Mike Cook

NCAA Men's Division I basketball teams are allowed 13 scholarships . . . as much as the media loves Duke, even Coach K has to make do with the same 13 scholarships that Belmont has ;)

I think--someone may have to check me on this--that women's teams in DI have 15 scholarships, although I do not know why the women have two more than the men.

For the record, I think Mike Cook is a class guy and its a shame his career ended the way it did, but I agree that Pitt doesn't need him.

DemonDeeken, since the early part of this decade, the courts decided that athletic scholarships must be given out egaully between women and mens sports.  to further regulate and control this practice, the NCAA standards that were set up to balance sports Sholarships to equal out athletic scholarships between men's and women's sports.  Being that Football gives out so many scholarships to men, other sports like Softball, Basketball, Gymnastics, Volleyball and Lacross must give out more to the women to balance out for Football.

Pitt is already one scholarship over for next year and has still one scholarship on the table for Dan Jennings.  If he accepts, Pitt will need to remove scholarships from two current scholarship players or hope that somone becomes academically ineligible..  One will most likely be be Cassin Diggs, but who else after him?  If Cook earns a red shirt (for which I do not think Dixon will pursue) we would really have a problem not to mention if Darnell Dodson may have an option to return since I did not hear that Pitt took his scholarship away yet since he was academically ineligible last year.

I also believe that Dixon over recruited for 2008 with mainly role players and did not free up scholarships to use for elite players for 2009 or 2010.  We will definitly be thin in recuits for those years since we should only have three graduating (Fields, Biggs, Young) during those two years. (My count may be off).