Sorry for nothing but open threads the last few days. Between the holidays and some traveling to see family, there just hasn’t been time (or an internet connection). Heading back home late this morning so I couldn’t go to the game and I can’t even watch it live. Going to be a DVR-delay day.
This is the final home game for Pitt for the year. Their final home Big East game. Naturally, given the present state of the Big East it makes perfect sense that at the last minute it becomes a meeting of teams heading somewhere else.
Though Rutgers — most likely — will be playing one more year in the Big East. Don’t forget, the exit fee was raised to $10 million after Pitt and Syracuse announced their plans to leave last year. So, to pay extra to leave after the 2013-14 season (instead of 2014-15) will still cost the Scarlet Knights some where between $12.5 and $15 million.
Rutgers has had a very good year under new coach Kyle Flood. Aside from that home loss to Kent State, they have been winning games primarily behind the defense. They are set up to play for the Big East title and the BCS bid next Thursday against Louisville (assuming Louisville takes care of business against UConn today). Sadly, Pitt can’t even play the role of spoiler as Louisville already has a conference loss.
The last time I saw a Big East team come into a game like this, knowing that they were really playing for the Big East title the following week, was back in 2009. Pitt sleepwalked through the Backyard Brawl and gave it away. We’ll find out if Pitt can at least muster the effort in the home finale and Rutgers is looking to their own finale.
Hope the Pitt students and fans don’t boo Tino.
If you don’t want to watch, don’t watch.
And if you’re going to troll, come up with something better than “all the best local talent goes to either Ped U or Ohio State” less than a week after Pitt beat out Ohio State for Dorian Johnson, they’ve got the inside track on Foster and have made significant headway with Boyd.
Nice try, though.
Rumor has it Foster and Boyd are both there for the game today. Let them hear you.
he says on his post maybe acc thakes 3 schools goes to 16 cinci L ville and u conn who knows.
If the field is as big a mess as usual after the WPIAL games, it just adds insult to injury when we bring recruits to this game with so many empty seats. The Rooney’s dream is every football fans nightmare. Its the 21st century, get a clue and put some turf down. Your Dad was wrong on this one Art II, fix the mistake.
Go Panthers, turn Piscataway into a morgue.
gotta love this 24 yr old
Terrific plays to get a first down then 3 yard loss/5 yard loss/Tino overthrows an open long receiver by 7 yards.
Keep your positive comments to yourself please. This is a Pitt blog.
Only 7 quarters left !!!!!
That stuff doesn’t show up in the box score. But EFFECTS the outcome of the game and the momentum of the game too, as EVERYTHING was going PITT’s way.
Butgers has been a 2nd half team ALL YEAR
gOTTA SCORE NOW
JUst HAD to get some points off that field position after the last series foulup.
We just lost 10 points.at a minimum…should be 17-0.
payback from easy td, db going wrongway on td pass
GO PANTHERS!
AWESOME!!!!
I guess I tipped my hand, as to which team I’m rooting for.
Thus, no need for them to have hands transplanted onto their ankles, or arms extenstions either….
keep calm
hail to pitt
Hail to Pitt!
I wonder what team is going to show up for the S. Florida game?
looking good billy ray
That’s OK he had a BIG interception and run-back earlier.
NICE WIN FOR THE PANTHERS!
Between shopping and putting my daughter through a track workout. A friend called me and told me Pitt was ahead… I said… BS…
My goodness.. what happened… Pitt won… !!!
To quote Chryst…
Pitt is consistently.. inconsistent..
Nova was worse than Tino.
That was the worst 9-1 team I’ve EVER seen.
Will take the win even though it means another possible tino game.
Guess they want to make sure he gets by Palko on the all-time passing list. Why else would PC be calling passing plays with 6 minutes to go and then 3 minutes to go ? No other reason I can think of, how about some of you geniuses.
Well at least the Buttgers did PC’s job for him, he dialed up nothing but running plays when they go the ball back. lol
Anyway on to South Florida and perhaps….
another trip to……..Birmingham. lmao
HTP
VEV
GRP
As Buttgers would never schedule PITT non-con, it would upset their steady diet of pathetic non-con games, with Howard (5 of last 8 yrs), NC A & T, Norfolk State, Army, Texas Southern, Morgan State & others to numerous to name.
