Just as you make your own luck, I don’t buy into destiny. I prefer free will.
So, here’s the liveblog that should get underway sometime around 7-ish.
Since there has been something of a queue to participate, I’ve sent out some invites (near the max allowable) to those that I trust will be able to reasonably control themselves that should allow more participation. Hopefully that will help.
Here’s the Link to tonight’s liveblog.
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Pitt is a team on the rise, as is Cincinnati. Losing to this team changes nothing. It doesn’t change the fact that this Pitt team is headed in the right direction and it doesn’t change the fact that you are an insignificant little prick who thinks he’s a hell of a lot smarter and wittier than he really is. Again, not sure why you waste your time on this blog (or other Pitt blogs) it seems you have too much time on your hands or not enough friends. Anyway, have a good night, everyone hates you.
Hope to see you at Pitt/WVU.
PS TJ: I’ll see you in hell.
Pitt has won every “big game” its played in this year with the exception of this one. You are obnoxious and condescending, yet incredibly stupid and uneducated. You have no friends and waste your time trying to irritate true Pitt fans on these blogs. I’ve said it many times, but I’m not really sure what your ultimate goal is aside from the fact that you wish to expose yourself as a joke and a loser. Please meet me at the Pitt/WVU game, I’d love to sit down and chat.
Cinncy is the best team in the Big East…nice late show by a thoroughly outplayed Pitt.
* These officials may be the worst I’ve seen all year…
** The announcers tonight were the most obnoxious bunch of Cinncy homers I have ever heard.
*** This team will never win a big game with Stull at QB…and may not win again this year
**** Pitt did not get outcoached tonight…they have no talent in the secondary and Cinncy took advantage all night….
Oh, and I’ll be going home to Florida for Thanksgiving, so sorry to take you up on your offer. For all I know, you’re probably that same jagoff fan who wanted to slug me at the Bowling Green game. Go take a long walk off a short pier.
Also, why did McCoy just stop on the last play of the game? Like he couldn’t have juked out a couple of UC students who were on the field to take it to the house?
We were flat, and Cincy is a more experienced team that came out and flat out made every play there was to make. They played their asses off and they deserve it. This is not some indication that the program hasn’t made progress. Saying that they haven’t is crazy at this point.
I mean, ultra negative talk after Bowling Green or Rutgers I get, but not after this one. We lost, we’ll learn from it and get better.
And probably no BCS this year, but a little thing called the Gator Bowl is still in play because Notre Dame lost.
Now onto the last play. We should have had an untimed down at about their 35 or so because their fans were ON THE FIELD disrupting play and throwing oranges around long before that play was over!!
I know it was a longshot, but it was a longshot we should have had the oppurtunity to try and convert.
Congratulations to the Bearcats, they earned it tonight. It was their biggest game ever and they played like it. They have my respect.
But I’m sorry, but that’s still not a rivalry, except maybe to some disgruntled Bengal fans that think beating Pitt is some sort of revenge on the Steelers.
Those are all of my thoughts. Those of you within driving distance, go to the Brawl and cheer this team on!! We have A LOT to play for!! The Gator Bowl is still very much in play for us right now. It might not be BCS, but a New Year’s Day bowl would be a fine ending to this season.
Game effort, proud that they didn’t quit. I rewound the DVR on the last play and Shady had one blocker and 3 Cincy guys within 5 yards. He was looking for someone open to throw to, had he took off he would have been tackled.
I mean, I could see being super critical of the team, I often am. But he seemed to take joy in their failure which is something different. Like he took pride in them losing so he could tell everyone “he told us so”.
You can be a good fan and still be very critical of players and coaches. But what you’re doing is being an absolute dickhead dude.
Like I said, I’ve called for the heads of many coaches and players after a loss. Many of us have.
But what I haven’t done is come in here and tried to make other fellow Pitt fans feel even worse than they already do after a loss.
That’s just being an ass to people, and if you were behaving that way at the Bowling Green game I could see why someone may have wanted to take a swing at you.
I can’t even really complain too much about the offense. I’m not thrilled about missing our opportunity to put seven points on after the first quarter kickoff fumble, but overall, we put 21 points on the board. Not too bad.
