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BuckeyeRed27 · 01-01-2011, 06:07 PM

Rich Rod come on down!

jojo · 01-01-2011, 06:29 PM

This is a very sad turn of events.

Sea Ray · 01-01-2011, 10:15 PM

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Originally Posted by WMR

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.

Yep, even shorter than Mike Price at Alabama. It'll be interesting to follow this and see just how much money this incident cost him

jojo · 01-01-2011, 10:20 PM

How long was O'Leary the coach for Notre Dame?

Revering4Blue · 01-01-2011, 11:06 PM

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Originally Posted by jojo

How long was O'Leary the coach for Notre Dame?

5 Days.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/foo...ary_notredame/

KronoRed · 01-01-2011, 11:06 PM

O'Leary was the ND coach for 5 days.
Edit:
Yeah what he said

LawFive · 01-02-2011, 12:24 AM

Whatever happened to innocent until proven guilty?

Over on ESPN a commenter stated that Pitt may have realized they made a mistake with the hiring in the first place, and are just using this as an opportunity to get out of their decision.

Danny Serafini · 01-02-2011, 02:11 AM

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Originally Posted by LawFive

Over on ESPN a commenter stated that Pitt may have realized they made a mistake with the hiring in the first place, and are just using this as an opportunity to get out of their decision.

I don't buy that for a second. The turnaround he led at Miami was amazing. It's clear he can coach. But disgracing the name of the university is going to get any coach dumped, especially one with no strong tie to the school.

KronoRed · 01-02-2011, 05:19 AM

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Originally Posted by LawFive

Whatever happened to innocent until proven guilty?

Even if he's not guilty the fact that he's in jail is likely enough to have his employment terminated.

Reds4Life · 01-02-2011, 10:07 AM

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Originally Posted by Danny Serafini

I don't buy that for a second. The turnaround he led at Miami was amazing. It's clear he can coach. But disgracing the name of the university is going to get any coach dumped, especially one with no strong tie to the school.

Pitt fans and boosters wanted a proven guy, hiring Haywood wasn't popular with the big money boys. He had 1 winning season, ok, so what? The argument Pitt used to force Wannstedt out was he didn't win enough conference titles, and thus, go to BCS bowls. How is hiring a relative no name, with a thin resume, going to fix that? It isn't. To say this hire was unpopular would be a huge understatement.

You can also add into the fact that about half of Pitt's recruiting class decommitted after Wanny was let go, with most of them already committing to other schools, so Haywood wasn't going to get them back.

jojo · 01-02-2011, 11:02 AM

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Originally Posted by Reds4Life

Pitt fans and boosters wanted a proven guy, hiring Haywood wasn't popular with the big money boys. He had 1 winning season, ok, so what? The argument Pitt used to force Wannstedt out was he didn't win enough conference titles, and thus, go to BCS bowls. How is hiring a relative no name, with a thin resume, going to fix that? It isn't. To say this hire was unpopular would be a huge understatement.

You can also add into the fact that about half of Pitt's recruiting class decommitted after Wanny was let go, with most of them already committing to other schools, so Haywood wasn't going to get them back.

The administration talked up the hire as a character move pretty heavily. This was probably the worst case scenario given the language they used to sell the hire to the fan base.

IslandRed · 01-02-2011, 06:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Reds4Life

The argument Pitt used to force Wannstedt out was he didn't win enough conference titles, and thus, go to BCS bowls. How is hiring a relative no name, with a thin resume, going to fix that? It isn't.

Well, that logic presupposes that if a coach hasn't won a BCS-level conference championship yet he isn't capable of doing it, which obviously isn't correct. Every proven coach was once an unproven one.

But yeah, if Pitt sold the fans that they were going to bring in someone who had already done what they were axing Wannstedt for not doing, then they failed badly.

texasdave · 01-10-2011, 11:08 PM

Let's try this again.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/201...html?eref=sihp

paintmered · 01-10-2011, 11:58 PM

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Originally Posted by texasdave

Let's try this again.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/201...html?eref=sihp

If I'm a Pitt fan, I want a third try at this.

Reds4Life · 01-11-2011, 09:08 AM

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Originally Posted by paintmered

If I'm a Pitt fan, I want a third try at this.

The cherry on top, they are paying this guy $2 million a year.

01-01-2011, 06:07 PM	#31
BuckeyeRed27 Member Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Culver City, CA Posts: 2,666	Re: Pitt has a new coach Rich Rod come on down!

01-01-2011, 06:29 PM	#32
jojo Five Tool Fool Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 16,543	Re: Pitt has a new coach This is a very sad turn of events. __________________ "This isn’t stats vs scouts - this is stats and scouts working together, building an organization that blends the best of both worlds. This is the blueprint for how a baseball organization should be run. And, whether the baseball men of the 20th century like it or not, this is where baseball is going."---Dave Cameron, U.S.S. Mariner

01-01-2011, 10:20 PM	#34
jojo Five Tool Fool Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 16,543	Re: Pitt has a new coach How long was O'Leary the coach for Notre Dame? __________________ "This isn’t stats vs scouts - this is stats and scouts working together, building an organization that blends the best of both worlds. This is the blueprint for how a baseball organization should be run. And, whether the baseball men of the 20th century like it or not, this is where baseball is going."---Dave Cameron, U.S.S. Mariner

01-01-2011, 11:06 PM	#36
KronoRed The Lineups stink. Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: West N. Carolina Posts: 55,342	Re: Pitt has a new coach O'Leary was the ND coach for 5 days. Edit: Yeah what he said __________________ Go Gators!

01-02-2011, 12:24 AM	#37
LawFive Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Eastern Suburbia Posts: 533	Re: Pitt has a new coach Whatever happened to innocent until proven guilty? Over on ESPN a commenter stated that Pitt may have realized they made a mistake with the hiring in the first place, and are just using this as an opportunity to get out of their decision. __________________ The seven most magic words in all the land... "If, in the opinion of the referee,..."

01-10-2011, 11:08 PM	#43
texasdave Member Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 9,527	Re: Pitt has a new coach Let's try this again. http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/201...html?eref=sihp __________________ Let's hang a Championship Banner this year!!!!!

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