Bye Bye Scarlett Fever, enjoy being the new Indiana or Minnesota (ie. doormat) of the Little 11.
Today showed what a fraud Buttgers is, as PITT could have easily had 40 something points. And Buttgers is the epitome of how a school can fraudulently build up a resume of (supposed) good(8 or more wins) seasons with a steady diet of cupcake schedules and 4rth tier bowl games.
Almost would lead one to believe, with conf. realignment going to be a given, many years ago.
That this was all part of some plan to legitimize Buttgers football. Because for the prior 60 years they were a joke of a program even playing a steady diet of the Lehigh’s, LaFayette’s and Monmouths of the world.
Contrary to what ESPN & Beth Movins & Joey Galloway would tell you. lol
PITT crushes No. 21 Rutgers 27-6
from the story:
There were no such problems for the Panthers, who have been an enigma in coach Paul Chryst’s first season, haphazardly alternating good and bad performances regardless of the quality of the opponent.
Which leads me to comment: (sort of)
It’s a mystery wrapped in a riddle inside an enigma!
Why is this team so up and down? There are some really good players on this team.
College football is so inconsistent.
PC soon gets some time over the winter to develop a really consistent team.
are out there may be.
ACC Championship game next week
FSU vs a 6-6 Georgia Tech team
Guess which division we are joining? You got it. The side with the 6-6 GT team representing them in the ACC championship game.
Granted both UNC and Miami have post season bans (both have 7 wins but that isn’t any real dominance)
Looks like GOD may be rewarding us for our patience.
H2P
Sunseri played a fine game today as he has in other games this season also. He makes bonehead plays but it would be nice to read his critics to give just a bit of credit where it’s due – and that would be for his play today.
Tino is the “major reason” that we are 5-6 and desperately needing a win on Saturday to qualify go a bowl. A 5th year senior 3 yr starter shod carry teams on his back. Instead we get his implosions each game. Today was another example. Fumbles on 1 yrd line? I’m sorry but 5th year senior 3 yr starters don’t allow those things to occur. He simply isn’t a winner. We need a winner.
Next weekend he has an opportunity to lead this team to a critical win over a 3 win bad USF team. Many PITT fans are holding their breath. Truth is … You are one of them
Good to see you posting. I think your previous work writing articles for Pitt Blather was excellent. Any chance you’ll get back to doing that anytime soon?
Pitt sadly showed their potential today. Still, the entire coaching staff and players (including Tino) deserve credit for a terrific game.
HTP
You add in the “jobbed” games factor against PITT, Stanford and BYU, they would all go for naught.
I’m thinking ND vs Georgia is going to be the NC game. As this gives ND a much more legitimate shot to win. And those two teams have a history together.
Anyway since we almost beat ND and they’re helping keep the ACC afloat, I’ll be rooting for the Domers.
Guy catches the longest Tino pass for a TD (sans yac) all year and that had to be his first catch of the season.
Congrats Mr. Tinker !
Cudo’s to Sir Tino, he’s almost got the nosedive down perfect without fumbling. lol
You can sit in between Sal & Roxy, they have their seats reserved already.
So I’m guessing everyone stays at the Holiday Inn – Birmingham. For I’m sure there’s no Ritz-Carlton or even a Westin in that megalopolis .
But it’s like way south of Birmingham on the beltway, by some place called Hoover.
Does appear to be an older Hotel along the lines of the William Penn in downtown Birmingham, called The Belmont. Probably rather stay there and be able to walk around the downtown area, watering holes and then take a taxi to the stadium. Unless enough Blathers show up. we can get a Limo (fully stocked). Frankcan can bartend.
This place is only 15 minutes from Legion Field.
And….has Birmingham’s ONLY ROOFTOP Bar !
Partially enclosed and open till 2 am nitely.
-Rooftop Bar – 15 minutes from Legion.
Looks like winner !
Plus it’s right downtown so you can check out Birmingham, the historical sites are right around it. It’d be like staying at the Westin-William Penn instead of the Marriot-Monroeville.
Don’t know about you but I much prefer staying in the downtowns of cities instead of the burbs.
But thanks for the info Jason.
HTP !
