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Madden YIKES

True, he knows nothing about college sports but does extensively study NHL, NFL, MLB and soccer. He is no friend of Pit lately but he is one of the few to go after the Nits and Bob Nutting in this town.


I can't imagine how little someone would have to understand sports for them to think that Madden had any sort of real understanding about any of them other than hockey.
 
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I can't imagine how little someone would have to understand sports for them to think that Madden had any sort of real understanding about any of them other than hockey.

I think Madden knows Yinzers and what makes them tic so he pushes their buttons. He picks his battles.

Look, if you can't step back and look at Pitt and not see how bad things have been, you're really just not honest. The most debated threads on this board in recent memory are stadiums, tarps, script, and what color the helmet should be, as if any of that mattered when it comes to the perception of the program. Everyone seems to miss that winning is the only thing that matters. Nobody in Pittsburgh cares what color the helmet is or will give the program any respect if nobody is watching the "same old Pitt" do what it's been doing for 35 years.
 
Madden is the master of picking low-hanging fruit. If he really cared about his craft, he’d be out there digging-up some real news instead of simply being Mr. Obvious.
 
Madden is a showman. He doesn't have to be right. He just has to get people fired up to listen and I'd guess a majority of his audience hates him.

Ever hear of Howard Stern? Same deal, different genre.
Yup
 
Mark Madden: Living proof that being a "super genius" isn't what it used to be.
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Next gig: Man vs. Food!
 
You guys seem to be infatuated with this clown. He isn't as important as whether you use your left or right hand to wipe your butt.

His ratings say otherwise , so he does have an audience, and it's right where the college sits and surrounding area.
 
Madden is a showman. He doesn't have to be right. He just has to get people fired up to listen and I'd guess a majority of his audience hates him.

Ever hear of Howard Stern? Same deal, different genre.
Someone gets it! Howard is one of his radio idols. Take 1 part Doug Hearth and add one part Howard Stern and that equals Maddens radio approach.
 
His ratings say otherwise , so he does have an audience, and it's right where the college sits and surrounding area.

He is entertaining and knowledgeable. What's not to like? I remember when Joe Bendal had a show. Very smart but he would have these long monologues that just went on and on forever and were very dry. Prefer to hear someone like Madden. Wish he would have some better discourse with callers.....most he thinks are idiots. It's funny occasionally to talk them down but it gets to be too much.
 
Mark is praising Aaron Donald like crazy today. I mean non-stop. He has mentioned on several occasions that he used to love going to Pitt games with his late mother. He was also an enormous supporter of Wanny when he was here. I remember him be genuinely upset when Dave got pushed out. I think that is where his negativity toward Pitt started.

When Duzz was hired who was the first person to have him on for an interview? Mark did. then a few weeks later after Duzz had done the media rounds Mark decided that he was a "blowhard". He has stuck with that opinion for years now. He also has mentioned several times that Pitt should make the coaches and players available during game weeks to promote.

Let's face it Duzz treats the media like crap. He keeps the program shrouded in secrecy, and for what? Pitt needs promotion, but it doesn't seem to register with Pat. Pittsburgh is a big league city with many options. This isn't East Lansing, where MSU is the only game in town. Msu wins big game and competes for conference championships. They don't need to beg fans to come to the games. Pitt does. I really wish Duzz wouldn't be so smug and condescending toward the media and promote Pitt as much as he could. It would really help. As mark would say "who has ever beat, he's no national champion, that's for damn sure."
 
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Mark is praising Aaron Donald like crazy today. I mean non-stop. He has mentioned on several occasions that he used to love going to Pitt games with his late mother. He was also an enormous supporter of Wanny when he was here. I remember him be genuinely upset when Dave got pushed out. I think that is where his negativity toward Pitt started.

When Duzz was hired who was the first person to have him on for an interview? Mark did. then a few weeks later after Duzz had done the media rounds Mark decided that he was a "blowhard". He has stuck with that opinion for years now. He also has mentioned several times that Pitt should make the coaches and players available during game weeks to promote.

Let's face it Duzz treats the media like crap. He keeps the program shrouded in secrecy, and for what? Pitt needs promotion, but it doesn't seem to register with Pat. Pittsburgh is a big league city with many options. This isn't East Lansing, where MSU is the only game in town. Msu wins big game and competes for conference championships. They don't need to beg fans to come to the games. Pitt does. I really wish Duzz wouldn't be so smug and condescending toward the media and promote Pitt as much as he could. It would really help. As mark would say "who has ever beat, he's no national champion, that's for damn sure."
MM has made it pretty well known he was extremely upset duzz didn’t let players talk to the media the past two psu weeks.
 
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Mark is praising Aaron Donald like crazy today. I mean non-stop. He has mentioned on several occasions that he used to love going to Pitt games with his late mother. He was also an enormous supporter of Wanny when he was here. I remember him be genuinely upset when Dave got pushed out. I think that is where his negativity toward Pitt started.

