To go from 7-0 to 7-6, including loss to Toledo in 6 OT. I’m not complaining — love that Franklin and PSU dominate recruiting in WPIAL. Pitt administration has loyalty not seen at most places— it must be the museums and orchestra and culture that Pitters brag about— Narduzzi has taken the fight to win in football out of them.
How is Narduzzi keeping his job??
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sPitt has no money or at least no money they invest in FB.
Just pray he has a lifetime contract. Terrible recruiter (shocking with his charming personality, right?), and when he accidentally gets a good 3 star recruit, they transfer out. There is a reason he could not get hired as a head coach all those years as the MSU DC.
And in a typical Duzzer move, he refused to shake hand with the Toledo coach yesterday.
And in a typical Duzzer move, he refused to shake hand with the Toledo coach yesterday.
To make a long story short, he was given a contract extension by Pitt's now former AD Heather Lyke. The terms of his contract $6.7mm/yr thru 2030 with large buyout / guaranteed money.
If Pitt should choose to go in another direction re their head football coach, they would have to virtually eat his entire salary and then identify and pay his successor as well.
Now will Pitt be intimately examining his job responsibilities to identify a reason that they can fire him with cause.
Nothing would surprise me. He did demonstrate poor sportsmanship in his encounter with the Toledo HC at the end of the game. If they can establish a pattern ....
Not a desirable spot, difficult to attract an accomplished coach, maybe an "up and comer", if he does well, he is gone, if not Pitt is stuck. Tend to compare them to Temple, think Temple has a new coach.
He earned his personality from Coach Constipated (Dantonio) who he worked for.
The only thing keeping Pitt from being on Temple's level is that they play in the ACC, and even that isn't having that great of an effect on their program. If they didn't have that, they would be the Western PA version of Temple.
You don't have to be a football expert to know that Pitt has gone about as far as they can go with that guy as their head coach. He lucked into one great season in 2021 when Clemson was reloading or rebuilding and he had a 10 year starting qb, and he made one other ACC Championship Game appearance and got blown out by Clemson. Other than that, that program has been mediocre or bad during his tenure, and their recruiting and NIL aren't good.
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And this is after going 3-9 last season.
But…..He has a huge buyout…..and who they gonna get🤷🏿♂️
In a way, I have to commend Pittsburgh, the city, not the coach. Remember first time I drove in from the TP, what an impressive skyline.
He'll have to do something the next two years with Eli or they have no choice but to move on. Their season tanked completely once he was injured but beating Toledo or not doesn't truly matter.
Have you seen the list of their head coaches since 2010? Michael Haywood? They’re lucky to get anyone to take that job. Hence, why the Duz gets to keep it.
What’s funny about that hire is that they interviewed two other candidates who I really liked, FIU’s Mario Cristobal and OSU’s Luke Fickell. Both would’ve been exponentially better hires than Haywood/Graham.
Those things are true and the whole Coastal alignment benefited them tremendously when Florida State was down. The “best” team they had to beat was North Carolina. He achieved some success by being in the weakest division of the weakest conference in Power 4/5 football. They rewarded him with a massive contract extension with a huge buyout. He is essentially unfireable.
Here is how dumb the Pit fanbase is, this is their cycle. Season ends and they complain about Douchie (like they are now) but then he spouts off some crude jab at PSU and Franklin (especially if they lose a bowl game) and they get all giddy about it and that keeps them occupied for the next 4 months. Then an idiot radio sports talk host talks about how great some WPIAL kid looked in spring camp and pre-season drills and that he will be the next star at Pit and a future NFL HOF. That idiot radio host will also mention how great it is that local kids stay and play at Pit and that CJF is a used car salesman. Then the PPG will write an article that PIt has the greatest athletic program in the NCAA, does more with less, develops players and that PSU is scared to play Pit and Douchie spouts off and feeds the idiot fan base some more. Finally the season starts and they beat up on some cupcakes in front of 4278 people at Heinz (half of those got buy one get one free tix from Giant Iggle) to start off 2-0 and begin talk of winning Football Natty #261 until finally they lose to a bottom feeder like Kent or maybe a D2 team and then collapse in to another dumpster fire to finish the season.
They are so bad they dont deserve the 2nd 't', they are just a 'Pit'
They are so bad they dont deserve the 2nd 't', they are just a 'Pit'
MFers were even wrong about the tweet, Kutztown was still undefeated at that time. They are a CFB team
IDK the answer, but they have two choices... Hire up and comers that will leave after 2 seasons if they have any success or keep a guy like Narduzzi and the AD doesn't have to regularly embark on HC searches.
Dooz is a blowhard, but he's basically an honest guy. PiT has put him in a shitty, unwinnable position, except against crappy teams.
I liken him to Foge Fazio as the Pittsburgh media called PiT the Tower of Ignorance. My brother in law made the doofy comment "You only want PiT to keep him so they never win another game".
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I liken him to Foge Fazio as the Pittsburgh media called PiT the Tower of Ignorance. My brother in law made the doofy comment "You only want PiT to keep him so they never win another game".
🤣🙊🙄🦨😮🤡
Someone would--the ACC is very weak and a program like Pitt could have a conference title run from time to time if you use the portal correctly. They'll never win a playoff game but someone will always be out there that wants it
The dumbest thing Pitt did was passing on Tom Bradley in 2011 or whenever that was
They had no choice - no matter how good he was he was a “Nitter” and therefore no way the moron fan base would allow the hire.
In 2021, Pitt did not face a ranked opponent all season until the ACC Championship Game against defenseless Weak Forest. That's how weak the Almost Competitive Conference was that year. The ACC is doing themselves no favors this year in bowl play either.
And if they would have been in the other division, they never would have even sniffed an ACC championship game….similar to Wisconsin and Iowa.
Only these P5 “football powers” have a longer streak of consecutive three-loss-or-more seasons than Pitt which goes back to 1981: Duke, Iowa State, Kentucky, North Carolina State, Purdue, Vanderbilt and Wake Forest.
Indiana broke free of that ignominious streak this year.
Indiana broke free of that ignominious streak this year.
Can you imagine being a player in a meeting with those Two Angry Men🤷🏿♂️
Passing on Bradley wasn’t the issue; if he was cut out to be a head coach, someone would’ve hired him by now. What we should’ve done was hire Cristobal or Fickell, both of whom interviewed for the job.
You’ve had like 13 coaches since the last real successful one and none of them were outstanding, so maybe it’s not the coaches but the university.
Passing on Bradley was "AN" issue
Unlike the others that would have been a destination job for him
Again, some coaches are better coordinators than head coaches. Nothing wrong with that. Bradley was a fine DC, but just because he wanted the job doesn’t mean it was a mistake not hiring him. Pitt apparently was a “destination” job for Narduzzi as well; look how that’s turned out.
Now Barry Alvarez, Mark Richt, and some of the other guys who wanted it? Yeah, we messed up there…
It's not a destination job for Narduzzi--it's just his destination which is a huge difference
Richt--no--you ddn't mess up there
Don't believe Alvarez for a second--he's many things but not dumb
It doesn’t matter who they hired back then or in the future. Sorry, but Pitt is not a “destination” for players unless you have so much money that players hold their nose.
The point is, history has shown that it doesn’t matter who you hire, the program is what it is and has been for years. It takes more than a coach to build a top 10-15 program and Pitt doesn’t have it. They need to change a lot of things to get to that point and coach is not at the top of that list.
I'll just leave this here. Huge loss.
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I don't disagree with this. If it were up to me, we'd return to the Big East and go all-in on basketball. Maybe that's just because I was a Pitt hoops fan first.
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