Figure it should be a sloppy game. Even with a couple exhibitions under the belt, there’s plenty of changes on the roster. Add in the rules and enforcement changes for officials and there should be plenty of opportunities to see Pitt players practicing free throws.
I don’t like Notre Dame. I try to be professional and I won’t use some of the insults I’ve seen my fellow Pitt fans post on twitter and Facebook, but trust me, they’re in my head. I’d love to say a few things about that videographer murderer smug jerk Brian Kelly, but I won’t. The one thing to keep in mind is that the football team has to beat Notre Dame and the zebras. Last season, they beat the Irish but they didn’t beat the Irish and the zebras. Let’s look at the filth Notre Dame will put on the field. (more…)
Holtz, who scored a touchdown in Pitt’s triple-overtime loss last season at Notre Dame Stadium, said playing the Irish gives him extra motivation. “Personally, I don’t like Notre Dame at all,” he said. “It’s just going to make me go harder. I just think they’re really cocky and their coaches are really cocky. I just don’t like that. They’re just different people there.” Holtz said he took a recruiting visit to Notre Dame while he was a senior at Shaler. “It’s awesome up there, but it’s not somewhere I would want to go to school,” he said.
This was manna for Irish coaches and fans. It plays into the persecuted ND complex, how every one is jealous hates them. How every game they play, they get a team’s best shot because of that. Yadda-yadda-yadda.
By the same token, it’s not like teams don’t want to win every game. It’s not like the fans want to see their team lose to some other team. And really, you would think we have something of a right to severely dislike ND beyond their national rep.