When Duzz was hired who was the first person to have him on for an interview? Mark did. then a few weeks later after Duzz had done the media rounds Mark decided that he was a "blowhard". He has stuck with that opinion for years now. He also has mentioned several times that Pitt should make the coaches and players available during game weeks to promote.

Let's face it Duzz treats the media like crap. He keeps the program shrouded in secrecy, and for what? Pitt needs promotion, but it doesn't seem to register with Pat. Pittsburgh is a big league city with many options. This isn't East Lansing, where MSU is the only game in town. Msu wins big game and competes for conference championships. They don't need to beg fans to come to the games. Pitt does. I really wish Duzz wouldn't be so smug and condescending toward the media and promote Pitt as much as he could. It would really help. As mark would say "who has ever beat, he's no national champion, that's for damn sure."

yeah there was something that turned him against Narduzzi. Just like he turned against Graham. Maybe interviewing with the B team and Madden thought he had exclusive? It is usually some incident that sets him off, like when Bettis needed to reschedule an interview and Madden took it as a slight. He doesn't usually pick random feuds.
 
MM has made it pretty well known he was extremely upset duzz didn’t let players talk to the media the past two psu weeks.

I still wonder if it was more than that. Maybe not though. It seems to be an incident that gets him going. He used to love CM punk, and then Punk gave an interview to the B team before his MMA fight and that really set MM off.
 
I still wonder if it was more than that. Maybe not though. It seems to be an incident that gets him going. He used to love CM punk, and then Punk gave an interview to the B team before his MMA fight and that really set MM off.

It sounds to me as if Mark may have some issues other than his health that he's dealing with.

Maybe he just needs a hug.
 
I think Madden knows Yinzers and what makes them tic so he pushes their buttons. He picks his battles.


Right. Agree. He's not good at knowing sports, he's good at getting people pissed off at him enough to call in and keep listening. You don't actually need to know or have any great understanding of sports to do that.

It's like the line from the Howard Stern movie when they were talking about his ratings. His average fan listened for an hour and they kept listening because they wanted to hear what he would say next. The average person who hated him listened for two hours and they kept listening because they wanted to hear what he would say next. That's what Madden strives for in his wildest dreams. To be a poor man's Howard Stern. A very, very poor man's Howard Stern. If only he had 1/100th of the talent.
 
It sounds to me as if Mark may have some issues other than his health that he's dealing with.

Maybe he just needs a hug.

Coke bottle glasses, 200 pounds over weight, roll of toilet paper to wipe his titanic backside, uses pepper and tweezers with hopes of catching his Willie to pee...

Who'd want to hug him...
 
Most likely the same as SSS811, Pittdoc57, Dion,H2Pitt and the rest of the nitter trolls that need to get a life.

LOL. I've been a loyal Pitt football fan for over 20 years. I'm sorry, I don't have the blind, irrational hate for all things Penn State like you do. If that makes me a troll, so be it. I'm not about to lower myself, and look ignorant, bitter, and jealous, just to fit into what you believe a "Pitt fan" should look like.

Anyone on this board that doesn't agree with every football decision that Pitt makes, or isn't (God forbid) impressed with the direction our program is headed, must be a Nitter in disguise, huh? Cool. Got it. Lol.
 
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LOL. I've been a loyal Pitt football fan for over 20 years. I'm sorry, I don't have the blind, irrational hate for all things Penn State like you do. If that makes me a troll, so be it. I'm not about to lower myself, and look ignorant, bitter, and jealous, just to fit into what you believe a "Pitt fan" should look like.

Anyone on this board that doesn't agree with every football decision that Pitt makes, or isn't (God forbid) impressed with the direction our program is headed, must be a Nitter in disguise, huh? Cool. Got it. Lol.


That's what the low IQ people say , they can't understand others might have a different opinion, small minded and lacking rational thinking.
 
I still wonder if it was more than that. Maybe not though. It seems to be an incident that gets him going. He used to love CM punk, and then Punk gave an interview to the B team before his MMA fight and that really set MM off.
Idk, it is mark madden we’re talking here lol. He claims he really likes ej borghetti and would’ve liked to ask him to bring a player on the show last year the week before psu. The narduzzi media blackout upset MM because he claimed that was the only week worth talking to a member of the team, and coach wasn’t allowing it.
 
It's Narduzzi's team.. mm is just blowhard tub of poop.
Agree. Not narduzzi’s job to worry about making the media happy. Not saying go out of the way to upset them, but the team comes first. Any personality that thinks otherwise is a complete narcissist.
 
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Idk, it is mark madden we’re talking here lol. He claims he really likes ej borghetti and would’ve liked to ask him to bring a player on the show last year the week before psu. The narduzzi media blackout upset MM because he claimed that was the only week worth talking to a member of the team, and coach wasn’t allowing it.

that was probably enough of an incident to set him off.
 
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Madden use to stop by during the Wanny years to the family tailgate. I was younger and he was very nice to everyone. He likes Pitt but I guess he ran out of patience and the many dumb things done the past 35 years or so.
 
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