M-Dog

December 20th, 2014 at 12:49 PM ^

Notre Dame always concerns Michigan.

We compete with Notre Dame for "Winningest Program of All Time".  We get a lot of mileage out of that.  We even have it painted on our equipment trucks.

They have taken back the Win % title.  We still have # of games won title, but we've also played more games.

We want the Win % title back to leave no ambiguity as to who is the "Winningest Program of All Time."  

The hell with Notre Dame.

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Cold War

December 21st, 2014 at 8:55 AM ^

I won't rehash the Morris thing, but at no point did I ever say he didn't suffer a concussion. That's flatly false.

I'd prefer an actual explanation from the folks who did the point reduction rather than people reaching for  explanations.

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Moonlight Graham

December 20th, 2014 at 12:53 PM ^

and Marino. I'd like to see them build their own stadium the way Minnesota did after years in the Metrodome. They and Miami (YTM) are the only Power 5 teams that play in their city's sterile pro stadium. Heinz seems awesome for a Steeler game but it's half empty for Pitt games and the field gets ripped to shreds too.  

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Brodie

December 20th, 2014 at 1:26 PM ^

Pitt has a the same problem as a lot of urban universities, namely a lack of space on their campus for a college sized stadium. The decision to play at Heinz Field was basically the only one available to them.

They have the ability to do well, though they haven't been a powerhouse in thirty years, and when they're good fans will come out of the woodwork. Think of it as Miami (YTM) north.

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alum96

December 20th, 2014 at 1:21 PM ^

But you dont take the Pitt job to stay there 6 years and turn them into a 10-2 team.  You go there to win 7-8 games and then show you are not an idiot HC and then you go to a better program.  Their AD just got fired - they lost 3 coaches in 4 years.

It's a perfect stepping stone job.  It is in the weak side of the ACC (i.e. equivalent to the Big 10 west) in a bad conference but still power 5.  All you have to do is be competent for 3 years at Pitt and larger schools come calling.  Look how few CC there are out there - guys like Mike Riley are being wooed.

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Brodie

December 20th, 2014 at 1:30 PM ^

I don't know, depends on the money and how well you do. A guy like Mullen probably should have been scooped by a bigger program years ago (like when he first won 9 games and Miami was looking for a coach, say) and yet for whatever reason he didn't and now has built a solid-to-good program at MsSU. Narduzzi could well do the same at Pitt, especially if he senses that Dantonio's retirement is right around the corner.

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BIGBLUEWORLD

December 20th, 2014 at 12:36 PM ^

It will be interesting to see what happens when he tries to get his offense to "play angry".  

Offense and defense demand different mindsets.   

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Danwillhor

December 21st, 2014 at 5:53 AM ^

plus msu would just use it as a recruiting tool. He'd never take the job but even if he left to Pitt & we offered MD would drill that to kids. If Pat stayed? Forget it. Don't offer guys that would never come out of real or indoctrinated hatred. It will be used against you when they record him laughingly turning it down.

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BIGBLUEWORLD

December 20th, 2014 at 1:47 PM ^

If Narduzzi can expand his skill set, he possibly could do well.

If he does a mirror-image of what Rich Rodriguez did at Michigan and only plays one side of the football game, he'll be back to being a DC pretty quickly.

Please note: I don't dislike RR.  Good for him he learned from his mistakes.  Except it came at our expense.

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