I leave it up to the Lair Poster Experts on Offense to judge, predict, and analyze whether Pitt's New OC will be just as good as Chaney and Canada? Coach Pat Narduzzi is happy and so is coach Watson being together again. i found interesting the Pitt QBs had a say too.
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The Pitt fans who write on message boards and worry about the loss of a quarterback, running back and 40 percent of the offensive line want to know about Shawn Watson the play-caller........To Watson, Pitt's new offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach, there is so much more to his job, his fourth since 2013. “It's more than scheme, more than calling plays,” he said. “It's about the entire plan, the process, developing players and developing the offense.”.........“I saw her impact so many lives,” he said. “I want to be a teacher. I love impacting lives. “I love what our business does. Our business affects lives. Developing young men is a huge responsibility a coach has. I have not wanted to do anything else.” He describes the workload of a coach — seven days a week, for about half the year — as “long days, not hard days.” “I don't like sitting on my hands. I like being out in front. That's my heart and my passion,” he said................“I'm very methodical in how I do things,” Narduzzi said. “I brought a few guys in (for interviews), talked to a lot of guys in Nashville (at the American Football Coaches Association convention last month).” He said he included the entire staff in the process and even gave the quarterbacks some involvement. Watson said he knows several Pitt assistants who will now work with him, and he is good friends with former coordinator Jim Chaney, now at Georgia. “It's a complex interview,” Narduzzi said. “It's about the person. We find a coach after that.”...........Narduzzi is quick to mention, however, there is more than friendship connected to Watson's arrival on campus. “I wasn't hiring a friend. He's a dear friend, but he's a great coach,” Narduzzi said. “I was floored with the wealth of knowledge Shawn is going to bring to the table.” Watson brings more accomplished experience to his job at Pitt than any coordinator hired in three years under former coach Paul Chryst..........Watson has been an offensive coordinator at four Power 5 schools since 2000 (Colorado, Nebraska, Louisville and Texas) before he was fired at the end of the 2015 season by then-Texas coach Charlie Strong. After one game that season, Strong took away Watson's play-calling duties, even though Watson had followed Strong from Louisville a year earlier. “We got away from who we were at Louisville,” he said of the Texas situation. “There were a lot of things that affected those decisions. “Charlie, all of us, will tell you what we did (at Texas) we believed in. What made us great at Louisville, we made some tweaks. “It was a tough hand for all of us, Charlie in particular. We all keep moving forward and keep working.” Strong, who was fired by Texas after the 2016 season and is now head coach at South Florida, did not respond to a phone call from the Tribune-Review. Narduzzi said Watson will bring to Pitt offensive concepts he employed at each stop of his career. “He's done it so many different ways, and run some of the things we did last year (while averaging 446.8 yards of total offense, fourth in the ACC),” Narduzzi said.................GO READ FULL LINK
LINK:
http://triblive.com/sports/college/pitt/11889845-74/watson-narduzzi-coach
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The Pitt fans who write on message boards and worry about the loss of a quarterback, running back and 40 percent of the offensive line want to know about Shawn Watson the play-caller........To Watson, Pitt's new offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach, there is so much more to his job, his fourth since 2013. “It's more than scheme, more than calling plays,” he said. “It's about the entire plan, the process, developing players and developing the offense.”.........“I saw her impact so many lives,” he said. “I want to be a teacher. I love impacting lives. “I love what our business does. Our business affects lives. Developing young men is a huge responsibility a coach has. I have not wanted to do anything else.” He describes the workload of a coach — seven days a week, for about half the year — as “long days, not hard days.” “I don't like sitting on my hands. I like being out in front. That's my heart and my passion,” he said................“I'm very methodical in how I do things,” Narduzzi said. “I brought a few guys in (for interviews), talked to a lot of guys in Nashville (at the American Football Coaches Association convention last month).” He said he included the entire staff in the process and even gave the quarterbacks some involvement. Watson said he knows several Pitt assistants who will now work with him, and he is good friends with former coordinator Jim Chaney, now at Georgia. “It's a complex interview,” Narduzzi said. “It's about the person. We find a coach after that.”...........Narduzzi is quick to mention, however, there is more than friendship connected to Watson's arrival on campus. “I wasn't hiring a friend. He's a dear friend, but he's a great coach,” Narduzzi said. “I was floored with the wealth of knowledge Shawn is going to bring to the table.” Watson brings more accomplished experience to his job at Pitt than any coordinator hired in three years under former coach Paul Chryst..........Watson has been an offensive coordinator at four Power 5 schools since 2000 (Colorado, Nebraska, Louisville and Texas) before he was fired at the end of the 2015 season by then-Texas coach Charlie Strong. After one game that season, Strong took away Watson's play-calling duties, even though Watson had followed Strong from Louisville a year earlier. “We got away from who we were at Louisville,” he said of the Texas situation. “There were a lot of things that affected those decisions. “Charlie, all of us, will tell you what we did (at Texas) we believed in. What made us great at Louisville, we made some tweaks. “It was a tough hand for all of us, Charlie in particular. We all keep moving forward and keep working.” Strong, who was fired by Texas after the 2016 season and is now head coach at South Florida, did not respond to a phone call from the Tribune-Review. Narduzzi said Watson will bring to Pitt offensive concepts he employed at each stop of his career. “He's done it so many different ways, and run some of the things we did last year (while averaging 446.8 yards of total offense, fourth in the ACC),” Narduzzi said.................GO READ FULL LINK
LINK:
http://triblive.com/sports/college/pitt/11889845-74/watson-narduzzi-coach
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