They are both proven losers.
Likely it would’ve been mediocre as Tino never panned out. Idk about how they canned him after 2010 though, from game #1 to game #12 it was pretty clear Tino was not ready as a sophomore. If you’re gonna have a down year and it’s still 7-5 with a sophomore qb, that’s not really that bad. I absolutely would’ve told Wannstedt though it’s 9 wins and a BCS appearance minimum in 2011 if you wanna still be here in 2012.
Losers ...aka the Pitt Ath Dept do things like fire the only coach to get them 10 in decades,wo the first clue as what to do next....save for hiring Baby Mommy Beater, followed by the Texas Turd.
There's ACC Bb which is something special , however ACC Fb is nothing special ,it's not the SEC . NO excuses not to be reasonably competitive with teams like PSU and UCF .
Fans like you are probably still upset that the Pirates let go of Pedro Alvarez and Jeff Locke
Mediocre sounds pretty good right now !
DW wasn't a great coach but his game day coaching wasn't as bad as many make it sound on here. He did recruit a ton of talent at Pitt. His team that went 9-4 had 11 starters that were drafted in the NFl. How many kids will be drafted on this Pitt team? Wanny's biggest failing was he couldn't get a QB to save his life. With average QB play your simply not winning more than 9 or 10 games in modern football. Put palko or a QB the caliber of Peterman and those two teams finish with 11 or 12 wins and DW might still be coaching. Modern college football is about recruiting, recruiting recruiting and finding a stud at QB. Do that and your going to win a ton of games. Franklin, Stoops and even DW are proof of that. I dont think any of the 3 are the quality of a urban meyer but they all recruited lights out.
To be completely fair I don't think SP ever really intended to fire DW, at least not at first. He demanded DW make changes to his staff, story I heard is SP wanted DW to change the style of the offense to a spread attack(really not a bad idea when you think about it) DW told SP to pound sand it was his team and he was keeping the same coaches. SP was then backed into a corner fire DW or lose control the program. Nordy sided with steve. The rest is history. I think SP thought initially that DW would cave to his demands and there was no backup plan.
I don't follow this line of thought. Sure DW played in a weak conference but he also had to recruit with that hanging around his neck as well. In the ACC DW would have likely gotten better players, which would counter act the harder schedule(its not that much tougher really)
Good grief.
Yet could only finish in third place at his peak in a 8 team league
I could see things ending similarly with Narduzzi. He is stubborn like Wanny.
Because he couldn't recruit a QB to save his life. I guess I am not saying they should have kept DW just that I wish for Pitt's sake that DW would have landed a good QB. I really believe that's the big thing that kept DW from being a big winner here. Its the closest we have come since Gottfried. They had the talent everywhere else but you just can't win 11 or 12 games with bill stull as your QB no matter how good the coach is. NO coach is perfect they all make boneheaded decisions, but if you recruit a talented roster with a good QB you will win even with the boneheaded mistakes. DW did everything except the QB part.