My guess RUT to BCS, SY to Pinstripe, CN to Belk, LO to Russell, Pitt and CT (if in) to Beef o Brady or BBVA. If CT loses maybe Pitt to Beef o Brady vs CUSA..
Count me in there of holding my breath next week, USF is no gimme.
Since the program has been directionless(Compass, as in need of, get it) since
DW got asked to resign, (ie. the boot).
Now on the other hand if we get a Beef O’Brady invite, maybe that means we found our direction.
Think I would prefer St. Pete to Birmingham.
Ya think !
Think the Pinstripe gets the 4rth pick in the BE pecking order. That’s the only one with a Big 12 tie-in.
So…Rutgers or L-ville get the (1)BCS, the other gets the (2)Champs Sports Bowl thing or whatever they call that now. (Russell Athletic Bowl,lol)
The (3)Belk Bowl in Charlotte gets the next pick.
Then (4) Pinstripe Bowl has next choice
And then these 3 Bowls will use 2 BigEast teams.
(5) Liberty Bowl
(6) Beef O’Bradys Bowl
(7) BBVA Compass (otherwise known as the ESPN rent a cheap-available hardly used college stadium bowl, usually featuring TV ratings beast PITT !)
After the BCS Bowl, bowls are free to choose ANY BigEast team, regardless of record. These numbers next to the bowls just represent when they get to pick a team (pecking order if u like)
We’ll have more to choose from next year, I believe !
Atlanta Panther. St Pete is still pretty warm, whereas Birmingham isn’t. Plus St. Pete might get a few more Pitt folk there.
Which would make sense since they have a lot of alumni in NYC area and it’s not terribly far from their campus. Now had we beaten them, like we should have….we could have been going there to play the Billies.
1. Cold (and it was COLD) and maybe the holiday season kept the attendance down quite a bit. Student section was noticeably smaller, but again…Thanksgiving likely had a say in that. But the crowd was pretty engaged in the game, so that was good to see/hear.
2. Is there a college program out there that has gotten more mileage out of what was really just one great season than Rutgers, at least in terms of over-inflated national perception? I’m not sure that there is. As someone else already mentioned above, that may have been the worst 9-1 team I’ve ever seen.
3. Then again, they’re the ones going to the BCS bowl game this year, so maybe I should shut up.
4. Naaahhhhh. Good riddance.
5. Thought Pitt did a terrific job stopping the run today – just 50 rushing yards on 24 carries for Rutgers. And Gary Nova really does scream “Wannstedt QB” when you watch him.
6. What happened to Savon Huggins? He was considered to be one of the best five backs in the country in his recruiting class. I know he never redshirted, so he’s still relatively young but he just hasn’t managed to assert himself much at all this year.
7. Comments about Pitt’s inconsistency this year – I think it’s really a reflection of the makeup of this team. It’s a young team whose veteran players are on their third system in as many years. They don’t have a dynamic QB that could get the offense over the hump in critical spots. They were ridiculously young at some spots – particularly on defense. In a sense, it’s kind of encouraging. Two significant play-makers on offense are true freshmen (Shell, Holtz). The best linebacker is a sophomore (Todd Thomas) and defensive back on the team is a redshirt freshman (L. Pitts). The entire defensive line returns next year.
This is a big reason why I’d still like to see them get to a bowl game, whether it’s the BBVA Compass Bowl, the JokeCity Bowl, the Irrelevant Early Christmas Season Bowl or whatever. The young players on this team couldn’t be hurt by another game’s worth of experience.
Some REALLY emotional moments after the game today.
We were in Section 132 near the band. After the game, the team made its way over to that corner of the stadium and you could see on the faces of some of the seniors players how much playing this last game at home meant. Ray Graham got up and directed the band in the fight song. A bunch of the seniors hugged Band Director Jack Anderson (retiring…today was his last home game, too).
Jacobson, Turnley and Taglianetti looked visibly moved by everything, Tags especially. He apparently got really choked up during some interviews with the local networks. He then did a spot live with Bostick on the post-game show and had a hard time answering when Hillgrove (chiming in from the booth) asked him about moving on after the season eventually ends. Bostick tried to lighten it up, mentioning Taglianetti’s internship with the Penguins, but Tags really struggled through the rest of the interview.
