In case you didn’t realize it — and given the distraction — that is understandable, there is Pitt’s bowl game at noon down in Birmingham against Kentucky, with an overlapping game at the Pete at 2pm with Marquette.

I’m not sure it is a good idea or practical to have just one liveblog with the two games overlapping. That would get real messy.

I would simply set up 2 different liveblogs with Luke running one and I would handle the other. Unfortunately, this is one of the few days Luke is unavailable for liveblog duties.

So this means I am looking to see if there are any volunteers to operate as a producer of the football or basketball liveblog.

I’m thinking that the best approach would be to have one person help on football and one on basketball. I would start on the football and then leave it in the new guy/gal’s hands to finish while I went over to help get the basketball side going.

Here’s a basic outline of what you need to do:

— Have a Cover It Live account.

— Be able to watch a game, comment, and moderate comments as they come in — all at once.

— Moderate means to control the flow. Not all comments need to go through and keep things relatively calm and not a shouting match.

So, if you are interested. Shoot me an e-mail at PittBlather-at-gmail-dot-com with an explanation as to why you would be the good fit.

Thanks. I’ll respond to all inquiries later this evening.

I mean aside from on the ground in a fetal position moaning, “Make it stop! Just finish this!”

Let’s start with what has me the most pissed off.

Another candidate emerged, at least in terms of someone who will get an interview – Sunday, from what I am told — and that is Stanford Associate Head Coach-Assistant Head coach for Offense Greg Roman and he seems to fit the profile of what Steve Pederson is looking for — young, up-and-coming, offensive minded, etc., etc. Pederson is reportedly enamored with Stanford’s offense and while Roman isn’t the offensive coordinator, he has a big hand in the game planning and play calling and is considered a strong candidate to replace Jim Harbaugh as head coach if he takes the 49ers job. So Roman may be off the market before he actually gets to talk to Pitt, but at any rate he is an interesting name just because he is new to this.

When this showed up on my radar last night, I dismissed it out of hand. Pure agent spin I confidently asserted.

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