In case anyone thought I was just making stuff up regarding Pitt getting sent to the BBVA Bowl in Birmingham, solely for TV. There is this bit of information.
…the BBVA Compass Bowl pitting 6-6 Pitt against 6-6 SMU. That last one’s particularly interesting because, according to multiple sources, the Birmingham game didn’t want the Panthers back for a second straight year, and Pitt was so opposed to the idea it threatened to boycott. Seriously.
So how did that matchup still end up happening? One word: ESPN. Its subsidiary, ESPN Regional, owns six of those low-rung bowls, including the Beef ‘O’ Brady’s and BBVA Compass games. And lest anyone tell you otherwise, head honcho Pete Derzis ultimately decides who plays where. He’s the reason Marshall is playing in St. Pete instead of Pittsburgh and why SMU is in Birmingham instead of … somewhere else.
The bowls are purportedly for the “student-athletes,” and arguably they still are in places like Pasadena and Orlando. In Birmingham or St. Petersburg, however, they’re for three hours of television programming, and the teams are ancillary figures.
And as Zeise noted, it is not like the Big East was going to do anything to help Pitt.
The bottom line is Pitt was trying to work something out with the Beef O Brady’s Bowl but the Big East made it pretty clear that they weren’t going to help Pitt’s cause and they basically told Pitt it was headed to the BBVA Compass Bowl because that bowl needed someone who might actually attract a television audience. (Believe it or not, Pitt might not be good at selling tickets, but people will watch the Panthers on TV which makes them attractice to a bowl like this, which exists almost exclusively as cheap programming for ESPN.
That’s part of why Pitt kept ending up on weeknight ESPN showings. We like sitting in our couches — not burning them.
Heck, I have the money so I bought a plane ticket and a game ticket. Some people like the Steelers…I like Pitt so add Legion Field to my list.
HTP
Greg Stevens delta state
Shane Montgomery youngstown state
they all averaged over 400 yards per game
(of course I live in Atlanta so it is a mere 2 hour inconvenient drive for me)
I’m going, I plan on being in Birmingham for business (convenient) that week and I’m going to stay the weekend and watch them.
“But I do know when you get sacked nine times out of 25 plays (at the end of the West Virginia game), I guess you can put some of it on the quarterback, but anybody who knows anything about football sits back and chuckles when you read that and you are going to blame it all on the quarterback.”
The o-line played their tails off in the WVU game and protected really well as anyone who paid attention to the game noticed. and Wanny wants to put the majority of those sacks on the o-line? Why is Tino out of reach of scrutiny according to Wanndstett but the o-line isn’t? They took enough crap all year- they’ve been criticized as giving up among the most sacks in FBS when nearly half of those sacks aren’t on them. Are O linemen not people? Huh Wanny? It’s OK to criticize them too? Keep to yourself in Buffalo
In fact, after Graham said that Tino’s 4119 yard performance was ‘average’, I was thinking about nicknaming Grahan as “Mr Marinovich”
I told myself when i saw this that Wbb will jump on this even before you posted it.
poor tino sure it was some one elses fult it is the O LINE they make him hold the ball for ever they are to tall it is there fult that i run backwards insted of throwing it away sure it is.
Again, the simple analysis is to always blame the QB, however, (1) Graham slowed down the defense not because of the QB but because the OL was missing assignments and making false stats, and (2) Zeise, who has done his share of Tino bashing, graded Tino a C- for the year but gave the receivers a D.
Yet your hero Graham has everyone believing that the QB is the sole blame
The fact is that all of you totally bought into Graham and, of course, you have to put the blame on someone other than the coach …. and the QB is the easy target
Best of luck Tino at IUP next year.
Wannstedt’s criticism of another coach, particularly his successor, is unusual but not out of line. There’s no question Sunseri was a disappointment. But if he’s playing so poorly, do as Wannstedt suggested, and bench him. Graham, however, stuck with Sunseri almost exclusively through 12 games, despite fans calling for backup Mark Myers to play.
It’s very tempting for a coach to vent his frustrations by criticizing a player. But there’s no call for it. There is nothing — absolutely nothing — to be gained by a coach criticizing one of his players.
There’s plenty to lose, including your team. That’s not to suggest Graham lost his team. It is to suggest such behavior could hurt him in the future.
It’s doubtful Graham’s behavior has won him any friends at Sunseri’s alma mater, Central Catholic, which is one of the top local producers of high school football talent.
