I know I sound like a jerk, but we flat out suck. There’s no sugar-coating this one.

Keep that offensive balance going.

At this point, the only hope is that we score on every posession from here on out, and Navy fumbles a couple of times in the second half.

Seriously. This is the gameplan.

Looking at the stands it reminds me of Sunday nights when I would drive up Mcardle roadway onto Mt. Washington and see from afar the cavalry of post Steelers game trash-picker-upers working their way through the stands.

Actually, I think the stadium was more full then.

And…I know it doesn’t matter because as soon as we kick the ball back, it’ll be 10 plays, 7:00 drive to a TD for Navy.

oh, and how bad is it that i agree with lou holtz about on campus stadiums? pitt stadium > heinz field

“the pass is the thing that’s got us”. pure genius.

Rhoads couldn’t coordinate his shoes and socks let alone a defense, he is a complete asshole.

Rhoads has to have pictures of Nordenberg or Wanny in a dress with high heels and pantyhose because I have no clue on how he keeps his job.

Here we go. Let’s stop them once please.

P-E-N-N-S-T-SUCKS

How can that be Navy’s ball when no one touched it until it was out of bounds and the ball never made it into the endzone???

Good call, Mr. Official.

The Shady McCoy Era is going to be fun.

Good God, I haven’t seen kickoff coverage that bad since I was playing grade school football.

Don’t answer that.

By the way, Paul Rhoads coaches defense like a two-year old kid tries to communicate - you can sometimes see what they’re each trying to do, but most of it makes very little sense.

I’ve seen butter on a July day be more solid that this scheme Rhoads has designed. This asshat shouldn’t be coaching a peewee football team, let alone a Division I-A defense.

Hey, what was the comment the broadcast crew made earlier in the game about an on-campus stadium?

MCKILLOP!

What’s this? ESPN discussing hockey?

McCoy is just friggin’ sick, man.

I’ve got to say yes, easily.

I’ve heard hockey will be back on ESPN as early as next season.

The athletic department needs to embrace these younger kids like McCoy, Bostick, etc. the same way the Pens have done with their younger players. It can go a long way towards helping to get fans back on board with this program.

At this point, we absolutely need a clock-killing drive here.

you are right it will likely come with the 3rd OT when you are forced to go for 2 lol…we can’t hold them for 2yds.

Geesh! it’s time for Rhoads to go already

Hell may not make it to OT

Now it’s up to the defense…

Yikes.

Get the LB’s up if they are in splits oline formation.

Are you sh!tting me

Wow, that’s a crappy spot.

Fire Rhoads.

Fire Cavanaugh.

And I don’t blame Bostick…the throw could’ve been better. But I don’t blame Bostick.

Terrible. Just terrible.

Time to re-evaluate this entire coaching staff, and Wannstedt as well for not overruling Cavanaugh if that was Cav’s call on that last play.

Somebody send me a letter when we’re done acting like a 2-9 team. If we are a 2-9 team, so be it. But, at least make me feel like you’re giving it a shot to win. Right now, it’s just not there mentally.

Honestly, I don’t f’n care.

I’m done with this team this year.

All you’ve got left is apathy from even your alumni now, which is the rock bottom, worst thing in college football.

Why in the HELL don’t they just POUND THE SHIT out of it again?

That was unbelievably insane! This dude is just plain loco. He reminds me a lot of Ron Zook, including looks and mannerisms, except even worse. If that is possible.

we could be 5-1 right now with wins against similar questionable teams. Who have we played besides Va.

I would take that any day of the year now….

Not getting on you but we are the hugest embarrasment in college football

I think at the end of the day, Wannstedt just brings losing to everywhere he goes. Not much more to it than that.

Would AD be a role he is better suited for? I think he can grease palms and not damage the team.

I see promise with the players. The coach they have will not let them acheive greatness.

I am just so frustrated I don’t want to see another year of this.

