Jamie Dixon once again constructs an embarrassing schedule

[Warner2BruceTD]

It's not irrelevant, your entire argument is based around a stronger schedule creating a stronger team. Also, Pitt beat top 25 RPI UCONN today, which will push them over GTown.

Are you seriously going to attempt to argue that playing a tougher schedule does not prepare a team better for league play & tournament play?

Jamie Dixon is the only big time coach that actively seeks out the weakest schedule possible. Everybody else either scrambles to put together the toughest possible schedule (Tom Izzo, Coach K, Billy Donovan, Bill Self, etc etc) or at minimum tries to get two or three high quality games in before league play starts.

Now look at that list of coaches who do everything humanly possible to stack their schedules, and have a "play anybody, any time, anywhere" attitude, and compare their resumes to Dixon.

Are you saying Dixon is right and everybody else is wrong? Based on his goofy RPI spin that you tried to pass off here and everybody shredded to pieces?

Get lost.

And again, Pitt has a better overall record than Georgetown, blew them out of their own building, and are still behind them in RPI. How are you not understanding how your own coach screws your team every year? Instead of defending this dope, you should be upset that he never plays a decent schedule. But the homer is so strong, you just can't do it!

 

[Pitty]

Are you seriously going to attempt to argue that playing a tougher schedule does not prepare a team better for league play & tournament play?

Jamie Dixon is the only big time coach that actively seeks out the weakest schedule possible. Everybody else either scrambles to put together the toughest possible schedule (Tom Izzo, Coach K, Billy Donovan, Bill Self, etc etc) or at minimum tries to get two or three high quality games in before league play starts.

Now look at that list of coaches who do everything humanly possible to stack their schedules, and have a "play anybody, any time, anywhere" attitude, and compare their resumes to Dixon.

Are you saying Dixon is right and everybody else is wrong? Based on his goofy RPI spin that you tried to pass off here and everybody shredded to pieces?

Get lost.

And again, Pitt blew Georgetown out of their own building, and are still behind them in RPI. How are you not understanding how your own coach screws your team every year? Instead of defending this dope, you should be upset that he never plays a decent schedule. But the homer is so strong, you just can't do it!

How are you not understanding RPI, margin of victory doesn't matter, yet you keep bringing it up. Also, you don't understand that you need to build rapport among the team, and when you are starting two freshman, along with giving 20+ min to a transfer, you don't schedule powerhouses to shellack you in November.

Stack their resumes? Oh you mean the guy with 2 #1 seeds, 2 COY, and an Elite 8 in the past 4 years. I mean, it's clear to see the advantages of JTIII's year in year out tough scheduling, making it past the first weekend one time. "Oh my God, this coach made a bad schedule in November, I'll hate even though I don't care about or watch this team until Big East play starts anyway". Keep on derping, pal.

 

[Warner2BruceTD]

How are you not understanding RPI, margin of victory doesn't matter, yet you keep bringing it up. Also, you don't understand that you need to build rapport among the team, and when you are starting two freshman, along with giving 20+ min to a transfer, you don't schedule powerhouses to shellack you in November.

The point is, you would think that if you took two teams from the same conference, of equal stature, and one not only had a better record than the other but also blew the other out on the road, that the team with the better record and head to head road win would have the higher RPI. Somehow that isn't the case. I wonder why.

Also, the second part of your post is just excuses. Since you keep dragging Georgetown into this to make your awful points, the Hoyas have zero seniors on the team and two freshmen in the rotation, and that didn't stop JT3 from scheduling tough teams. Same thing for Kansas last year, when they lost everybody and were expected to have a down year, same for Kentucky this year who have a relatively weak freshman class by Calipari standards and struggled against a rugged schedule early on.

There are times a coach should take the foot off the pedal a bit, but Pitt has an established program that has won for a long time so that excuse doesn't work. They are at a point where they are never truly rebuilding. Besides, Dixon never plays a tough schedule anyway so that reason makes no sense. It's not like this year is the anomaly (although granted, it might be his weakest ever).

 

[Pitty]

The point is, you would think that if you took two teams from the same conference, of equal stature, and one not only had a better record than the other but also blew the other out on the road, that the team with the better record and head to head road win would have the higher RPI. Somehow that isn't the case. I wonder why.

Also, the second part of your post is just excuses. Since you keep dragging Georgetown into this to make your awful points, the Hoyas have zero seniors on the team and two freshmen in the rotation, and that didn't stop JT3 from scheduling tough teams. Same thing for Kansas last year, when they lost everybody and were expected to have a down year, same for Kentucky this year who have a relatively weak freshman class by Calipari standards and struggled against a rugged schedule early on.