WANNY IS THE MAN.
DUMB DUMB
HE WAS FIRED B/C OF ALL OF YOU TYPES OF IDIOTS…NO PATIENCE AND NO CLASS EITHER.
I will agree that the receviers have been really, really bad. But I will also agree that Tino has had that deer-in-the headlights looks waaaay to often this year.
Wannstadt may have gotten the shaft regarding the way he was let go…I think everyone agrees that the University handled it poorly. I can’t comment on the players or anything else becasue I don’t know the facts. But I can say that as a fan, I have to buy into Todd Graham. There is no fanhood without hope.
But that is not the main issue here .. the issue is a $2 million coach not protecting his QB. Remember Mike Gundy who shouted out in his presser “I’m a man!!” .. and received national ridicule?? He took the brunt of the criticism off of his QB and put it on him. I would have to say nobody is criticiizng him anymore
HE SAID IT IS COACHS FULT FOR NOT TEACHING THE SYSTEM .
HE SAID WE SHOULD NOT HAVE TACKING THE SACK.
WHAT DO YOU WANT HIM TO SAY TINO IS WONDEFUL WE WOULD ALL KNOW HE WAS LIEING IF HE DID.
HE SAID TINO GIVES US THE BEST CHANCE TO WIN SAID IT EVERY WEEK WHO LEFT US WITH NO OUTHER qb DAVE DID THANKS DAVE.
GRAM COULD HAVE SAID TINO DOESENT LISTEN HE COULD HAVE SAID TINO IS DUMB HE COULD HAVE SAID TINO CANT HANDLE THE PRESSURE BUT HE SAID KNOWN OF THAT HE SAID TINO GIVES US THE BEST CHANCE TO WIN GET OFF TGs BACK EVEN THE WRITERS IN NEWS PAPER SAID 2 OF THE SACKS WERE ON THE LINE THE REST WERE TINOS FULT GIVES US A BREAK Wbb .
NO ONE wanted him as the head coach at their school…… NO one stepped up with big $$ or any money as far as we know to bring in “The Man”.
If it did happen it was kept quiet (not much can be kept quiet anymore) or it didn’t happen. I believe it never happened because he’s not a highly sought after head coach.
Whatever, it’s not really a big deal to me. I really don’t care what Dave has to say.
“We like sitting in our couches — not burning them.”
You win the internets with that comment.
It’s getting old people harping on Tino’s “419 yard performance” as some tremendous feat and great QB play. He still didn’t complete a pass over 25 yards in the air during that game (absolutely pathetic), he still held the ball too long at times, still took unnecessary sacks and it was against a horrendous, awful team. It was not some terrific performance it was average. Nobody would watch that game and say “oh that QB is terrific”. In fact they’d probably say that team would be terrific if they had a real QB. The agenda some people have against Graham on this board is unbelievable.
1) fast-talking, cliche-driven salesmen (I have always avoided these types), or
2) dink-and-dunk spread offenses (probably my Western PA upbringing)
Still, I have been adamant that Graham can’t be fairly judged until at least another year or two. But that doesn’t mean I can’t bring the criticism where I feel it is just.
“They didn’t leave to pursue ‘job opportunities,’” Rodriguez said with a chuckle. “They’re coming to Arizona
if you think abought it dave blamed his players a lot more than TG at least TG says things like it is our fult we have not coached right.
dave never took the blame for any thing.
No class Wanndstedtt.
The fact that he says “If he can’t play, don’t play him, but do it the right way.” is a damn hoot as DW wouldn’t sit Sunseri down last season if his life depended on it… as his professional one did.
Wannstedt anointed Sunseri from the second Stull took his last snap and purposefully avoided any QB competition which could have opened doors for other QBs to contribute. He did that specifically so that he wouldn’t have to make the hard decision.
This from a man who played depth chart justice and spoke out of both sides of his mouth over and over again. What freakin’ drivel.
I kind of knew DW was a dumbass but this solidifies it.
I definitely remember Wanndstett saying I need to recruit and gets faster players. I’m going to recruit faster guys on the defense than what we have now- I 100% remember listening to this in a post-game interview with Billy Hillgrove on the ride home from a game during his first year- I believe it was the Louisville game.
Don’t act like you’re above that Wanny.
