Yet he regarded by many as a top coach, excepting the negative people on this board.
Championship. When was the last time that Pitt when a championship of any kind prior to Narduzzi?
Mac has killed it on the recruiting trail and yet his winning percentage is only slightly higher than Duzz
I my opinion, it is mostly institutional failure. It started way back with Jackie Sherill. We just don't focus on our football program and it shows. I truly believe we could bring in a great coach and still not be a 10 win program. You either run your program like the pedophiles and go all in, or you wallow in complacent mediocrity.
You're mistaken for many reasons that I articulated in several earlier threads. Mr. Curtain 55 shares the same opinion, and I respect his a hell of a lot more than yours.
Are those only ACC games? Of course not, because you are disingenuous. ACC records show performance against similar schedules rather than weaker OOC schedules played by many.
The Big East was garbage and Wanny couldn't even win it. The ACC is a far superior conference.
The BE post-ACC raid acquitted itself well enough in the early Wanny years. That is the point we have been trying to make. The notion that Wanny should have owned the conference is faulty in light of the facts. Especially when you consider how bad Harris's recruiting was at the end and that he left Wanny a marginal team. Context matters.
And the point some us are making is that it sucked even in the early Wanny years. During Wanny's tenure, the ACC always had the more ranked teams than the Big East except 2006.
LOL.
Pitt is literally still playing the best 2 of that group of misfits - WVU and Louisville - and swapped abject dreg of Rutgers, USF, and UConn for 3 of Clemson, Notre Dame, FSU, NC State, Cal, and Wake.
This argument might be compelling but for the fact that the ACC housed twelve teams while the BE housed only eight. Such a lazy, misinformed argument.
Hardly. He was the #1 overall recruit in the 2022 class and committed to Texas, decommitted after Tom Hermann drove Texas off a cliff that season, reclassed to 2021 to capitalize on NIL, made like 1.5 mill in NIL money to go to OSU for one year, and was only at OSU for his true freshman season. CJ Stroud, who was the class before him, won the starting job in Ewers' true freshman year so Ewers went back to Texas to play for the new coach, QB whisperer Sark. He was the most sought after transfer in the portal for the short time he was in it, during which it was a foregone conmclusion that he would go back home to Texas. .
ZOR--Conner was a Chryst recruit and player, had by far his best year under Chryst, missed Narduzzi's first season, and played for Narduzzi only as a senior.
Right. I mean it's generally accepted that Urban Meyer and Ryan Day, or for that matter Nick Saban, Dabo, etc. aren't THAT much better than Nardon'tzi......
As does the Coastal, and really the whole ACC outside of one and occasionally two programs.
What the debate shows is that Pitt never should have gotten rid of Wanny and they’d be idiots if they got rid of Duzz.
He's got 5 million reasons a year to "gut it out" in the new world of college football.
Yet he regarded by many as a top coach
You can include yourself in the #2 category.
The same as the ACC for the most part. Lets face it this is how the 2 conferences looked like over the past 10 years
It is silliness to think that the number of members determines the number ranked.
So he was buried by Stroud (and others in his year there). If he ain't startin', he's in the trash bin.
