So the two weeks have been close to positive for Pitt basketball and coach Kevin Stallings. Or at least as good as it’s been since the season ended.
No one else left, a couple coaches hired, a NLI signed and now a transfer. Let’s review.
Working backwards, Pitt got a much needed bit of new blood. Neither of which, will do much in 2017, but will have an impact starting in 2018.
Khameron Davis is part of the 2017 class, but he is almost assuredly going to end up redshirting.
“So my story is definitely a little different,” Davis said Thursday night. “I played for my high school for three years in Colorado. It was great and I was playing well, but I didn’t get a lot of exposure. So I decided to spend my senior year in Kansas for better competition and exposure. It definitely worked, but then I did a post-grad year at a place called Forest Trail in North Carolina.”
The 6’4″ 190-pound guard with an incredible wingspan still wasn’t hearing from many high-major schools after the post-grad year. In fact, it was basically Texas Tech, Charleston Southern and Tennessee Tech showing interest before Pitt came calling.
His wingspan is reportedly over 6-10. Something that could make him an impactful defensive player on the perimeter — and about the only reason he should see the court this year. Based on the story, he is clearly excited about the opportunity and obviously is a kid that works hard.
The bigger future impact is in the transfer market. Malik Ellison a sophomore transfer from St. John’s decided on Pitt over Virginia and others.
A 6-foot-6 guard, Ellison averaged 7.4 points and 2.5 assists per game as a sophomore last season while shooting 41.9 percent from the field and 34.1 percent from 3-point range. After sitting out next season, per NCAA transfer rules, he will have two years of eligibility remaining.
Ellison started 26 games and averaged 24.8 minutes per game last season for the Red Storm, who finished 14-19 under second-year coach Chris Mullin. His decision to leave the program, according to a New York Post report on March 29, was due to concerns over playing time, particularly once Arizona transfer Justin Simon is eligible next season.
The arrival of Ellison could play an interesting role in Pitt’s reported recruitment of graduate transfer Darien Williams, who averaged 3.8 points and 2.6 rebounds per game for St. John’s last season, as Williams and Ellison are good friends. Williams, once he selects his destination, will be immediately eligible.
Ellison is the son of former No. 1 overall NBA draft pick Pervis Ellison, who led Louisville to a national championship as a freshman in 1986.
Pitt not only needs bodies for this year, they need players for the year after. With so many available scholarships a traditional transfer (or two) would be a huge boost for Pitt to try and return to — at a minimum — middle-of-the-pack in the ACC.
If it also helps land a graduate transfer for the frontcourt, then even better. Williams is a 6-8 power forward and former JUCO who played about 12 minutes a game last season. Numbers aren’t eye-popping to say the least, but to put it bluntly, Pitt needs bodies for the front court.
Another graduate transfer who may be looking harder at Pitt (and Pitt may be pursuing him a lot harder at this point) is guard Geno Thorpe. You may remember the former Shaler product from his years at Penn State, before he transferred to USF and played last season there averaging 15 ppg.
With USF with a new coach following a disastrous time under Orlando Antigua, Thorpe is looking for a different place one last time. When Thorpe first announced his transfer, Pitt still had Aaron Thompson coming (who just signed with Butler). It didn’t make a lot of sense for Pitt to pursue Thorpe as the need was greater in the frontcourt. Now, Thorpe would be a significant help for next year.
Shamiel Stevenson signed his letter of intent, so the small forward will help.
In the assistant coaching front, Stallings made two moves. The most recent is not exactly exciting or much beyond a bit of a help-an-old-buddy out hire.
Coaching veteran Matt Woodley will join the University of Pittsburgh basketball staff as a special assistant to the head coach for the 2017-18 season, head coach Kevin Stallings announced Monday. His duties will include assisting the coaching staff with game preparation, practice plans, scouting reports as well as day-to-day basketball operations.
“Matt [Woodley] has a terrific basketball mind and will be a tremendous addition to our staff,” said Stallings. “His experience at the collegiate level and in the pro ranks will be invaluable to our program as we build a winning culture. His passion for the game, attention to detail and selfless attitude mirror the core values of the Pitt basketball program.”
