Great article on PennLive about Narduzzi, Pitt, and the city.
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It is what our Penn State Fellow Commonwealth Friends and our Former Big East Brothers & Sisters do not understand. Pitt now is in a Power Conference it can afford bringing in Coaches, Resources, and grow the Program like never before and even better than in the 1970s.
Additionally, Pitt will have far easier time rebuilding its Program in the ACC Coastal than WVU in the Big-12 and Penn State maintaining winning in the Big Ten East in the coming years.
http://www.pennlive.com/pennstatefo...ball_penn_state_pat_n.html#incart_river_index
I know they can't accept how things have changed but they have changed! The admission of Maryland and Rutgers to the same wealth and access in the Big Ten will also hurt Penn State far more than they will ever know right now.
It is amazing but many Penn State Alumni and Fans still think they are in the Paterno Era and that is not reality. Since 2000, Penn State has been the 7th & 8th Winning Team in the Big Ten. It is not going to get easier but harder and Paterno could win more games since joining the Big Ten? What Joe Built, Joe also left to decay to preserve his 409 record. This is Joe's True Legacy of a slow demise from being a Preeminent Eastern Football Program & Wins to a After Fart in the Big Ten for over 16 years?
They have no idea how much they have lost and how much easier for Pitt to gain today in the ACC.
Penn State University is Buying out over 1300 Employees due to financial setbacks from the Scandal & Sanctions. This is another Legacy of what Penn State is dealing with and how things have changed and the Swagger is not gone but was only in the Windmills of their Minds as the Athletic Reforms brought them to reality!
The Big Ten Money is way more than Pitt in the ACC but that is going to Maryland, Rutgers, Indiana, and MSU, OSU, and Michigan too? Good Luck with that and Pitt will compete with Duke, UNC, Virginia, VT, Miami, and GT?
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Because Narduzzi fits the place. I don't know how else to say it. He looks and sounds like Pittsburgh. He doesn't sound pasteurized. Other than Dave Wannstedt (2005-10), who grew up in Baldwin, they haven't had a guy like him in over three decade..........
I asked Narduzzi this afternoon if, in the age of job-hopping coaches and Monopoly money, he thinks it matters that he's a fit with the city and the school: "I think it does matter. When athletic directors and chancellors decide who they want as a head coach, I think fit is a big thing. You want someone who wants to have longevity at a university. "So, I think if it matters to them, I think it's awful important that you better be into this game as a coach, that you're passionate as a coach, walking in that office every day and knowing that you love being there. That's where I am."......
And now that Pitt is a Power Five conference member in the ACC, it can for the first time be not just a weigh station but a destination for a homegrown coach who wants to stay there............
That's the advantage that Pitt has now that it never did when any coach who won had to go someplace else to make serious money. Power conference membership means everything today.Pitt has it. They also have a guy in Narduzzi who might not be lured away by success:"I enjoy being here and maybe the fan base sees that," Narduzzi said. "That's kind of what it is. You'd better have passion not just to coach the game, but to love where you are coaching the game."
http://www.pennlive.com/pennstatefo...ball_penn_state_pat_n.html#incart_river_index
Additionally, Pitt will have far easier time rebuilding its Program in the ACC Coastal than WVU in the Big-12 and Penn State maintaining winning in the Big Ten East in the coming years.
http://www.pennlive.com/pennstatefo...ball_penn_state_pat_n.html#incart_river_index
I know they can't accept how things have changed but they have changed! The admission of Maryland and Rutgers to the same wealth and access in the Big Ten will also hurt Penn State far more than they will ever know right now.
It is amazing but many Penn State Alumni and Fans still think they are in the Paterno Era and that is not reality. Since 2000, Penn State has been the 7th & 8th Winning Team in the Big Ten. It is not going to get easier but harder and Paterno could win more games since joining the Big Ten? What Joe Built, Joe also left to decay to preserve his 409 record. This is Joe's True Legacy of a slow demise from being a Preeminent Eastern Football Program & Wins to a After Fart in the Big Ten for over 16 years?
They have no idea how much they have lost and how much easier for Pitt to gain today in the ACC.
Penn State University is Buying out over 1300 Employees due to financial setbacks from the Scandal & Sanctions. This is another Legacy of what Penn State is dealing with and how things have changed and the Swagger is not gone but was only in the Windmills of their Minds as the Athletic Reforms brought them to reality!
The Big Ten Money is way more than Pitt in the ACC but that is going to Maryland, Rutgers, Indiana, and MSU, OSU, and Michigan too? Good Luck with that and Pitt will compete with Duke, UNC, Virginia, VT, Miami, and GT?
Excerpt:
Because Narduzzi fits the place. I don't know how else to say it. He looks and sounds like Pittsburgh. He doesn't sound pasteurized. Other than Dave Wannstedt (2005-10), who grew up in Baldwin, they haven't had a guy like him in over three decade..........
I asked Narduzzi this afternoon if, in the age of job-hopping coaches and Monopoly money, he thinks it matters that he's a fit with the city and the school: "I think it does matter. When athletic directors and chancellors decide who they want as a head coach, I think fit is a big thing. You want someone who wants to have longevity at a university. "So, I think if it matters to them, I think it's awful important that you better be into this game as a coach, that you're passionate as a coach, walking in that office every day and knowing that you love being there. That's where I am."......
And now that Pitt is a Power Five conference member in the ACC, it can for the first time be not just a weigh station but a destination for a homegrown coach who wants to stay there............
That's the advantage that Pitt has now that it never did when any coach who won had to go someplace else to make serious money. Power conference membership means everything today.Pitt has it. They also have a guy in Narduzzi who might not be lured away by success:"I enjoy being here and maybe the fan base sees that," Narduzzi said. "That's kind of what it is. You'd better have passion not just to coach the game, but to love where you are coaching the game."
http://www.pennlive.com/pennstatefo...ball_penn_state_pat_n.html#incart_river_index
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David Jones...the guys all nitters hate...love the article...
Funny how these articles are easier to come by for Pitt for a non local site/paper, but not for the PG.
Penn Live has 3 full time PSU football writers and they each write what seems like an article a day. PITTsburgh media ......meh
BTW.....this PSU writer was able to write this with the same access to PITT this week.
BTW.....this PSU writer was able to write this with the same access to PITT this week.
The only problem is that it implies Pitt wasn't a major conference program before the ACC. There is a major money difference now, but conferences weren't printing cash until recently.
People forget that not too long ago Pitt used to poach head coaches from the likes of Iowa St, Washington State, and Kansas.
People forget that not too long ago Pitt used to poach head coaches from the likes of Iowa St, Washington State, and Kansas.
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