Second most. The first is in our own state!
He is 82-23 and has won a national title. Winning is the bottom line, and he has done lots of it. Most big-time schools skirt the NCAA rules, so that isn’t some shocking story.
or you could be so bad in the first place that no one has ever said anthing complimentary about you in the first place. hence my Haywood pic..
he was "meh" at pitt so we think of him that way. he was the absolute epitome of mediocre so we kind of don't really care too passionately one way or the other.
he's like a perfect balance of mediocrity. for everything you put on the good side of the scale, you have something on the bad side of the scale to equal it out. For every position he recruited well at, you can list a position he recruited poorly at. For every respectable win to tip the scale in his favor, there is a head scratching loss to equal it out.
a passionate fanbase in a very strong conference in a weaker division with a long history of success, a very successful AD in a cool ass college town. Wiscy has a lot going for it. Not sure what high school football is like up there but they've done it right for decades, that's for sure..
Sadly Chryst's success at Whisky has proven what a mess the PITT program was in, hopefully we are beyond that.
The only thing Chyst's success at Whisky has proven is what a turd pile the Big 10 west is...
a passionate fanbase in a very strong conference in a weaker division with a long history of success,... funny, for an old timer like me a long history of success means it dates back further than the mid 90's. When I was growing up as a kid and well into young adulthood Wisconsin had nothing that would resemble a passionate fanbase as they for the most part sucked for pretty much their entire existence up and until that point.....
IMO "The Haymaker" would have been a decent football coach if he had lasted more than one month?
had on a crappy sweatshirt the other day as I headed out to the grocery store and my son (University of Pittsburgh class of 2020) asked me to put on something decent as he said I looked like Paul Chryst..
OK, well I was kind of going back to the what? Mid 90's? I don't know, that's 25 years, that's a long time. But your point is valid, "long history of success" can be interpreted many ways.
he was being mocked by the players in his opening meeting with them. A pitt player was quoted as them all laughing at him in his introductory meeting with the team, talking about discipline while dressed in a wrinkled suit..
yes, no offense as age plays strange tricks on the way everyone views time. You never had a reference point of Whisky suckiness and that is all I knew. Ditto for Oregon. ..When I graduated high school in 83' it had been 19 years since the Beatles came to America. It might have been the same as Columbus coming to America as it seemed like an eternity ago in the past. Nowadays, Seinfeld ended 20 years ago and it seems like it has been off the air for 5 or 6 seasons...
So like I said he would be a terrible coach and had no chance of succeeding?
dude, we got scammed a few times much worse than haywood. what our former AD did with stallings and the search firm was downright criminal. What nordy did with giving Pederson 2+ million, full well knowing he was going to be fired, was downright criminal.
That's a perfect opportunity to educate junior about estate planning. Or, more specifically, wills.
83, you're a pup. 1970 here, 2 years in the Army then at PITT for the Majors era. Great time to be a PITT fan..…...Then along came Bozik.
Give Coach Tomlin his due. Soon he will command the respect of his players.