DaveD

Wanny: We held them under their per game rushing average. Coach Rhoads deserves the credit for that.

Good luck the west of the way, Lou Holtz (amazingly) wasn’t just blowing shit when he said Bostick and McCoy have real futures.

I would have preferred McCoy get the ball on one of the last two plays. Overall the offense played very well. Yes, the OL still needs a lot of work but our two freshmen (McCoy and Bostic) played great. If we knew going into the game that we would score 45 points, I’m sure we would have thought it would be a Pitt win.

As for the defense…
TERRIBLE!! The announcers on both the TV and the radio commented that the defense needed to attack. Mark May pointed out that the splits of the Navy OL were tipping the plays. He and Holtz repeatedly stated that the LB’s needed to fill those gaps aggressively. I saw no adjustments during the game. Others have mentioned the defense continually lined up in the same formation. Very disappointing.

At this point we’re staring at a 2 or 3 win season. Certainly heads will roll. The offense played well tonight, but we’ll hold judgment until after we play a defense ranked higher than 111. My guess is tat Cavanaugh’s job is safe as long as the offense continues to show improvement. Let’s face it, we’re counting on true freshman to run the show. If I had money to bet, I’d say Paul Dunn will get the ax on the offense. The defense is another story. they seem to come up with ways to disappoint me on a weekly basis. No adjustments when there seem to be easy solutions. Paul Rhodes will definitely be the one thown to the wolves. Look for either DW to take over as defensive coordinator (a la Shiano) or Chris Ball move up from DB coach.

I said it earlier, the expectations from 2007 have been moved back to 2008. Will have a young but talented OL, new OL coach and new DC. Expect the team to start building toward 2009. Yep, we’re looking forward to 2009 already. What we are looking for now is some signs of improvement. Particularly in the play of the offense as McCoy and Bostic grow up. The defense will continue to be soft.

Pitt runs the ball on 3rd and 4th down with 2 to go.

You use your strength (OL size) vs their weakness (undersized line) and let the best man win.

If Navy holds twice you tip your cap to them.

But instead you ask a freshman QB who is improving but is still getting his sea legs (not to mention being in the toughest position to throw in the redzone). You completely go against your strength vs their weakness and try to get cute on tendencies.

Need I say anymore?

I don’t want him at AD. I don’t want him as coach. I don’t want him as a fucking RA at this point. Can’t one of the networks hire him away? Hey ESPN - want to replace Lou Holtz as an analyst? We got your guy!

Isn’t this the guy who promised to be the second coming of Johnny Majors? It sure is looking a lot like Johnny Majors’ second coming, isn’t it?

! unreal

Hold a press conference and just say it…”the University of Pittsburgh after much thought and consideration has decided to move in a new direction in regards to our football program. Effective immediately Dave W. and his entire staff has been released.” Fire them all, I have had enough, I’m not wasting my money and time with these idiots leading this team. The player deserve more, the school deserves more, and dammit I deserve more!

Which leads to my second point…that worthless [extended REDACTED] Dumbest call ever.

Why give the ball to the kid with 165 yards?

Oh, I forgot, our secondary is absolutely worthless. They\’ve joined the level of the rest of the D - rock bottom, and beginning to dig.

[Edited by Chas Rich. Stuart, give it a rest. I try to cut some slack especially right after losses, but this isn\'t a message board that lets you trash and spew anything and everything about players.]

By gambling, Wannstedt appeared to be saying to his slumping team, “We’re going to win this right now.” But the play itself - one in which Strong went to the edge of the end zone and waited for the ball inches from the out of bounds line - was risky enough no matter the circumstances.

“I can’t say much as a player. You always go with the plays they call. … There’s no use pointing fingers at anyone,” Bostick said. “We can look at the film and say we could have done many things different.”

