4 pm ESPN3.com
So, yeah. Yesterday could have been better. In theory, I should have been spending the day on the couch watching other fanbases suffer. Nope, wife made me do a bunch of errands and things with the family. Just getting home in time for the game.
Or at least pretending to move on to a basketball game.
If it was too short an appearance for you, Pitt is wearing the camo unis they wore for the game that never happened to start the season that never happened.
Hopefully the team isn’t looking past this game to the meeting with Purdue on Tuesday.
Wish I could do more of a preview, instead of this slapdash post, but I have barely been able to sit down since about 8 this morning.
Nicholson and Cox had great days for MSU. Cox had a scoop 6 and long return.
Need to hire sec ref crew to do clemson/unc game to make sure clemson gets in. Believe me, the sec will put their best pro alabama refs on the game to be certain bama gets into the big money dance.
I said this on the other link, but I really think espn osu pushers like herbstreit, galloway and robert smith will be asking whether osu or okl is the best team out there and should take the 4th position.
Committee will have a difficult decision to either keep out big12 again or let 2 big10 teams in. OSU had an easier schedule, but has the $$ and they are defending champs. Same one loss record although the okl schedule was much more difficult.
Penn st. sucks! Troy Apke now playing cb and seeing time at the Dairy college. Barclay will be starting for two more years. Sanders needs to flip now so he can get reps next year and be turning pro at the same time he would be seeing the field for the first time out east.
anyone who believes Werner does a good job covering Pitt
FB does not understand sports.
Instead, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette slides the article to the 2nd page – “Turnovers doom lions”. As if the Pedos ever had a chance.
Bowl predictions show the Pedos getting a west coast bowl, while Pitt in for a 2nd tier bowl – TaxSlayer, Music City or PinStripe.
I’m ready for BB season, I guess. To cold to golf now…
UPitt, DOC & Reed – my wife & I got some good laughs regarding the cold remedies offered last night. Priceless…
Is Emel on hiatus?
Why does PSU get a homer (Snyder) and we just get a hack (Werner)?
Michigan St. puts up 55 on PSU and Iowa needs a 57 yd field goal to beat us. Not equivalent but in the same area code.
Our loss to Miami is a disaster (not caused by turnovers) their loss was just bad luck, a muffed punt.
Pittsburgh papers have more ads than reading material. Sports writers show bias to their alma maters. Ok if you live in a small town but not a cosmopolitan city.
How do they justify blasting Pitt for close losses and then saying nothing about an absolute beat down?? Sorry Mico, but if you think your coverage is fair you can’t see the forest for the trees!
There’s a reason both PGH papers release similar stories at the same time on the same player(s) and themes … It’s Pitt releasing content, not good investigative sleuthing.
Zeis got destroyed on here too for his football coverage with a lot less content and now he’s one of Pittsburgh’s biggest sports personalities.
You’ll never get “great” reporting out of beat writers for this reason. There’s a reason news breaks nationally instead of locally in sports. Those “inside sources” you always hear about are generally beat writers who are restricted from printing their news so they leak it nationally.
Werner isn’t the problem. It’s the PG’s job description for Pitt Football Beat Writer that you’re upset with. He just reports what’s he’s told to report … or, you know, working the beat.
Offense is clicking. Everyone looks better, including Robinson, who has been making shots at a much higher %. Let’s hope the change is permanent. Smith definitely the most valuable transfer so far. Really looks good. Should only get better. Artis with much more of a complete game this year. Jeter and Jones still look to have good and bad days. Still, much more encouraged than last year, when they looked totally out of sync for long stretches of time. Passing is much more fluid and they are hitting open shots so far.
Guess Imam becoming a “envious, jealous, what ta be them” type, but I have been paying very close attention, and if Piitt controls the overall message, the writers flavor to suit their own agendas.
Wow, I may need serious meds if we lose to them next year. LOL
As for Werner, he strikes me as someone who has never played organized sports and only breaks a sweat while standing in line at the buffet.
I bet a cold weather game in LA/AL is on the horizon.
Not a novel idea, but I am a big fan of an 8 team playoff. All 5 conference winners get auto bids and 3 wild cards.
I have a close friend who has been a beat reporter for several college and pro teams on the West Coast. It’s the same thing. Beat writers are glorified extensions of the school/pro team’s PR department and if they get a scoop that should be made public they have to hand it off outside their own paper so the ramifications don’t fall on their employers and get them banned from the media rooms.
I’m just saying Werner does his job fine. We get more content than we ever have before whether via the blog or Twitter. He can only go so far in critical reporting lest Pitt bans the PG from even reporting on the school. His job is to report the news not find it. Sports is entertainment and helps sell papers. Getting banned over a scoop would kill subscriptions and readership regardless of how big the news is.
I liked Zeis more than most too but Werner is better. The best beat writer Pitt has had is Ray Fittipaldo for the hoops team. I”m not surprised they promoted him to the big leagues with the Pirates.
We will never get respect form ACC even if we win it, we will always be Yankees to those crackers!
Pitt script on player helmet large pic for
“Bleak future of college football”
Good thing we snagged Narduzzi when we did. Of course….no, I’m not going to say it….
It should be Bama, OSU or Texas where the programs are making barrels of money…With the attendance numbers of Pitt games a scholarship is about the right ‘salary’ for a spot on the Pitt team !
I guess even a hot wife couldn’t save him in the end. More times than not, firing a coordinator is just keeping a sinking ship above water a bit longer. Let’s hope that is the case here. This douchebag does however have the #4 ranked 2016 recruiting class according to ESPN.
Hopefully Miles Sanders sees a more stable situation that is on the rise here at home and flips to Pitt.
And they were out-hustled and out-rebounded by Kent.
I am afraid of what will happen when Swanigan (6’9″ 250#), Haas (7’2″ 282#), Hammons (7′ 250#) and Taylor (6’10” 240#) come to the Pete on Tuesday. We should not forget Edwards (6’8″ 225#) as a wing. And I did not mention Purdue’s gaurds……
The voters must be taking into account the non-game against Gonzaga.
Although Pitt has weaknesses that you cite, it also has strengths — shooting, passing, length at every position except center.
Most of the fans in the country think that Purdue is much better than Pitt — because of Purdue’s size and Pitt’s weak game against Kent State — but place your bets on Pitt!
I’m predicting that ANO will come up big! His reach makes him bigger than 6’9. He can play with these guys and he will block their shots. Young will be hard to stop. Big guys dream about going up against 7 footers.
This is the kind of team that we can beat. We will contest the shots of their three-point shooting guards. We’ve got some three-point shooters of our own. The Kent State game was tough on the centers because they were thinking about Purdue. They will be fully concentrated when they play tonight. Game starts at 9pm.
Although I am tempering my optimism, I do hope that you are right.
I will be at the game cheering for the Home Team.
