East Lansing — It was almost a year ago when Pat Narduzzi was named the head coach at Pittsburgh.
It was inevitable the architect of one of the top defenses in the nation would eventually leave Michigan State. Along with coach Mark Dantonio, Narduzzi helped the Spartans finish in the top 10 in the nation in total defense in four straight seasons — the only team to do so.
To look at it simply as the work of Narduzzi, however, would be unfair — unfair to those who had worked with Narduzzi and Dantonio for eight straight seasons at Michigan State and three before that at Cincinnati.