It’s often easy to forget that 1) these kids all have such a relatively short time in the program and 2) the vast majority of them end their football careers here. Having played the game through high school and walking away after my senior season, I still remember what I felt during that last home game (we lost…no post-season). I can’t even imagine what that must be like at this level.
This group of seniors probably deserve something a lot better than the 7-6 finish they could get this year. But I’m glad they got the sendoff they did in front of the home crowd today, and I’m glad I was there to see it.
Will we ever send that jackass Pederson packing? He must have something on the administration.
Surprisingly, all those who mocked the coach for earlier clock management issues….are silent. Let him coach fellas, he will get the job done.
Also liked Tinker in there. He looks smooth, not fast.The Saddler collision was just violent and to me, turned the game in our favor from a running perspective. Glad to see Cam not injured.
Pitt really needs extra practice time under the Chryst system, so a bowl appearance would be welcome if we can get past USF.
Great game, enjoyed it immensely.
If we could have a team, with a roster of 22 J.P.Holtz’s, we’d be on our way.
That kid is pure football nasty!!!
They let him go awhile before asking him to put it down. It was awkward. Security said people were complaining, but that was a lie. No one complained. He asked the people I’d they wanted it down. A chorus of “No”. Was heard.
But he is right.
Pitt deserves better!
The crowd was embarrassingly small.
A man in front if me asked “who is Steve”. He was sincere. When I answered him, I pointed to the empty seats and said, “empty seats don’t pay bills”. “Not in any business” he replied matter of factly.
Cyanide Steve has to be one if the highest paid people in the University: His job is to manage and raise money and he is worse than a failure.
He owes this team and the university, alums and fans an apology. It should be contained in his letter of resignation.
Pitt played very well today; especially the defense.
Too bad this group of seniors had 6 head coaches and 1 highly incompetent AD.
They gave much more than they got back, IMO.
Shame on Pederson. He is stealing money if he accepts a paycheck.
From our seats high in the stadium, it looked like Aaron Donald was being held on every single play, yet they still smacked around the Rutgers running game. Tremendous defensive effort, and no rattles from Tino – he played a solid game.
Tino did not play well.
Took a silly sack in 2nd when rolling right ..throw it away.
Fumbled the damn snap at the goal line.
Threw behind Shanahan twice.
No..it was not a good day. It was a C+ day.
The defense won the game.
Also neat to really spank Rutgers in our last game with them and send them off to the B1G with a thorough beat down…they are definitely B1g material! (hee hee hee)….
Lets win next week then off to the Beef Brains O’Brady Bowl for the last time…Hail To Pitt!
Sunseri passes Pitt to 27-6 win over No. 21 Rutgers
Paragraph in the Trib article for the game:
Sunseri was among several stars on offense, completing 21 of 39 passes for 227 yards and two touchdowns to stretch his nation-leading active streak of consecutive throws without an interception to 245 (81?4 games).
The haters aren’t even the least bit honest or objective, and they attack anybody who is. Hell, Wannstedt is still blamed that Sunseri remains the starter two years and two head coaches after he coached his last game.
I was at the game today and happened to be on the corner of the end zone where Shanahan and Tinker caught their TD passes. Those were both very good throws. The kind that that the haters love to bash Sunseri for not being able to throw. There was also another long pass down the same sideline that Tinker should have come up with. Another throw that Sunseri is bashed for. Yes, he took two dumb sacks.
They crushed Rutgers today. Sunseri played a key part. It was senior day. Can’t you praise him for that?
Gary Nova sucked big time today. That pick to Pitts was terrible. It wasn’t the only bad throw. It’s a shame Pitt only has Sunseri. I know a lot of the haters have wished Pitt had gotten Nova.
With all those guys coming back the D may be strong again next year.
Steve, you moved us there. You said you’d get fans.
Facts is facts my friend.
Too big?? You said it wasn’t.
You can’t blame fans for not coming, players, or coaches.
All of these things above have answers, winning, better players helps winning, no coaching carousel gives stability.
All of these decsiions, trickle down, from decisions that you have made Smug Smile Steve.
Absolutely embarrassing.
Great effort by the team in those conditions.
Nordy, Steve, Ath.Dept people, looking at the yellow abyss???
Probably don’t even acknowledge it I guess.
