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Jason white will write his obit
Exactley! I give them no credence by reading their garbage and did not open the link! Would it be too much to take the stand for Pitt and defend Coach Duzz's decision to not offer a contract to an assistant that defied his instructions!
This is a fair point and I agree. But when you look at the totality of a lot of things Narduzzi has said he can be awfully petty. He can still maintain that honesty and dial it back a little bit.
The tone with Whipple wasn’t simply he wanted to run the ball more either. Again, honesty is refreshing even if it isn’t the smoothest way to handle things. He never shied away from his feelings about Marion either. I do wonder if he’s ever had problems finding a coach because of this.
The thing is I read what he was saying was not only a defense of PITT but also the ACC… with regards to the Big he’s got a point… I think the Big has 1 title since 2000…. The ACC has 3… but you’d never know it based on media hype… ever.
It’s also a silly premise -
Hence the non~renewal of his contract
Runs deeper. If this truly was ongoing and he was that insubordinate then he should have been let go sooner. If Whipple was just doing his own thing and defying Narduzzi, then Narduzzi’s quotes don’t say much for himself regarding this situation.
No because pickett held narduzzi hostage by coming back only if whipple did. Pickett had schools like notre dame reaching out for a grad transfer. We had our best season in decades because of this. And narduzzi is right. Unless you have a generational talent in qb like Pickett, passing the ball 70% of the time is a recipe for failure.
Yeah but Narduzzi needs to stop pretending he’s a bystander on offense .
I don’t disagree philosophically but if that’s the case then Narduzzi just needed to STFU. Can’t have it both ways.
Duzz's defense of Pitt and the ACC is a good thing, but his making an issue of Whipple not running the ball enough was not. Whipple was hired because his predecessor didn't pass the ball enough. It was because of Whipple that Kenny came back, was a first team All American, finished third in the Heisman Trophy voting, and was selected as the first round draft choice of the Steelers. And it was because Kenny came back that Pitt won the ACC Championship. Sorry to say it but Duzz looks kind of stupid for saying anything negative about Whipple. The fact that he wanted Whipple to run the ball more is missing the big picture completely. Some people seem to like what he said by saying Duzz is genuine, but there's a difference being genuine and saying things that are completely unnecessary and off target.
The TRUE outrage is this. WVU is another baby face entity thanks to their local media stooges, never mind how mediocre they’ve been lately too.
I had to open these 2 tweets to see who these people are! They are both real losers!
The obviously have strong opinions on Pitt that they get through the editor. I refuse to believe none of them ever have a strong opinion about other sports topics that get nearly daily coverage here.
What a few of you are calling “real talk”, “bravado” and “swagger is coming across as petty sour grapes and childish buffoonery to the rest of the world. It’s idiotic to publicly bash your ex-employees after they leave especially when they’ve produced the best offensive seasons in your program’s entire history. Its idiotic to complain about not running the ball enough when your passing offense just set records and led to your best season in 40 years. It’s idiotic and infantile to do the “woulda shoulda coulda” nonsense in bashing the team you just lost to, especially when it happens to be the team/program where you spent 10
Pitt blowing a 31-6 4th quarter lead by giving up two onside kicks, 3 TDs and a 2 point conversion in the last, what, 4 mins of the game was one of the all time biggest embarrassments in Pitt sports history, not to mention one of the biggest collapses in all of NCAA bowl history. Any incoming coach had every right to call that out and say it would never happen again, and frankly, that is exactly what every Pitt fan that sat through that miserable, rainy, god-awful embarrassment needed to hear.
It was pathetic but at least it was a bowl game and not a real game.
They should be prevented from wearing other college gear, particularly recruiting or on-field opponents, when going into the South Side complex. That is a no-brainer policy.
Why is it a bad thing that Narduzzi asked people not to wear WVU gear on the South Side? Would they like it if someone was wearing a Pitt shirt in their facilities?
Since the 1970s and 80s, bowl games are real games and count in the season record, the statistical record books, and the rankings, whether fans or coaches want to dismiss them or not. And the Armed Forces Bowl occurred before you had the rash of players opting out of them.
