I’m really pretty ok with being Wisconsin east for a while

Well, if the report about Huxtable is true, that will put all the Bradley talk to end. Hey all I want is to see Paul Chryst get the people he’s comfortable with, in place, as soon as possible.
They need to solidify the recruiting class and bring any additional recruits that they while there is still time.

If Huxtable is indeed the guy it would make sense that it hasn’t been announced. Out of respect to Keith Patterson they would obviously want to wait until after Saturday to make any kind of announcement. If Patterson were to be retained I think they would have announced that already.

Has anyone heard if there will be an OC? I know Chryst will be doing the playcalling but just wondering if someone would perhaps be an assistant OC??

Any recruiting being done by Coach Chryst?? I’d love to know who he’d try to get…………

I would assume Bostad would be the “OC.” he was Running Game Coordinator and OL coach at Wisconsin

my understaning is that Bostad is going to be the OC .. although I expect Chryst to call the plays.

I believe the DC hire will be pretty important

Really the great huxtable dc did you see a great defence at wisc?

FWIW, he was only at Wisconsin for 1 year and he was the LB coach. He did a pretty good job as DC at UCF before that .. in fact, 2 years ago UCF won CUSA (not Tulsa) and held Georgia to 7 pts in a bowl game.

He has over 25 years coaching experience but only a few as DC .. so yes, the jury is probably ou (but we still don’t know for sure if he is coming)

Huxtable is among the coaches removed from the UW website listing current coaches.
link to uwbadgers.com

SJ, pretty good data .. you get the starring role in NCIS Pitt

I hear he is a good recruiter. Has ties to Florida. Seems like a good fit.

Correction — CSI Pitt

(I don’t know these bework shows … movies (HBO, Showtime, TCM) and sports for me!

SJ, great reporting

he won linebacker coach of the year last year I think. Also, I don’t think you can blame huxtable for the rose bowl for 2 reasons. 1) he’s the lb coach, not dc and. 2) Oregon has done that to everyone except lsu. I will say this, Pitts going to need someone who can recruit some speed on defense and idk if an ALL big 10 staff is ideal for that. trust me, I love the hires of Chryst and bostad, but big 10 defenses aren’t ideal for play in the acc unless you’re Michigan State.

Two of Huxtables LB’s were All Big 10 performers this season as reported by Brian Bennett and ESPN. The guy can coach but I agree with pk that he’ll need to recruit faster players for the ACC.

one thing that I hope doesn’t change in the future for Pitt is an elite defensive line. Pitts d line should be great next year if certain players cough cough shayne hale live up to potential. here’s Pitts probable d line: DE Brian Murphy 6’3″ 255 4 stars, DT Kaynin Moseley-Smith 6’3″ 295 4 stars, DT Aaron Donald 6’1″ 280 4 stars, DE TJ Clemmings 6’6″ 295 5 stars. clemmings has the physical tools to be an all American the question is, will he step up next year as a junior? I’ve just noticed that in the past few years, Pitt hasn’t landed any elite d linemen like they did continually under wanny. hopefully with a probable move back to a 4-3 they’ll land a few more top flight guys.

As long as we get a good staff, can win a few games and get to a bowl game, then I’m happy

Sj, great detective work. I’m pretty impressed.

SJ YOU BEAT ME AND I AM GOOD AT THIS VERY GOOD

Chris Dokish on Panther’s Prey is reporting that in addition to Dave Huxtable, that Joe Rudolph may also be on the way. Wisconson’s head coach is trying to get an offensive coordinator from Oklahoma which means that, Rudolph,if he came to Pitt, would probably handle the offensive line. He is said to be the best recruiter on the current Wisconson staff.

ok, I was listening to the fan and they were talking about Tim tebow. I need to get this off my chest. have u ever seen his commercial where he says “they all said I couldn’t be a college quarterback” ? I just want YOU all to not be fooled. I did some research on the 3 major recruiting websites to see how he was rated as a recruit. espn 5 star #1 qb, rivals 5 star #1 qb, scout 5 star #3 qb. he’s a liar. couldn’t be a qb my —

HE MIGHT HAVE MENT JUST PEOPLE NOT SOUTING SERVICES

PK DONT TEAR DOWN A GOOD KID KEEP IT ON PITT OR SOMETHING RELATED PENN STATE WVU ETC . NO POLITICS NO REGLION

SJ try jonathan smith OC from montana see if he is still listed

wisconsin is really geting hit there WR coach alexander is on his way to AZst to coach for TG

F Arizona State

frankcan, I said nothing if politics or religion. I’ve made my point.

