Narduzzi and the hot seat
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21-7.
Last 28 games. Wow
Last 28 games. Wow
You must be trying to make Message Board Idiots with this post.
He's not near the hot seat. That's crazy talk. I'm not his biggest fan but if we are being honest this is just what Pitt is- we were due for a bad season.
Unless he goes like 1-11, it's not a hot seat. Second most wins after Clemson in the ACC during his tenure at a school with a much smaller budget than Florida State? He shouldn't be on the hot seat.
That said, I'm concerned about the level of talent on this year's team.
That said, I'm concerned about the level of talent on this year's team.
He should *not* be on the hot seat, for two reasons:
1) He’s built a cushion after the last two seasons. We lost several starters to the NFL and are going through growing pains. That’s not to say 6-6 or worse wouldn’t be a disappointment (I had us at 8-9 wins), but struggles were also to be expected.
2) Narduzzi being placed on the hot seat this soon after an ACC Championship and another 9-win season would be a HUGE red flag towards prospective candidates. It’d be Wannstedt 2.0 and would set the program back.
1) He’s built a cushion after the last two seasons. We lost several starters to the NFL and are going through growing pains. That’s not to say 6-6 or worse wouldn’t be a disappointment (I had us at 8-9 wins), but struggles were also to be expected.
2) Narduzzi being placed on the hot seat this soon after an ACC Championship and another 9-win season would be a HUGE red flag towards prospective candidates. It’d be Wannstedt 2.0 and would set the program back.
lol, you also said in 2021 after WMU it was a 7-5 team, remember?
He just won the ACC two years ago. I am not the biggest fan, but he is nowhere near the hot seat. I just hope he doesn’t hold on to the OC if they have a 6-6 season
yes, WR should have been addressed, losing Cephas in the transfer portal recruitment hurt. Reynolds needed to make that catch in second half, difficult but not impossible. Johnson, too early to tell but seems small and didn't get much playing time. Counting on Bub Means is going to be this teams undoing.
Also LB. Terrible play and never seems to get better with recruiting. PCC has two underclassmen that are going to be the next big things, Gattens & Thompson. Need to put a full court press here, although Gattens being a nitter legacy it is probably hopeless.
Yeah, I could see Cignetti being let go after the season. If 2023 ends up being a letdown, there’s more measured responses than firing Narduzzi.
0% chance he is on any hot seat even at 5-7... and shouldnt be
He needs to fire Cignetti and probably underwood. Then go hire a pass happy offensive coordinator. Pitt has been best when Canada was OC and Whipple. Forget this antiquated run game this isn’t the 60/70/80s.
Then go find a transfer QB who can sling it and get a recruit who can throw (not our current commit).
If Pitt went 2-10 for 5 straight years, some fans would defend him by saying, well he won the ACC 6 years ago, he deserves to stay.
I will not defend him if that is the case, but his recent record does not justify him being on the hot seat. I am not a big PN fan, but he IMO, has Pitt finally being relevant. Pitt is Never going to be an OSU, Alabama, Clemson or dare I say PSU. However, Pitt winning the ACC 2 years ago was a huge accomplishment. H2P
Is Pitt relevant? In the ACC, I’d say the more relevant brands would be Clemson, Miami, Florida State, Virginia Tech and then Pitt. If the ACC crumbled, where would Pitt be? That is probably the truest test to their relevance.
Lets say we go 5-7 which is very possible. He absolutely gets 2024. However, if he goes 5-7 or 6-6 in 2024, he would be coaching for his job in 2025
He could go 6-6 three years in a row and the hot seat would be lukewarm.
I don't think anyone at Pitt has snapped to the fact that Cincinnati, heretofore AAC, is a way better program than Pitt.
Ive never met a single fan in my life like that, and I am not either. Heck, 3 years ago I said we needed to make a change if he didnt turn it around in year 5. The guy coached the heck out of the past 2 years, has a great relationship with the AD, has tremendous coaches, has the highest ranking recruiting class he ever had... AND we lost by 6 freaking points, as our team showed grit and came back from playing horrible.
If anything, he coached well yesterday, yet another example of great half time adjustments, and had the team completely turned around. We had the ball in Cincy territory with 5 minutes left to take the lead, the the QB through 3 bad balls. Not on the Head coach there buddy
Overall he has been a good coach for us and I think we should be glad he was here Vs the crap we had for a decade before him.
I’ll agree he deserves some credit for not letting them tank in the second half yesterday (but he didn’t have them ready at all at the start of the game, plus the bad unforced penalties etc, so can’t say “he coached well yesterday” at all.)
And It’s on Duz IF the QB continues to make those terrible throws you mention, and he doesn’t make a move. He can’t repeat the bad losses that caused last season. You don’t give away games like GT, Louisville etc just because of some promise, implied or otherwise, that the transfer starter will play continuously. When the horse is clearly dead you don’t keep whipping it.
Oh, cmon, you know fans like that exist. And when they have the balls to admit the coach sucks, they say well Pitt can’t afford the buyout, so he stays. It’s a tale as old as time.
Jurkovec was 10-32 and Pat stuck with him, because of that, Pitt had no realistic chance to win the game on Saturday. Narduzzi’s vaunted run defense was absolutely gashed, and the defense couldn’t get off the field. It was an embarrassing performance from a ACC team that was supposed to be superior.
With a tenure almost reaching that of John Michelosen, he's not going anywhere until he decides to do so on his own accord.
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No, I literally never met a fan like that. Often it is chucklef*cks that as soon as there is one play that goes wrong they say the coach sucks, we should fire the coaching staff, and greatly overreact at every turn, instead of knowing that consistency is key in stabilizing a program. Now we are pretty stable so we could try to make that next step, but I seriously dont think we can get a Saban type here to do that. Narduzzi can certainly get us on the green so to speak, and has
I can see sticking with him in that game and in can even see starting him in WVU. But if Jurk continues to suck donkey balls (and frankly he could get even worse, since WVU is better than Cincy, and UNC is better than WVU, etc) … and Duz stays with him while losing those games … it will be officially bad coaching. Is it “fire the guy” bad? No. But it will be bad coaching.
The guy has been a solid coach for us and he deserves a little credit that the team hung in there after such a terrible start Saturday. But he in fact is the one responsible for that terrible start in the first place. No, he did not do a “good coaching job” on Saturday. You don’t lose a home have you are a hefty favorite to win Vs a team picked to finish nearly last in its (worse) conference. He shouldn’t be fired, he is not on “the hot seat”, that’s absurd. But that’s not good coaching by any stretch.
I agree. Unless they go like 4-8 he isn’t on the hot seat. If the offense is hot garbage and we go 6-6 then cignetti has to go, and I think heather needs to step in and force a change in offensive philosophy with pat.
But I mean you could have made a really compelling argument to let him go after 2020. That was a year that they had been building too, and they went 6-5 and got murdered by Clemson and ND.
The previous years they went 5-7, 7-5, and 7-5. It was mediocre. After WMU I’ll admit I thought he was toast.
Look at Pitt as Iowa in Football should be the goal.
Stability at coaching
Some years the stars align and you have a 10+ win season others 7-9 wins should be the norm unless a ton of injuries and no QB you have 5-7.
Losing to Cincy they now have to find a way to beat UNC - ND - FSU to make up for that loss but of course beat WVU on Saturday
Stability at coaching
Some years the stars align and you have a 10+ win season others 7-9 wins should be the norm unless a ton of injuries and no QB you have 5-7.
Losing to Cincy they now have to find a way to beat UNC - ND - FSU to make up for that loss but of course beat WVU on Saturday
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