All models are wrong. Some of them are useful.
The MAC was horrible this year. Which makes the hire all the more confusing. Thin resume, one winning season during a very down year for the conference as a whole.
It's almost like Pitt wanted to go on the cheap, which is odd because their financial situation isn't that dire. The problem is, all the fans and boosters whined that Wanny didn't win titles, didn't go to BCS bowls, but yet a no-name with 1 winning season in a crappy conference is going to fix that?
I don't get it.
Playing devil's advocate here, since I don't have a dog in the fight -- Haywood was only there two seasons, and he took over a team that went 2-10 the year before and 10-27 the three prior seasons combined, suggesting he didn't inherit some big stockpile of talent. MAC down year or no, 9-4 and league champs is a pretty solid turnaround for the second season, isn't it? I mean, the players he recruited were only freshmen or true sophomores. I don't know that's it's realistic to say a team should be able to go from MAC bottom-feeder to beating BCS-league teams in two years, and if they don't the coach sucks.
Not saying Pitt made the right hire, I have no idea, I'm just thinking folks are a little quick with the dismissal.
Reading comprehension is not just an ability, it's a choice
Of course, how was Gene Chizik greeted at Auburn and what was his record at Iowa State before that?
Now all Pitt needs is their own Cam Newon and voila!
Maybe Urban Meyer's doctors RX is vacation in Oxford, OH.
I also would bet that Mike Leach is looking into the job.
Some people play baseball. Baseball plays Jay Bruce.
Yep. Bailing on a team before the season is over is a big no-no. Maybe if you're Petrino and you've figured out you're over your head in the NFL and you just want to go back to college for the rest of your life, fine, you don't care about the repercussions. But if you're Marvin Lewis, you're still eminently employable in the NFL, so why burn that bridge?
Reading comprehension is not just an ability, it's a choice
Might not be the new coach for very long, Haywood was arrested today for domestic violence.
http://www.sportingnews.com/ncaa-foo...estic-violence
Time to change this to Pitt NEEDS a new coach.
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=5978467
Damn!!
That has to be one of the shorter HC tenures in history...
Wonder how the UK/Pitt bowl game will play out now... You would think Pitt will be in total disarray.
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