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Message: [QUOTE="FloridaCuse, post: 5692825, member: 8912"] [HEADING=2]Pitt AD set for challenge in taking on athletic department issues[/HEADING] 02.16.2026 Pitt AD Allen Greene is “responsible for fixing” an athletic department “in shambles” after former AD Heather Lyke was [URL='https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Articles/2024/09/09/pittsburgh-ad-heather-lyke/']fired in September 2024[/URL] and left “quite the mess behind,” according to Noah Hiles of the PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE. 2026 will “undoubtedly be a challenging year” for Pitt’s athletic department. Lyke’s “inability to appropriately allocate resources toward what actually mattered has brought Pitt to where it is now.” Her “most notable misstep” was the [URL='https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Daily/Morning-Buzz/2020/01/15/Pitt/']Victory Heights[/URL] initiative, an “ambitious multi-sport facility that would serve as a replacement to the aging Fitzgerald Field House.” Lyke signed up for a $240M project with “little to no funding secured beforehand.” Meanwhile, the football team is “losing some of its top players in the transfer portal.” The men’s basketball team is “unwatchable,” while the women’s team is “equally bad and is allegedly an even a bigger issue off the court.” Some non-revenue sports “might not be around much longer.” Over the next year, Greene will “be the one forced to make a series of tough decisions, ones that will, at least temporarily, make him an unpopular man.” Football and men’s basketball “have to improve,” but that “doesn’t happen without better players.” Greene “must decide the future of his men’s and women’s basketball programs,” as “both head coaches deserve to be fired.” For the “foreseeable future, Greene will have to be the bad guy.” But the “most overwhelming criticism surrounding Greene is visibility.” He is “rarely in the spotlight” ([URL='https://www.post-gazette.com/sports/pitt/2026/02/14/ncaa-pitt-panthers-allen-greene-heather-lyke/stories/202602140010'][I]PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE, 2/14[/I][/URL]). [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Articles/2026/02/16/pitt-ad-set-for-challenge-in-taking-on-athletic-department-issues/[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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