Another quote from Dave Wannstedt on Steve Pederson
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He’s been an NFL player , College & NFL coach for about 40years.
The highest levels of his profession.
That sure ain’t grinding it out.
Playing the role of the jealous ex girlfriend to perfection.
Cavanaugh is a good NFL quarterback coach and offensive coordinator. He never figured out how to simplify things when he didn't have good quarterbacks after Palko left. Asking Pat Bostick to roll out to the left and throw right type shit was insane. The good thing he did the 13-9 year was using "the wildcat" with Shady. Sometimes it's the only way we moved the ball with Bostick and Kevan Smith's struggles.
The evidence suggests that he is not a good offensive coordinator. He is too conservative in his QB instruction as well.
Pederson took away our on campus stadium. We will never achieve prominence again without one.
If it wasn’t for Mark Nordenberg, Pitt probably would have dropped from Div I football.
If it wasn’t for Mark Nordenberg, the University would have stopped subsiding the athletic department deficit to the tune of up to 10 million as he did for most of his tenure.
There may not have ever been a more athletics friendly chancellor at Pitt than Nordenberg. This is not my opinion. It is the opinion of folks very high in the Pitt world.
the next to last home game ever against Miami drew under 40k.
Wow. You found a thread over three years old to make that reply?
Paco and Souf, thanks for your comments about Nordenberg. Let me throw my hat into that ring as well. To begin with, I agree with all the comments about Pederson. My view is that of a donor and also someone who was in sales his entire career. It's easy to pick out the disingenuous types or more simply stated, the phonies. The best thing about Pederson was he was smart enough to put his wife out front. She is a gem. I never could understand how Pederson could get hired, not once but twice. Was that a mistake by Nordenberg? On the face of it, yes. What we don't know was who convinced Nordenberg to make that choice. I sincerely doubt he made that decision on his own. He is way too smart a man. It pains me to read the comments on here villifying Nordenberg. What a gem of a guy. He wrote me personal notes of thanks, went out of his way to meet my family at sporting events and, yes, did one helluva job as Pitt's chancellor. Pitt is by far a better institution because of him.
Cavanaugh was an absolutely poor Coach here at pitt. I don’t care if he was good elsewhere, at pitt, it was a failure. From recruiting to working with the qbs to system, all around bad.
if he had success elsewhere, that makes it even worse from a pitt perspective.
if he had success elsewhere, that makes it even worse from a pitt perspective.
He wasn't very good elsewhere. When with the Ravens the offense was so vanilla that Billick threatened or may have taken away play-calling duties from Cavanaugh. I guess Matt's saving grace was he did place a third-round grade on Tom Brady.
If Wanny named Cignetti as the OC originally instead of Cavvy, then we would have won a lot more games.
Nothing. But I choose not to continually crucify people if they don't meet expectations. they do their best.
He’s so knowledgeable that he gave his best bud a golden parachute on his way out and left it up to Gallagher to fire Steve. I call that unethical and gutless. But give the guy credit, he knows how the game is played.
I agree, but at the same time I cannot blame him for hiring Cav originally. We cannot use hindsight when we talk about it. The fact of the matter was Cav was the other finalist for the HC position and most Pitt fans were thrilled we were able to get him as our OC at the time. It wasn't until a year or 2 when most fans soured on him. It would have been great to have had cignetti instead but at the time most fans would have bitched.
If he was so great, what explains letting the Olympic facilities languish for so long. Pitt still doesn’t have an outdoor track. Still plays in 70 year old buildings.
Why did pitt perform so poorly year after year in the directors cup
Why is pitt football so mediocre.
Why is sports so heavily subsidized by the university
Why one of the lowest revenues in all P5
Great for sports? My ass.
Why didn’t Pitt alums and fans step up to the plate to provide money that was desperately needed to renovate Pitt Stadium during the 80’s and 90’s?
Pitt is very fortunate IMO to have had back-to-back chancellors of the quality of Nordenberg and Gallagher. It takes time to build institutional strength, and Pitt (as an institution) has never been stronger as it is now with what has been built over the last 20 years. I think the same is true athletically, provided that we weather the Covid storm (as much as any other school is, at least).
Doesn't make much sense to me. It was Nordenberg who hired Pederson the first go around. So why would he need Wannstedt's opinion to hire him a second time? Nordenberg knew Pederson better than Wannstedt did.
Was Nordenberg ever asked about this quote from Wannstedt, to confirm or deny it?
nordenberg. The guy you praise. Made a horrible hiring decision. An epic bad one. Yet he built such a great front porch. Not. And now collects salary from some made up position at Pitt? Just leave it to the academic eggheads at pitt to run a business. Just leave it to a public school run by bureaucrats filled with politics and nepotism. I really need the name of your drug company.
Because you misinterpret the story. Nordy wasn't asking Dave his opinion. He was telling Dave that Steve was coming back, and since Nordy was so disconnected from sports reality, he expected Dave to respond with "Wow! The great SP is coming back. We are so fortunate!"
Narduzzi could’ve called a timeout when his chinstrap came off. No reason to burn Pickett’s redshirt there.
And what makes them cheap. Maybe an administration that is all hat and no cattle when it comes to that front porch. Talk is cheap. Pitt fans don’t throw good money after bad. Nerdball has no business acumen and his knowledge of sports is not past the 6th grade level. I truly feel sorry for those who think he’s some sports savant. Including you Paco. Go back to your chemistry set.
A couple things...
Nordy was great for Pitt but believed strongly in being fiscally responsible, often to the detriment of athletics. The approach worked very well for the University as a whole, but it also moved us off campus in football, a move that you’d struggle to find someone willing to do today, and had us in poor facilities in general. We missed some opportunities to support coaches when we had the chance, and now we’re trying to get back to where we were in some cases.
Gallagher is a strong proponent of athletics and we’re spending like we never have, the problem is that doesn’t guarantee success and the distance between the haves and the have nots has grown every year.
Nordy was great for Pitt but believed strongly in being fiscally responsible, often to the detriment of athletics. The approach worked very well for the University as a whole, but it also moved us off campus in football, a move that you’d struggle to find someone willing to do today, and had us in poor facilities in general. We missed some opportunities to support coaches when we had the chance, and now we’re trying to get back to where we were in some cases.
Gallagher is a strong proponent of athletics and we’re spending like we never have, the problem is that doesn’t guarantee success and the distance between the haves and the have nots has grown every year.
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