It was hard fought but we proved to have a bit more ineptitude than Notre Dame in giving away the game 15-12 yesterday.  But hey, there is enough blame to go around for every PITT fan to be able to point fingers somewhere if you are so inclined.

   It was, quite honestly, a pretty good display of defense in the first three quarters… until we lost our appeal to the referees to be able to donate $125 million dollars to charity if we could forego the fourth quarter of play.  That was a harbinger…

   A key turning point was in the third quarter when we finally put a TD on the board after a solid 80 yard, 19 play drive.  We then held ND to a three and out and on our next series it seemed like we could finally take the momentum and build a lead that would hold… only to go three and out on a penalty and two Sunseri incompletions.  That was it right there and we all knew it.  Any advantage or positive emotion PITT held disappeared like air from a balloon. (more…)