On Sunday, Pitt made it official in hiring Vanderbilt head coach Kevin Stallings to be the men's basketball program's next head coach. Fans were not amused, but that's one thing.
It's quite another when the national media starts piling on. And even though it's early that's exactly what's happening.
On Twitter, ESPN's Jeff Goodman had a series of tweets detailing the relationship of Scott Barnes and former Vanderbilt athletics director Todd Turner, the now leader of the search firm Pitt used to find Stallings in the first place. In the midst of those, Goodman stated that while a decent coach, Stallings doesn't seem to be a great fit:
For those crushing Kevin Stallings, I maintain he is a good coach.