Pat Narduzzi reacts to playing Louisville on Saturday

Pittsburgh Head Coach Pat Narduzzi spoke to the media this week about preparing to play Louisville and the difference between last year’s squad and now.

Opening Statement

“Louisville, obviously Jeff Brohm, coming off a loss at Stanford. Great football coach. Known him for a long time. He's an offensive guru with his brother Brian as well. He's the offensive coordinator, but obviously Jeff, he's the OC and calling the plays. I think he does an outstanding job.

We got Tyler Shough as their quarterback. Tyler is a gunslinger, came from Texas Tech, transfer. He can throw it. He's very, very talented and somebody that we're going to have to play really well against…They've got talent in the backfield, they've got talent all over the field. A lot of transfers on the football team…They’re going to take their shots and go deep on us and they like to run the ball. The tailback is really good.

Defensively Mark Hagen is one of the co-defensive coordinators along with Ron English. I've known Mark for a long time. He was at Northern Illinois when I got there back in the day. He's a D line guy as well. But they do a great job.

They're four down and get after it. Ashton Gillotte a guy who caused havoc off the edge. I think he leads the country with maybe 53 pressures on the quarterback. We'll have to know where he is at all times and try to help all of our linemen out when he's a pass rusher. Talented. We've got to go on the road and get a win and that's our intention.”

Any big differences between Louisville, what you saw last year to this year or more of the same?

Pat: Too early. But what they do offensively and defensively, haven't had any coaching changes. It's about what they do. Different players playing different positions and a new quarterback different than last year, Plummer, all that. Obviously similarities all over the place. But personnels are different, what they're doing, and it's about it.