Duzz deserves every single critical post written about him this evening.
Gutless weenie.
What the hell would he do in a game that actually means something?
Gutless weenie.
What the hell would he do in a game that actually means something?
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7 wins in a row: impressive.
6 losses in a row: astounding.
6 losses in a row: astounding.
Which he said Saul’s was easily making 66 yarders all week in practice. 1 second left. What’s the harm.
Right now I’m wondering what gets written in that spiral notepad. Since nobody else on Earth does it. Maybe a grocery list?
There are literally only a couple coaches in the country that wouldn’t go for it on 4th down in that situation, unfortunately we have one of them.
There were a lot of issues today from Narduzzi and the staff. Expecting the TE to complete a 2-yard pass was not one of them.
That play call in that situation is a "see how much smarter than you we are" play call.
Except when it doesn't work, and all it does is show how dumb a play call it actually was and how dumb someone would have to be to think that it was the right idea in the first place.
^^^This!! I was screaming at the TV. Who decides 4th and 3 is a better opportunity at winning than 4th and a foot?? I can only fathom that Narduzzi doesn't know the rules or chose to ignore the rules??
Not really. It was an easy play that should've been completed 10 out of 10 times. Two kids playing catch could've made that throw. The difficulty level was 0.
You could have handed it off or just ran the QB…who happened to get you to that point. To have a TE who hasn’t thrown a pass all year to a Dlineman was idiotic! And playing catch in a stadium is quite different than playing catch in backyard.
And they could've been stopped on the one. Bell designed a play that had a wide open option and an easy completion. The players failed. Simple as that.
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One of the last of the gym teacher style meatheads left in P4 coaching. Treasure him.
I don’t think too many viewers thought it was a “great game”. Laughable clown show was more the feedback I was getting.
The ball never should have left Dugger’s hands on any of those 4 plays. Just 4 straight pushes over the center. If that doesn’t get you in, you have no business winning anyway.
Pitt had 301 yards rushing, averaging 4.6 yards per carry, and had 2 plays to get 1 yard. Run the damn ball!
Your comment should be put on a poster inside the South Side facility. Up, 30-20, with just under eight minutes to play. Two more first downs and a FG will most likely seal the game. A TD will definitely do it. Instead we throw two passes, the second one INT and returned for a TD.
Yesterday was an embarrassment of epic proportions. There is no way to spin it.
I give a lot of credit to the kids for fighting hard, but, the coaches let them down.
Massively.
First Downs: Pitt 29; Toledo 18
Third Downs: Pitt 8/19; Toledo 3/16
Total yards: Pitt 438; Toledo 416
Rushing: Pitt 301/66 for 4.6; Toledo 80/25 for 3.2
Passing: Pitt 17/32 4.3 average; Toledo 26/50 6.7 average
Penalties: Pitt 8/56; Toledo 12/117
T.O.P.: Pitt 36:12; Toledo 23:48
Against Duquesne Vandeross III had a massive game, four catches for 37 yards. Good to see our Defense-oriented coach's defense held him to 12 catches for 194 yards
Embarrassing on an epic scale. Coaches blew the F out of this game.
Embarrassing.
Given that I saw both the RB and QB get more than one yard on multiple occasions, and have yet to see the TE complete a pass to a DT...I'll take my chances with the RB and QB.
It's amazing Narduzzi is good enough to probably still have (I haven't double checked) our best record post Sherrill and definitely our only conference title, but dumb enough he literally can't understand why everyone thinks he's insane not going for it inside the 1. Just a remarkably dumb man that the players seem to like.
Wannstedt: 42-31 (57.53 winning %)
Narduzzi: 72-56 (56.25 winning %)
Harris: 52-44 (54.17% winning %)
But Harris inherited an actual dumpster fire and is the only coach on the list to have actually raised the bar, based on how he left the program vs what it was when he took over, substantially. Should only be another season or two before he reclaims second place.
Harris did the best job considering what he inherited. Bad timing firing him after finally getting to a BCS bowl though his agent didn't help. Idk what Pitt was supposed to do after that..
I loved Wanny for his passion for Pitt and 13-9 but I understood firing him even after three good years because he never won a mediocre Big East. He had the weakest schedule and best financial situation compared to conference peers and couldn't get it done.
I'm down on Narduzzi but he probably has out performed ACC peers and other peers with the same medium low level of attendance, NIL fundraising, and athletic department budget. That said, he has a big salary and there is nothing stopping him from putting 3 million a year into NIL himself except greed. An actual great coach at Pitt would likely leave as soon as they could because it's not a great job. That's true of almost every ACC job.
Yeah, the winning percentages are probably exactly backwards as it relates to how successful they actually were. Harris elevated the program, while Wannstedt couldn't get it done in a watered-down Big East where Pitt almost certainly had the clearest pathway to winning that conference most of those years.
Narduzzi, to me, is just Mr. Status Quo. He doesn't suck, and he's nothing great. Give him a 7-5 program, and he'll mostly maintain it. Just by virtue of him being here for so long, he has produced both the best and the worst seasons we've seen in a while. But it all averages out to the status quo.
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