re: Exactly how hot is the Pitt Boss's seat?

The biggest concern I have is how undisciplined, apathetic, and poorly prepared we looked in several games. That’s on coaching.

There were several games where we outright disrespected our opponents by thinking we could stroll in and name our score, and we got it shoved up our asses a few times. Missouri State, Auburn, Liberty, and Missouri were games where we looked especially apathetic and of that lackadaisical mindset, and we lost 2 of those and another was a nail biter until Stephens’ punt return.

We also lost 4 games by a combined 10 points, and 3 of them can be directly attributed to Pittman’s decision to pass up red zone field goals and go for it on 4th down. Close losses are on coaching and situational playcalling, and they felt very akin to the Bert era.

Pittman rolled a lot of 7s in 2021, and seemed to come up snake eyes a lot this year. The senior leadership was bad, the captains were weak, injury luck was *much* worse, the schedule was harder, and the breaks didn’t go our way.

Next year will define the Pittman era. Either he shows some fight, gets his confidence back, and rights the ship, or it’ll be his Waterloo at Arkansas.