I saw Bendel after the game Saturday and told him that he should have had me on his show because I have seen a lot at the BET.

Also, grits is good food. I was born in the south and love ‘em!

I too am warning about the upset. I saw what happened to Kansas and us in detroit against a “crappy” 13 seed. We don’t take this game with 100% concern and concentration, its just another embarassing story to add to the Kent St, Bradleys, etc. We’re playing across the country in an arena that will be 90% against us. They make one or two shots, suddenly they believe they can do it, all of a sudden we’re spectators the rest of the way. They need to go out and kill them worse than they’ve ever killed any opponent before.

I think Pitt will have a tougher time with MSU than the will with Memphis…Texas would be big trouble for Pitt…

I wasn’t going to even read your comment ’cause it looked long and potentially boring. but I read it anyway after I first started reading it ’cause it was good so I didn’t stop reading it. so I’m glad. It was accurate, and as a bunch of people here like to say, “spot-on.”

good work

Spot-on,” as I’ve heard say. Let’s change the team name to Gritt…

It’d be hard to do given that it’s not even the right spelling for anything. (A person or another thing can be “gritty,” but not in any way referred to described as being “gritt.”) It doesn’t float with any particular dictionary out there. So I guess ron cook’s acquaintance really meant that Pitt should go-on now to being called “Grit.” But, that wasn’t exactly spelled out in his article. So I investigated all of it and found him and mike cook dumb asses.

When I woke up, for example, what I did was eat grits (I’m forever trying to be positive…and smart, of course). I remembered afterwards, though, why I don’t like this food. And I’m also pretty sure now that ron cook and the ny city guy writer mentioned were referring to an entirely different kind the grit that’s more readily associated with “gravel” and other such things.

For the record, though, what I did was to look up the word “Gritt,” just to be sure that I was right and him and his friend wrong — I did this once with a Capped “G”, once without, and then another time again but with me dropping the second “t” entirely after there came up zilch to reference. And guess what? I was right all along ‘cause you just don’t spell any kind of grit or grits with a double “tt.” Only the singular “t” at-the-end spelling has a meaning.

Some of you alum probably already know this, but I certainly didn’t. And for anyone else out there like me, here are the respective definitions for each word:

Gritt: [there is no meaning ‘cause no meaning exists for a word spelled this way]
Grit: In character or condition (as in a roadway, if you will), likened to gravel & such in descriptive fashions. (Sure as sh*t this is what ron cook and his ny friend meant to say, but didn’t.) last…there was the cereal I mistakenly ate that was defined accordingly
Grits: coarsely ground hulled corn that is boiled and eaten hot with butter, esp. at breakfast in the southern United States.

I’m thinking that I made a mistake by not looking up the word suggested for the team’s name change before I sat down for breakfast — as I said to anybody who’d listen above, I know now with certainty that I will not again eat the food “grits” again. (And although it’s supposedly some southern incarnation — and not to be in anyway confused with “Carnation instant breakfast” (I could get sued for that, so I’m more wordy than I’d like) which was one of the better “cereals” I ate as a kid — this stuff should be left alone by never trying it. Albeit if you’re CAS ‘93 or old enough otherwise like me to regress and remember nonsensical detail, than you probably already ate the stuff if you had a all-inclusive meal-plan taking place in the belly of Pitt Tower A’s Cafeteria. They served this crappy “cereal” like we hosted a bunch of southern-lick kids in the steel city, but if you recall those times, you know we didn’t at all.

In any event, I’m just glad we’re not a 6 seed again. I was concerned about that yesterday.

(15 minutes, if anyone cares, is how long it took me to research and write about grits for which me and you are now smarter because of.)