So far so good.
No reports of Paul Chryst being arrested for beating his wife. He hasn’t been caught pulling up to an In-and-Out drive through stark naked looking for someone to slather in any special sauce,
Happy New Years everyone.
I was talking to the wife of Pitt’s Captains on defense from the 80’s. His mentor was Tony Dungy…this was before Tony Dungy was TONY DUNGY as his wife put it. He had some personal challenges his freshman year and is a strong Christian and Dungy and he became close.
She told me PSU contacted Tony for the Head coaching job?????? Of course he said no. They are getting desperate…and reaching out to many many folks.
KNOCK ON WOOD!
Lets keep our fingers crossed in hopes that when the ball drops in Times Square, Pitt will finish this with its count of head football coaches locked in at 4 for the past year!
And my wish for the new year is that the count will remain at 1, this time next year.
Happy New Year and Hail to Pitt!
This year we don’t have an A-hole as our head football coach.
Sorry, didn’t see anyone do it on the other thread and was really surprised.
Hail to PITT!
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I want to avoid the ‘S’ word (considering his last name and all), but so far..so good.
My personal favorite slogan was when during the off season between 2007-2008 Wannstedt had t-shirts made up that read “Show Me?” because we were naked 25th in pre-season polls.
Excellent slogan until we shot ourselves in the foot at Heinz Field against Bowling Green in the opener and lost by 10 points. I’ll never forget the post-game interview Wannstedt gave in the locker room with a bunch of players walking around in those shirts.
“This is the season that the Panthers must “Prove It” — a team theme, complete with T-shirts — as they have not posted a winning season in their three under Wannstedt. In fact, if you take away three victories against I-AA teams, Wannstedt’s teams have gone 13-19, and he is still waiting to get to his first bowl game.”
Read more: link to post-gazette.com
He may not always be first .. but he is usually right. He is not in the position that us anonymous bloggers are, and can throw any name that comes up. You don’t see Neil Reidell of the Altoona Mirror bringing up the names of Nick Saban or Les Miles … no, these names come from the PSU blogs
The fact is that he is assigned to Pitt but the news we are concerned about is coming out of Wisconsin or Caifornia .. and as Reed and others have reported, Pitt will not or should not release any information until after the Rose Bowl when Chryst is no longer affiliated with another college.
Zeise’s focus is on the upcoming bowl game, not speculation. Speculation is our jobs. The dude deserves a holiday. Nothing has broke since he disappeared. I took his last Redshirt Diaries post as a signal that he would be on hiatus for a while. If there’s news, I’m sure he’ll report on it.
I agree that sometimes I wish he had more but you have to remember the beat writers for college teams are on a short leash with the University. The University can banish reporters unlike the Pro teams.
There will be plenty dead horses to kill this year. I look forward to maintaining our standard of being the most critical of fanatics.
I’m anxiously awaiting PC’s announcement of his coaching staff. I would have preferred a little more hype from him this past week regarding his major picks but I’ll withold premature judgement until I see what he produces as his ultimate staffing selections. Might be he really is just as low keyed in his actions as his resume presumed.
I have seen on here and on other blogs how he is not doing enough to contact recruits. That is our bias and our expectations. None of the recruits have echoed those sentiments to my knowledge.
We have the right fit for Pitt. Now let’s allow him to be successful by supporting him, his staff and players.
Happy New Year!
HTP!
Chryst has been calling committed and prospective recruits as far back as when he accepted the job on Dec 22nd as was reported on TOS pay sites just the other day.
Dr. Tom – he or PITT aren’t going to release any info until Chryst is formally and legally our HC which will happen on Jan 3. It just wouldn’t be appropriate for either PITT or Chryst to tell us who is going to be the ass’t coaches are going to be because… they won’t actually be staff members until they sign thier contracts which will be after Chryst signs his.
Notice that in all the news stories about Bob Bostad coming onto the staff there wasn’t one mention of his being “hired”. That is due to his not having a signed contract yet.
I think the bottom line here is that while we all wants some concrete info we shouldn’t be too worried about Chryst or PITT not being forthcoming provided the circumstances with the Rose Bowl, etc. You know he’s working the phones in anticipation of his new position with both recruits and prospective staff.
HTP!!!
Now this makes me wonder about something. Why would there be a dividing line between the two camps in Chryst’s actions? At first I thought that because he’s still under contract as a staff coach to UW his doing anything with prospective recruits for PITT would make him a ‘booster’ since he isn’t on PITT’s staff as yet.
But then that would apply to the committed kids also as they haven’t signed LOIs either and he’s calling them, so that theory is dead. I don’t think that PITT would allow Chryst to do anything against the NCAA rules regarding recruiting, but it is confusing to me.
I don’t think it is any type of laziness on Chryst’s part because he’s still taking the time to reassure the committed kids they are welcome at PITT. I’m sure he’s busy as hell being the UW OC prior to the Rose Bowl but there is always time to call kids.
The other alternative is that Graham’s targets aren’t what Chryst’s will be. He may have a completely different list of kids he wants to fill the rest of the scholarships with – or maybe even wants to save some scholarships for next year. At this point we have 19 commitments and, I believe, four open spots… before any transfers or 5th year seniors being ushered out.
Huh, I really don’t know what is the answer here… but I’d think there is a good reason for it.
My theory is that he ran out of minutes on his cell phone and can’t figure out how to put more on. I have the same problem.
