Two Pitt Players Leave In 24 Hours

[HeavenUniv.]

Yikes! Toney and Johnson leave Pitt and enter transfer portal.

 

[HeavenUniv.]

https://www.post-gazette.com/sports...-johnson-transfer-portal/stories/202102240125

 

[HeavenUniv.]

I wonder if Russ is familiar with either player.

 

[Greene Rice FIG]

that isn't the best look. for both player and coach

 

[BIGRUBIGDBIGredmachine]

https://www.post-gazette.com/sports...-johnson-transfer-portal/stories/202102240125

experienced PG....hmmmm

 

[BIGRUBIGDBIGredmachine]

I wonder if Russ is familiar with either player.

How about Brandin Knight.

 

[ClassOf02v.2]

that isn't the best look. for both player and coach

Definitely not. Maybe their coach is just inCAPELable.

 

[bac2therac]

They made a bad hire IMO..again

 

[Igniteshield]

Do we have any interest in picking these guys up?

 

[Greene Rice FIG]

Definitely not. Maybe their coach is just inCAPELable.

I see what you did there

 

[Greene Rice FIG]

They made a bad hire IMO..again

Oh no...there is an obvious choice

 

[RUEd]

Oh no...there is an obvious choice

Wasn’t Capel the “hot” coach at the time? I thought reading that everyone loved the hire

 

[bac2therac]

Wasn’t Capel the “hot” coach at the time? I thought reading that everyone loved the hire

Never impressed by him..he had one good year at Oklahoma with Blake Griffin and then immediately crashed..there was nothing hot about him besides being an assistant at Duke for 7 years

 

[ColonelRutgers]

Two guys entering the portal in season with the schedule almost completed??? What's going on there? ACC seems to have been full of drama all season.

 

[G- RUnit]

Wasn’t Capel the “hot” coach at the time? I thought reading that everyone loved the hire

There was talk of him being groomed for Coach K. Not now.

 

[SkilletHead2]

Can either of them play quarterback?

 

[Proud NJ Sports Fan]

They split from sPitt

 

[Mr. Magoo1]

Sounds like the pt guard has some issues. 3 techs in five games after you’ve been told to tone it down?

 

[RU-Choppin-Ohio]

that isn't the best look. for both player and coach

The answer appears to be right in the linked article.

Capel’s frustration with his point guard mounted, as well, evidenced most plainly after Pitt’s loss last Wednesday against N.C. State, which marked the third time in a five-game stretch in which Johnson was assessed a technical foul.

“Nothing I’ve said has worked,” Capel said at the time. “We’ve been telling him for three years, two-and-a-half years now: stop talking to the refs. Stop being demonstrative. Nothing we’ve said has worked.”

 

[AZBlues]

The answer appears to be right in the linked article.

Capel’s frustration with his point guard mounted, as well, evidenced most plainly after Pitt’s loss last Wednesday against N.C. State, which marked the third time in a five-game stretch in which Johnson was assessed a technical foul.

“Nothing I’ve said has worked,” Capel said at the time. “We’ve been telling him for three years, two-and-a-half years now: stop talking to the refs. Stop being demonstrative. Nothing we’ve said has worked.”

Former Pitt PG Xavier Johnson committed to Indiana today, so now he's Mike Woodson's problem. He should be an asset if he can control his emotions better than he did at Pitt.