What does the University of Pittsburgh men’s basketball program have in common with the Browns?

More than you might think, really.

Pitt announced on Thursday that it has fired its head coach, Kevin Stallings, after just two seasons.

The Panthers, who have had a proud basketball tradition before falling on hard times recently, went 8-24 overall this season and, in going 0-18 in Atlantic Coast Conference play, was the only team in the nation not to win a game this year. To put an exclamation point on their sorry season, the Panthers also lost their opener in the league tournament this week.

In Stallings’ first season in 2016-17, Pitt was 16-17, but then five players transferred, sending the program into a tailspin.

Stallings was 24-41 overall in his short stint.

To school officials, that simply wasn’t good enough. It was unacceptable. They had seen all they needed to see to let them know without a shadow of a doubt that a coaching change absolutely, positively had to be made.

Let’s compare all this to the Browns, who have had a proud tradition before falling on hard times in the almost two-decade span of the expansion era. Their head coach, Hue Jackson, was 0-16 last season, marking only them only the second team to go winless since the NFL instituted the 16-game regular-season schedule in 1978. In his first season of 2016, the Browns were 1-15, with that victory coming by 20-17 over the Chargers in the next-to-last game of the year when the team, near the end of its final season in San Diego, misfired on two field-goal attempts in the last 3:45, including a 45-yarder as time expired.

So Jackson’s 1-31 mark in Cleveland could very easily be 0-32.

Yet Browns owner Jimmy Haslam announced late last season that Jackson, with a much worse resume than Stallings, would return for 2018.

By doing so, Haslam is, in effect, saying that, in his eyes, one win in two years is good enough for Jackson to keep his job.

I know that college basketball and the NFL are apples and oranges in most ways, but still …