This might make some of you apoplectic
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Dick move to basically tweet “look at me”. If you were a good enough find out ahead of it report it. White isn’t, so why tweet after the guy didn’t get an offer? “Chirp. Chirp”? STFU you clown.
Mike and Kasper are very good friends. He's probably closer to kasper than any wpial coach.
Why is it that every ex Pitt person feels like Pitt owes them something. If he is not a good fit so be it. I don’t understand why White has this constant beef with Pitt. I wish the local media would imagine a world without Pitt football.
Who says that Kasper believes PITT owes him anything?
Who knows why he interviewed? Maybe he has legit interest? Maybe the folks at PITT begged him to come in and interview. Maybe he wants to stretch his pockets a bit more or his program a bit more by interviewing.
Who knows why he interviewed? Maybe he has legit interest? Maybe the folks at PITT begged him to come in and interview. Maybe he wants to stretch his pockets a bit more or his program a bit more by interviewing.
It would be a great hire. Anyone who met Kasper would know he'd recruit well, and he's 10x the coach Harley was.
Bummer, if true.
Bummer, if true.
If we are going after any PA coach, I would go after the Head Coach at Philly St. Joes Prep. You talk about an ace recruiter....
Not sure why it matters. It’s Narduzzi’s duty to the program and himself to cast the net then hire who he thinks will be best for the job. Tons of guys don’t get jobs all over the country - it’s just part of the business. And he deserves no special consideration being an alum. Coaches don’t need to be “Pitt guys”. They’re all nomads and will become Pitt guys the day they’re hired. Then will be (insert university name here) guys at their next stop.
However, if by chance this was a “courtesy interview” and he had no chance that’s another matter. I would imagine a time or 2 a coach blew someone’s doors off and got the job but by and large I think doing that is stupid. And insulting.
You made a couple of very good points.
I'd add that IMO, Narduzzi doesn't seem like a guy who is political enough to offer "courtesy interviews", especially for a defensive position coach.
My guess, and it's simply a guess, is that Heather had something to do with it. She lives in PR and her kids are in the district. I'm sure she knows him.
So you should only ever interview one person for a job, the one that you eventually hire?
I think most people who have ever hired someone for any job would say that isn't really a good idea at all.
If you don't think that "I don’t see the upside of interviewing him and NOT hiring him" at least implies that the only reason to interview him was if you were going to hire him then you don't understand the implications of your words.
Fair points-
not just because hes an alum but also a local coach of a powerhouse program.
its also going to depend on who we hire. For instance we choose manalac it could back fire.
I’ll take your word. I have no idea who’s in the mix. I don’t even have a clue who Manalac is.
If he was given a fair opportunity and didn’t get chosen - tough bleep. If he holds a grudge, so be it.
It certainly implies that.
Because otherwise you would see the possible upside of interviewing someone that you don't hire.
True story, I interviewed a young lady once for a ticket writer position at a sportsbook. Within 5 minutes she broke out with the “I hate sports” line. When I asked why in the world would she want to work at a sportsbook, her reply was she heard that the tips were pretty good.
Needless to say she did not get the job.
i see the upside in it. I hire people as part of my job.
I don’t see the upside in interviewing this one particular candidate unless you were fairly certain you were going to hire him.
Hahahahahahahaha.
Wait - let me catch my breath.
Ok
Hahahhahahahahahahahahahahaha. Roflmao. Hahahahahahahahahahaha.
STAAAAAHHHHPPPPP
The equivalent of that would’ve been if Rutgers had given Nunzio Campanile the HC job on a permanent basis.
Once you fire that guy (probably very quickly) you better make sure the next hire is a good one or your program is shot for a decade.
Really wish Rutgers would’ve kept Campanile, it’s almost as if he was BORN to be the Rutgers head football coach. Then again, he never had the makings of a varsity athlete...
SJP recruits itself. More X than not, city kids and vicarious dads in Philly find sjp not the other way around.
You would have laughed too when Gus Mahlzahn was hired from coaching high school. HAHAHAHA! I know let's hire a gym teacher from Youngstown, Ohio. HAHAHAHAHA.
While Narduzzi has his faults, his recent hires have been really good. So I am going to give him the benefit of the doubt here. But it seems to me like Kasper would’ve been a good hire too.
Malzahn wasn’t hired out of high school to be a head coach sparky. I wasn’t laughing at Kasperovic being a LB coach. I’m howling (and will remain howling) at your clownish suggestion that he replace Narduzzi. It’s remarkable that I even need to explain that.
Yeah I didn’t get the Malzahn comparison, he had years as a college assistant before taking the HC job at Arkansas St.
Yea it’s astounding.
The only one I know of is Faust. And we all know how that went. I would guess there may be some but I’d bet they’re much lower level jobs.
I know we don’t all think alike. And that’s largely a good thing. But I just don’t get how anyone can think it’s a good idea to give the reins of a P5 program to a high school coach. Blows me away.
Oh I’m well aware of another one unfortunately. UNLV hired Tony Sanchez from Bishop Gorman a few years back, and despite having the backing of some of the more important people in town 4 years later he was gone with a 20-40 record. That doesn’t even tell the whole story of the long term damage he did to the program.
Sanchez was a guy from probably the best high school program in the country going to a MWC school with major power brokers behind him and the jump was still way too much, for a guy like Kasperowicz going to an ACC school I can’t image how incredibly overmatched he would be.
I apologize that wasn’t directed at you. It was just a general rant and I shouldn’t have put in a reply.
I will take your word for it and the others that seem to know him, but what we don't know is what other duties and whatnot were discussed, for all we know it may have been a very amicable discussion as in, "We would love to have you Eric but right now we really need someone with experience at this level to______" ...fill in the blank...those of you who personally know a College HC know how much pressure they are under to win, its their lively hood, and the limit on staffs' make each hire very important, IMO
PS
(Mike White never struck me as someone who would be able to understand the eye to eye straight talk))
pittdan77
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I have a hard time believing a top 10 CFB defense is going to go looking for a HS football coach to fill one of it's more important position groups.
Well, based on this it was a courtesy interview for sure. So I would agree with you, why interview him at all?
Very possible he liked Kasper too but when the opportunity came up to get a guy with coaching experience at a higher level his decision was made.
pittdan77
Athletic Director
Aren't we just taking the WPIAL guy at the PG's word for that?
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