There are times a coach should take the foot off the pedal a bit, but Pitt has an established program that has won for a long time so that excuse doesn't work. They are at a point where they are never truly rebuilding. Besides, Dixon never plays a tough schedule anyway so that reason makes no sense. It's not like this year is the anomaly (although granted, it might be his weakest ever).

They were rebuilding last year, or did you forget Pitt's CBI season and 5-13 Big East record. The fact that he has the team where it is this season, with 2 starting freshman and a transfer making up 40% of the rotation, makes your point moot. You don't throw a team with no chemistry into the lion's den, it makes zero fucking sense. Do you realize that Pitt is still top 5 in both offensive and defensive efficiency through a third of Conference play? That's not a result of a weak schedule, it's a result of the team learning how to play together rather than being overrun when they have no chemistry and still searching for an identity. Also when a team finishes consistently in the Top 30 RPI at season's end, as was the case in all but last season, it makes criticizing his scheduling pretty retarded.

Thanks for comparing Pitt to Kansas and Kentucky, teams riddled with McD's All-Americans who are already NBA ready, as opposed to Pitt who brings in 75-100 players who can only succeed if they learn how to play together, and if it takes a cake schedule for a month to get them ready, so be it, I trust the guy with the best BE winning percentage OF ALL TIME.

 

[Warner2BruceTD]

This is astounding.

I couldnt care less if Pitt had went 34-0 this season and finished #1 in RPI. It would still be a terrible schedule.

But here's the thing. I know your M.O. You are a notorious, notorious homer. You will never be fair, and you will defend this to death. You aren't even defending the schedule, youre simply defending the program. If Dixon played death schedules, you'd be defending that strategy. So honestly, this whole thing is a waste of time. You have no stance. You craft your opinion around whatever path your team chooses.

 

[Pitty]

This is astounding.

I couldnt care less if Pitt had went 34-0 this season and finished #1 in RPI. It would still be a terrible schedule.

But here's the thing. I know your M.O. You are a notorious, notorious homer. You will never be fair, and you will defend this to death. You aren't even defending the schedule, youre simply defending the program. If Dixon played death schedules, you'd be defending that strategy. So honestly, this whole thing is a waste of time. You have no stance. You craft your opinion around whatever path your team chooses.

No I craft my opinion on results, and clearly the early schedule, although bad, didn't mean shit. Pitt is still going to be Top 50 in RPI come tomorrow morning and Top 25 in the polls. You can keep complaining about how Dixon always makes bad schedules, but it doesn't change the fact that you never watch Pitt unless they're playing a team in Navy and Gray anyway, so why are your jimmies all rustled? I don't care if you keep calling me a homer, you're still wrong about playing Bethune Cookman meaning anything after November 31st.

 

[Pitty]

:dance3:

Beat Cuse and the refs.

 

[Woy]

:dance3:

Beat Cuse and the refs.

lol

 

[Pitty]

I'll pose this question to the people who've posted in this thread. Do you hate Jamie more, who clearly tried to schedule weak to compensate for the ousting from the BE-SEC challenge and coming off a down year, or do you hate Thad Matta and Ohio State, who scheduled a bunch of tough games, sit at 26 in the RPI, #10 in the poll, yet are 1-5 against the RPI Top 25, and have just 2 wins in the top 50 RPI.

For comparison:

Ohio State:

RPI: 24
vs. RPI 25: 1-5
vs. RPI 50: 2-6
vs. RPI 100: 7-6
vs. RPI 200: 12-6

Pitt
RPI: 30
vs. RPI 25: 3-3
vs. RPI 50: 4-4
vs. RPI 100: 7-5
vs. RPI 200: 12-5

 

[Senser81]

To answer your first question, No. Because its impossible for me to "hate Jamie more". He has taken over Gary Williams' position as "most annoying coach in NCAA bball".

 

[Pitty]

To answer your first question, No. Because its impossible for me to "hate Jamie more". He has taken over Gary Williams' position as "most annoying coach in NCAA bball".

Never watched a Tom Crean game?

 

[Senser81]

Tom Crean's teams usually aren't the NCAA equivalent to the 1993 Knicks, so I give him a pass.

 

[FirstTimer]

To review this Pitt team:

Lost in 1st round of Big East Tourney and 1st round of the NCAA's.

 

[Senser81]

Still better than the current Pitt team, that didn't even qualify for its own conference tournament.