Woodley has been in the professional ranks for the past three seasons, helping lead the Iowa Energy (NBDL) to back-to-back 26-24 finishes before being named head coach prior to the 2016-17 season. He was relieved of his head coaching duties midway through the 2016-17 season.
Meh. It’s officially a non-coaching and non-recruiting position. Other coaches have used the spot for old mentors or former players looking to get into coaching (Steve Lavin most famously hired former Purdue head coach Gene Keady for the spot while at St. John’s). If it helps in the preparation, great.
Not a real strong opinion on this one. Woodley worked for a few years as an assistant to Virginia head coach Tony Bennett while Bennett was at Washington State. His only college head coaching gig was at a D-II school. Maybe he has a beautiful basketball mind, meant for planning and prep.
The bigger assistant coaching hire was to replace Jeremy Ballard — who left to be an assistant at VCU. It wasn’t clear whether Stallings was going to promote one of the young support assistants or go outside. Stallings opted to go outside of the present staff — sort of.
University of Pittsburgh head coach Kevin Stallings announced the addition of assistant coach Sam Ferry to his coaching staff for the 2017-18 season, Wednesday afternoon. Ferry has spent the past six years at Monmouth University, including the past four seasons as an assistant coach.
“Sam is a tireless worker on the court and on the recruiting trail,” said Stallings. “He has established great recruiting ties across the Northeast and down into Virginia. His energy and enthusiasm for the game of basketball are infectious and his ability to connect with players is impressive. Sam is an outstanding addition to our staff and will make a significant impact as we build our program here at Pitt.”
Ferry joined King Rice’s staff at Monmouth in 2011 as the director of operations and was promoted to the position of assistant coach prior to the 2013-14 season. Ferry was an integral part of the program’s success in 2015-16, including winning a school-record 28 games and the MAAC regular season title. As a result, Ferry was named to the Under Armour 30-under-30 Team as part of the NABC’s Guardians of the Game Awards, recognizing 30 men’s basketball coaches under the age of 30. This past season the Hawks posted a 27-7 record, while claiming the MAAC regular season title and reaching the NIT for the second consecutive season.
Ferry played a major role in recruiting for the Hawks, developing ties in the northeast through New England and across the Maryland and Virginia areas.
Oh, there are plenty of ties. Ferry went to Vanderbilt during Stallings tenure, and was a student manager for the basketball team. After graduating he joined the staff as director of video operations. After one year of that, he left for Monmouth with King Rice — who was an assistant at Vanderbilt — to be an assistant under Rice.
Ferry is young and ambitious, which are definitely things needed for Pitt in recruiting. He focuses on the Northeast, which Pitt had fallen off in recruiting recently. It does appear to be a solid hire. Really, the only oddity is, why it took nearly a month to happen?
“This is a long-term situation here, as far as I’m concerned,” Stallings said. “Every decision I make I try to make with the long-term best interests of the program in mind. While we feel some urgency and while there is some urgency about 2017 recruiting and there’s certainly urgency about 2018 recruiting, this decision was made because I felt like it was the best long-term decision for Pitt basketball. I don’t think you can make short-term decisions and expect them to have a positive, long-term impact. Everything we’re doing right now we’re trying to do with two or three or four years down the road in mind.”
Dare to dream, Stallings. Dare to dream.
[End, Editor Note. Stallings had a big sit-down interview with local media on Thursday. Articles were published today. I will try to have some thoughts put together tomorrow or Sunday.]
I will give him credit for what appears to be a pretty good recruiting class .. but honestly don’t see value in the transfer from St John’s at all who has to sit a year. I’m afraid he is now into the collecting bodies mode
KS obviously knows the problems at Pitt can’t be fixed short term. Probably has at least two more years (after this class) to recruit better players whether we (fans) like it or not.
Losing Johnson and Thompson made his job much more difficult. This year we hit rock bottom either way.
