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April 29, 2015

Media Bits & Bytes 4/29/15

Filed under: Football,Media — Reed @ 12:37 pm

The PITT Media Dept. has jumped the gun a bit and changed the scheduling of when they would start posting the individual shows of their Five-Part Spring Practice Series on Root Sports.

The first show is now available on the PittsburghPanthers.com website.  Skip the huge Scott Barnes advertisement and then click on the video of Tyler Boyd pointing at the camera – that’s the show.  It is an almost full 20 minutes of good things to see and hear and is very well done.

Then if that isn’t enough to whet your appetite and you just can’t get enough PITT football, even if it is past history, you will like this PITT Live Wire section on YouTube.   Not only do they have the requisite interviews with the players and coaches through the last spring practices but every once in a while they toss in some interesting productions like these:

PITT Defensive Back History and PITT Linebacker History  with six more videos to cover every position on the field.  It never hurts to know the history of the team you follow in case anyone bets you a bottle of Wild Turkey Kentucky Spirit if you can name the best DEs ever.

Then, to make sure UPITTBaseball doesn’t feel left out and starts to go on a rampage at his work they also have put up this video.





Those Wake Forest unis are horrible. And, I know that I may regret asking this, but—Upitt, buddy,, our field looks good to me. What don’t you like?

H2P

Comment by pmdH2P 04.29.15 @ 12:53 pm

PMD, it’s the fake grass that I personally didn’t like before I moved to Ft. Worth. They had to go with it due to the weather conditions they endure with calendar season baseball deals with. I’ve seen worse college ball fields but it’s much like Heinz Field and looks like your cookie cutter let’s throw something up for the sake of putting it up. Why they didn’t try to work out something with the Pirates or haven’t submitted a bid to host Regionals at PNC Park is a little insane with the whole speech surrounding the reasoning for the arrangement at Heinz.

Comment by tedsptman 04.29.15 @ 1:21 pm

Thanks tedsptman. I did not realize that the grass is not grass. I guess that comes with playing a “spring” sport up north.

H2P

Comment by pmdH2P 04.29.15 @ 1:37 pm

This football team is going to be completely different this coming season. Who knows they maybe a factor in the ACC.

All good stuff.

Comment by Old Pitt Grad 04.29.15 @ 1:40 pm

Send upit a sympathy card if Donovan leaves Florida Archie Miller is a the top of their list.

Comment by Chick 04.29.15 @ 2:19 pm

Chick so he is good enough for Florida but not fucking Pitt. These admin are fucking idiots. Do something Barnes if you have balls. Your head is big enough Inhope there is a brain in it. Get Archie now. Be proactive or Skunkman will steal
More from Pitt until his golden parachute falls apart in 2045.

Comment by Upittbaseball 04.29.15 @ 2:53 pm

Upitt

Reed asked you to be more PG with your language. You can make the same point.

H2P

Comment by pmdH2P 04.29.15 @ 3:00 pm

Pmd – Sorry Reed. I will do better on profanity. My apologies. Dixon’s Performance and you guys saying he is working hard and he is pounding pavement and went to Herron’s games. Who cares??????? Ask Dan 72. All that matters is results!! He makes 2.5M a year. He doesnt get a trophy for trying. He is the worst.

Comment by Upittbaseball 04.29.15 @ 3:06 pm

Apparently someone thinks Jamie might be interested in leaving Pitt:

link to depauliaonline.com

Don’t blame me if this makes you wet your pants.

Comment by Pitt Dad 04.29.15 @ 3:09 pm

This might make more sense (scroll to the bottom of the article):

link to rollbamaroll.com

Comment by Pitt Dad 04.29.15 @ 3:11 pm

I know. Avery Johnson went to ‘Bama and Dave Leitao went to DePaul but no matter how bad he seems to us, Jamie is on every list when there are D1 head coaching jobs open.

Comment by Pitt Dad 04.29.15 @ 3:14 pm

Good. Let him destroy other programs. As Emel says the names are always out there. No one ever pulled he trigger on him. Why would they unless they want to underperform and fail miserably in March.

