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Pat Narduzzi arrived at Pitt in 2015. He inherited a program stuck in neutral and over the next several years gradually built up Pitt football where it was at the top of ACC. In 2021 and 2022 Pitt and Narduzzi won 20 games, an ACC Title, and had back-to-back top 25 seasons. They were players headed to the NFL, and the future looked really bright.
Two years later, and the Pitt program looks to be flailing around in mediocrity yet again. Following a 3-9 season, this year was huge to prove Pitt was back on track. Through mid-October it appeared Pitt was at 7-0 and in the top 25. There were whispers of the playoff and getting to Charlotte to play for an ACC Title.
Then spectacularly it all fell apart.
Pitt started losing, kept losing, lost some more, and then lost as a heavy favorite to a 7-5 MAC team Toledo in their bowl game in an ugly 48-46 6 OT defeat where several coaching decisions by Narduzzi were criticized, namely not trying to win the game from the 1 yard line on 4th down in overtime.
Actually, I agreed with the call, but it obviously shouldn’t have gotten to that point. Coaching decisions get questioned when you lose, because well you are losing, and Pitt has been doing a lot of that the last two years.
Pitt is 10-15 overall and just 5-11 in the ACC, and the 2nd half-meltdown is one of the biggest we’ve seen in recent memory. The losses were close, they were blowouts, and there was everything in between.
Now Pitt fans are left to wonder if Narduzzi can get Pitt back to where got them once before.
