Steve Pederson, current Pitt athletic director, is not a Pitt man. He does not have Pitt's interests at heart.

How many more bad decisions does Steve Pederson get to make at the University of Pittsburgh? Why is he allowed by his boss, chancellor Mark Nordenberg, to be a continual source of embarrassment for a university with a long, storied past in football?

The naysayers are ready to pounce. Isn't Steve Pederson the guy who hired Ben Howland to clean-up the cesspool that had become the Pitt basketball program under Ralph Willard, father of current Seton Hall coach Kevin Willard?