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Pitt taps Wannstedt as next head coach

According to Dave Wannstedt, it’s been too long since Pitt football won a national… According to Dave Wannstedt, it’s been too long since Pitt football won a national championship, and he’s coming back to change that fact.

Athletics Director Jeff Long introduced Wannstedt as Pitt’s 34th head coach by handing him a No. 76 Pitt jersey, the number Wannstedt once wore as an offensive tackle, at a press conference Thursday.

Coincidentally, ’76 is also the year Wannstedt helped lead Pitt to a national championship as a graduate assistant coach. He left Pitt in 1979, and, after 25 years, he’s coming back with hopes of restoring a program he knows all too well.

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