We know Pitt fans weren’t the only ones stunned and spooked by Fraud Graham’s run to Tempe last December. The Pitt administration also did not like it. So, one way to slow the chances of a quick exit: a sizable buyout.
Via Greg Giannotti of 93.7 The Fan:
If Wisconsin wants to buyout the contract I’m told it would cost them 6 million dollars – the same for every other school.
— Gregg Giannotti (@937Giannotti) December 5, 2012
That’s a sizable number if true. It also is totally believable that it would be that high in the wake of 2011, but we don’t know for sure. A buyout that shrinks each year is not uncommon. The question is whether it really starts at that number.
Wisconsin obviously has money. More than Pitt in terms of access to funds. Yet, that might be a bit too much to swallow. Plus it is unlikely that Wisconsin would be offering Chryst so much more money than Pitt that Chryst would be paying the buyout from his own pocket.
One more piece of the intrigue.
I saw something a couple weeks ago, and wanted to reply, but got busy, and never did.
Pederson and Nordy don’t get any credit for “leading” us into the ACC.
The ACC asked us. My 5 year old neice would have said, “yes, absolutely” to that.
Can’t remember the poster, but if you’re out there, there is my reply!!! LOL
Pederson should have been fired on the spot if he extended Chryst! Please. Chryst certainly had some low points but what did you expect from a first year coach taking over a program that was in shambles. You must be deaf to all the pleas coming from the Wisconsin faithful to bring him back and all the pleas coming from the Pitt community to keep him.
I think once Chryst works out some of the game management issues, we could be pretty happy two years from now. I hope he stays to finish the job.
I do not know what WI has returning.
“Alvarez was asked about Paul Chryst, in his first season at Pittsburgh.
Alvarez said he would not feel right hiring Chryst.
“Paul is going to stay at Pitt,” he said.”
I hope Coach Chyrst stays.
If he goes, I won’t like it, but, I guess I’ll understand it.
What I won’t like, and the one thing that would tick me off with Coach Chryst, is if this thing goes on for weeks or even after the Rose Bowl into January……….
then he announces he has taken the job.
That would piss me off and he would fall into the category of just another college coach.
Hopefully, this is a moot point.
Says hiring PC would not feel right, he’ll be staying at Pitt.
At least the most definitive thing I’ve read.
Good stuff.
“I asked some very close friends of mine to help Paul Chryst get his job. I think he should be committed to Pitt. I don’t think it would be right for me to hire him after asking a favor to help him get a job at Pitt.”
Works for me.
In other words, if the guy doing the hiring for the Wisconsin job comes out and says he’s not going after Chryst, it’s pretty safe to assume Chryst is going to be here next year.
@Sfpitt, I wasn’t trying to say you were wrong that Pederson is bad. More just stick to actual facts, and there are plenty, why he should be fired.
@Floyd Chryst is under a 5 year contract. You don’t extend a coach until you know he is going to be good that’s my point. And the program wasn’t in shambles. Lot’s of close losses last year and this year had more than enough talent to compete with number 1 ND. That’s not a program in shambles.
Good points. May have overstated saying program was in shambles but you have to at least admit it wasn’t in good shape given what had happened in the year prior to Chryst being hired. Also, Chryst deserves some credit for Pitt being able to compete with ND in the first place.
He then went on to say, “Paul Chryst will be remaining at Pitt.”
So that’s good news. He didn’t close the door on hiring him a few years down the road, but for now it appears that the Pitt will won’t be looking for new coach. A change at this point would be terrible for the Pitt.
Now to get Foster, Boyd, and all.
Let’s go Pitt
HAIL TO PITT!
HTP
“I wouldn’t think it would be right for him to leave after one year. I wouldn’t feel right, and I don’t think it would be appropriate for me to hire him back after I asked someone to do me a favor and help him get that job,” Alvarez said. “So Paul’s going to stay at Pitt.”
“I asked some very good friends of mine to help Paul get that job,” Alvarez said. “I think Paul has already come out and said that he’s committed to Pitt. I think he should be committed to Pitt.”
HTP
Comes down to is this: Barry Alvarez/Paul Chryst = class Todd Graham = ass
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Alvarez: I asked some very close friends of mine to help Paul Chryst get his job. I think he should be committed to Pitt.
You mean there is still something called honor and integrity still out there? There may still be hope for us.
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We now return you to your normal programming:)
Indeed there is. Just not much of it. Thankfully, we finally found some this time.
And/or, for not giving said coach (which Wiscy doesn’t want back) a monster raise and extension, even before his first season is finished.
Chryst – check
Foster
Boyd
JoJo
Did my priorities anything so far?
If Chryst knew last year that he could wait one year for UW job to open no one would have begrudged him declining Pitt, however many favors Alvarez pulled to get him an offer. Let’s face it — we’d like Chryst to work out long term, but you never what the future will bring for Pitt or for coach. He’s young enough that he could get another shot at UW in the futre and still be able to look at himself in the mirror every day unlike Fraud.
A couple of quotes from Viking LB Chad Greenway to Viking fans for big game against the bears.
“We have to play accordingly and our fans have to show up accordingly, which we know they will. Hopefully, they’re super-duper drunk. … So drink liquor, not beer,” he said after Minnesota’s loss to Green Bay last Sunday, according to the Star Tribune”.
“Yeah, I would say morning drinking,” Greenway said, according to the newspaper. “Why not? You could pull an all-nighter. Then you’d have the drunk, tired guys who will really be obnoxious.”
I wonder if Pitt fans will every get this request!!
The only one who is not negative is Vinny and he is from NY.
Paul Chryst just sealed his fate as one of the most beloved PITT HC’s since Jackie and Johnny in the 1970’s – early 80’s.
Great to see that people still have character (Chryst AND Alvarez). Class acts for sure. I would let my boys play for this guy any day!
I hope their HC selection works out well and they dominate the B10 over the biggest two-faced jerk in D1 football, Urban Meyer.
PC still has much to prove, however it looks like we’ll be able to see him develop at least for awhile. Lets start the new Pitt era with a bowl win and get some recruits that will fire up the fan base and re-load he talent pool.
Now is the time to shore up the dam.
Just because other people lie doesn’t make Pedersons lies about attendance tolerable. Liars lie. That is why they are called liars.
Pederson didn’t fire Harris it is true, so I should have been clear that it was just the athletic department who has treated Pitt football like last week’s newspaper and made it carpet for the dog.
While Long was canning Harris, Pederson was trying to ruin Nebraska’s football program by firing Frank Solich and hiring Bill Callahan.
We dodged this bullet folks, we won’t dodge the next one with pederson at the helm.
Callahan, Haywood, Graham, Cristobal (his choice).
Anyone else would be out on the street.
keep calm
hail to pitt
Hang out in a big time athletic department for a couple of months and you will see that Pederson has it all wrong. He is handcuffing Paul Chryst and nobody cares. I think he has 4 years left on his contract now. You do the math. An incoming recruit has 5 years of eligibility and the coach is tied up for 4 years. Hmmmm, the math says the coach may not be here when a new recruit is a redshirt senior. That my friends, is a recipe for disaster.
And sf is right. This is natural selection. The survival of the fittest. The strong feed off the weak. For those that mention Tressel, please know that he will join the Michigan State staff (Dantonio) when his time is near. The pair of them golf alot together in Michigan. They fly under the radar and play many semi-private courses. Gotta love the OSU and MSU golf bags together on a cart! Fun guys.
Paul Chryst will win big if Pederson leaves him alone or gets canned. I prefer the canning. He is a joke on the Big10 campuses.
