Hope no one had too much to drink during the noon games. It is difficult to type effectively when the keys keep moving under your fingers. As for me, I’m out for the morning and early part of the afternoon doing the dad thing. One of the few pleasant and dry fall Fall weekend days in Ohio. That means stock family activity option #7 — a trip to an apple orchard. Whee.
I will be back, though, with time to spare before the game. ND is not a top-25 team at this point, but neither is Pitt. I think nationally, no one is sure where either team really is in the national pecking order. The perception/bias probably leans towards ND but they also benefit from that new coach smell.
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I think that’s the only other Big East game going on right now.
Basketball can’t get here soon enough….
Wanny’s team is undisciplined. Special team is horrible. D-back continue to struggle.
Wanny’s continues to go with Deon when it is obvious to EVERYONE that Graham is better.
500 or less and / or no Bowl means Wanny really must go.
Cmon stache, you sux, all this recruiting. Apparently our recruits stink cuz they are getting dominated and don’t care. This is worse than the Walt era. Is Jackie Sherril available to come out of retirement????
Hard to be a fan any longer. Where is Ray G? Dion has lost it completely, sad but true
the worst playcalling on the last 2 drives that I have ever seen … no question!
Offense- sunseri is bad. Real bad. Can’t make a throw down field. Reads game too slowly. Plays soft.
Cignetti – stop running 5’6 deon up the middle with this o line. He is too small! No holes for him! Stop putting sunseri under the center on pass plays. He needs time to read the coverage. His thought process is to slow.
Special team- get Sandler out of there. He tries to field balls between the 10 and goal line and then let’s the ball bounce when they are outside the 10. He put us in bad field position all game.m put deon back there.
Baldwin- better effort today. I understand your frustration when it is clear that sunseri can’t make the throws.
D-backs – 22 (reid) and 25 (hendricks) are terrible. Just flat out terrible. 22 Reid was beat ALL day long. He is a jr and should be better. Hendricks is a freshman so he gets a pass.
Decicco- you are just a bad cover guy. Doesn’t matter if you are a safety or outside linebacker. You can’t cover. You are a liability on the field. Didn’t make one play today.
Wanny- pre-season BE champs? You are now 2-3. Stop playing favorites and make everyone earn their position. Decicco and sunseri must sit! Time for you to consider handing in the clip board. I want to believe but “you are who you are”. Unsuccesful head coach on all levels. Time to retire.
Pederson AD – time to demand the same success from football that Jaime dixon is giving you in basketball. You either demand it of wanny or you need to go. Suggestion for next head coach – terryl Austin (Pitt db 80’s). Defense coordinator at univ. Of Florida. Former db coach Arizona (2008 super bowl) and db coach Seattle ( 2005 super bowl).
New Slogan Anyone But Dave…ABD!!!
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On the replay one could see Sonny threw the ball behind him and Baldwin had to reach back for it. A lot of receivers wouldn’t have made that play.
The other long tossers were just that tosses, they had NO CHANCE whatsoever of connecting with anyone on Pitt’s side. I love the remark by the nbc color commentator at the end of the game, “Sonny has a lot of upside.”
I know Zeise protects this kid, but how far does this stuff go. It’s really bizarre (not really)
Anyway, the way I see this playing out Pitt goes 7-5 or 6-6, goes to a crap bowl, wins over some Sunbelt or MAC team and Sonny is again anointed by Wannstache as the Starting QB without question (or competition). The reason being he’s only a sophomore and he has the experience. (of course this reason is conveniently forgotten when it applies to Bostick)
I’m seriously thinking of what I did in the mid 90’s, forgetting about Pitt football.
Anyways, Bostick needs to start next week or we will be slaughtered in the big east all season
Fraud is way too kind of a word for what Wanny has done to this program and University. And again, it’s not the losing of a game, it’s the embarrassment of the same mistakes being made over and over year after year by the players and the head coach. I am loathe to criticize any coach for a single play call but for the life of me…how to you call a TO and give away 45 seconds of precious time …and then punt!!
And I don’t want to hear..”he changed his mind”
You take that TO and you go for it with your best shot on 4th and 5. Nothing else…
I was at the game, and I have to say the Pitt players were sliding all over the place. Zeise reported that they had to change their cleats at the half. How can this happen?
It’s clear that Pitt wasn’t that good, but the coaching staff was awful as well.
Seriously???
What a mess yesterday – across the board we have major problem; all three aspects of the game and with the coaching staff are piss poor… a timeout to decide to punt the ball… yikes!
That’s 4 or 5 more wins which is 7-5 or 6-6. If you don’t think Pitt can beat these scrub teams, maybe you’re the one on crack or better yet LSD. And anything can happen in the backyard brawl and usually does.
