Pitt is what Pitt is
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Indiana is the hot new girl in school. Everyone wants her. If they get curb stomped by OSU Saturday, that hot new girl will be found out to be a whore and have the clap.
So all they have to do to earn your respect is beat the #2 team in the country, a team with about 25 future NFL starters on it, and you'll give them some credit?
Or play them close.
Not dissing them either, but is it too much to ask to beat a ranked team, or even ONE team with a winning record?
Even that fraudulent ass WVU team of 1993 beat a couple ranked opponents.
Agree, that's their schedule and they're taking care of business. I'm not looking for them to apologize.
It's also fair to point out their schedule has been horrible to date, and a big reason they're undefeated. Not much different than Pitt when they were 7-0.
I've been a fan of the good Cignetti since his JMU days. First year he put his team in the championship and got DiNucci drafted in the NFL.
How do they change their schedule at this point??
You play the teams on your schedule, sometimes it's hard, sometimes it's easy.
Just like our schedule.
Important thing is to beat whoever is on your schedule and see what happens.
However, SMU has played the tougher schedule
I'm seeing SMU's to date SOS ranked #63, IU's #66. I'd say that's about even.
IU remaining SOS puts them up to 26. SMU's puts them at 45.
There is no guarantee than Cignetti is the right guy but Indiana just signed him to an $80 million extension. Is that smart after just 1 year? Maybe. But it is a huge gamble.
I don't disagree with you about this, but unfortunately that's the way it is in college football now. If you don't make a massive commitment to your guy the minute he has a great season, someone else will. MSU did the same thing with Mel Tucker. A football never-was like IU spending $8 mill a year for a football coach is something i never thought I'd see in my lifetime, let alone paying him that after 1 season. But that's the absurd place the game has found itself in today.
Not all ranked opponents are equal. Big difference between playing #2 Ohio State and let's say, #23 Iowa State.
But a lot of you guys are missing the big picture, which is that for about 120 years, including and especially last year, IU football has been one of those unranked, losing record "easy" opponents. In one season they have turned the tables around 180- degrees on that. Do they have staying power? We'll see. But their head coach certainly appears to have a proven process for succeeding that he sticks to everywhere he goes. It apparently doesn't involve things like 3 straight defensive offsides penalties or mulitple false starts, clock disasters and unforced penalties all on one red zone possession.
Indiana beat 3 ranked teams in 2020. One of them in the top 10.
Cignetti's resume is nothing special. Mike Houston was more successful at JMU than CC was.
Weird that you're talking about the big picture and suddenly switch to focusing on 2 possessions from the Clemson game.
And the answer is NO. It doesn't have staying power at IU & there isn't staying power at Pitt.
All in favor of SMU
Sagarin - 64 & 77
ESPN - 86 & 106
Colley - 68 & 103
Massey - 60 & 68
Team Rankings - 48 & 62
So yeah, as I said, pretty much every ranking service to date.
I just expect Duz's teams to play with more disclipine and for the coaches to stop making such terrible and easily avoidable mistakes on game day. I don't think this is too much to ask from a head coach who has been here for 10 years and makes millions a year. Even our best year's are always marred by some loss that never should have happened because the mistakes were so ridiculous and bush league that even high school teams don't make them.
I’m not all in on anyone. It’s simply a recognition that Cignetti and Shanahan have one of the most prolific offenses in the Country, and are a top 5 team in college football. Narduzzi went 8-5 his first year. Just appreciate what they’re accomplishing.
Yet IU is behind such offensive juggernauts as PSU, Clemson, and Tennessee.
They aren't going to finish in the top 5. They aren't going to win their conference. They aren't going to build anything more than a mediocre program at IU.
Maybe but they're pretty much a cinch to make the 12 team playoff field.
For while we though we would too, but...................
Absolutely. And proud of it.
But I don't post about writing checks either. Nor do I complain about Pitt's NIL status.
Discussed many times. No need for me to rehash it because you don't pay attention.
They’re scoring 43.9 points per game, 2nd in the Country. That’s all that matters, and it’s why they’re #5 in the Country and Pitt is looking at 5 straight losses.
Exactly. If not hired to be fired, you're hired to jump to another gig as soon as you have some success, or hope to be mediocre long enough to make a lot of money. Cignetti was smart to cash in and get a long term deal done. Nobody else is looking to hire a 63 year old with such a small sample size.
Lol. Their OOC schedule was Charlotte, FIU, and the Western Illinois Leathernecks. That's embarrassing.
So what? They’re #5 in the Country. Penn State has played no one either and they’re #4. It’s obvious strength of schedule doesn’t matter.
You think your degrees from Pitt 40 years ago are a benefit to Pitt ?
Or where they an investment in yourselves ?
Between my wife and I we spent 12 years of tuition at Pitt - and it doesn’t improve Pitt athletics or the university at all .
Your self delusion of importance is unmatched
I haven’t heard your take on what’s limiting pitt .
Because it’s not spending
We spend more on football than our peers .
He doesn’t really have a process, does he?Like those things are part of Narduzzi's process.
Mike Houston coached a D1-AA team in the CAA. Cignetti coached a team that weathered the COVID shortened season then successfully moved to the FBS Sun Belt and immediately won it-twice. Houston also laid a huge turd when he moved up to ECU.
I’m not focused on a couple played from the Clemson game. I’ve watched Narduzzi’s clownery on Saturdays for 10 seasons. He’s not a serious man, and he’s not a serious coach, and that’s reflected in the way his teams play. He’s a knucklehead.
As for the staying power, you might be right. But Cignetti’s instant success has IU opening the purse strings and making a commitment to trying to become a factor. They won’t ever recruit too HS talent. But they will be able to buy a lot of good portal guys every year.
The more interesting question will be to see how he does when he loses Shanahan to a bigger better job.
You act as though boosters weren’t paying players before NIL. Whoever is the HC at Pitt will have an uphill battle in recruiting.
And you won't hear it here because I'm not rehashing something discussed multiple times previously. I'm not responsible to keep you up-to-date.
Pitt spends more on football than their peers?
Who do you consider peers? Are you considering NIL in spending?
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