I don’t have the energy tonight, I’m just going to pass this along with little more than a blog-esque raised eyebrow and eye-roll.
University of Pittsburgh head football coach Dave Wannstedt will provide guest analysis for FOX Sports’ television coverage of the FedEx Orange Bowl on Jan. 2, 2007, in Miami, Fla.
Wannstedt will join hosts Chris Rose and Jimmy Johnson for pregame, halftime and postgame coverage of the 2007 Orange Bowl matchup featuring ACC champion Wake Forest and Big East champion Louisville.
Well, um, maybe that will be something else to help with recruiting?
Wannstedt: “Well Jimmy, I’d try to hold Louisville to under 400 yards rushing. And Jim Grobe has to trust and depend on his Defensive Coordinator’s ability to properly deploy his defense to keep that high scoring Louisville offense off the field. That will put the Deacon’s offense in position to use their running game to control the clock and win. Didn’t actually work for me, but that’s how I’d approach this game. …Oh, and prayer, lots of it, that helps sometimes.”
JJ: Dave, we heard you made some changes in your coaching staff after the season ended.
DW: Yes, Jimmy. I thought that, even though our pass defense was OK, we needed a new secondary coach.
JJ: What about your rushing defense?
DW: What rushing defense?
Have a safe new Year’s Eve.
Good for recruiting? WIN your damn homes games in front of a half packed house on national tv – that will help!
Pitt72 are you nuts? Hey, we had a LOOSING record in the big east but coach is on tv – that will help get the recruits and sell tickets….Why would a college football player want to spend x-mas break somwhere warm, have extra practice and be on national tv when the coach can do that. I can hear all the high school recruits now, i can go to Pitt, not play in a bowl game, have nobody in the stands, and watch dumbass dave on tv – where do i sign….
maybe dave will tell wake forest – you need to RUN FASTER!!
Hey, we had the ESPN Play of the Year though. Many posters on this and other boards were actually thrilled about that.
Reminds me of the Simpsons episode where Homer fantasizes of being John Elway. In his dream sequence he scores a touchdown at the end of the Super Bowl. You then hear the announcer exclaim: “Elway scores for the Broncos. And the final score of the Super Bowl is: Denver 7, San Francisco 56!”
Anybody know where our football team is right now???
BE is 3-0 and counting.
still waiting, anybody seen our football team??? didn’t think so………..
The fact that WVU and other bowl bound BE teams are winning against solid non-conference competition is good for PITT in the long run. The more press and respect the BE gets from the national media (ESPN’s self serving interests aside) will cement the NCAA’s decision to keep it as a BCS Bowl conference. We have a real chance to have three teams in the Top 15 (maybe two in the Top 10) when all is said and done. That has to be a factor in a recruit’s decision making.
I’ll give Jo Pa and RR all the credit for what they have done, and with no ill will toward them – like it or not PITT is no longer in competition with PSU anymore – not on the field, and increasing less off the field. Our natural rivalry has shifted to WVU and really it’s a more natural match, especially since we are in the same conference. I do miss the PITT-PSU games, especially when they were played on Thanksgiving, but why live in the past? So, I root for PSU to do well, they represent PA and have a lot of WPA players on the roster.
As for DW being on TV – I joke about it, and scratch my head at the news as did Chas in his article – but also realize that any visibility for the Coach and PITT’s program on national TV can’t hurt.
Glad to see the little guys win one. Just reinforces how much we need a play off in D-1.
time to move on….
Yes, let’s all enroll at Youngstown..
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