Spring practice 1 Whipple
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PITT needs an OC who one day is ready to step into the PITT football HC job when and if Narduzzi decides to leave.
It amazes me that college football and basketball programs don't have a coach ready for the top job on staff. This would alleviate a lot of confusion ( recruits & players leaving) when a coaching change takes place.
IMO OC's make better HC's than DC's.
"it's five o'clock somewhere"
Signed: Mr Buffett
Go PITT & CSU Rams!
It amazes me that college football and basketball programs don't have a coach ready for the top job on staff. This would alleviate a lot of confusion ( recruits & players leaving) when a coaching change takes place.
IMO OC's make better HC's than DC's.
"it's five o'clock somewhere"
Signed: Mr Buffett
Go PITT & CSU Rams!
I actually meant someone in the OC position who's actually knows something about football.
I wasn't looking for a PITT football example because there hasn't been a good example of what I suggested.
Go out and hire someone who actually knows something about football, can coach and has the potential to move to the HC spot.
I realize I'm talking to PITT fans from Pittsburgh whose first response is well we already tried this??
Or that won't work.
Or ----
Excuses, excuses, the glass is half empty answers are for losers and that's about where the football program and PITT fans are these days!
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College football doesn't work this way. Even at Penn State, where coaches worked as assistants for ages, when Joe was fired, they didn't hire from within. Not long term, anyway. It's pretty rare that a coordinator just steps in and that's usually after a long tenured coach is ready to transition to retirement.
I see the merit of it, but not the practicality.
I mean you’d need a head coach and a guy good enough to be the head coach, on the same staff at the same time...
Don’t we have enough trouble trying to find either one of the two?
Go Pitt.
I mean you’d need a head coach and a guy good enough to be the head coach, on the same staff at the same time...
Don’t we have enough trouble trying to find either one of the two?
Go Pitt.
With the mobility and ambition of young capable assistants. It’s tough to retain good ones. I suppose that there may be some merit to pay a king’s ransom to a capable assistant who you believe to be HCing material but truth be told you never know if an assistant will work out until he takes over the helm... I offer Ex. A Jackie Sherrill and Ex. B Foge Fabio. Both guys were viewed as excellent assts. ... one excelled as a HC and one flunked.
Good points.
Good people are hard to retain and some assistants make terrible HC's.
That's a fact Jack.
What bothers me when a HC change happens is all the rats leave the ship, coaches, players, recruits and a U like PITT starts at 0.0.
There has to be a way to improve on that! Maybe!
"it's five o'clock somewhere"
Signed: Mr Buffett
Go PITT & CSU Rams!
One of our photoshop wizards absolutely must now produce a morph of Foge Fazio and Fabio...
Head Coach stability makes a really big difference.
A head coach that lasts for 6-9 years ends up with a very stocked roster and something that almost any newly hired head coach can come in and work with.
Pitt had the unfortunately AD leadership where we replaced multiple coaches in succession and each year the roster took a bigger and bigger hit. You can work through a coaching change and one hick-up year to recruiting, but 3 or 4 changes in 8 years is a program killer.
Pat N. is just now starting to get a roster of players that is mostly stable and filling in the holes. Thinnk about how long it has taken to just really build this foundation and that was after a Paul C. rebuild (he was here only 3 years).
We still have way too many classes where more than 40% of the players signed do not finish their eligibility. We need to get to a roster of 4 and 5 year players - not just on the OL, but the entire team. Idally we have 25+ players that have that 4-5 yr level of experience and physical / metal maturity.
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