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Whatever happened to Pitt anyway? Seems like they were always producing top players

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I'll answer though I suspect no one really wants to know or will read the whole thing

As far as top players, they still have been, check the hall of fame ..aaron donald is the highest graded player in the NFL of any postion, chris doleman HOF, curtis martin HOF, reuben brown HOF, larry fitz, darrelle revis, shady mccoy,(not to mention the best punter of the last decade+ ). all after the marino and pitts second peak in the 70's-early 80's.
--In fact ESPN did a fact/resut based study just from 1980 to 2010 on best NFL producers and pitt was 3rd behind Miami and USC (ahead of #4 FSU , go acc?). This did not count pitts NC/Tony Doresett teams in the late 70's.

but why they suck? because pitt the SCHOOL wanted them to unfortunately. There were 2 periods where they instituted strong policies to de-emphasize football.

-The first and who cares because it was so long ago, was in 1940. after ~20 years or probably the best run of any team, EVER, they followed the ivy's de emphasis plans and pretty much quit trying, but kept up the national schedule (i.e. playing oklahomas and ND's while teams liek WVU were playing washington&jefferson and waynesburg).. relavance of this is, it iw what dropped them from the all time blue blood status forever.

Second was in 1985, the raised admission standards well above all their pier programs and NCAA mandates. The team went into a downward spiral, which unfortunately lasted through the TV /football boon and was not even attempted to fix it until basically 2000.

although if academics are the most important (not to me but..) it worked out that way. they have over 3 million endowment, and are very difficult to get accepted to, MUCH harder than Penn State for instance.

i hate ranking on yards. pitt had the best return man in the nation last year, cut down canadas stats!!

ITs a Pitt WR saying 'not everyone you start with is meant to finish with you'

of course, canada was his 3rd offensive cord so not sure he exactly means that but who knows.

There is no news at all on pitts premium sites FWIW. dont know that blog well to be sure if that guy has legit source, as its really the same 10 people jerking each other off with multiple alias,

But did anyone get to the bottom of the thread?

Canada is/was friends with narduzzi. Its not like when he was at NC state and butted heads.

i would expect him, if he is taking the job, to want to talk to him in person first.

Especially since there was indeed a gentlemens/friends agreement that he would hang around awhile. Duzz was super pissed at Chaney for going to Georgia last year.

i dont believe its a significant jump i players from pitt on the offensive side of the ball.

9 of their starters are likely NFL players, they had a killer o line (as does lsu just saying) adn as i said in another thread, a perfect storm for canada.

(dont just say no because you dont think its possible, it is true).


Also pitt fans freak out because of the post-wannstedt years where they had 7 coaches in like 3 years, it was a mess. have not recovered mentally yet.