He certainly did not live up to the hype, but he sold newspapers and filled a few seats. His biggest mistake wassaying that Sunseri was the bomb and could really execute the offense.
We all hoped this was true, but quickly learned that Tino’s skill level was the same as last year and apologies to wbb but even with Covert, May and Fralic in front of him he couldn’t hit the side of a barn. I am not sure that even the great Larry Fitz would have helped all that much. I kid, Larry could have made me an all-american QB when I was in my twenties.
The main reason I give Graham a pass, and I am still sore about his poor clock management at Iowa, is that after he lost the Great Ray Graham, his team was still competitive and did not give up. He slowed the game down for Tino, something he should have done earlier, but he did adjust. Graham is young and learning, I think he will adapt faster than Wanny did and has more upside.
I do agree with wbb regarding the dink and dunk, but this is where we are.
I listened to Graham’s presser about the Seniors on his team and I think he is a sincere guy.
Time will tell if he has what it takes. This is a tough sports town and an impossible fan base to satisfy. I am rooting for him to succeed.
Regarding Wanny, I rooted for him too, but his recent comments were bush league.
WBB said: But that is not the main issue here .. the issue is a $2 million coach not protecting his QB. Remember Mike Gundy who shouted out in his presser “I’m a man!!” .. and received national ridicule?? He took the brunt of the criticism off of his QB and put it on him. I would have to say nobody is criticiizng him anymore
Actually that kid (who sounds like a bit of a baby) hates Gundy for his rant:
see
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=3341578
what was Graham supposed to do, call a pile of trash buried treasure?
It is time to move on from Coach Mustache.
and a recruiting coordinator from our staff.
well if Urban Meyer lets theold ohio state staff go when he takes over we hire John Peterson ohio states recruiting coordinator and te coach he would have a real handle on ohio and pa that would be a real plus for us.
what do you think ?
Seems to me a perfect chance to get some substantial pt for one or both of them, as its pretty obvious there ain’t much love lost between coach and QB at this point…or wait, go ahead Chas and Reed…’like it or not, Tino gives us the best chance to win…’
Do we have to reward the kid for his stellar career or something by playing him the whole way? Brian Kelly benched Dayne Crist for a guy who isn’t demonstrably that much better in my view…is Tino above that somehow or better than Crist?
For those of you who don’t think there was some heavy political influence the last two years given who Tino’s dad is, you are in serious denial imo…what makes you think college sports is above nepotism and influence peddling…Pitt and Pitt alums too good for that? Perish the thought.
“On the 6-6 record and return trip to the BBVA Compass Bowl: ‘We were co-Big East champs last year and (the seniors) were looking to take it one step further this year.’”
Is it worth reminding Wannstedt that it took him four years to match/exceed the 8 wins Walt Harris notched in his last Pitt season, six years to match Harris’s feat of winning a share of the Big East title, and, um, still waiting for Wanny to come through with that BCS bowl game?
Dick.
Others here have correctly pointed out that Graham has laid off a lot of criticism that Sunseri could be getting. I suppose Graham could do what Wannstedt used to do, which is give out meaningless, tone-deaf drivel in press conferences.
And you know, I get the whole kid-gloves-for-kids thing up to a point. But if you want to be fellated for average to below-average play, maybe Division I-A isn’t the place to be.
Pitt’s offense this year looked alot like many small high school games I’ve been to, and that’s probably insulting to many high schools these days. By the end of the year we looked like a 1957 Texas A&M game…all we needed were the high top black boots, buzz cut hair, and dude with the houndstooth cap on the sidelines. Gig’em Aggies!?
It’s funny to me how soft so many people are in this day and age. Graham gets lambasted for “ripping a kid” – meanwhile, Sunseri will turn 23 in a matter of days, and the worst thing Graham said was “we can’t take sacks” and calling Sunseri’s performance “average”. You have to be a real softie, or you have an anti-Graham or anti-Pitt agenda to take offense to those comments.
I think that would make ESPN a superpower, complete with overseas territories and puppet states.
Honestly, the most disappointing thing about this season is that I still don’t think I have a good read on what TG brings to the table. Lots of things pissed me off week to week, but the lingering pain is that I thought at a minimum, we would get a feel for what the new system was all about. I think we MAYBE got bits and pieces, but I was hoping to have a better bead on things at this point. Lots of unknowns lurking around at this point; this season was essentially a wash. Nothing stands out. Just kind of an empty season. Wasn’t counting on the injuries, and that was a nasty surprise, but overall I was expecting to learn a lot more about the team and the coaching staff. The biggest positive I took away from this season was leaving the Big East.