Think Wanny has lost this team?
…

Still so very upset, that I want to hear Wanny say, “I lost this game, we had time to prepare, and I didn’t put the team in a position to dominate Navy, let alone win at the end of the game. I don’t need to watch the game tapes, I wasn’t agressive in my defensive strategy, and I gave the ballgame away when i didn’t pound the ball at their tired, outmanned defensive line. I lost this game for a group of players, who deserve better.”

-al-
Hail to PITT

“Which leads to my second point…that worthless TE. In the third quarter, 3rd and 2, on the 5 yard line, Bostick hits [Strong] with the ball…and instead of turning it up, taking the hit and die trying to get the first down, [HE] RUNS OUT OF BOUNDS TO AVOID A HIT, 2 YARDS SHORT. We end up kicking a FG. Some people in life want to win, others are losers. Strong is a loser. Put either of the other TEs in there, I didn’t see them halfass anything. Then you throw it to [him] on the last play? Dumbest call ever.”

Why am I not allowed to call out a TE that has NFL aspirations? This isn’t “trash” or “spewing” - its an observation I made at the game, and confirmed it looking at the tape when I got home. Anyone can go back and look at exactly what I’m talking about.

I didn’t see the original message you posted before it was edited. But on that 3rd quarter pass you cited, Strong seemed to me to be a victim of his own momentum more than anything else. Bostick kind of floated the ball out to Strong. And with Strong running a route that was taking him almost perpendicular to the sideline, it looked to me like he had too much momentum going across the field and that’s what prevented him from making a hard turn up the field. When he caught the ball, I don’t think he had a hell of a lot of “vertical” room to work with relative to the sideline.

I don’t know…I only saw the play during the game and I didn’t tape the game.

As far as calling out the players, maybe there are games where it’s called for but I don’t think this was one of them. Just my opinion, but those kids were playing their asses off last night - every one of them. They lost because of the ineptitude of the coaching staff. Strong never should’ve been put in a position to make that catch not because of his talent level, but because the play never should’ve been called in the first place - I don’t care if they would’ve had Jerry Rice, Steve Largent and Larry Fitzgerald down in that corner. Not on fourth-and-goal from the two when they had a running game that was effective so much more often than not.

You weren’t just cursing and saying he wasn’t a good player. You were crossing beyond to the personal as to the person himself based on his on-the-field performance. That’s where I draw the line.

I will not get down on the players because I know in my heart that for the most part they give it their all. But you can give your all, but that is negated by bad leadership/management. Such is the case with my beloved Panthers.

The frustration/despair I feel inside this morning has nothing to do with the players, but everything to do with coaching. I give in to any hopes of Wannstadt leading Pitt to the Promised Land.

There is a reason he was fired in his two stints as an NFL head coach, he is a bad head coach. Some coaches are meant to be HCs; Wanny is not one of them.

Any HC with any sense knows you play not to lose at home, and play to win on the road. It is as elementary as hot is to cold. It is clearly evident that Wanny is deficient in the abstract thinking needed to be a HC.

Wanny is steadfast in his belief that his system is right, and that if the players execute it success will follow.

He fails to see the urgency of it all. Yes, proper execution of the system in a theoretical sense means success. But just as in life, belief in a theoretical proposition does not constitute success from said proposition.

There needs to be a balance in coaching, a balance of concrete, and abstract. While it is not bad to approach coaching from the concrete presupposition of one’s stated philosophy, it becomes fatal in the face of continued adversity when one fails to bring in abstract coaching philosophy.

Holtz was right when he stated that you need to attack an option offense, and that Pitt had the bulk up front to do so. Instead there was not initiative for Wanny to do so because once again he failed to think in the abstract, but rather clung to his concrete proposition that if the players executed his system the team would win.

It is the job of the HC to give the players the best chance they can to win. Can we honestly say that Wanny has? The answer to this rhetorical question is no. We as fans are in a no win situation. If Wanny stays most likely there will be no elevation of the program, if he goes what of the recruits who have come?

I could go on and on, but I think it best for me to look in the direction of the BB team.