OK, are there seriously any real Pitt fan that wants Narduzzi fired?
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Even if we had 8 or 9 win seasons, maybe a 7 we'd be further ahead.
Narduzzi is afraid to win.
Scared to death.
He can't make rational football decisions.
1-3 conference record going in. 3 flukes? Justify it all you want. This wasn’t a good team. Mediocre... just like their opponent.
they bear Pitt and Virginia and almost beat Florida they are decent team full of tremendous athletes
I agree in the PSU game that was a major f up, in this game, nope. We were not moving the ball at all. Youd have to be nuts to go for it, sorry, it is smart football.
They lost to Georgia Tech and barely escaped Central Michigan at home. They are by no means a lock to become bowl eligible even though they still have FIU on the schedule.
Miami isn’t very good this year, Pitt has a better team but just didn’t get it done for a variety of reasons today.
So when Quadree Ollison followed a Max Bookser/Mike Herndon/Connor Dintino/George Ashton block for a big run, they weren't Chryst recruits anymore?
Narduzzi has recruited a vastly superior defensive line, but the offensive line is now weaker.
It's hard to find a coach at a school like Pitt who can load up on both. Ditto with speed position players
I never said anything of the sort. I just said he was stupid.
And yes, Bookser, Dintino, Ollison, Hall were Narduzzi recruits
Stache you are just so uber defensive of everything Narduzzi. Very few are saying the guy should be fired.
Not sure why you have to go so all in on the guy, he’s not a great coach and never will be. If he can win 7-9 games consistently he would be a god at Pitt, I just don’t think he’s good enough to do that.
no they weren’t? You’re either dumb or lying again.
ollison especially. Do you want to explain how a redshirt senior in narduzzi’s fourth year was his recruit? This is like when you said Chryst had savage available his first year
Yes. He's proven he's a mediocre coach and mediocre recruiter. Stability is useless if it comes at the price of a perpetually average program, at best.
The problem I have with this game is that we found something on the long drive in the fourth quarter while running out of the wildcat, with an unbalanced line, etc... Why did we try running it straight up the gut on the next 3 and out that cost us the game?
That being said, calling for Narduzzi's head is ridiculous, especially given that we have performed beyond expectations prior to this game.
That being said, calling for Narduzzi's head is ridiculous, especially given that we have performed beyond expectations prior to this game.
Sibley got hurt. But yeah, we coulda tried with AJ youd think.
Yeah, I mean, probably would have worked with any of our rb. We are not a team that is going to have a lot of success running up the middle as currently configured.
We havent had success all year really. It was baffling, and Pickett ran the clock down to 1 or 2 seconds each play too. It was obvious we thought running a minute and a half off the clock was more important than getting a couple first downs the way we were all game. It was a dumb move.
im going to bump this till you respond because it shows what a little liar you are.
Ollison, Dintino, and Bookser were ALL RS seniors last year...since you don’t seem to get this, that means they were in their fifth year with the program. Last year was narduzzi’s fourth year at Pitt.
so, are you saying that Narduzzi recruited them a year in advance to pitt before he arrived for Chryst? Do
you not know what you are talking about? Maybe you are just flat out lying to troll?
I’ll give you a chance to respond and maybe just admit you screwed up?
pickett in the post game said they were in their one minute lead offense. I don’t get it. Made no sense
they were, but stache will make a completely false comment, then slither away when called on it.
He is better than any other coach thats been here in both of those. He has the second best record of any ACC coach in ACC games. People are talking crazy. It makes no sense.
That record is more of a product of how mediocre the ACC has been than anything else and programs like Louisville, Miami, and FSU have had wild swings. 22-14 in five years is decent, but not really spectacular all things considered. I would also guess that the separation between second most and say 8th most wins in that time is very small.
since 2015, ACC team wins for some teams:
Pitt-22
FSU-20
Ncst-18
VT-21
Louisville-19
Miami-23
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We are finishing 9-3 in regular season and most of you expected 3 -5 wins total. Chill tf out . Insanity.
Get outta here, no one and I mean no one other than absolute trolls said 3 wins. Go back over every picks thread made before the season and I defy you to find anyone that said less than 5.
If you do find even 1 it will be a total outlier. Multiple posters predicted 10 wins, most said between 5 and 8.
No clue where you came up with that.
Paul chryst was hired by Wisconsin December 14, 2014
all of those players committed to chryst and stuck with narduzzi after the change
So what? Either was Pitt at the start of the year. Thanks to good coaching we are 5-3 now
I’d say the reason we are 5-3 is poor coaching, and frankly we are lucky to be 5-3.
I think Narduzzi has done a nice job this year but “super tough schedule”? There is currently only one ranked team on your schedule.
the schedule last year was hard. This year it is currently at 35 and will probably end in the 50s. Easy schedule this year honestly.
yeah was talking year in and year out. We played Virginia, peds and ucf all were ranked when we played them this year.
It's hard to find a coach at a school like Pitt who can load up on both.
Is this a rhetorical question?
If not, because non elite programs like Pitt who play in front of 40,000 fans in a pro sports urban campus don't recruit 15 blue chip players a year to fill out both the offense and the defense. The decline of Pennsylvania high school football and Franklin's recruiting prowess hasn't helped.
So a coach like Chryst puts the better athletes on offense and a coach like Narduzzi puts them on defense, but we're rarely going to get enough big time players to have depth on both.
Is this a rhetorical question?
If not, because non elite programs like Pitt who play in front of 40,000 fans in a pro sports urban campus don't recruit 15 blue chip players a year to fill out both the offense and the defense. The decline of Pennsylvania high school football and Franklin's recruiting prowess hasn't helped.
So a coach like Chryst puts the better athletes on offense and a coach like Narduzzi puts them on defense, but we're rarely going to get enough big time players to have depth on both.
honestly I don’t understand if you are good enough to recruit talented players on one side of the ball why you can’t for the other side as well.
Basically however what I am seeing is that Narduzzi is recruiting three star players on defense and is able to coach them up to play above their recruiting rating. I think the same thing occurred at Michigan State
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They also almost lost to Central Michigan. And Pitt almost lost to Delaware.
Don’t play that almost game. It doesn’t hold water.
I think that's part of it but at some point at a Pitt you're only going to bring in so much talent and have to decide if you're recruiting a guy to play offensive line or defensive line; half back or linebacker; cornerback or slot receiver. Maybe James Conner would have been a great defensive end under Narduzzi.
It’s not “moving the ball” when you’re on the 1. It’s getting one push at the snap of the ball and breaking the plane of the goal line. Worst case scenario is Miami gets the ball back with their freshman QB and RB standing in their own end zone facing a defense that has been dominating them up front all night pinning their ears back and coming downhill at them like a runaway train.
Or you can take a 2 point lead, give the opponent the ball back no worse than their own 25, and hope to hold on for 7-8 minutes.
And we got to see how option #2 worked out.
At a minimum, Narduzzi certainly isn’t beyond criticism or reproach, as he is treated by Stache and several other Lair slappies. He makes a lot of mistakes-far more than a 5th year head coach should make. He hasn’t won much. His recruiting has been lackluster especially on the offensive side. He spent 5 years to put a capable defense on the field but hasn’t been able to put a capable offense on it for the past 3 years. His program has been inconsistent, to be kind about it.
hell we even blew the coin toss against our arch rival last year. You think the player who communicates the election to the ref gets to make the decision on whether to kick or receive and which end to take?
I would turn this around on the Staches out there: why don’t they tell us what’s so great about Narduzzi, rather than just blindly defending him against criticism? What makes him such a keeper? What has he accomplished to this point that has you so pleased with him?
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