Since you invited views on this question.....I have to disagree with the position that the only losses that are bad losses are losses to teams with losing records. A loss where you get your brains beat in by a team that has no business slaughtering you is a bad loss. The losses to Okie St.and Penn St at home and the lost to UCF were bad losses....losing to those teams is one thing but there's no excuse for Pitt not even showing up and not being competitive in those games. Those games were embarrassing.
Pitt losing in a bowl game with their best Narduzzi team to a nondescript NW team was also a bad loss. Pitt hardly put up a fight at the end of the year in the loss to a Miami team that was horrible offensively....bad loss. The Stanford team Pitt lost to was probably Stanford's worst team in a decade....another extremely poor offensive team....bad loss.
In my opinion, Narduzzi has been a middling coach overall to date. I think his first two years were fairly solid. For his last two years combined, I believe he deserves little more than a passing grade. His big failures have been his staffs(hopefully this has been addressed now), his inability to recruit play makers and his failure to develop a team that plays consistent defense, a "no no" for a coach whose forte is supposed to be defense. I was optimistic that Narduzzi would get the job done after the first 2 years...now I'm not so sure. As you said in a podcast a couple of months back..."it's time".
Pitt losing in a bowl game with their best Narduzzi team to a nondescript NW team was also a bad loss. Pitt hardly put up a fight at the end of the year in the loss to a Miami team that was horrible offensively....bad loss. The Stanford team Pitt lost to was probably Stanford's worst team in a decade....another extremely poor offensive team....bad loss.
In my opinion, Narduzzi has been a middling coach overall to date. I think his first two years were fairly solid. For his last two years combined, I believe he deserves little more than a passing grade. His big failures have been his staffs(hopefully this has been addressed now), his inability to recruit play makers and his failure to develop a team that plays consistent defense, a "no no" for a coach whose forte is supposed to be defense. I was optimistic that Narduzzi would get the job done after the first 2 years...now I'm not so sure. As you said in a podcast a couple of months back..."it's time".