Most of us have no faith that KS can rebuild Pitt BB. He will get the time to prove us wrong, or not.
Either way, recruiting is the key. So far, there is no light at the end of the tunnel.
The articles made me feel a little better but I still have a lot of resentment at the same time. While I appreciate that Stalling came into a difficult situation, he really did not do a good job of alleviating some of the negativity. IMO, still struggling in that department …
He was an unpopular hire before it was officially announced. As soon as rumors started flying it was going to be Stallings, a lot of fans said “oh, hell no”. Then, when it came out that cronyism may have been (most likely was) a driving force in the hire, to say he had a big hole to dig himself out of is an understatement.
Stallings handled the initial press conference fairly well. It helped, however, that the media was busy putting Barnes’ feet to the fire.
My issue is that Stallings knew the situation he walked into. It was heated, to say the least … he should have had a sense of what was going and worked to alleviate the situation.
Pitt has one of the best student sections in the country. Pitt has very deep ties with it’s, recent, former players. Several come back and play in the summer league. Yet, Stallings never truly attempted to get the Zoo in his corner or really tried to bridge a relationship with the community of former players from Pitt’s recent past that are still involved with the program. Many were upset BK didn’t get a more serious look. See Levance Fields. Stallings should have been trying to extend an olive branch. It’s Pitt basketball not Stallings basketball. History is important. You keep that.
You can have a bad season but still have optimism for the future. Stallings did a very poor job articulating his plan and keeping the fan base from jumping off a ledge. Instead, it was strictly what we saw in the post games with him blaming players or kids transferring out or getting kicked off the team or epic blowouts or him tossing his hands in there as confused as us… all the while silence on what Pitt basketball is actually building towards.
Why wasn’t there damage control? “Hey, we know it’s tough right now but we have a plan that may require some patience”. Something. Instead, we’re stuck in a death spiral and everyone is grabbing their chutes. Nothing from the basketball team to mediate some of the concerns. Instead, you had Barnes calling us “noise” and Stallings looking like a deer in the headlights.
We got a little more vision during the interviews but some of the traits us fans have jumped on still came out. A lot of excuses. He only had 6 players ACC ready. He knew that 4 were leaving early on and they were expected. Weren’t his player for his system …
Then, the whopper that media pressured him into releasing Aaron Thompson from his LOI accompanied with the tired story of “It’s a binding agreement, he should have gone to JUCO for a year” and “Coaches have buyouts”.
It’s essentially the Jeter situation all over again. The only reason he didn’t “Jeter” the kid was because of the rightful shit-storm it would have brought on the program. He hasn’t learned from his mistakes and is stuck in a previous era of the sport. Times have changed. Deal with it. You asked Thompson’s former HS teammate to leave the team. You don’t think that would cause trepidation for an incoming freshman … or his HS coach?
Stallings really might be a good coach. His peers seem to think so. He really sucks at articulating his vision though. And true leaders excel at it. What is Pitt basketball building to? Tell us. That’s how you get some leeway with the fans. He’s the face of Pitt basketball and really has done very little as the leader of the program.
I’m okay with the long term approach. Pitt, traditionally, is a program that needs senior leadership mixed with younger players to do well. This is the first time we’ve heard that though. I still don’t believe that you build a team with transfers, grad-transfers and JUCO’s. They can be complimentary but you need your actual recruits to be the core of the team. It just seems like chaos and a complete mess to me.
No organization. No forethought. No leadership. No vision. No accountability. No trust. No teamwork.
I don’t know. I’m guessing he has one year to fix it. He needs to do a lot of outreach to the Pitt community to get any goodwill for a year beyond this season. Expectations will be low, so any overachievement will go a long ways. I just don’t see the leadership qualities necessary for a P5 program with a fan base demanding Elite 8’s and Final 4’s.
I guess I have a problem but family and friend stuff always number one.
I used to look forward to heading to the Pete for bball games, even the preconference warmups. But last year it just was not fun to be there.
Davis is a 2* recruit who can’t shoot.
