have talked a lot about what Head Coach Pat Narduzzi will do in his third year at the helm of Pitt’s football program. We have heavily debated whether it truly is “his team” in terms of players he either recruited or acquired by transfer (it is in my opinion).
We speculate on how well his own guys will do in terms of the previous head coaches’ players they are replacing. Finally, and perhaps most importantly, we go around and around as to whether experience or talent wins out in the end when it comes to the quality of play he will get out of his roster.
First let’s take a look at what some previous Pitt head coaches have done in their third year. We’ll go back to the time period right after that great winning run Pitt had from 1974 to 1981.
I highlighted the 3rd years of the respective coaches and only showed their first three years.
So – here is the first Pitt HC to review in Foge Fazio:
I think we all remember what happened in Foge Fazio’s 3rd season in 1984 – it crashed and burned as the offensive and defensive wings fell off and hit at 3-7-1… and that was the end of his time here. We started that crappy year at 1-7-1 with a win over lowly East Carolina.
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