Bill Cowher

[TheWerewolfFromTwilight]

They're honoring him at the NC State game tonight. Only NC State player in the NFL Hall of Fame, which is hard to believe (they mentioned Torry Holt will get there).

Anyway...

He still leads NC State in tackles in a season and was the team MVP in 1979. My question is... did Pitt make much of a run at him? Not sure if anyone knows the story with that.

 

[BreakingPitt]

i have a self imposed ban on college football tv watching until Pitt gets to .500.
so idk

 

[HailtoPitt]

i have a self imposed ban on college football tv watching until Pitt gets to .500.
so idk

It's gonna be awhile.

 

[pittmeister]

They're honoring him at the NC State game tonight. Only NC State player in the NFL Hall of Fame, which is hard to believe (they mentioned Torry Holt will get there).

Anyway...

He still leads NC State in tackles in a season and was the team MVP in 1979. My question is... did Pitt make much of a run at him? Not sure if anyone knows the story with that.

Let me check and I’ll get back to you…. Seriously….

 

[cbpitt2]

They're honoring him at the NC State game tonight. Only NC State player in the NFL Hall of Fame, which is hard to believe (they mentioned Torry Holt will get there).

Anyway...

He still leads NC State in tackles in a season and was the team MVP in 1979. My question is... did Pitt make much of a run at him? Not sure if anyone knows the story with that.

I've never heard of him being recruited by Pitt, but at that time Pitt’s talent level was very high.

 

[TheWerewolfFromTwilight]

I've never heard of him being recruited by Pitt, but at that time Pitt’s talent level was very high.

Yeah, I was wondering if he wasn't seen as Pitt material or something at the time. I actually thought he might have moved (I knew he was from Crafton originally) at some point, but it looks like he indeed play in the WPIAL. It looks like NC State was a decent team around that time... which led me to my next discovery: They have ONE double digit win season in 118 years. That's amazing to me.

 

[BreakingPitt]

i respect every man here because they test the limits. they know.

 

[LeftCoastPanther]

Cowher was not recruited by Pitt. In the Cowher book that came out in the past year he gave an emotional speech before the bowl game in 1978 and said how Pitt didn’t recruit him and he supported those guys growing up by going to games and was ignored as a football player.

 

[FireballZ]

i respect every man here because they test the limits. they know.

Speaking of limits, I hope you do your Friday night routine at home. Stay safe.

 

[DruidTM]

Armstrong remains terrible looking now for a couple seasons at this point

 

[TheWerewolfFromTwilight]

Armstrong remains terrible looking now for a couple seasons at this point

Both those offenses looked awful to me. But my NC State +3.5, Oregon State ML, Clemson -6.5, Pitt -2.5 parlay remains in tact... for now.

 

[DruidTM]

And now Kedon Slovis is playing against Cinci… lol

 

[BreakingPitt]

Speaking of limits, I hope you do your Friday night routine at home. Stay safe.

hmmm. not worth it ..

 

[pittmeister]

Cowher was not recruited by Pitt. In the Cowher book that came out in the past year he gave an emotional speech before the bowl game in 1978 and said how Pitt didn’t recruit him and he supported those guys growing up by going to games and was ignored as a football player.

Tis true...

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

books.google.com

 

[jason754732]

How the tides change. He would have been a beast for us now.

 

[The Ole Six-Fiver]

So typical of yinzers then and now, one and two star talent feels entitled to be given offers to Pitt, four or five (and increasingly, three) turn their nose up at Pitt. No win situation with local recruiting now, really

 

[pittmeister]

Back in the 1970’s I’d go to a Western Conference game between Mt. Lebanon and Upper Stair Clair and see 10 future Division I players on the field playing at the same time (No exaggeration). Today, you don’t get 10 for the entire WPIAL.

 

[upj87]

They're honoring him at the NC State game tonight. Only NC State player in the NFL Hall of Fame, which is hard to believe (they mentioned Torry Holt will get there).

Anyway...

He still leads NC State in tackles in a season and was the team MVP in 1979. My question is... did Pitt make much of a run at him? Not sure if anyone knows the story with that.

guessing he was not of the quality of player Pitt recruited in '75..

 

[LeftCoastPanther]

How Cowher ended up at NC State is a good story.

He camped at Maryland, the cream of the ACC at the time, and left not impressing the staff. Cowher sat next to a Wolfpack assistant on his flight home and the two started chatting. When Cowher said he was coming back from the camp the assistant thought “if this kid is good enough for Maryland, then he’s good enough for us.”

Holtz ended up in the Cowher household on a recruiting visit and the rest is history.

 

[forbesfield]

The WPIAL was a different animal back then. I doubt he was all-WPIAL, even, although I'm not certain.

Played against those Carlynton teams back then, and to be honest, I don't remember that we even mentioned him much.

 

[tetonpanther]

What a joke. Cowher sucked

 

[Upg bobcat]

With respect to there being less talent in WPIAL, I think shrinking population/less families in the region has to have something to do with it. What was the class size at Carlynton back then versus now? I see Cowher is listed as being 6'3"-6'4" ... I'm willing to bet there are no 6'3"-6'4" inch linebackers on Carlynton's football team right now.

 

[The Ole Six-Fiver]

I don’t know how he (or Bradshaw) are still on those network pregame shows. They’ve slipped really badly on the last couple years. Brad can still be kind of funny on occasion in his trademark buffoonish way, at least. Cowher’s just dour, and voice is just unpleasant to listen to.

 

[forbesfield]

For the same reason that Corso and Holtz are still on. Inertia.