Depressing, really.
Tino > Wanny > Graham > Sal Sunseri > Peterson/Nordenberg
That’s 8-4.
Pitt plays better down the stretch and takes out Cincy (remember, the Panthers were only a missed FG away from tying it up). Tino went int he tank in the 4th again this game after the team fought back in the first 3 quarters to have a 10 pt lead.
That’s 9-3.
The Iowa game. The defense is partially to blame. They were just getting used to Graham’s style and weren’t conditioned for it yet, but if Tino could’ve put just one more score of any type on the board in the 4th guess what?
… 10-2.
The defense held Notre Dame in check all game, but Pitt’s offense couldn’t do anything against the Irish defense. If Pitt has a competent QB who can put up just an average amount of points (17-21)… 11-1.
And let’s stretch it even further. For most of the game against Buttgers it was a tight one. Pitt’s inability to do ANYTHING on offense repeatedly gave Buttgers the ball with prime field position and eventually they were able to start cashing in on it. But let’s say that the QB is merely above average (we still had a healthy Ray Graham btw)…
That’s 12-0. That’s an undefeated season. That’s us bitching about Alabama getting into the BCS title game instead of the Panthers!
I know, I know, some of that was a little delusional. EVERY team can point to close games and turning points.
But realistically, with better quarterback play, Pitt could have easily won 9 games, if not 10, even 11 with a little luck!
Ok, I’m making myself mad here…
Side note: HbgFrank, the unis in that video that you linked to were all that in a bag of Chips Ahoy my friend! I liked them all except the black and gold ones (those belong on the Steelers). But the other 3 looked great!! I actually dug the all whites as a third jersey a lot.
Wannstedt, who was fired last year after six seasons at Pitt, said he doesn’t know what Tino Sunseri will do.
“It doesn’t sound like the school or the football program is giving him many options, to be quite honest with you,” he said.
What in hell is he talking about? How in the world is “the school”, meaning the University, not give Sunseri options? They aren’t going to pull his scholarship… if anyone would do that it would be the HC as Sunseri is a rsJR and has had his four years at PITT.
And where was all this righteous indignation when Bill Stull was taking the heat from everyone, including DW, for that poor junior year of his. There was more venom pointed at Stull after the 2008 season and the Sun Bowl than Sunseri is getting now and I don’t remember anyone calling for him to transfer.
And what is painfully obvious is that the same fans who want to tar and feather Graham for not playing anyone but Sunseri (which isn’t true in fact) can’t seem to remember that Wannstedt did the same things in spades when he was the HC here. Oh, and Wannstedt forgot to mention that when he was having phone sex with the Trib reporter during this interview.
The bottom line here is that DW, mistakenly, thought that denigrating Graham’s work this season would somehow make his tenure look better.
Well, DW went 7-5 during the regular season last year, one single game better than Graham, and he did it with eight guys who are now on NFL rosters, with a healthy stable of RBs in Lewis & Graham and a healthy and experienced OL.
That 2010 season was the poorest coaching job I have seen in college football in years yet DW seems to want to compare Graham’s first year to that.
God, Wannstedt is a piece of work. Graham’s propensity to tell the truth pales in comparison to DW’s self centered attitude and actions after his “resignation”.
Damn, DW is puffing his chest out about the ‘co-championship’ last Season? OK, Quick – someone ask him why ‘his’ players quit during the WVU game last season. A game, in fact, that had we won we would have landed in a BCS bowl. His players turned thier back on his for all intents and purposes in that game. That was a national embarrassment and was commented on not just during the game broadcast nationally on sports center afterward.
Yet, he has the gall to sit back, point fingers and say that this season was a disappointment…
Someone send Reed’s post to the Trib and DW.
If Coach Dave is so high on Tino, convince your Buffalo staff to contact him and draft him. He is NFL Draft eligible. He could sign with an agent and end all this speculation about next yr.
I refuse to go look up the numbers again, but, in short, here is my same spiel……….
He sucked in Chicago.
He sucked in Miami. (including quitting in the middle of the season when his team was 0-8)
He was mediocre, at best, at Pitt.
6 years. Winning percentage 57%.
6 years. No BCS bowls.
6 years One top 25 ranking.
