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The End of the Wannstedt Era at Pitt

By 11W Staff - 07 December 2010
7 Comments

At least they waited until after Movember.

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Matt Mod on 7 Dec 2010 - 5:52pm #

Po'h out some liqua for the man who stopped Rich Rod from playing in the national title game against all odds.

Kurt on 7 Dec 2010 - 11:15pm #

Wouldn't a WVU victory have saved us an ass kicking against LSU?!

Jason Staff on 7 Dec 2010 - 11:24pm #

Suppose that's one way of looking at it.

Irricoir on 8 Dec 2010 - 1:52am #

Then we would have gone on thinking we were deserving of more than we were, if we beat an inferior foe. I think our program is better now for the lumps we took. Not on the perception front but i think our schemes on offense and defense are evolving to compete at a higher level. If we avoided the SEC losses back2back we'd have picked them up later down the road. Would I have liked to dominate them everytime we stepped on the field with them? You bet. Let's start with this game and start a new streak.

I don't always take names when I kick ass but when I do, they most often belong to a Wolverine.

Matt Mod on 8 Dec 2010 - 10:06am #

@Kurt -- Not really -- Oklahoma still beat Missouri in the Big 12 champ game that year, and so we would have instead faced WVU in the title game (LSU just eeked in with 2 losses -- we were the #1 ranked team for that BCS title game). If the Stache never beat Rich Rod, we would have played a Rich Rod coached WVU in their prime in the title game, with Pat White and company. I believe WVU destroyed Oklahoma that year in the Fiesta Bowl. I for one prefer to be beat by Leslie Miles and LSU than get destroyed by Rich Rod.

Poe McKnoe on 8 Dec 2010 - 10:51am #

You're neglecting Big Game Bob's stellar BCS bowl record. It was nothing out of the ordinary. Rich Rod's scheme is and was flawed, as exposed by Pitt [no thanks to the refs who still tried to give WVU the game].

texbuck on 8 Dec 2010 - 10:58am #

Actually, what's more important is that it may have caused us to miss out on these wonderful RichRod years at M*ch*g*n. If WVU was getting ready to play for the national championship, I doubt he would have up and left the way he did.