Comment by Upittbaseball 04.29.15 @ 3:20 pm

Jamie should grab any big money job he can get before he has another bad season. Another year like the past few may get him fired.

Comment by Chick 04.29.15 @ 3:21 pm

I think that JD does not run from a challenge – the one he faces now. I would be very surprised if he left now or in the near future. H2P

Comment by Frank MD 04.29.15 @ 3:24 pm

On Jamie Dixon — Sometimes change is good — for both parties.

Comment by MariettaMike 04.29.15 @ 3:26 pm

Frank – He may not run but he sure doesnt beat the said challenges. 5 years in a row the trend has fallen off a cliff. He should settle for 5M buyout and then take a job somewhere he can trick them for 2-3 years because schools with a Real AD would fire him after 3 bad years. With Barnes coming in the oven heat better be on high. AD’s like thier own guys.

Comment by Upittbaseball 04.29.15 @ 3:29 pm

Hey – as far as the profanity goes I do it also but I try to make it directly impact the thought I am expressing. I go too far sometimes also and I’ve gone back and softened up my own comments after re-reading.

The bottom line here and one that Chas has drawn is that there is no bottom line. (Donald Rumsfeld, 1998). Seriously, there is little to no censorship on here and the only times I have personally edited anyone’s comment is to add paragraph breaks and to clean up punctuation to make the comment more readable on a computer. Oh, plus I take any negative crap said about me out but I can only do that on my own articles.

I guess what I look at with language here is that the Blather isn’t a small hometown-only blog any longer and some things gets quoted in other media outlets across the country. That is a good thing and I think making our comments both as strong as can be expressed with the minimum of offense to others is the way to go.

So again – no censorship from the Blog’s end. Funny thing though is that this blog does have a way to withhold comments from publication until site approval but Chas doesn’t do that – and to his credit IMO.

Comment by Reed 04.29.15 @ 3:47 pm

Reed – Thanks but I will still clean it up and make it count when I get a hall pass. More I think about it the Dixon contract is somdisgusting it hurts. We are conditioned to think we cant get better. Archie Miller a kid I use to do Keg Stands with could win a NCAA at UF. Think about that. All while we passed over him 2 times. He would take the Pitt job. That is a fact only bc it is home and bc it gets him ACC. Proactive people dont let Dixon dictate what we do.

Comment by Upittbaseball 04.29.15 @ 3:51 pm

Durand Johnson to St Johns

Comment by Pap76 04.29.15 @ 4:02 pm

Jamie Dixon is not going anywhere real soon — unless it is he who makes the move.

Remember, the new AD does not start until July 1. And there is no way he is going to make such a big coaching change right away.

Comment by PetePitt73 04.29.15 @ 4:29 pm

If he had balls and cared about winning not making friends like Smug he would.

Comment by Upittbaseball 04.29.15 @ 4:32 pm

well, St John’s didn’t get Diallo but they got Durand. Good luck with that

Comment by wbb 04.29.15 @ 5:41 pm

I’ll be the first to admit that I don’t ‘get’ the BB program at all. That long contract sent the message that hey – status quo is OK!

Comment by Reed 04.29.15 @ 6:35 pm

Upittbaseball

Do you realize that Jamie Dixon is number one all time in big east wins! I mean, more than John Thompson, Boheim, and Calhoun! I know he has had some down years and he has but you act like he is Ralph Willard! I mean be careful what you wish for! I do agree he needs to step up the recruiting. And another miss in the NCAA could get his seat hot and I would be fine with that. But let’s get it together and stop saying he sucks. When you do that, it just sounds crazy!

Comment by Sweet Caroline 04.29.15 @ 6:37 pm

Winning percentage I meant

Comment by Sweet Caroline 04.29.15 @ 6:39 pm

Selective use of profanity is just fine with me. Ask Tyler Palko for his opinion. 🙂

Comment by TX Panther 04.29.15 @ 7:28 pm

Jamie doesn’t suck. He swallows. 🙂

How’s that for livin on the edge with profanity and censorship. Thank God this isn’t some Pedo State board where opinion contrary to the cult gets you banned or crosses set afire in your front lawn.