I think huxtable is a really solid dc hire if it’s true. dokish said on his blog that Joe Rudolph might also be coming to Pitt and he said that if it’s true, Rudolph and Haering would be a formidable recruiting tandem in PA

ok post says we got our dc and oc huxtable is comeing

One caveat about bringing in these Wisconsin coaches .. if you think Pitt loses close games, check out the 3 losses Wisconsin had this year

The Double O better start learning how to prepare bratwurst right. (For those of you who haven’t traveled the great state of WI, you can have your brats either wiener and burger style).

Zeise is reporting in the PG, that Huxtable has been hired by PC.

link to post-gazette.com

This is great, Hux has coached in the ACC before as a DC and very importantly has recruited down here.

It says a lot about PC that he’s able to bring these coaches from Wisky with him. I mean that is a program that has won the Big 10 the last two years and is a Top 10 type program. And has been a very good program since Alvarez went there in 1990.

Article also mentions that Joe Rudolph is still in play as well. Their recruiting coordinator.

another revealing blog from Zeise … and some details about the offensive gameplan for the Compass Bowl

link to blogs.sites.post-gazette.com

man…does this mean Reed really has to kill someone???!! I mean DC was just speculation but it isn’t looking good for his “source”.

I am glad to see that FRANK has calmed down now that PC has started to name more quality assistants.

Looking over Wisky’s roster, they have 13 current players from Florida. With one being named…..

Aaron Henry.

This guy has to be on the UW baseball team as well

btw that wasn’t a shot @ FRANK. I was just joking because of how concerned he was about the fact that the staff wasnt all announced yesterday…I think PC had these guys lined up, but they made sure 1) they got through the Rose Bowl as Wisky guys and 2) they got a chance to talk to Wisky about potential promotions/salary bumps there.

I can’t claim to know as much about coaching or recruiting talent as most posters on this blog. I’m just a casual fan who wants my dear alma mater to be restored to respectability in football.

But the hiring of Paul Chryst and what seem to be quality assistants is getting me more excited by the day. I just have an overall feel that we are getting some real professionals at the helm and that the path is up from here.

I live in the DC suburbs but I’m getting ready to order my 2012 season tickets. One less yellow seat this fall!

TX PANTHER the one thing TG did in these last 2 classes was recrit speed not a lot of size at certain postions but a lot of speed.
which should help when we get to the ACC.

Dodge also talked at length about Tino Sunseri and said that he expects to see Sunseri have one of his best games and mostly because, he’s spent the past month scrapping all the plays that Sunseri struggled with and has focused on putting Sunseri in good situations.

So I’m assuming here, ALL the pass plays have been scrapped. And PITT is going to run the Wishbone !….haha 🙂

BCPITT yes i am more mellow now likeing the look of things HAIL TO PITT

Agreed, BCPITT.

I really think a lot of the wait on coaches was both the Rose Bowl and letting the assistants sort things out. I’m sure it wasn’t an easy decision to leave home at a stable, successful program like Wisconsin without thoroughy examining your choices.

For Paul Chryst, I bet it was agonizing to want to start right away and even hire quickly while at the same time wanting to wait and see if you could land the guys you really wanted.

I think Rudolph will be a key hire. He recuited like a beast at Wisconsin.

I’m sharpening the knives as we speak but I still believe that Tomsula is going to be on staff.

I love the DC hire as much that it puts the silly Bradley to PITT rumors to rest then as it means we’re getting a good coach.

63Team – Wisky had this as their defensive standings in 2011:

Scoring defense – 6th nationally
Total defense – 8th
Passing defense – 22nd
rushing defense – 46th

I’ll take that at PITT any day.