With Coach Chryst hopefully getting our winning ways back, and the lure of an ACC schedule with some new interesting teams, things may have looked ok.
If they add UCONN, Louisville and Cincinnati, you can guarantee they’ll go to a North-South conference division alignment.
PITT
Syracuse
Boston College
Louisville
Cincinnati
UCONN
Virginia
Va. Tech
It would be back to a Big East schedule with the Virginia’s and maybe one game from the South.
Not good.
Hopefully they only go to 14 or have something more sexy lined up if they go to 16.
We just broke away from a Big East schedule, holy crap would that be kick in the teeth.
Fight and sweat and worry all this time, to finally be saved by the ACC, only to be in the Big East division. Back to Storrs??????
Yikes!!!!
@luvpittbulls, there was in fact a beat down.
Every facet of the game, a beat down was givin!!!!
Some say you’re a troll??? I don’t know if you are or you’re not.
If you are, then, most likely a WVU or PSU troll.
In that case, you have nothing to be trolling about.
WVU??? ha ha ha. You had your reservations for the NC game a month ago, and were deciding what Geno Smith should wear to the Heisman Awards???
ha ha LMAO!!!
If Penn State. Actually, a great season, and those kids deserve a pat on the back for that season with all of that adversity.
However, the toilet has just been flushed. Over the next 3 to 4 years, with the loss of scholarships, the swirl at the bottom of the toilet bowl will becoming all too real, very, very soon.
If you are, in fact, a Pitt fan, shame on you for that post.
I’m bumping my expectations for next year to “moderate”.
It is just ridiculous that some fans are so emotionally involved in hating Sunseri and anything he does that they can’t take a step back and look at his results on the field and give him credit when he does well.
It isn’t either black or white in sports. Sometimes players do well and sometimes they don’t. The star players do well way more often than not and the average and poor players don’t. But that doesn’t mean that the average players – which Sunseri is all told – can’t be given a fair shake when they make good things happen.
To exactly what ‘QB standard’ are we holding up Sunseri’s game yesterday? When we say say that a winning two TD, 227 yard passing game with no interceptions is a poor outing? Really? Because he got sacked and missed some passes that erases the decent results he did get?
One thing we PITT fans have to realize is that all of these ‘new’ QBs we’ll have on roster next year are either coming back from being out of college football for two years (Savage, who wasn’t doing that well beforehand anyway) or completely untested at this level. It may very well be the case that we will look back over our shoulders at Sunseri’s 2012 season and wish we were getting the same level of QB play in 2013. Nothing is guaranteed.
I still remember a game where a referee’s son played on the team and a wagon came into the stadium with a pile of flags.
Case in point: Transition from Bill Stull to Tino. I can still hear people crying about Stull, being elated when he graduated, and then desperately pining for the good old days of Mr. Stull.
We will miss Ray Graham, what a recovery from injury. We will be watching him on Sundays.
The defense and Shell will help with the growing pains we experince with a new QB next year. Shanahan will be hard to replace, but Holtz looks like he deserves many more throws. Jacobson and Turnley will be hard to replace, we need Chryst and Company to work their magic. Saddler, Hale, Taglienetti and the other glue guys will be missed.
Yesterday and the ND game convinced me that Chryst is the man for the job. He is certainly not a master of PR, I thought he was going to cry during his post game interview. He is honest and straightforward and recruits and their parents will recognize this. He did a good job with Sunseri, the O-line and overcoming an abysmal start. The play calling yesterday was masterful.
The players executed their assignments extremely well. You can’t say enough about Donald, Thomas and Pitts. Best defensive performance in a long long time.
Please don’t let it go to your heads. a loss in Florida ruins everything positive about the season. It’s hard to be a Pitt Fan. No room for sissies.
I have no idea how else to fill them or where else they could play, I’m not the athletic director.
He stated Heinz Field would be excellent, and he would get fans in there. He stated this himself, i’m not putting words in his mouth.
“ya, well, if this would happen, or if we’d win more games, or if we had a better home schedule, or if this would happen”
No excuses, you’re the boss, you said you’d make it happen.
All I stated, is how embarrassing it is playing with 20K fans and 45K empty yellow seats.
Fire him, don’t fire him, not up to me.
Myself and my family took up 6 seats to block the gold on a friggin cold day yesterday.
