Walt Harris and Pitt’s long term future will be more clearly revealed in who he hires as offensive coordinator and how much authority is given. Brookhart, who leaves to be headcoach at Akron, was the offensive coordinator and wide receiver coach. In truth, he was mainly the wide receiver coach, and the guy who taught the offense in practice. During the game, Harris was in total control of the offensive play calling. If Harris insists on keeping that level of control, then he may be setting up his own fall. He will be locking out any possible new voices with respect to changes and adaptation to the offense. My sense is, he will not want to give up his control on offense.

Harris has no plans to immediately find a replacement for Brookhart, but did say that the Panthers will look outside the program.

“We’ll go outside,” Harris said. “Right now, our plan is to bring in a receiver coach, the best receiver coach that I think will fit in our system.”

Pitt still could hire a receivers coach and promote running backs coach Dino Babers to offensive coordinator. Babers held the same position at Arizona and Texas A&M.

This really worries me, because it looks like he is not going to make a real change to the offense. I know, college coaches like Stoops, Saban and Carroll do the same with regards to their defenses; but Harris is not those guys and this is the offense not defense.