Ellison is a shooting guard who can’t shoot and hails from a losing program where he garnered starter minutes. He is supposedly transferring because he was going to receive less playing time.
Williams is a big body who doesn’t rebound particularly effectively and also played at St. John’s the last two years.
Thorpe is a shooting guard who can’t shoot. He shot 37% from 3 last year (AAC) but only 30% the two preceding years (Big 10). Thorpe has a poor career A-TO and is also from losing programs.
Stevenson is supposedly athletic but also can’t shoot.
These guys are bodies to fill a roster. Ellison, Williams and Davis are still 18 months away from helping to even do that.
You nailed it, Barvo. I’m slightly more okay with this as a foundation class than you are but you’re spot on with the fact this team will struggle shooting and it’sreally just bodies filling out a roster.
I, of course, blame the curse of Upittbaseball. One negative word from him about a coach and it’s over for that sport for the next 6 yrs.
And whenever I see prez and Pence together I’m reminded of Buffalo Bob and Doody
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Dan72 – I’ve never seen a coach recover from what Stallings went thru this year and win back a fan base. We’re stuck with him one more year.
Upitt – you were one of the biggest Dixon haters in this board.
Of course, he will not come here
Upittbaseball, I know you are trying your magic on Stallings. Don’t give up the comments.
Unfortunately, Stallings won’t go anywhere for awhile. Too much money for the University to throw away.
We had some dumb administration decisions over the yrs. starting in the late 1930’s loosing Jock Sutherland.
– Young was having a great time playing BB
– there were no reliable subs
– nobody was told to leave the program
But Mr Stallings, when your very 1st commit decides to leave, and when your best returning player (who is a Pgh native and whose dad played at Pitt) decides to leave …. then maybe, just maybe, you need to start looking in the mirror.
For those who want to blame the senior players, the Cam Johnson exodus should be a wake-up call
That said…doesn’t Stallings need warm bodies? It’s amazing and quite possibly unprecedented how these kids can’t get away quick enough. That’s a reflection on Stallings as a person, coach, and the lack of confidence these kids have in the state of and direction of this program.
For anyone that transferred out playing time couldn’t have been much of an issue. They may not be able to put 5 guys on the court. So what is the reason kids can’t leave quick enough?
What an absolute disaster…
At this point, PITT as any other program, can’t throw away $4-6 MM. The real question is how did Barnes get away with hiring Stallings?
No it is not the adminstation job to oversee or question his decisions. That is why you hire a AD in the first place. After all, was not Barnes considered a basketball expert?
Barnes may go down in PITT history as the con man of century. PITT ended up hiring an over the hill guy (and owing him a lifetime pension). Vanderbilt you owe us.
Lots of news however very little talent
has been recruited for next season. Granted
with the exception of Cam we won’t miss
any of the others but a freshman laden team
will take a beating in the ACC
Like I said it makes keeping dialogue going pretty difficult. I would think this has to be a fixable problem…
Hope you figure out the medical issue you’ve been having. Yours sounds much worse but my right ear has been clogged for almost 2 weeks, it happened one other time, driving me nuts, so I can imagine what you’re dealing with…
Dixon should be ripped for letting him take up a scholarship, Stalling should be praised for once because he got him off the team. The only thing the guy has done correct.
Kithcart
Manigault
Crisshawn Clark
Rozelle Nix
Damon Wilson 4 star
Milligan
Tyrone Haughton
Ryan Luther
Sheldon Jeter
Cam Johnson
What’s even sadder is I won’t be surprised if we don’t land him…
The incoming class is loaded with players with stats like this who played against inferior competition. They may go winless in the ACC next year.
Apparently the grand plan of the genius is to load the roster with guys who can’t shoot and rid it of anybody who can grab the rebounds.
Stallings recruited Kithcart and Jeter while at Vanderbilt. It’s not like Stallings never saw anything there.
Who left the Pitt team that could grab rebounds and was a great shooter? Ah, no one.
Johnson was the only loss and it remains to be seen if he even develops.
