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Pitt AD Heather Lyke Backs Pat Narduzzi

Athletic director Heather Lyke said Pitt Panthers head coach Pat Narduzzi will be back for another season.

Stephen Thompson

Pitt AD Heather Lyke Backs Pat Narduzzi
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PITTSBURGH -- With a disappointing football season inching closer and closer to a merciful conclusion, Pitt Panthers athletic director Heather Lyke released a statement backing head coach Pat Narduzzi and saying she will work personally with him to right the ship. 

“This season is not up to Coach Narduzzi’s or Pitt’s standards,” Lyke said in a statement to Noah Hiles of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. “He has raised the bar on expectations for our program with an ACC championship and Top 25 finishes the past two years. With the onset of the offseason, we will work together to thoroughly evaluate each aspect of our program, on and off the field, so that we can begin competing for ACC titles again.”

With the Panthers' 28-13 loss to Syracuse this past weekend, they clinched the worst record of Narduzzi's nine seasons in Pittsburgh. They are ineligible for a bowl game for just the second time in his tenure. 

Pitt has two games remaining on the regular season schedule - a midweek contest against Boston College at Acrisure Stadium and a rod trip to Duke for the regular season finale. 

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STEPHEN THOMPSON

Stephen Thompson graduated with a bachelor's degree in communications and political science from Pitt in April 2022 after spending four years as a sports writer and editor at The Pitt News, the University of Pittsburgh's independent, student-run newspaper.  He primarily worked the Pitt men's basketball beat, and filled in on coverage of football, volleyball, softball, gymnastics and lacrosse, in addition to other sports as needed. His work at The Pitt News has won awards from the Pennsylvania News Media Association and Associated College Press.  During the spring and summer of 2021, Stephen interned for Pittsburgh Sports Now, covering baseball in western Pennsylvania. Hailing from Washington D.C., family ties have cultivated a love of Boston's professional teams and Pitt athletics, and a fascination with sports in general.  You can reach Stephen by email at stephenethompson00@gmail.com and follow him on Twitter. Read his latest work:

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