You have to do this don’t you. I know, you have been the most maligned QB at Pitt since Matt Lytle. I know you probably don’t have the greatest memories of Pitt and the fans. I can’t even blame you for that.
I also know you love your family. And they come first. Have to respect that. But why? Why? Why be the tone deaf, clueless asshole?
College football is back! Can't wait to see @vsunseri3 and My Dads Seminoles do there things! #RollTide3 #FearTheSpear #Famiglia
— Tino Sunseri (@sunseri12) August 31, 2013
I suppose he is who he is. But really, given the history on twitter. Keep it to yourself.
To Stoosh…..you missed Iowa losing
to Northern Illinios. As Gene Stallings
( former coach at Alabama) was quoted
as saying: ” if you don’t think these
games (against FCS opponents) aren’t
important just lose one.”
You raise an interesting point about a concentration of talent at a few schools. It sure appears that the SEC is playing at a different level than everyone else at the moment. After what is it, 8 straight national titles, it does feel like it is them and everybody else. There are still a handful of others able to challenge them in a given year, but not many.
As far as TS aka. “you know who”. No single player in Pitt Football hisory ever drove me as nuts with his poor judgement and skill set. People on campus tell me he was a royal a-hole to most that he met on a daily basis. Quite frankly, that he is rooting for “daddy’s” team, could actually give Pitt an edge as he never seemed to have any “good fortune” on his side.
As for looking after the Virginia game and wishing TS was still here, hell would have to freeze over before I admit that!!
Hope everyone is as psyched for the game as I am!
Cannot believe it’s one day away.
I still like FSU and the points but with TS on FSU’s side, Pitt’s chances just improved mightily. As I have watched over the years, some atheltes have always had/made luck. Some, like “you know who” never had an ounce of it. Hope it rubs off!
Mark my words, you will all come to love Tom Savage!
Hail to Pitt!
“The great unmentionable in this camp is that Tino Sunseri — now property of the CFL’s Saskatchewan Roughriders and, presumably, being eviscerated round the clock on Radio Free Saskatoon — couldn’t throw downfield at all. Thus, Chryst took an infinitely smarter route than Todd Graham in coping with Sunseri in that he condensed the Pitt playbook to passes not much farther than, oh, the length of Sunseri’s right arm.”
Let’s not fool ourselves Reed, those stats were compiled against the WEAKEST PITT SCHEDULE EVER.
I’m surprised you even mentioned what he did against one of the worst FCS teams and maybe the worst in the last 5 years, that being Gardner Del
Webb. lol Anderson could have put up similar numbers against G. Webb, and more than likely against a horrible Temple team, a horrible USF team (who got 53 laid on them by McNeese State yesterday), a horrible Buffalo team and even though these two teams were horrible, imo last year, Tino the Fraud couldn’t even manage enough yardage when it counted against lightweights UConn & Syracuse.
And in his last career game as a senior, nobody seemed to care a lick about sending him out a winner. They played against Ole Miss much like they did thruout the last 3 year nightmare, without any leadership on offense at all, for a QB they didn’t give a damn about !
And now we know why, cause they knew he didn’t give a damn about them.
PC in his first HC job wasn’t going to ‘rock’ the coaching boat fraternity.
In fact I think Frankcan or someone posted, PC had the connection in the CFL to get the putz a gig up there.
That’s just how it works. I noted last night during the UCLA/Nevada game, Nevada’s new coach is a 38 yr old guy who NEVER held a HC job or even held a Coordinator job. His top job was as a Special Teams Coordinator. lol
But he’s Bill Polian’s son and Bill being an NFL executive for years with the Colts, Panthers and Bills obviously has a lot of pull. His other two son’s have cushy NFL exec. jobs as well.
Bottom line, they take care of their own.
Pitt’s OL never went to pick up Tino Sunseri after a sack. Say no more. They didn’t respect him as a player, a leader, or a person. Let’s kick “there” tails tomorrow boys!
You can talk about Tino’s TD to Int ratio all day, All I know is that no player in any sport has ever frustrated me more than Tino. Nobody. Savage can’t possibly take that title away from Tino.
