A couple little known facts about Matt Canada

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Success vs. the best:

Much of Pitt’s damage has come against the league’s best. In his last two outings against Clemson as offensive coordinator for N.C. State and Pitt, his teams have scored 11 touchdowns. Of course, his last outing against Clemson was a Pitt victory.

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But this trend goes back to Canada’s first stint as an offensive coordinator at Northern Illinois in ’03. “He gets the most out of his players. He always has. He got the most out of some 5’9” guy that ran a 4.8 40, and he still somehow got that guy to catch 77 passes,” the leading receiver from that 10–2 Huskies team said. That receiver’s name? “If that guy can do that to me, who is just an average football player with average speed and a big heart, he can do that with the athletes and the people he’s going to work with down at LSU,” said *****, who is now ***’s head coach

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At Pittsburgh last season, five non-quarterbacks carried the ball at least 30 times. Five players made at least 20 catches. At NC State in ’15, six non-quarterbacks carried at least 30 times. Six players caught at least 20 passes. In Miles’s last full year at LSU, three non-quarterbacks carried the ball at least 30 times and only two players caught at least 20 passes. Last season, LSU had three non-quarterbacks carry at least 30 times and three players catch at least 20 passes.

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