Greg Schiano To Pitt?

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I think Schiano is a good coach, but I would be worried that the guy might want to jump back to the NFL if he had early success.

Pitt: The school has had contact with Greg Schiano about the soon-to-be-open head-coaching position, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
 
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Surely no NFL team will hire him again. It's not just that he failed, but more that he was an obvious cultural mismatch for coaching grown professional men instead of kids, like Bobby Petrino was here in Atlanta. "Don't talk to each other in the lunchroom" and that kind of crap.
 
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I just don't understand some of these hires. This guy was mediocre in the NCAA , finally has a couple of good seasons and suddenly he's Vince Lombardi.

He'll probably end up at Pitt and return them to middle of the road status. In 4 years he'll get fired and some other school with too much money will wright him a big check.

Damn, I'm in the wrong profession :thud:
 
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I just don't understand some of these hires. This guy was mediocre in the NCAA , finally has a couple of good seasons and suddenly he's Vince Lombardi.

He'll probably end up at Pitt and return them to middle of the road status. In 4 years he'll get fired and some other school with too much money will wright him a big check.

Damn, I'm in the wrong profession :thud:

What he did at Rutgers was almost unthinkable at the time. He won 11 games one year; he finished there with five winning seasons out of six. And this was at a school that might be historically worse than Vanderbilt. What happened in Tampa made him look like a buffoon, but winning for half a decade at Rutgers was really impressive.
 
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At Rutgers
2-9
1-11
5-7
4-7
7-5
11-2
8-5
8-5
9-4
4-8
9-4
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68-67

Rutgers is not the worst job in NCAA.

I was in the stands in '79 when the Scarlet Knights upset the Vols. What's a "Rutger" anyway. Who remembers that ?
 
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At Rutgers
2-9
1-11
5-7
4-7
7-5
11-2
8-5
8-5
9-4
4-8
9-4
-------
68-67

Rutgers is not the worst job in NCAA.

I was in the stands in '79 when the Scarlet Knights upset the Vols. What's a "Rutger" anyway. Who remembers that ?

It's not the worst job now, but when he took over in 2001 it was pretty damn close. Is he a great coach? No, but Pitt could do a lot worse.
 
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It's not the worst job now, but when he took over in 2001 it was pretty damn close. Is he a great coach? No, but Pitt could do a lot worse.

Yep, that's the point. It's Pitt. They've had even worse coaching turnover than we've had. Schiano may not be a great coach, but he did build up a perennial doormat into an okay team, he did bring in/develop some NFL quality talent, and he did stay there 11 years. If I'm a Pitt fan I'd rather hire him than give a shot to some coordinator.
 
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At Rutgers
2-9
1-11
5-7
4-7
7-5
11-2
8-5
8-5
9-4
4-8
9-4
-------
68-67

Rutgers is not the worst job in NCAA.

I was in the stands in '79 when the Scarlet Knights upset the Vols. What's a "Rutger" anyway. Who remembers that ?

The school's named after a revolutionary war colonel whose donations allowed it to reopen in 1825, after financial trouble closed it down in 1812.
 
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The school's named after a revolutionary war colonel whose donations allowed it to reopen in 1825, after financial trouble closed it down in 1812.

Wow. I had no idea the school was that old.
 
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Wow. I had no idea the school was that old.

Technically it's older.

The school was founded in 1766 (originally called Queen's College until 1812). It's just been called Rutgers since 1825.

It's one of the nine "colonial colleges" (universities founded prior to the American Revolution). The others are Harvard, William and Mary, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Pennsylvania, Brown, and Dartmouth.
 
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I just don't understand some of these hires. This guy was mediocre in the NCAA , finally has a couple of good seasons and suddenly he's Vince Lombardi.

He'll probably end up at Pitt and return them to middle of the road status. In 4 years he'll get fired and some other school with too much money will wright him a big check.

Damn, I'm in the wrong profession :thud:

Not sure you know how bad Rutgers was prior to Schiano taking over. From 1984 to 2000 they won only 67 games, Schiano won that many games in six few seasons. Prior to him getting they job they only went to one bowl game I believe in '78. After he got there they went to five straight, six altogether and posted a 5-1 bowl record. So let's not act like he isn't a good college coach, he brought in some very nice talent up there and put it into the NFL.
 
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Schiano would be a good hire for Pitt. He has to be hungry for success after the way things went down in Tampa. Rutgers was a laughing stock before he turned things around there.

Agree with the other posters that it's pretty unlikely that Schiano would ever go back to the NFL. He's at the top of the "DO NOT HIRE!" list for virtually every NFL team (right up there with Bobby Petrino).

Frankly, I don't understand why Tampa hired him to begin with. He's a good coach, but nothing about him screamed out "NFL Success!" When you think about successful college-to-NFL coaching stories, it's normally either someone who excels at:

(1) X's and O's,
(2) Managing huge egos, and / or
(3) Innovation in offensive or defensive schemes

Schiano doesn't really fit into any of those categories. He's a good recruiter, program builder, and hard-nosed discipline type of guy. He's exactly the type of person who can excel at the college game, but who seems extremely ill-suited for the NFL.

Smart move by Pitt to grab him. If his experience at Rutgers says anything, it's that he was never a "stepping stone" type of guy. He rejected numerous "better jobs" while at Rutgers and only left when the NFL came calling.
 

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