OT: Graham Screw Job

[pixburgher66]

Todd Graham has left Pitt after only a year as the HC at Pitt. He left for a job at Arizona State.

 

[sbb122]

Good, take Tino with you...

 

[Forty_Sixand2]

He is a dick and has always been kind of sleazy. I hated the hire when it happened. It ran off a few recruits as well (Kyshoen Jarrett specifically) last year. His spread style was going to get murdered in the ACC. The defenses are too fast for it. Clemson can pull it off, to an extent because they are loaded with 5* talent but Pitt was going to get killed. He would have been done in the next two or three years anyway. get a Pro-style guy back in with ties to the area and build up. Now you are ahead of schedule.

Russ F'n Grimm

 

[pixburgher66]

I just hate this man so FUCKING (yeah, that's how mad I am) much. Seriously, what a snake. He completely duped an entire fan base and team into thinking he was a "Pitt man". Regardless of the style he wanted to play (and I agree with you 46), he slithered his way into our trust, after honestly we had been screwed over last spring, and now he bolts. I don't even know if it's for a head-coaching job.

 

[Forty_Sixand2]

He was going to do one of two things:

1. Use Pitt as a stepping stone

2. Fail miserably

He was not here for the long term. Take it from a fan of a team with the current longest tenured coach and an incredibly consistent stretch of success that rivals any. Hire for the long term, take your lumps and stick with it.

 

[pixburgher66]

There are many players on twitter that are so angry right now.

Lindsay said "So THIS is the Pitt way?" Another player said "LOLing at all the things I was told this year."

This could seriously kill our program, THAT'S why I'm pissed.

 

[sbb122]

Is Mike Heywood out of jail yet...lol.

Pitt is a fucking disaster right now. How sad.

 

[pixburgher66]

He was going to do one of two things:

1. Use Pitt as a stepping stone

2. Fail miserably

He was not here for the long term. Take it from a fan of a team with the current longest tenured coach and an incredibly consistent stretch of success that rivals any. Hire for the long term, take your lumps and stick with it.

I want a coach for the long term! I was duped into thinking Graham was that guy! First off, Pitt having success could be a much better thing than AZSt having success. Where's Johnny Majors when you need him...

 

[Forty_Sixand2]

He is coaching in Arizona. Pederson needs to break the bank and bring him in.

 

[pixburgher66]

This is something he's had to have been thinking about for weeks, right? Well, on twitter his wife was very active with Pitt fans and students. She followed a lot of us fans, etc. Well, last night she was asking about taking classes at Pitt and who was a good prof., etc. She had to have known. GOSH that pisses me off. It's like they were conniving together to really piss us off.

 

[pixburgher66]

HAH. Graham told his team, who he'd been selling "High Octane" and the "Pitt way" all season, that he was leaving...over Email.

 

[sbb122]

HAH. Graham told his team, who he'd been selling "High Octane" and the "Pitt way" all season, that he was leaving...over Email.

As bad as Bobby Petrino leaving a note in the Falcons locker room when he bolted for Arkansas...

 

[pixburgher66]

I realize I'm mostly talking to myself here...but Pedersen needs to be run out of town. He screwed Pitt over once, left to screw up Nebraska (Nebraska, right?), came back to hire the idiot who beat his baby mamma, then was "saved" by Graham, who was really just gonna screw us over.

 

[pixburgher66]

Never mind, email was too good for him:
Graham sent a text to his Director of Football Operations to then forward to his players...didn't even notify them himself

 

[Forty_Sixand2]

OK, so not to sound heartless, but I am going to go take a look at which guys we both recruited....just saying.....

 

[pixburgher66]

The text said:
"Blair Philbrick Please text this to players please: I have resigned my position at Pitt in the best interest of my a State. Coaching there has always been a dream of ours & we have family there. Timing of circumstances prohibited me from telling you this directly. I now am on my way to Tempe to continue those discussions. God Bless."

Smells like complete crap to me. Of course I'm a bit on edge now. You have family there...okay, sure. Is it like a great aunt twice removed?

 

[pixburgher66]

OK, so not to sound heartless, but I am going to go take a look at which guys we both recruited....just saying.....

I don't blame you, this could be a huge help to a lot of other teams.

 

[TOX1]

HAH. Graham told his team, who he'd been selling "High Octane" and the "Pitt way" all season, that he was leaving...over Email.

Wow....whatta coward.

 

[Forty_Sixand2]

Meh, we only competed over Shell and we are loaded at RB this year....

 

[pixburgher66]

Also keep in mind that three of Pitt's assistants left for Arizona a week or so back, after they announced RichRod. THERE'S NO ONE LEFT. GAHHHHH...I realize that's dramatic. But I feel for the Seniors. Sucks. AND PLEASE SOMEONE CALL CHAD VOYTIK.