OK SJ .. more investigative reporting required:

Rudolph is Pgh native but played at Wisc and coached there for 4 or 5 years. Is his wife a Pgh or Wisc native?

wow. step back and look at the coaches pitt has hired and other apparent hires. paul chryst-wisconsin, bob bostad-wisconsin, dave huxtable-wisconsin, johnathan smith-montana, jim tomsula-SF 49ers, ___ Haering-mt lebanon. if you just look at where, theyre from, the key positions theyve coached at, and the success theyve had or what they bring to the table, its not hard to see why so many people are getting excited about the future of the pitt program. i, for one, have bought into chrsyt about 90%. i will make my final decision for where i think pitt will be headED once i see the final recruiting class this february. yes i know none of the commits are his recruits but i think it will be a testament to how great of a recruiter he is if hes able to keep a class together after becoming coach just 4 weeks before the signing period AND adding quality names to the list

listen….i don’t know to much about these guys.. but we’re gettn coaches from wisconsin….and that is fine with me!!…these guys win..and do it the right way…im excited!!…..lets go pitt

ESPN is reporting on the Big East Blog that Patterson is taking the DC job at Arkansas State, with former Auburn OC Gus Malzahn.

Interesting, good for him, getting away from Graham, maybe he was blindsided by him taking the Arizona State job.

Emel, I am still LOL at your wishbone comment above. Nice work SJ. Hope Reed is right on Tomsula. PC’s staff looks solid. Blog is upbeat with football news. Nice change of pace.

Tossing Thabeets is the best name on this board

Every year I suffer from Kool-aid poisoning. I hope this year is different.

Thank you Maryland Andy. Good for Patterson – I respected him before and now it’s thru the roof. Class act all the way around.

Huxtable coming to Pitt:

link to panthersprey.blogspot.com

PITT is trending in the right direction and I for one am excited about the coaching situation. Winning makes local recruiting a lot easier so I am not too concerned on that front.

I am so glad that a few of the boosters talked some sense into the Chancellor and didn’t go with the Smiley recommendation again. Gents, it is going to work out well for Pitt.

Reed and Cahs, I dogged Todd Graham from day one because I did have some information on him and never waivered from that position. I will now support Coach Chryst because he will get the job done. Local recruits need to sign up because the new sheriff is in town. Will get the hogs from the north and the speed from the south! Buckle up fellas!

Often new coaches like to keep at least 1 guy from the previous staff-although I don’t think the previous coach who I refuse to acknowledge did-any word on chryst keeping someone from current staff?

John, it’s not looking that they will keep anybody. Patterson will be off to Arkansas state and Chryst already has most of the positions filled that interim coaches used to be at.

Wish Chryst was coaching on Saturday. I have to say, that in the many years I have read and participated in this blog, the coming of Chryst and Hux has created the most positive atmosphere and comments I can remember. I am a great believer that all things happen for a reason…Pitt is due for some good fortune…I agree …they got it!

Now, if we could only fix the basketball team….

I just read on Pitt Script, that with Huxtable coming to Pitt, Patterson signed to coach with Arkansas State, a Sunbelt Conference team, which will probably pay half of what he could have gotten at Arizona State.

All I got to say is that Chryst had better keep one open spot for Tomsula or I’ll be ‘dogging’ him all year.

I too like the hires so far and think that when all the positions are filled we’ll be very happy with the results of thier work come LOI Day.

Speaking of which you know who the most valuable staff member is right now… Bob Junko as he’s been keeping it all together and has the info ready for the other coaches when they need to hit the recruiting trail.

INFO for you Patterson declined an offer from TG he has burnt his bridge for sure i wish him luck.

I think Patterson’s decision to go to Arkansas St. is a strong referendum on the rest of the previous staff’s decision to follow Graham.

Apparently Graham’s dog and pony show not only fools universities, players and fans but his own staff coaches also.

Interesting that the man who knows him best doesn’t want anything to do with him any longer.

Coach Chryst is building his coaching staff with experienced and proven talent. This maybe one of Pitt’s best coaching staff’s in years.

HTP!

Sometimes in life, you are friends or co-workers with some people, and you think, “they’re ok, a little odd, but, I guess they’re ok, I think”, then one day, they do something, and you say, “holy cow, I knew something wasn’t right, what a jerk”.

Good luck Coach Patterson.

@PK, actually, regardless of stars or recruiting web sites, a lot of people did say, “he’ll never be a good quarterback”, because of his throwing motion. I remember lots of people on tv always saying that, and always talking about how bad his throwing motion was, and he’ll never make it.

Wow!! What a difference a week makes! Last week may of you were posting doom and gloom because we had no staff announced. HMMM!! Human nature is a thing of beauty!

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