Overall, we were just out played. It wasn’t Stull’s fault. It wasn’t Wanny’s fault. It wasn’t Cavanaugh’s fault. If anyone, we should blame Pike. He played a helluva game and Cincy deserved to win.
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Umm, Josh, just so ya know, Pitt beat Iowa, who IS above .500 (8-4), above .500 in conference (5-3), and they HAVE beat 3 teams over .500 this year (Penn State (11-1), Wisconsin (7-5), and Minnesota (7-5)). You should prob check your own info before you go spouting off random incorrect facts again.
I’ve cursed the man’s name plenty of times. I just don’t feel that it’s warranted tonight. We actually lost to a better team that played a better game tonight. It wasn’t Bowling Green or Rutgers.
But enough with this pissing match. It’s Saturday man, go get laid or have a beer or something.
What I want to know is if there’s any way that the result of this Texas Tech v. Oklahoma game is going to put Penn State back in the title hunt. Jesse Palmer just said it might, but he was on The Bachelor so I’m not sure what credibility that gives him.
PS: I’m being an ass because all season the rest of you jagoffs on this blog have been being a dick to me. Tonight is my night to serve up big heapings of crow. Too bad you want to trumpet this “loss” as a victory. Yeah, Pitt fans are the most humble fans, MY ASS!!! You are just like everything that is said about Duke fans, and worse.
But Pitt’s got to get serious about the QB position. Cincy’s a great example of a team that doesn’t have half the talent on offense that Pitt does………but they accomplish more offensively because their QB is an athlete. He consistently made the pass rush look inept with his mobility and found receivers all over the field.
Then we watch Pitt get the ball and it’s pretty obvious early that the Bearcats are keying on McCoy (like everybody does) because they know Stull can’t beat them. He can’t move well enough to shake a rush and doesn’t have any vision or any arm to make a play when things break down. He’s just overmatched at this level.
The college game is so wide open the way it’s played these days and the play of the QB is exponentially more important than what happens at any other position on the field.
I want a playmaker back there and I don’t think Wannstedt has one on the roster. Stull’s a good WPIAL QB, Smith scares all of us the minute he gets in a game, Sunseri is too short to play D1 and watching Bostick play is…….well it’s just painful and I’m baffled by how any recruiter thought he had the tools to succeed.
I’m worried Wannstedt and his staff are going to waste a ton of other recruited talent and never win the games they should during this period because they never get the right play-caller in there. Face it — one position matters more than any other!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
…ya think!?
How is saying the other team played better not being humble? We’re basically saying they were better than us. Do you want us to complain about refs or some other lame excuse, or just tip our hats and move on?
And you’re a Duke grad, who’s from Florida, but uses the common Pittsburgh term “jagoff”, that was apparently a Pitt fan before you annoyed someone to the point that they wanted to beat you silly so now you take it out on people in blogs… I’m confused.
Beer time to all the rest of you, have a good night!
If you actually thought this team would be BCS-worthy, then you’ve been drinking more than Kool-Aid. So, maybe rather than bitching to everyone on this board, maybe you should instead realize that you had some rather unrealistic expectations for this team.
Hail to Pitt
1. Cincy’s players seemed a lot more pumped up for this game, especially in the second half.
2. Our QB needs to improve – we have a lot of good TE and WR targets, a good running game to help open up the passing game, and a QB who had accuracy and decision problems tonight. Honestly, I have never seen Stull as the QB to get us over the hump into a BCS Bowl game. Too inaccurate, too many passes deflected, and too many bad decisions.
3. Our secondary has a lot of breakdowns and communication problems. I thought we worked on that extra in the off week?? Yes, Pike was great tonight, but there were a lot of big plays from WRs being WIDE open!
4. Our D-line is very talented! I think they have just as much if not more up-side than the Sean Gilbert, Keith Hamilton line from the early 90s. Cincy ran some great plays tonight to ake advantage of our rush off the line – including a couple shuffle passes and Pike scrambles.
5. As much talent as our WRs have, there were a good # of balls that hit their hands that could have been caught. I ralize Stull’s accuracy was way off, but if we could have caught a couple that went off the hands, it would have kept a couple of key drives alive. In a big game like this, it was a shame to see some of the guys come up short on close plays.