Steve said he’d get most of the other ones filled!!!
Oh yeah, and that would never, ever, happen. Being at Heinz helps more than it hurts.
SP has been frustrating, but after the past few years I am feeling more solid that we are headed in the right direction. We may have gotten here quicker with another AD, but I can’t complain at this moment about heading into the ACC, with a coach who I legitimately like, with some of our youngest student-athletes looking like they will become dominant over their next few years at Pitt. If Pitt / Dorian grabs boyd and/or foster, you’ll be looking at one of the best recruiting classes Pitt has had in years.
We are not, and never will be, a Cinderella team, you can’t make miracles happen over night when your main goal, more than anything, is stability, and second to that, getting better at what you do.
The only sell outs we get are PSU, WVU and ND, with a lot of their fans.
To get nice crowds of 45-55k consistently, I can only think of 3 or 4 things that will make that happen
A. Having a team that wins 9, 10, and 11 games coonsistently, which in turn leads to
b. Consistently being in the top 20 and sometimes even top 10, which in turn leads to
c. Games that matter to people, not just the base, we’re always there, games that matter to the average “Joe Pitt”, who only comes if they’re winning and it’s a big game.
d. having an attractive home schedule. (this shold happen with the ACC) as long as they don’t add Louisville, UCONN AND Cincy to go to 16, which will then put us in the Big East North.
Well, he’s been athletic director for what, 10-11 years or so??????
He’s been the boss for over a decade!!!!
The yellow seats are on him.
Hail To Pitt!
Now anyone thinking stevie should stay has got to have their head examined. Stevie is a poor hire of football coaches, alienates alumni and big boosters, does a poor job at fund raising, took away Pitt script, and the olympic sports results are a disaster mainly beacuse it took too long to build facilities and still haven’t hired good coaches due to overall cheapness. I give him credit for razing Pitt stadium, it was a dump, and putting the Pete in its place. I give him credit for the football facilities. I give him partial credit for the ACC and only half blame him for the attendance since if Pitt wins, fans will show and Pitt fans need to be less fair weathered. Posters on this blog I do not consider the casual fan but true diehards. Stevie is being protected by his friend Nordy. When Nordy leaves, Stevie is gone as well. His time has run its course. We need new leaders with fresh ideas for the ACC. And no, an on campus stadium is out of the question.
Look at his tasks when he took over the job. In football, he started as the beneficiary of 13-9.
Stated publicly that the goal was to fill Heinz Field.
As I looked around yesterday, it seemed to me that the stadium was 20-25% filled.
The announced attendance was 38k.
My left nut!
I hate liars because they always lie. That is why they are liars.
Now Pederson fires Wannstadt. Forget the shitty way it was handled.
Fired him for who? You don’t fire a winning coach unless you are certain to get your man.
So, you either accept that he did not get his man or Haywood was his guy.
Either move is idiocy. But, it was Deja vous for Pederson. He fired Solich years before and then couldn’t find a coach. What happened at Nebraska was repeated at Pitt with Haywood with the added humiliation of Haygood’s firing.
Or, if Haywood was his man then that was the miss of the century.
Then Pederson hires a guy who would never have fit here. Granted, the hire was under pressure, but it was self imposed pressure.
Another disaster.
Pederson has two tasks. Hire the coaches and raise money.
Now someone, anyone on this blog or on this planet tell me if he has performed at even an adequate level and I’ll listen to you.
Chryst was not his hire.
Pederson alienates people because he treats others like they are stupid. Witness the constant lies about attendance. Anderson got out because Pederson has treated him like shit.
Fund raising fir athletics is low, even by Big East standards.
Pederson didn’t start or secure funds for the new athletic complex. Long did that.
Pederson has the responsibility of funding and getting a new track.
Don’t hold your breath.
Pederson is an abject failure at all his core job functions.
I don’t want a new stadium and I ain’t calling for a new one so don’t lay my complaints on that argument.
Empty seats don’t pay bills!!!
End of discussion.
The premise of your comment is on giving Sunseri credit for being an average QB. That simpreciselynthe reason that so many think that he has failed us. We don’t need an average QB.
