydaze]

Pretty sure Iowa made a run at Stallings when they hired Lick.

You are right.

It's a fact that Barta had two contracts written up at the same time:

One for Stallings that was going to pay him more and that's the first contract that was offered. Obviously Stallings turned it down.

The second contract that had been written up was for Todd Lickliter and was offered to him literally just hours after Stallings turned his offer down. Lickliter's deal was for much less money than was Stallings'.

 

[jasonrann]

I bet Vandy is happy he's leaving. The guy is a joke.