Really, anytime a special event is announced for April 1, I have to wonder if this is some gag. The Pitt Athletic Department is probably not going to this much trouble for a joke, but you never know.
The University of Pittsburgh will host a special media and photo opportunity on Tuesday, April 1, featuring legendary Pitt running back Tony Dorsett and current Panther LeSean McCoy. The session will be held at noon at Pitt’s football practice facility within the UPMC Sports Performance Complex.
Dorsett, the 1976 Heisman Trophy winner, will make a special presentation to commemorate McCoy’s remarkable freshman season.
Pitt is letting the non-media (i.e., everyone else) watch the event for free via Pitt’s website at noon.
I don’t know if there’s a single coach I’ve hated more over the past 3 years. Thoughts?
Comment by MelbaPlace 04.01.08 @ 8:58 pm
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I think that the majority of us here would have like to have ‘watched it,’ though — if that’s what you ‘re getting at in your comment …
So in response and for those who missed-out on the McCoy-Dorsett media & where to see it..
If you go to Pitt Athletics web and attempt a replay of today’s press conference via cstv, you’ll find (as I just did) that the recording is “not yet archived.â€
Running a search on youtube.com, however, turned up this:
Ex-Pitt Star Tony Dorsett Meets With Running Back McCoy link to youtube.com
So in the very least, click the link above to get your 1 minute, 38 seconds feel for what went down today at the UPMC Sports Performance Complex.
**For those of us (me included) who missed it at noon, it’s something we can hopefully tune into tomorrow morning.
Pitt Fans will always live in the past! since you lost your stadium and dont have one you will suck! 4 national titles i here from my pitt friends! yeah 3 before WW2 and 3 of them you shared! Fuck you Pitt ! Pitt fans are bitch-tit fucks! I hate Pitt and RR they will suck and live in the past together! We are future and current Champions!
WV- FUcking U
PS lets play a pick up game ! Say this weekend @ heinz field where we will bring more fans!
You further reinforce that the gene pool in West Virginia is very shallow and very tainted, tonight before you go to sleep remember we ran a bit faster and stole your national title hopes away!
Enjoy!!
With your obvious grammatical skills and style of writing reminiscent of a young F. Scott Fitzgerald, I can only conclude that you are a graduate of WVU’s renowned MBA program.
Once you master such basic components of the English language including proper punctuation (including devices other than the exclamation point), capitalization, the difference between “here†and “hear,†I am sure that you can run a successful blog that will be visited by the dozens of Hoopies with electricity.
Your salutation should, in addition to its rampant homophobia, suggesting latent tendencies, is only the first aspect of this rambling non sequitur. Are you suggesting that Pitt fans are rich and gay? Or are you inviting Coach Rodriguez to the forum?
You assert that our stadium is lost, as if it magically disappeared. In fact, it is the home of the Peterson Events Center. You know, that building where Ronald Ramon hit the game winning 3-pointer before your alcoholic joke of a coach publicly called out his players.
You continue slipping in and out of proper paradigms of capitalization. This is acceptable if you are writing post as an homage to e.e. cummings, however it appears that this would require you to read at a 4th grade proficiency.
With mathematical skills like yours, it is a wonder that you have not been nominated for the Fields Medal, since you have such an obvious mastery of fundamental algebraic concepts and calculus. To begin with, we claim 9 national championships, however by your logic you suggest that your “pitt friends†claim 4 and then somehow conclude that 3 + 3 = 4. Setting aside the specious logic of your assertion, whether the number is 4 or 6 or 9, the fact remains that they are infinitely more than West Virginia. Regardless, your anecdote is dubious, since you claim that you have friends.
Next, you claim that Pitt fans are “bitch-tit fucks.†I do not seem to understand this metaphor, though to be honest I merely hold 2 degrees from an outstanding public institution of higher learning and am working towards a third. Are you suggesting that we fuck male mammaries? This would reconcile your earlier homophobic assertion, but your grammatical construct is inappropriate for the state of being verb that you have chosen.
You again try to analogize us with Coach Rodriguez. Again, I do not understand the comparison. Are you suggesting that Coach Rodriguez should exist on a mental plane where he relives 13-9 over and over again ala Groundhog’s Day?
Finally, you call us out for a pick up game (sic). Are you personally challenging the esteemed readers of pittblather to a game? Are you suggesting that you are a speaking captain for WVU and can mobilize their varsity team to play us? Regardless, your point of West Virginia fans traveling is an appreciated boost to the economy of the Steel City. No doubt the economic impact would be greater if we still relied on a barter system so that you could exchange moonshine for goods and services in Pittsburgh.
I congratulate your organization on winning the conference championship and some crucial bowl games, specifically the Sugar Bowl against Georgia, which was admittedly excellent for the Big East. Just remember, sic transit gloria, my friend. Glory is fleeting.
In conclusion, let’s meet for cocktails and discuss your future in creative writing. Feel free to bring Noel Devine and his posse to the party, since I have heard that they are a classy bunch of model citizens who act with the utmost dignity. You could use your eloquence and obvious grasp of facts and logic to instruct Mr. Devine on the use of prophylactics.
In conclusion, stay classy Penn State:
Hail to Pitt!
Not surprisingly, another idiot-poster has come onto PB to tell us why we suck, and then ignore a well-written, thoughtful response. This seems to happen about once a week or so, and I’m proud not only of the fact that I’ve written some of the responses, but that just about EVERYONE has written some of the responses. That’s what makes this site the best Pitt-related portal around.
Finally, if the Hoopie ever does check back, just curious….of what are you the champions?
In his final Q&A of the recruiting/offseason, he concludes that “…we’ll all be back here discussing practice (before you know it)…So keep the questions rolling in and we’ll get started again with Pitt football Q&A’s some time around March 20…â€
Since then, the bulk of coverage has been provided by Post-Gazette reporters Colin Dunlap — whose stated “primary focus†is high school ball — and Gerry Dulac. (Phil Axelrod has weighed in as well.) But again, hardly any material submitted by PZ since camp started.
I’ve had my criticisms for Zeise, but I’m missing him at this point. Has anyone else noticed the conspicuous absence of the team’s “beat writer?â€
And on that same note, has anyone seen or heard from Chas? (Haha)
Right?
