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Pat Narduzzi, on the cusp of his program-record 144th game at Pitt, is still pointing to the future

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Minutes after Pittsburgh introduced Pat Narduzzi in the waning days of 2014, then interim athletic director Randy Juhl gave the school's new football coach a pretty unique mandate. Narduzzi was Pitt's fifth coach in six years. The program's lack of stability became a running joke as it bounced from Dave Wannstedt (fired in 2010) to Mike Haywood (axed just weeks after being named Wannstedt's replacement) to Todd Graham (who bolted after a season for Arizona State) to Paul Chryst (who turned three so-so years into an offer to head home to Wisconsin ).