Making great points, talking about how PITT, still after all these years, doesn't get it, life in a pro sports town.
Madden giving Pitt the business
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That is a great source. The guy cares about hockey and creating controversy.
I'd put him in the group of beaten down Pitt fan. Usually supports.
I think he'd be one of the few that would actually talk them up if they ever did anything.
Has said from beginning Narduzzi will not stay though.
I think he'd be one of the few that would actually talk them up if they ever did anything.
Has said from beginning Narduzzi will not stay though.
Madden's not above picking low-hanging fruit. He'll pile-on when he has nothing else to say. Everyone's game, except his beloved Penguins.
I recall when Madden's tail was between his legs after Ben Howland had his success -- because he bashed Pitt immediately after Pitt hired him.
Mark the Hutt knows nothing outside of hockey.
The last two coaches used us as a stepping stone. Walt and Wanny built respectable programs and were fired after winning a share of their conference. Walt was even stiffed on his buyout and Pitt had won 27 games in 3 seasons under Wanny. Gottfried had rebuilt the program and having some degree of success and he was booted.
Also, its difficult to recruit to Pitt. We need to get back to the methods allowed under Majors1, Sherrill, & Gottfried. Oh yeah... and we aren't known to pay what other top programs are willing to pony up.
These are things that need to be addressed if we want a good coach to be successful here and stay.
I'm waiting for the OBESE ONE to criticize Ben about the RAVENS game. But my money is he'll blame Tomlin or the receivers.
Actually He has said numerous times that PITT dodged a bullet by not hiring Bradley, even though he was a big supporter of his initially.
Listening comprehension is not a strength here, I see. Turn your hearing aids up.
Pitt didn't owe Walt a buyout, and no matter how many times you try to give him a win for a game that he didn't coach, it's still 26 not 27.
Pitt as a program won 27 games in 3 years when Wanny was coach. I'm not trying to give him credit for the game he didn't coach. I AM GIVING HIM CREDIT. I will continue to do so too.
Harris had 2 years left on his contract.
Walt was pushed out. No need to be cheap. It's only 2 years and he wasn't making a lot anyway.
I give Dave credit. He signed the players and assembled the staff.
When he took another job at another school. If anything, he may have technically owed Pitt a buyout.
Pitt and every other creditable source disagrees with you. Because, you know, you are wrong. Clearly and obviously so. To the point that it makes you look like an idiot when you continue to argue otherwise.
Yes. Which is a bush league move on Pitt's part. It makes them look cheap. (They are cheap) It was 2 fricking years and it wasn't like he was owed millions.
It's crap like this that prevents us from hiring and retaining quality coaches.
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Thats because officially the W goes to the interim coach. Duh. Wannstedt's last 3 seasons as HC, Pitt won 27 games. Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
Do you also advocate Pitt paying Jamie Dixon his full buyout, instead of having TCU have to pay a buyout to sign him? Because those two situations are almost exactly the same.
Pitt may be cheap (OK, there isn't much maybe about it) but paying a coach who left you for the equivalent job at another school isn't a sign that you aren't cheap, it's a sign that you are batshit crazy. No one, literally no one, would have paid Harris in that situation.
In college sports, I almost always give credit to the head coach over a short term interim because he is most responsible for the product on the field, as opposed to whoever is pacing the sidelines that day.
That's MY way of looking at things and I will continue to do so.
BTW, In another thread this past weekend, I stated how pathetic it was that we gave up 530 yards to Miami. LIES! ALL LIES!!! To be factually correct, the official stats say they had 534.
That's MY way of looking at things and I will continue to do so.
BTW, In another thread this past weekend, I stated how pathetic it was that we gave up 530 yards to Miami. LIES! ALL LIES!!! To be factually correct, the official stats say they had 534.
I kind of agree, but I'm torn over one instince. The Houston bowl gamez...Was it chryst's fault that the team was such a hideous mess? Or if chryst was there would we have been able to do anything, anything at all... like maybe recover ONE onside kick by simply using the actual hands team.
No. That's not Chryst's fault.
I'm just speaking in generalities. Pitt would have beat UK in the Birmingham bowl regardless of who was coaching. There was just a sizable difference between the two programs.
Walt only had one year left on his contract (2005). He was told he could come back and coach that season but would not be offered a new one. So technically you are correct.
And it is a good thing Walt took the Stanford offer. What a disaster it would have been to have a lame duck coach for one year. One of the many bonehead Jeff Long moves. Too cheap to just cut & run, would have put Pitt in a very bad spot had Walt elected to stay for that year.
There you go, Mr. "I'm above everyone else" wants to criticize someone else. You must be a real treat at a party aren't you? You probably talk non-stop and brag about everything and drive people insane.
So he admittedly posts something that is false and it's my fault for pointing it out? Yeah, I guess I can see how someone as ill acquainted with the facts such as yourself would feel that way.
26?
Number of points unattainable in either half of Jamie Dixon's last game as Pitt head coach?
Dave was going 8-4 against UConn, Rutgers, South Florida, Cincinnati, and Syracuse.
We shouldn't have any confidence that he would have done better with our current competition. I'm sure Narduzzi would hammer those nobodies, too.
We shouldn't have any confidence that he would have done better with our current competition. I'm sure Narduzzi would hammer those nobodies, too.
This bickering is useless. Just split the difference and give him a half game. 26.5 wins in three years!
