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Narduzzi’s Football Program Receives Record $2 Million Donation, LINK!

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When good people are hired to Rebuild a Football Program Great things can happen. Once again, an Alumni Couple made Pitt Is It! Once again, such as I posted Weeks Ago, and others thought it starts with Attendance and recruiting they could not have been more wrong and just don't know how Football Program is Rebuilt.

It starts with the Chancellor's Vision and Commitment to first work Alumni & Boosters to find the Right People, Coach and Athletic Director's & Staff that bring in and raise the Money and commit to Pitt not to their own Pockets, Consultants, and Buyouts Career Goals of their own. Once some Boosters are found more come around.

It then moves on to Winning and Beating Top Ranked Teams and Programs by bringing together Top Coaches that also commit to the Players already here into changing Attitudes. After that, Recruits see they can focus and play to if they commit to Pitt, Coaches Teachings, and Players playing together.

No Fan is any Stand ever won a Football Game or Rebuilt a Program! Great Coaches have to teach and Coach Up 2 & 3 Starw Players to win that are not always 4 & 5 Stars Recruits. TCU, KSU, GT, NU, & UCLA, mostly Urban Schools have a tough time doing it until they find Great Coaches after their Chancellors & Alumni Boosters Committed to finding the Right People. This is how it starts and 2 years going on 3 this is what Pitt is doing.

Nordenberg did great and reestablished the foundation to win again, then went with Wannstedt & Dixon on his own as Selfish Smiling AD's sought to go elsewhere right when Nordy needed the best to stay but they went away. Nordy his best with an ego idiot just like Posvar's Bozo Bozik.

Gallagher inheriting Nordy's ACC was smart from the start with Jimbo Covert & Other Pitt Alumni Advice, like what happen at Nebraska, dump the dummy with crummy consultant's cost of continued re-branding, it was time to bring back the Pitt Script and he got the message, and took his Pitt millions Buyouts and lives in Athletic disgrace. Barnes came and went and messed up too, but he is gone to "Oregone" and thank goodness for his lack of state of grace and faith in Pitt too but loved his Old Boss Consultants!

Coach Narduzzi from Youngstown always wanted and waited for the Pitt Job and gets his kicks and kisses from how his Players changed attitude and gets to know them personally by caring about them as People not just Players.

Heather is from canton, Ohio she grew up knowing hoe Great Players and Coaches end up in Halls of Fame!

Pitt has the Right People that know the Region and Boosters are coming back just like ALCOA! Smiley face lives in Cleveland and hopes he stays there and Barnes is just oreGone and Thank You to Mother Barnes!
Pitt Is It!!!
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Narduzzi’s football program receives record $2 million donation
On the heels of a second consecutive eight-win season and less than a month after new athletic director Heather Lyke took office, Pitt football received the single-largest contribution in the history of the Pitt Football Championship Fund Thursday.

Lyke announced that Steven and Kathy Guttman donated $2 million to the fund, which is used to enhance the student-athlete experience, facilities, recruiting and advancing technology.
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https://www.dkpittsburghsports.com/...l-program-receives-record-2-million-donation/
 
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It Happened on Her Watch…
Reed Kohberger in Pitt Football April 20, 2017
https://pittpov.com/2017/04/20/it-happened-on-her-watch/

Pitt Football Receives $2 Million Commitment from the Guttman FamilyGuttman Family’s commitment is the single largest in the history of the Pitt Football Championship Fund.

PITT NEWS
For IMMEDIATE Release
April 20, 2017 :
The Panthers’ Football Championship Fund is used to enhance such critical areas as the student-athlete experience, facilities, recruiting and advancing technology.

“On behalf of our football student-athletes and coaches, we thank Kathy and Steven for their extremely generous commitment,” Lyke said. “Though I have only been in Pittsburgh a few weeks, it has been awesome to meet our loyal donors and even more inspiring to see their generosity positively impact the lives of our student-athletes.

“The Guttman’s investment not only emphasizes that sentiment, it underscores how vital philanthropic support is to our competitive success. We are grateful for Kathy and Steven’s belief in the leadership of Coach Narduzzi and the trajectory of our football program.”

A 1968 graduate of the University of Pittsburgh, Steven Guttman is founder and chairman of UOVO Fine Art Storage and has more than 40 years of real estate development experience. Prior to UOVO, Guttman founded and remains chairman of Storage Deluxe Management Company (SDMC), of which he is the main investor. Additionally, he had a 30-year career with Federal Realty Investment Trust (NYSE), where he served as Chairman and CEO.

“We are delighted to make this commitment to the Pitt Football Championship Fund,” Steven Guttman said. “The program’s visible growth under Coach Narduzzi’s leadership is reason for tremendous optimism moving forward. It is our hope that this commitment will not only serve to help the Panthers continue that growth, but also motivate others to support their quest as well.”

LINK: Guttman Family Commitment
http://www.pittsburghpanthers.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/042017aac.html
 

  • Pitt Receives $2 Million Commitment from Guttman Family
    Guttman Family’s commitment is the single largest in the history of the Pitt Football Championship Fund.
    The Panthers are considered a rapidly ascending program under Narduzzi. He has directed Pitt to eight regular-season wins in each of his first two years, something the Panthers had not achieved since 2008-09. Narduzzi owns a 16-10 overall mark and 11-5 record in the ACC, which was regarded as the nation’s finest conference last year. In 2016, Pitt was the only school to have wins over two teams that finished in the top 5 of the final College Football Playoff rankings. The Panthers gave No. 2 Clemson—the eventual national champion—its only loss (43-42) and kept No. 5 Penn State out of the playoff field by defeating the Nittany Lions, 42-39.
    LINK:

    http://www.pittsburghpanthers.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/042017aac.html
 
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