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Originally posted by catbacker07 View Post
All of D2 is down for the most part. The MIAA was less down than other conferences, though.
Now the PO field may have been more down than the MIAA, but that has more to do with the newish conferences that have popped up, and gobbled up PO slots, than overall quality..
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Originally posted by FormerGorilla View PostSurprised to not see a big time hire on this staff. With that being said: rather have a hungry staff that will do anything to right the ship... new HC should have got rid of all old coaches too, but hopefully the two left on staff have not been tainted by the previous wrecking crew!
I totally disagree. The HC on down are great hires. Look at the experience and places these guys have been.
Now, I am not saying Pitt State will be at the top of D2 in the first couple of years, but I will say, this staff will have Pitt State competing at a higher level than the last regime had us doing.Sent from my GorillaPad
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Originally posted by FormerGorilla View PostSurprised to not see a big time hire on this staff. With that being said: rather have a hungry staff that will do anything to right the ship... new HC should have got rid of all old coaches too, but hopefully the two left on staff have not been tainted by the previous wrecking crew!Originally posted by cbgorilla View Post
I totally disagree. The HC on down are great hires. Look at the experience and places these guys have been.
Now, I am not saying Pitt State will be at the top of D2 in the first couple of years, but I will say, this staff will have Pitt State competing at a higher level than the last regime had us doing.
To me, the success of this entire staff--and accordingly, the Pitt State program in the near to mid future--comes down to the question of will Brian Wright be a good HC? He's never run the show before with the exception of an interim spot. If he has the demeanor and whatever else it takes to be a good HC, the staff doesn't appear to me to be anything that will hold us back. If he doesn't have whatever it takes to be a good HC, the staff doesn't appear to me to have the sort of chops that would prop us up.
We're basically all-in on Brian Wright. I'm fine with that. It's a nice change of pace. The past few years we knew what we had at HC and we hoped that the slight tweaks to the staff were enough to bring it all together the way it did in 2011 and the way it was close to doing in 2014. This isn't like that.
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Originally posted by GorillaBred View Post
I would've been surprised to see any sort of name that I would've described as a "big time hire." Hiring an FCS OC as our HC is about as big of a hire as you're going to see at the D2 level. By and large, it seems like it's a staff made up of FCS guys. I'm really interested to see how that translates.
To me, the success of this entire staff--and accordingly, the Pitt State program in the near to mid future--comes down to the question of will Brian Wright be a good HC? He's never run the show before with the exception of an interim spot. If he has the demeanor and whatever else it takes to be a good HC, the staff doesn't appear to me to be anything that will hold us back. If he doesn't have whatever it takes to be a good HC, the staff doesn't appear to me to have the sort of chops that would prop us up.
We're basically all-in on Brian Wright. I'm fine with that. It's a nice change of pace. The past few years we knew what we had at HC and we hoped that the slight tweaks to the staff were enough to bring it all together the way it did in 2011 and the way it was close to doing in 2014. This isn't like that.
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Originally posted by FormerGorilla View Post
I don't disagree with these viewpoints - I can actually see it from both angles (from cbgorilla and GorillaBred). Everyone will know if Brian Wright succeeds or not will come down to recruiting: "It ain't about the X's and the O's, it's about the Jimmie's and the Joe's... "my two cents"
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Originally posted by FormerGorilla View Post
I don't disagree with these viewpoints - I can actually see it from both angles (from cbgorilla and GorillaBred). Everyone will know if Brian Wright succeeds or not will come down to recruiting: "It ain't about the X's and the O's, it's about the Jimmie's and the Joe's... "my two cents"Sent from my GorillaPad
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