http://blogs.sites.post-gazette.com...k-from-layoff-some-bowl-notes-and-staff-notes
2 interesting tidbits about Pitt
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1.)Wannstedt shut down any and all media access --- yes, you read that correctly, Pitt has shut down all media access to the current team until after the first of the year, which speaks volumes to just how little the school cares about this bowl game (and of course, if Pitt doesn't care about it, why should fans? Then again, judging from ticket sales, well, they don't!) -- to the current team and practices until Jan. 2nd, the day before the team leaves for Birmingham
2.)** First - the number one question people have asked me is this -- Who the heck is coaching this team in the bowl game?
Here is what I can tell you -- nobody really knows and the reason that nobody knows is because Pitt has allowed this situation to spin completely out of control to the point where it is now an embarrassment. The bottom line is this --- Pitt's administration tried to do the right thing by allowing Wannstedt to step down and remain a part of the athletic department rather than outright fire him, like most schools do when they want to make a change.
Then Pitt's administration tried to do the right thing by giving him a few days to decide if he wanted to coach the bowl game. As of today, he still has not given Steve Pederson his final decision. And the times I have talked to him over the past two weeks - the last time being Thursday - he said he was "going to work with the team, get them prepared, run practices and then wait to see where he is at and how he feels next week" before he makes his decision. Now, that is what he has said and that is what he is saying on the record.
2 interesting tidbits about Pitt
_______________________
1.)Wannstedt shut down any and all media access --- yes, you read that correctly, Pitt has shut down all media access to the current team until after the first of the year, which speaks volumes to just how little the school cares about this bowl game (and of course, if Pitt doesn't care about it, why should fans? Then again, judging from ticket sales, well, they don't!) -- to the current team and practices until Jan. 2nd, the day before the team leaves for Birmingham
2.)** First - the number one question people have asked me is this -- Who the heck is coaching this team in the bowl game?
Here is what I can tell you -- nobody really knows and the reason that nobody knows is because Pitt has allowed this situation to spin completely out of control to the point where it is now an embarrassment. The bottom line is this --- Pitt's administration tried to do the right thing by allowing Wannstedt to step down and remain a part of the athletic department rather than outright fire him, like most schools do when they want to make a change.
Then Pitt's administration tried to do the right thing by giving him a few days to decide if he wanted to coach the bowl game. As of today, he still has not given Steve Pederson his final decision. And the times I have talked to him over the past two weeks - the last time being Thursday - he said he was "going to work with the team, get them prepared, run practices and then wait to see where he is at and how he feels next week" before he makes his decision. Now, that is what he has said and that is what he is saying on the record.
