Well, now there is only one position coach spot left on Todd Graham’s new staff.

“I make it a priority to hire people who will make me a better coach,” Graham said. “I am extremely pleased with the staff we’ve hired thus far. Not only are they excellent football coaches, they are also tremendous men who are honored to be a part of the University of Pittsburgh.”

Graham still needs to hire one assistant coach and he said it will be a safeties coach.

Mildly surprising that Graham has split safeties from the cornerback. Most of the time you see a position coach listed as “secondary” covering both corners and safeties. Give what safeties have to do these days, though, it does have a logic to it.

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Even before the Cuse-Pitt game ended last night, the usual comments about Pitt were starting. About how Pitt’s regular season play means nothing if they don’t perform in March, or how they don’t perform in March. It was showing up on Twitter and other sites. Typical stuff that happens every year.

If you think this is whining about it, you are mistaken. More of a weary sigh to the repetitiveness. I suppose it is to be expected. Until Pitt actually breaks through to the Final Four, there is going to be this doubt and dismissiveness.

Heck, even when it does happen, the narrative would shift to the fact that Pitt hasn’t won it all (assuming for the sake of argument that when the time comes that Pitt makes the Final Four, they don’t win the whole thing). Think Jim Boeheim and ‘Cuse, Lute Olson at Arizona, Roy Williams during his Kansas tenure. That is just the way these things work.

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