Re: Sunseri – don’t get me wrong guys, I agree with almost every one of your thoughts about him. I screamed at him just as much as you guys did when he was playing. I’ll bash DW just a bit here and say that if he and Cav & Cignetti had one iota of creativity and understood that the QB is the most important position on the field we may not be having this discussion.
Here’s a question. Since 2010 I have read almost every PITT fan state that “Anybody But Tino” should have played. OK, I get that yet those same PITT fans are just as sure the Bostick shouldn’t or couldn’t have played, even at the time they wanted Sunseri on the bench. Now, we can debate Bostick’s abilities until the cows come home, and I’ll agree that they certainly weren’t as advertised.
However, do you believe if Bostick been put in and allowed to play for any length of time after the 2007 season he would have made those same crucial, game-losing, horrendous plays like Sunseri did? I sure don’t. I would have liked to see what the results would have been had Bostick been given a chance to play steadily. As hindsight is 20/20 what would we have lost?
But starting in 2009 PITT fans were moaning and crying for Tino Sunseri to play ball…. “It’s Tino Time” remember? C’mon, you guys remember that outcry every time Stull threw a bad pass. Hell, that happened as soon as Stull’s SR season, when Sunseri was only a rsFR. As soon as he was on the roster PITT fans were slobbering over him.
NOW, here’s the rub and sad truth about PITT football – we are sitting here debating, at least I am, the virtues of two average at best QBs. The reality is that no QB on the PITT roster since Palko left has been that type of game winning QB a truly successful team needs. We just haven’t had that because IMO DW never believed in the necessity of having a Top Shelf QB to build a team around. DW believed he could build strengths in other positions and units and win ballgames. In other words, he took the ball and the game out of the QB’s hands and gave it to a RB.
Everyone on the PITT team knew that was happening and when the rest of the players don’t have absolute confidence in the skill at that QB position the results will be just as we saw, mediocre at best.
I’m 100% ready to have Sunseri in the rear view mirror and am not “down” on Tom Savage. I just think we’ll have another of a string of QBs that aren’t the personal championship, or maybe even winning, type. But I also thought Jack Lippert was going to be a good Center for us.
What we will see is some much more exciting plays every once in a while, especially deep passes, but not the march down the field drives with lots of 1st downs PITT needs to beat the better teams. We ain’t going to outscore anyone in a shootout this season. I don’t see one of those QBs on the PITT roster for the near future either, but that’s just my opinion.
Note: In all honesty the best QB recruiting over the last decade was done by Todd Graham with Voytik having the perfect skill set to run Graham’s offense. There is no doubt in my mind Graham would have started Voytik in 2011 and Voytik would have done well in that run and pass offense even as a FR.
There is no doubt in my mind IF GRAHAM HAD STAYED HE would have started Voytik in 2012 and Voytik would have done well in that run and pass offense even as a FR.”
Sorry…
As a result I have developed a pretty cynical view of the attitude of Pitt fans toward their QBs.
A common theme though the years has been that the guy on the bench is always seen as better than the starter but the coach is a dumb jerk for not realizing it by continuing to go with whoever is the starter.
The second theme is an extremely low tolerance for anything less than a god-like performance. Even Dan Marino was booed by Pitt fans when he occasionally missed a throw or had that rare bad game.
Is anybody geeked up?
Nothing new from Dokish since Chapman.
Regret that the Steelers cut John Malecki. The guy
represents the type of player Pitt needs to be successful. Hope
he gets a call to return to the Steelers.
Pumped for tonight. Worried about our guys being
able to compete.
There is a buzz in the City about this game, but to be honest for most sports fans locally, at 9:30 AM on Sept. 2nd, Pitt football is 3rd on their sports priority list after 1) the Buccos, and 2) who will start at RB for the Steelers this week.
However……just making that statement gives hope, for this is the first time in 21 years that on Sept. 2nd anyone gives a $hit about the Pirates. What’s the difference? A winning team.
This is a pro sports town and a spoiled one at that. There is always a winning team to follow in some sport any given year. But if Pitt wins – consistently – they would definitely jump up the sports priority list. Frankly, with the Steelers appearing to be in a transition phase, and the PSU crap, now is the time for Pitt. If they could pull one out tonite…