College football is about 3-4 guys dominating and unfortunately the QB position is one of them. Having an average or bad player at that position kills you. (see USC vs ND last night where inexperienced average QB gave you zero point on 5 attempts inside the 5 with the game on the line)
Impersonally like Sunseri but would never want him as my QB. He simply never can show up for a game when you need him. It isn’t in him. Some players are winner and other are not. As much as I hate fraud graham it is obvious that he knew that Tino didn’t have it. Fact is fact.
So what is the standard fir a QB in college? Leading your team to wins. Tebow is a terrible QB but was great in college. Why? Because he could carry his team through leadership. Thismismthe character that we need in a QB. This is why so many fans refuse to give home any real credit. He has yet to LEAD this team. Passing yards alone (against some of the worst competition in the history of PITT football) for a 3 year starter doesn’t earn you my praise. Leading and winning does.
I would personally thank Sunseri for sticking arounfpd and giving PITT 5 years but I am never going to believe that he was good enough. The W’s and L’s prevent me from doing so.
Someone brought up a different subject. This usually happens on posts, after the subject has been talked about to death.
Instead of criticizing, why don’t you add something to the conversation.
I rarely see you add anything to the conversation.
Were you even at the game yesterday??? Or did you watch, nice and comfy cozy on the couch????
Lots of coaches walking the plank. NCState, Purdung, Auburn and others I’m sure.
In case no one has noticed, the stakes are being raised in CFB.
Saban makes no bones about the best case scenario being a separation of the top 60 teams from the rest. While you ponder that ponder this.
Is Skip Holtz on the hot seat at USF? I think he has to be.
We get up on this team and and step on their throats, we could rout them.
18-22 year olds aren’t oblivious to what is going on around them.
The best I can say for Tino the Magificent’s effort yesterday? He didn’t take enough of his normal allotment of bonehead sacks — always at the worst possible times — fumbles, and pick-sixes (together known as the “Tino Trifecta”) and 4th Quarter meltdowns to single-handedly give the game away, as we’ve seen him do too many times to count.
I’ve been begging for ABT since the very first time I saw him play 3 years ago, in the Blue-Gold game on NFL Network. All I’d heard via Zeise’s blog in the Post-Gazette was how amazing Sackseri was, albeit then only in practice (I live out west, so PZ’s were my only eyes). I recall my utter shock at watching him in that game: how his weak-armed passes from his far too short stature looked more like pooch punts, that he couldn’t hit the broad side of a barn with his scatter arm, and so on. I just wish I’dda been wrong on all that.
Pitt needs a guy at QB who knows how to close, not how to choke. I don’t know who will end up being ABT next year, but I’m glad that it’s almost time.
Just making the point that regardless of the subject (football, basketball, expansion, recruiting, etc) or circumstances (win, lose, etc) we inevitably devolve into the negative…
Tino is an average at best QB which we have known for the past three years…he has been crucified here and elsewhere when he plays badly as he should be…but by the same token, as Reed mentioned, when he does a good job he should get credit for that as well…
Peterson is a lousey AD…he should never have been rehired and should have been canned after the Haywood fiasco but to blame him for loss to Youngstown State or Notre Dame or any other loss on the field is ridiculous…
A new on campus stadium in Panther Hollow?…really?…where would the money come from?
I think that just like our football team needs a cultural shift that we fans need one as well…just like the team needs to learn how to win, we fans need to enjoy and appreciate it when the team does win…
To your credit, Dan, your comments re the game yesterday were in that vein…
And no, unfortunately, I was not at the game yesterday as I had planned to be…I had two teeth pulled on Monday and have been on pain killers since and secondly my mother suffered a stroke last week while visting us and is still in the hospital…
As for commenting more ofter, I wish I could, but usually life gets in the way…but I still bleed blue and gold…Hail To Pitt!
Thinking on it, you do post often, and they are always good and well received. My mind was other places and I was just banging keys. Sorry.
My best to your Mom, this is all minor compared to that. Prayers to your family and her.
Belongs in the BT according to their AD.
However a close look at the Rutger’s
schedule during the Schiano regime shows
a non conference schedule of 4 cupcakes
every year plus one game against
a school from a major conference. Rutgers will
be a doormat in the BT.
Of course this is said with a bit of envy
as the loss to YSU still hurts along w/all
Of the games “Pitt should have won.”