Intersting info on possible OC Mike Yurcich
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If he spent a weekend in Homewood when he was 12 then I say hire him as that makes him a Pittsburgher.
Did you see what he did at Penn State? That offense sucked, no thanks.
Veilleux last year. Now Yurcich. Why would we keep bringing in Penn States trash? No thanks.
Please just hire someone who can score points, and did it very recently.
Not really following what happend at PSU to his OC performance. He was great at DII, then OK.St. , good enough to get offers. What changed at PSU?
Isn’t this the guy who Duzz said in reference to Veilleux that he only had to kearn a few plays at PSU when he was the oc?
If Mason Rudolph and James Washington only knew a few plays in 2016 and 2017, they ran them to perfection.
Said I THINK it will be a good hire. At this point PN needs to make a hire and quit shitting around.
how about the OC for the 12th highest scoring team in 2023 and 20th highest scoring in 2022?
How about no because that team often has top 10 recruiting classes and they ran up the score against Delaware and UMass, which inflates their stats.
Pitt could do worse than Yurcich…. Someone was going to take the fall for losing to Ohio State and Michigan….
they hung 31 on Iowa and were 23rd in F+ Offense which measures performance vs. the average the opponent allowed. They were 19th last season. To put those in perspective, Pitt was 22nd in 2021.
I forgot about that quote. Would be objectively hilarious if he hired the coordinator whose offense he took a swipe at.
It’s not going to really matter who Pitt hires if they don’t fix the talent on offense especially at the QB position
Coordinators can either highlight a person's strength or make their weaknesses more glaring. Canada made Nathan Peterman look like top round QB. Whipple coached Pickett into a first rounder.....coaching matters as much or at times more than talent.
Both of those QB’s had a top Rb,WR and OL,Pitt currently has very little to no talent at all of those positions currently
k. Guess I'll just wait for the announcement that he's hired Jim Bollman or someone else retired.
Take a breathe and watch these.
This is exactly what people have been begging for.
Don't need a war and peace playbook.
Much smaller selection of plays, but spead the defense out, with options, rpos, and get players into space.
He made a number of otherwise mediocre qbs like Mason Rudolph into really good players.
Kenny Johnson could easily be James Washington. Saw where PSU had the most TDs by TEs this year, he'd probably be able to actually get Bart going. Think about Hammond getting going in the run plays here.
You need depth at wr in these offenses, Reynolds probably would shine a but, gotta hope one of the other frosh can be players. He might actually be able to get something out of Che's blazing speed.
It's not ideal, but this would be a lot easier offense to make Yarny or CV work if they couldn't get a transfer.
The "younger" options that had some decent experience didn't pan out, all that I'd left now like that are guys with no or very limited major experience.
Honestly, this would clearly be the best oc hire HCPN has made.
The dude is an odd ball, don’t worry about him speaking to the media. No one will ever understand it anyway.
If you told me we had to hire a fired in-state coordinator, I would have picked Matt Canada. He is a really good college coordinator. Set school records here with marginal NFL talent.
Best OL in I don't even know how long.
NFL RB.
QB played in the NFL.
TE, FB and smurf WR that fit the scheme perfectly.
Matt Canada did a great job at Pitt, but he had a lot of talent to do it with.
Conner was 75% maybe. He didnt have a great year.
- Quadree Henderson isnt some generational player. He played a couple games in the NFL. There are Quadree Henderson's littered throughout the NCAA.
- FB - Aston was good but no NFL (I know its hard for a FB)
- Weah - no NFL
- Orndoff - played a few games in NFL I think
- Peterman - low level NFL
OL - I don't remember
Good talent? Yes. Best in school history? No. He got a lot out of that team.
I'm with u on this one Jeff!!! We could do alot worse than Mike Y. Also he probably wants to stick it to Franklin on the recruiting trail. H2P!!!
I actually just posted something very similar to this meister. H2P!!!
Unless he's bringing Franklin's budget with him, I don't think he's going to win many recruiting battles against Franklin.
You don't know that and we all know Frankie boy can do know wrong with u. Plzzzzz,
That 2021 OL and RB all came back in 2022. I guess it was all one reviver that made the difference.
Biggest thing to look at is how all that returning “talent” did the following year with Watson at OC.
That was one of two great seasons he had as a college OC. The rest were average or below average.
I think this is a fair criticism for his time at PSU, and whether the results were amazing relative to the talent PSU had vs the talent of the average team on their schedule.
But he still did pretty good there.
And I don’t think that talent argument would work for his time at OSU. The cowboys weren’t dominating in the Big 12 in recruiting.
He would be a pretty good hire. And probably on paper the only OC I thought Narduzzi has hired that could work out pretty well.
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