6. On the last play, if shady doesn’t wait for blockers at the end, he would have went 10-15 yard more before he would have ran into the fans on the field. What the hell would have happened then? I guess they would have had to clear the field and give Pitt one more down. ???
I am amazed too when I think of the talent we have but yet our QBs are serviceable at best.
If my aunt had two balls she’d be my uncle,too.
We are too young and too weak at key positions (I’m thinking Defensive Secondary) for a BCS game. After the last three years, even getting to a bowl game is an achievement for this team (dare I dream “Gator Bowl”?).
I believe even Smizik predicted nine wins (and I was thrilled to see that old fart recognize that Pitt was good enough for a decent bowl game).
Josh, you are guilty of believing everything that you read on the internet. You need to step outside and have a smoke. Maybe talk with a real person at your local bar.
Please email me Joshua’s IP address. If he has either Verizon or Comcast internet, I can get his address and phone number by Monday. If he uses another ISP, it might take a bit longer.
The officiating was terrible tonight. Cincy didn’t need that much help.
Speaking of PSU … ask any Nit fan and they will tell you that the big difference between this year and last year, and for that matter, the team 2 years ago vs 3 yeasr ago (Orange Bowl) is Darryl Clark and Mike Robinson vs Anthony Morelli ….. or in other words, Tony Pike vs Bill Stull. Unless Pitt can get a good running attack to keep the pressure off of Stull, he is unlikely to make something out of nothing
Nippert Stadium – a place that two or three years ago was probably playing to 50% capacity – was amped up and the energy there seemed to be unreal. Cincy’s players clearly fed off of that.
Kudos to Pitt for coming back with a solid effort in the end. But as many said above, Cincy made the plays they needed to make and Pitt didn’t. Sometimes that’s just a product of what you are, and Pitt is still a very young team at many key positions and players are going to make mistakes (Decicco in some of his reads and support deep, for instance).
At the beginning of the season, every reputable preview publication had Pitt finishing somewhere around 3rd or 4th in the Big East with an outside shot at the conference title. I hopes for eight wins and a halfway-decent bowl game. We might get nine and a solid bowl game.
Pitt will get exactly the same results next year if they stand pat with Stull at QB.
His stat line every game generally goes something like 15 for 25 for about 200 yds and 1 TD and an interception, but that masks just how ineffective he is. He’s never able to scramble for a key first down or make a pass rusher miss in order to complete a long ball downfield. He’s just there, and that’s not good enough to win big games.
I repeat my post from last night…..
Pitt’s got to get serious about the QB position. Cincy’s a great example of a team that doesn’t have half the talent on offense that Pitt does………but they accomplish more offensively because their QB is an athlete. He consistently made the pass rush look inept with his mobility and found receivers all over the field.
Then we watch Pitt get the ball and it’s pretty obvious early that the Bearcats are keying on McCoy (like everybody does) because they know Stull can’t beat them. He can’t move well enough to shake a rush and doesn’t have any vision or any arm to make a play when things break down. He’s just overmatched at this level.
The college game is so wide open the way it’s played these days and the play of the QB is exponentially more important than what happens at any other position on the field.
I want a playmaker back there and I don’t think Wannstedt has one on the roster. Stull’s a good WPIAL QB, Smith scares all of us the minute he gets in a game, Sunseri is too short to play D1 and watching Bostick play is…….well it’s just painful and I’m baffled by how any recruiter thought he had the tools to succeed.
I’m worried Wannstedt and his staff are going to waste a ton of other recruited talent and never win the games they should during this period because they never get the right play-caller in there. Face it — one position matters more than any other!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If so, he should be fired.
What I find interesting is that all of the major complaints about Bill Stull leading up to the game – mainly his accuracy and arm strength, were not factors in the game. Stull’s deep pass to Baldwin (hit him in-stride and right on the hands) and the TD pass to Dickerson were as well thrown long balls as you’ll see in CFB. Perhaps no one really wants to hear this but Jonathan Baldwin has a long way to go before he actually plays at the level PITT fans have already put him. Aside from a few deep passes for TDs I believe he’s not lived up to the hype in many ways – he certainly has a lot of work to do before he becomes a complete WR.
Our receivers should man up and take the heat for a lot of our offensive problems – they did nothing to help the cause.
