Comments on: BlogPoll Week 7, Draft

By: Jamie H

Jamie H — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 03:53:23 +0000

Rex: the Navy game is on nationally on the CBS College Sports Network

By: Ritzer

Ritzer — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 00:19:14 +0000

How is wake forest any better than that with a bad loss to navy, sloppy/close wins vs. mississippi, FSU and Clemson? I agree with Move Pitt In’s point.

By: maz.

maz. — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 00:02:48 +0000

Frank, I agree with everything you say. I’d also emphasize that while PSU has “one less loss” there is a HUGE difference between no losses and one loss. Penn State is a legit threat to go all the way. (Though I will cry.)

By: HbgFrank

HbgFrank — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 23:48:21 +0000

One horrible loss at home + 2 sloppy wins in the 4th quarter against inferior teams + one good win + one great victory = No Top 25 (for now).

Now, by contrast (I am going to get killed for this) PSU has not played a ranked team, but they are dominating every team they play from start to finish. That is why with one less loss than us, they appear at No. 3 in the USA today Top 25 poll, and we don’t appear at all.

By: Move Pitt In

Move Pitt In — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 23:39:12 +0000

Chas,
Your being too tough on Pitt and not putting them in. Your bias as a Panther fan unfortunately hurts them in your poll. Think, about it, you have watched every single game the Panthers have played end to end. You ahve seen the good and bad, impressive and unimpressive. As a pitt blogger you have had to focus on many of the question marks and areas of improvement for the team. Because of this you focus on the negative side of things, which you can’t be blamed with, you’ve seen it all. Now, take the other teams in the top 25, I highly doubt that you have seen all or even half of every teams games. Undoubtedly there are teams that you may not have even seen play this season. As a result, you resort to ESPN highlights and coverage of the game. Which mostly shows the good plays. Conservative plays often aren’t shown, disagreebale play calls, typically not shown. So what you get is the great plays a team makes and the result. If that were the case for Pitt I would guess you would rank them as many others do. But, because you see everything and not just the good you leave them out. There are many teams, WFU, UNC, Mich St., Ball State, that if you watched every game you would probably leave them out. There would be things that disgust you about all of the teams and would cause you to think they aren’t good enough. I believe the Panthers deserve the boost into the rankings even b4 beating Navy this weekend. It’s your choice but at least think about it from this perspective.

By: legsy

legsy — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 21:48:35 +0000

anybody have an extra ticket to the navy game this weekend? looking to buy 1

By: Rex

Rex — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 20:41:27 +0000

Does anyone know if we will see the Navy game on tv in northern VA / DC area?

By: Greg in New Orleans

Greg in New Orleans — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 20:29:03 +0000

This Bowden firing should be watched closely by us Pitt fans, since Clemson is pretty much the southern parallel to us [I think in '05 Lindy's even called Clemson that year's Pitt].

Anyway, the question becomes: can someone with greater coaching acumen come in, take the existing high end talent that Clemson has, and win right away next season? If that happens, and Wanny caps out at 8 wins or less this year, I think we really need to start thinking about replacement. Clemson spent the last decade spinning its wheels, with little to show for it, and there is no reason for us to recreate those mistakes over the next 5 years.

By: HbgFrank

HbgFrank — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 18:26:32 +0000

Pitt opens as a 3.5 favorite over Navy…looks like the experts see a similar game to last year. I don’t. Our offense and defense are better than they were last year, and Navy is…well, Navy. Pitt 48, Navy 20.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 18:06:47 +0000

http://www.pittsburghpanthers.com is showing the Pitt/Rutgers start time to be 3:30