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Slick Manager of Champs said:
actually that brings to mind the Syracuse fiasco last year. A coach on his way to being fired and no QB rolled to a win.

There really is enough evidence to make a coaching change. But in this new era, even the football crazy schools aren't jettisoning their coaches (Brian Kelly, Napier, Venables are probably all coming back).

Narduzzi is starting to remind me of Wannstedt. Give him the talent, and he won't screw it up. But unless he has more talent at each of the 22 positions, there is not much chance of winning. I always thought that was Narduzzi's strongpoint...."coaching them up". Now not so much.
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Since you mentioned Billy Napier, some friends and I were at the Ole Miss/Florida game yesterday. We all are Pitt fans for 40 or so years. Being at a place like that you come to the realization that Pitt will never be truly relevant again…..for various reasons.
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No one should be surprised

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jivecat said:
Can you all stop complaining?

We knew this schedule was front loaded with bad teams and we were not going to be strong this year.
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Eh, expectations change with results. Past Pitt teams would've started the year 4-3, this team was 7-0. It wasn't unreasonable with the schedule they had left to finish 9-3. Instead they had a bad home loss to Virginia and were completely outclassed by SMU and Louisville. Didn't look like they even belonged on the same field as those teams.
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I DO get that a head coach in college sports is responsible for the roster too. So it’s a perfectly legit conversation to want more from PN at this point. 7-4 coming off of 3-9 would be acceptable if we felt momentum was building. But we are right back where we started now.

That said - blaming game day coaching is lazy, and people do it because it’s the easiest way to envision your team being good again.

But the talent level after the injuries is not good. Louisville played SMU,Miami, and ND to one score games. They were better than a their record
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The Narduzzi Contract

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The baseline for Pitt football for me is 8-4 in the regular season. Narduzzi has...

8 wins - 3 of 9 seasons (potential for a 4th)
7 or fewer wins - 4 of 9 seasons (potential for a 5th)
9 or more wins - 2 of 9 seasons

Narduzzi has been a good coach for Pitt and he's taken this program forward from Chryst. It also feels like he's maxed out his potential has has Pitt on the fall.
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Do you guys think its “gameday coaching” if you have a backup Oline, a backup QB, 4th string RBs playing, and not getting results?

The defense has a few good (one great) playmakers, but lots of gaps.

7-4 is about what this team is. Great QB play pulled out a couple wins early, to offset a couple games recently that we let slip away.

I didn’t love the effort at SMU or Louisville - but it snowballed because they are better.

Need to get the NIL machine firing. Need more depth of talent, not a half dozen really good players and MAC level otherwise.
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