Like many of you, I am a college football lunatic in general and I tend to digest it year round. If you are not familiar with it, Podcast Ain’t Played Nobody (“PAPN”) is a podcast by SBNation with Bill Connelly (inventor of the S&P+ rating system that does the insane deep previews of every single team every year) and Steven Godfrey (who has crazy recruiting ties and seems to pretty much know everyone in college football coaching circles...he is the one who wrote the Bagman article that ruffled a lot of feathers down south).
If you don’t listen to these guys, they spend the offseason previewing every single FBS team following the Bill C SBN team preview series. At the end of the show, there is a question portion and on the most recent episode (this past Thursday), they fielded a question about how Mark Whipple can help Pitt and on a bigger scale: what it means to hire an older OC and the perception that fans have of a possible lack of recruiting ability of an older coach. I recommend you give it a listen on whatever podcast app you use (just type in PAPN and listen to the most recent episode or click the link below).
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podca...inators-anti-big/id1033876726?i=1000435500891
The Whipple answer comes at around 1:20.
To summarize if you don’t want to listen: they basically sum it up by saying that from what they hear from other coaches, Whipple is still a hell of a play caller and coach. For background, these guys go to the coaches convention every year that we hear about and talk to everyone. For insight on their knowledge of the lower level FBS teams, you can hear if you listen to the rest of the episode about how much they know about other smaller schools and they love themselves some non-Power 5 schools and coaches. They are well aware of who Mark Whipple is.
In terms of a perceived recruiting lack, they confirm a lot of suspicions that the OC is not really going to be a lead recruiting guy in most situations. Bill hasn’t gotten into FBS previews at this point in the year yet, but he says that if Narduzzi surrounds him with good recruiters at RB/WR coach, they should be good with Whip calling plays and those guys getting him playmakers. He then reads that Beatty was hired as WR coach and pretty much confirms that Narduzzi did exactly that. Basically, it seems like in theory that we are doing everything right here to make things move in the direction we want.
Nothing groundbreaking here, just some offseason Pitt talk to move us along.
If you don’t listen to these guys, they spend the offseason previewing every single FBS team following the Bill C SBN team preview series. At the end of the show, there is a question portion and on the most recent episode (this past Thursday), they fielded a question about how Mark Whipple can help Pitt and on a bigger scale: what it means to hire an older OC and the perception that fans have of a possible lack of recruiting ability of an older coach. I recommend you give it a listen on whatever podcast app you use (just type in PAPN and listen to the most recent episode or click the link below).
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podca...inators-anti-big/id1033876726?i=1000435500891
The Whipple answer comes at around 1:20.
To summarize if you don’t want to listen: they basically sum it up by saying that from what they hear from other coaches, Whipple is still a hell of a play caller and coach. For background, these guys go to the coaches convention every year that we hear about and talk to everyone. For insight on their knowledge of the lower level FBS teams, you can hear if you listen to the rest of the episode about how much they know about other smaller schools and they love themselves some non-Power 5 schools and coaches. They are well aware of who Mark Whipple is.
In terms of a perceived recruiting lack, they confirm a lot of suspicions that the OC is not really going to be a lead recruiting guy in most situations. Bill hasn’t gotten into FBS previews at this point in the year yet, but he says that if Narduzzi surrounds him with good recruiters at RB/WR coach, they should be good with Whip calling plays and those guys getting him playmakers. He then reads that Beatty was hired as WR coach and pretty much confirms that Narduzzi did exactly that. Basically, it seems like in theory that we are doing everything right here to make things move in the direction we want.
Nothing groundbreaking here, just some offseason Pitt talk to move us along.
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