WATCH: Pitt HC Discusses Bounce Back After Bye Week

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PITTSBURGH - Pitt Panthers head coach Pat Narduzzi spoke for the first time since a demoralizing 31-24 overtime loss to West Virginia a couple of weeks ago, and he talked about the ability to bounce back.
Narduzzi spoke about his team "beating themselves" against West Virginia and the challenges that lay ahead against Louisville. He also spoke about expectations around quarterback Eli Holstein, going forward, a few roster updates coming off the bye week and more.
"You live and learn, you get stronger from it," Narduzzi said. "We build off it. The ACC is ahead of us. Non-conference game is a non-conference game. The goal at the end of the day is to win an ACC Championship. Our guys realize that, and I think they learned a lot from last week's game, our first really big game on the road, which are never easy to go on the road and win a football game."
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Karl Ludwig is a Pittsburgh Panthers on SI sportswriter. He has spent the past three years covering the Pitt Panthers for a couple of platforms. While he did not attend Pitt, he grew up in the Pittsburgh area, attending North Allegheny Senior High School and Slippery Rock University. As a student at SRU, he served as the sports editor of SRU’s student-run newspaper, The Rocket, and provided award-winning coverage in football, men’s and women’s basketball, men’s and women’s soccer. It was at SRU that his love for sports journalism blossomed. Karl spent three seasons as the Pitt football beat writer for Pittsburgh Sports Now, following time as an intern for the Sports Now Network. His most recent coverage of the University was for Pitt Sports News of the On3/Rivals network. He’s also contributed to Athlon Sports and SB Nation’s Behind the Steel Curtain.