6 years One signature win. 13-9
6 years Many signature losses.
Someone above said patience. I have to laugh.
You’re gonna jump on Todd Graham before his first season is even completed, yet, Wannstedt should have been shown more patience after 6 years??? That is an assinine comment.
It’s embarrassing, to Pitt fans, the university and should be embarrassing to the peron that is saying it.
You tied with two other teams, one who beat you, and one that pulverized you on your home field.
Stop with that non-sense, it makes everyone cringe!!!
My only problem is with people saying (he needs canned), that’s all.
As for day to day, and game to game stuff, absolutely, he’s open to some criticism.
Along with your overall point, I had a wtf moment with him, when you made 9 yards on two plays with Gonzo, and on 3rd down you bring Tino in????
I think a lot of us did!!
It’s actually kind of odd when you think about it. He’s bashed him several times, it’s obvious he doesn’t think he can run his offense, yet he didn’t put anyone else in?? That is perplexing.
Even if you “don’t have anyone else”, you have two back ups, two players who were qb’s in high school.
Your point is well taken.
I don’t think TG was happy with Sunseri’s performance as the season progressed simply because he never really got any better in his execution, TG then started to show his impatience with Sunseri late into the season. I disagree with DW’s statement however that TG “threw him under the bus”.
Come to think of it TG might have wanted to do that but was reluctant to do so, because of course we’re talking about Tino here!!! and the attempt to “THROW” Tino under the bus would probably have fallen “INCOMPLETE”. Sometimes I even make myself giggle.
You have a hot shot qb coming in, you have time to look around for any qb transferring, any JUCO qb’s………
You have extra bowl time practice and spring ball if you want to experiment with Gonzales or even Jones.
I don’t want to hear any of this “Tino gives us the best chance to win” coming out of spring ball.
If I hear that, I may no longer have the coaches back.
I don’t think that will happen, doesn’t seem likely anyhow.
I will not go through another year with Tino at QB, and I will not be a happy Pitt fan, if the coach comes out in April and tells me (us) that Tino is “certainly in the mix”.
No one can convince me we wouldn’t have won at least two more games going that route…and been in the battle for the BCS bid or at least a much more prestigious bowl…and more importantly, a more fitting reward for the seniors who’ve busted a gut all four years despite some shaky-#ss coaching.
I feel real sorry for guys like Caragein, Nix, Holley, Gruder, etc. All damn good players and they deserved so much better than they got.
So Coach Graham gets criticized for being too “hard” on Tino for saying Tino was average which he was. And he also gets criticized for playing Tino too much. And he also gets involved in some Tino-Sal conspiracy theory.
Seriously, if Coach Graham believed that anyone else on the offense could have been QB then he would have played him. Coach Graham is clearly not a fan of Tino. I was at the Cuse game and saw Coach Graham just yell at Tino after that horrible play in which Tino took a 10 yard loss instead of throwing the ball away. Coach Graham is trying desperately to play anyone but Tino next year at QB, which is why you see him now open to transfers and JuCos.
In regards to Meyers, anyone who has watched Pitt practice and has covered the team has said that Meyers has not been ready to run the offense. Plus, Meyers parents have been telling people for weeks that he is planning on transferring. Not sure what you gain by playing someone who is transferring anyways.
In regards to running a wildcat offense, I don’t think it would have worked with Brown as the main RB in the offense. Here are examples in which I can think of the wildcat actually working: Shady at Pitt, Ronnie Brown with the Dophins and Darren McFadden at Arkansas. Neither Gonzalez or Jones has a good enough arm to be QB for an entire game.
And let’s not forget the monumental choke job against cinci in 2009. A game that was being played at home in front of a sold out stadium and partisan Pitt crowd, against Cincifuckingnati for the Big East championship and BCS bowl berth. A game that saw the great defensive geru’s defense shredded like cheese in food processor. I don’t think cincinnati’s offense even broke a sweat in the second half of that game.
That game and last years WVU debacle are what turned me against Wannstedt. Choking at home against Cincinnati is bad, but quitting at home against WVU is simply unacceptable.
This didn’t happen. Don’t blame Tino for the starter. Blame Graham and Wanny.
I feel bad for Tino because unless Dayne Chirst or a Juco is brought in, he will be the man again. Chad Voytik is small and I have a feeling he could be the second coming of Trey Anderson.
