Comments on: More on Pederson

By: TMGPanther

TMGPanther — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 00:32:59 +0000

Dennis,
I don’t see where I said that they went “all out”. Sometimes that is called for and sometimes it isn’t. I’ve hired many vp and SVP for my company and sometimes we do a national search and sometimes we zero on a few people we are familiar with that we feel are a good fit with what we are trying to accomplish. In fact, most coaches and AD’s are hired with a focused search on just a few candidates. How many coaches do you think MI and NE are interviewing? You think they are zeroing in a few candidates? Do you see them holding press conferences to discuss their thinking and process? Even with an all out search you still end up picking someone that you don’t really know untill after they work for you for a period of time. My understanding is that they considered at least two other candidates and gav thoughtful consideration to bringign Pederson back. Omar stated they actually offered the job to the GT AD. I can’t confirm that, but it is consistent with my understanding thst there were at least two other serious candidates. It is certanly aceptable to not like Pederson, but do you really think that they just took Pederson back without any due diligence or discussion with the governance structure at Pitt? I can assure you that there was much discussion about the decision, but ultimately it was Nordenberg’s to make. we’ll all see if it turns out to be a good one or a bad one.

By: nuton

nuton — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 23:58:00 +0000

First of all, will you guys PLEASE get off Wanny’s ass? The guy is NOT a dumb ass, he knows what he’s doing. It’s not like Walt left us with a whole lot. No linemen, no linebackers, just a a couple of DB and Wr (After all we were Wide Receiver U right?) Give Dave a chance. Sure Walt took us to bowl games and 90% of the time what happened? WE GOT OUR ASS KICKED! I go to every home game and I see the progress being made. I’m also sick of hearing these guys cry about the offense…..Did you see what they were working with this year? Injuries happen and when you don’t have the depth (again thanks WALT), then you’re in trouble. As far as Steve-e-reno goes, I said it before, the man is a CARPETBAGGER and I doubt if he has a sincere bone in his body. When I talk to him (when he graces us with his presence) I see a phony. He didn’t understand this school or the tradition. Yeah, we have it. Maybe if this dept hadn’t been run into the ground in the late 80’s and 90’s we’d be competing every year and you know what? Alot of you would be complaining about something! Let’s unite, get back to basics. This program IS turining the corner and is getting back on track. If you think Wanny is so freaking bad, who you going to bring in? Who would want to come here if you keep brining in coaches and only give them four or five years? Maybe someone good would want to come here after all, Wanny did all the dirty work and re-building….give the guy a chance. Next year WILL be better and I’m hoping it starts tonight in that stinkhole! Burn the town down! Hillbilly Central will implode when the dumb ass beats them!
HAIL TO PITT

By: hail to pitt

hail to pitt — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 23:33:04 +0000

pitt should give wanny one more year and see how he does. pitt had a few close loses that could have went either way. pitt should fire matt cavanaugh and bring a more open offense to the program.
Lets go beat then hillbillies!!!

By: Stuart

Stuart — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 23:28:35 +0000

That’s 2 more than i expect from them…

By: Dennis

Dennis — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 23:14:46 +0000

TMG, did they really go all out in finding the best replacement? All accounts say they interviewed one or two other candidates at best.

By: Stuart

Stuart — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 23:09:47 +0000

What does everyone think is going to be the key to the game? How about this:

How long it takes before Cox gets burned and Chappel takes over so that someone can defend the only passing threat they have. If we can make them 1 dimensional and put 9 in the box, i think that’s the only chance we have to stop them.

What players throw TDs today? I say Strong: 1, Mo Williams: 1, Shady: has an attempt but dropped, Bostick: 0. The rest are Shady running it in.

By: Crackbaldo

Crackbaldo — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 22:54:46 +0000

The Costco in Morgantown is having a couch sale. They’ll even deliver it to your front yard for free.
Hoople-town is going to be burning, win or lose, and it’s gonna be fun to watch.

By: Stuart

Stuart — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 22:32:00 +0000

Right. Fire all the coaches. Haven’t heard that one before. on the last thread…on the last thread…on the last thread…on the last thread…on the last thread…on the last thread…on the last thread…on the last thread…on the last thread…on the last thread…on the last thread…on the last thread…

By: matt in orlando

matt in orlando — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 21:56:42 +0000

TMG, i hope you are being sarcastic. do you really think they did due dilligence in interviewing a bunch of people and picking the right one? or did they do the typical lazy pitt administration thing of taking the easy way?

i still dont see why we hire a guy after he leaves us and proceeds to run a great program into the ground on account of his attitude. hell we’ve had nebraska people here telling us to be careful. i agree, it does make pitt seem a bit desperate/second rate.

By: Dr. Doom

Dr. Doom — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 21:45:20 +0000

Pitt has great facilities for FB and BB, the BB team is competitive year in and year out. When Walt was here we were competitive in FB.

Plain and simple our problem with football is our head coach. He is a dumb ass, I cannot wait for his press conference after the game when the hoops hang 60 on him.

Wanny will never go to a bowl at Pitt, Stevie will fire him next year when his record is 5-7!