I do pity those narrow minded thinkers who drink the Kool Aid and believe all is wonderful with alma mater.

Pitt fans are real. Truth seekers. Ambassadors of justice. That’s why child rape would not have been covered up and a protector of a pedophile worshipped like a God.

Fuck Penn State. No apologies for that profanity. Palko would approve.

Comment by TX Panther 04.29.15 @ 7:59 pm

Upit has auto correct. So when he types in I love Jamie Dixon, it autocorrects to that skunkhead piecea chip, dumb mfer…….LOL, couldn’t resist a poke at the upitt.

It’s just pottymouth in text form. Welcome to the 2015’s. In NOLA and the language here is just normal I suppose. Apparently most are desensitized.

Comment by dhuffdaddy 04.29.15 @ 8:07 pm

Listen I’m pissed at Dixon too! But he doesn’t suck or swallow or bite or blow or whatever other words you want to throw out there. He just doesn’t! Look at his record! Acc has been a tough adjustment. Will they bounce back I hope! And if they don’t I will be one of the first on here saying a change may be needed. But now, not now! I’m a realistic Pitt grad who loves the team! I’ve been going to games since Roy Chipman. And speaking of Penn St, their hoops team sucks and blows and bites etc. you get the point! Hail to Pitt, always!

Comment by Sweet Caroline 04.29.15 @ 8:08 pm

Apparently Pitt got a commitment from C/long snapper Jake Knight from Flint, MI. I know he was going to possibly walk on at BC. Hopefully the same at Pitt. Not sure he is worth a scholarship.

Found this on Chris Dokish’s Twitter

Comment by Pap76 04.29.15 @ 8:15 pm

Speaking of Boston College, Bishop McDevitt WR Kobay White just committed to them. Had offer from Pitt and many others

Comment by Pap76 04.29.15 @ 8:44 pm

Boy, you Pitt fans living in Texas are a hateful bunch. Too much

a. Jerry Jones
b. red meat
c. 100 degree days
d. chewing tobacco
e. all of the above

Comment by wbb 04.29.15 @ 8:50 pm

If only Jamie could find it in himself to commit to a new hairdo, then all else would simply fall magically into place.

A bad hair day is always a negative catalyst that can result in multiple domino effects involving a variety of other factors.

To get out of his rut, the guy needs a new cut!

Comment by Dr. Tom 04.30.15 @ 3:40 am

Dr Tom, I have been saying that for 3 or 4 years now

Comment by wbb 04.30.15 @ 6:01 am

Jamie’s hair is an insult to all skunks

Comment by Chick 04.30.15 @ 6:16 am

I think the Blather has gone off the deep end with Jamie’s Hair Crisis.

Comment by Reed 04.30.15 @ 8:09 am

I did enjoy TX Panther’s Palko reference though.

Comment by longsufferingpittfan 04.30.15 @ 9:04 am

I was so fuc#*!#ing proud of that TXPanther Palko reference!

Comment by Dr. Tom 04.30.15 @ 10:28 am

@@@@@

Morons commenting on JD’s hair. You
guys are losers. Wish you would take
your cursing, personal attacks, and negativity
to another site.

Comment by JR 04.30.15 @ 12:43 pm

No, morons are those not recognizing sarcasm but call those that do losers.

Comment by wbb 04.30.15 @ 1:00 pm

wbb – You are one I usually agree with, but you are the one that missed the point, and the boat, on that one. We all have bad days I guess.

Comment by 1618mt 04.30.15 @ 1:42 pm

What are you talking about? How was I missing the point?

Comment by wbb 04.30.15 @ 2:03 pm

When it comes to Paulie’s gray sweatshirt or Jamie’s hair, I just join the fun, realizing that it has no impact on their coaching

Comment by wbb 04.30.15 @ 2:06 pm

@ JR, sounds like somebody had his own bad hair day?

Comment by Dr. Tom 04.30.15 @ 2:40 pm

LMAO Doc

Comment by Chick 04.30.15 @ 2:47 pm

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