Ex: Graham said Greg Williams was a smartass at first and he worked his way into the lineup consistently.
San Diego St wants to join Big East, lose to the third place team of the Sun Belt conference, you’ll fit in nicely. LOL
Illinois-UCLA, two teams with interim coaches, meeting at a baseball field, on New Years Eve, with one team losing it’s last 6 in a row, and another having just been beaten 50-0 by it’s arch-rival!!! LOL
Hey, ya gotta laugh and roll with it!!!! LOL
Of course, and not even worth discussing, we all want somebody like Luck or Griffith, but you do the best you can with what you have…and many feel Tino isn’t that…but if you dug 6 horrific losses and still didn’t want to make adjustments, hope you enjoyed the season alot.
And Jones’ arm looked plenty fine to me.
But the facts are that Myers checked himself out of the bulk of spring practices and never has, even to now, learned the offense well enough for him to be put in to try to execute it on the field. In addition to his not understanding where the offensive personnel are to be on each play Myers also throws a lot of INTs in practice because of this and Graham abhors turnovers.
Gonzalez’s case is two-fold. That arrest and subsequent suspension took him out of the QB race for the first two games. Myers was practicing in the #2 spot at the beginning of camp then the staff went out and got Anderson, moved Gonzalez to 3-back, and he stayed there. Both Sunseri and Anderson played well in the summer camp and they had Myers at 3rd string so moved Gonzalez to h-back.
Graham won’t run Gonzalez as anything but a running threat out of the Wildcat, with the exception of a surprise pass or two like we saw Jones do, because Gonzalez just can’t pass at this level of play. He has the worse arm of all the QBs on the roster.
The bottom line with running more of the Wildcat at PITT this season is that you limit yourself to one action with the ball and that is rushing it. If you spent a whole season giving Gonzalez Wildcat snaps every opposing defense would stack the box even worse than they do with Sunseri.
Sad enough to say but Sunseri actually was the ‘best option to win’ this year. Now, with hindsight Graham and Magee could have and probably should have run more of the Wildcat.
But again, Graham was intent on getting as much of his base offense instituted as possible this season in readiness for 2012 and that’s why I think he stuck with the more conventional offensive sets this season.
But if you remember I said in the beginning of the year that should Sunseri get injured or falter then Anderson would play first and then Graham would bring Gonzalez back from another position to play QB before Myers saw the field for any length of time… and that happened. That’s because I knew Myers wasn’t at all ready to play QB out there and that’s why the staff only developed singular ‘packages’ for Myers where he had only one target on the play with no decision making whatsoever, like we saw with that endzone pass he attempted.
He came in and said this team is capable of winning a championship and based on exponentially more knowledge than anyone on this board he chose Tino as the QB that gave him the best chance to accomplish that goal. Well guess what… he came within 3-4 plays and/or one injury (Graham) from winning the Big East. He didn’t get completely embarassed on national TV TWICE and lose to a not so good UConn team with 5 years worth of his recruits.
I just don’t see how this is a complete failure or a lost season. It’s not like he inherited a roster full of top 10 talent. He took over a team that proved to be not very good at what they were recruited to do (play pro style offense), which lost their best RB, WR, O Lineman and D Linemen and which was nearly completely void of any game breaking/changing talent at what are three key positions in his systems (QB, WR, LB). Oh yeah, and the roster was pretty much a complete mismatch for what he wanted to do. All things considered I’m really not sure how much people were expecting.
Tino was the best at running his offense, plain and simple. No conspiracy theory, no being afraid of looking bad, etc. Would it surprise any of you that Tino’s stats are nearly identical to his 2010 stats?? He did try to change and adapt his offense. At his other coaching stops teams seemed to pick up his offense after 5 or 6 games. I think he believed this would be the case at Pitt and they would be ready for BE play. When he saw they weren’t getting it and O-Linemen started dropping like flies, he dumbed down and slowed down the offense.
Some of you would argue he should have changed it more. I would argue that there was clearly no compelling talent at the QB position to warrant scrapping his system in lieu of something else. Maybe winning one more game this season simply is not worth the lost time in learning and installing what would ultimately be the offensive system at Pitt under TG.
I understand it’s a national embarassment to some to run Trey Anderson out there, but if it supports your arguement, it makes perfect sense to run true freshman 5’8″ 165 pound Ronald Jones (with no other BCS offers) from the Wildcat 30 snaps a game. OK…
