Here is another installment of our Saturday Podcasts Series.
There really hasn’t been much going on with Pitt football lately – a couple of recruits verballed (Chris Peak’s recruiting podcast covers those and BB’s recruiting also) but mostly we have had to generate some subjects to talk about.
Today I’ll talk a bit about the recruiting articles we just had up on here and some other things, then historical subjects about what the Pitt program was like years ago and how things can make or break a team.
The reading here is from a Sport Illustrated article published Nov. 21, 193 titled “ANY OF US MIGHT HAVE DONE IT.”
After that 1982 regular season, when we were 9-2 and Becker death happened, we lost the Cotton bowl to SMU by a score of 7-3. After averaging 27 ppg in the regular season we put up three. That, I believe was a hangover from the preceding week.
We went 8-3-1 the next season then tanked to 3-7-1 the year after. If you look closely you’ll see that our recruiting suffered a lot after that Becker incident also. So many different things can affect a football program…
Note: Just as a heads up – I am zeroing in, with my daughter’s help, on figuring out how to do a conference call-in recording so that we can start a “Pitt Blather Round Table” where I would moderate and select some subject matters for two or three Blather readers to discuss and then post as a podcast.
My feelers out to Pitt fans about doing this have been well received and I think it would be nice to hear some other opinions on Pitt football other than mine. Our written comments are great on here and generate some fantastic discussions but maybe a bit of a different forum to give and take on issues will be fun to do also.
I’ll keep all informed as to the details but keep your eyes open and I’ll be asking for test dummies soon.
1. Paul Chrust Grey Sweatshirt from Gabes with Mustard.
2. Big Head Barnes Ego?
3. Steve Pederson’s 1999 Marketing Plan?
4. Lafayette Pitt’s ” How to play DB Training Tape on VHS”
5. James Ronbinson’s ” How to drive to the hole” tutorial.
6. Nerdberg’s tape on How to shit on Athletics.
7. Slice’s Mobster Suit Collection
8. Doris Burke Pitt vs. Youngstown State Game Replay
9. Jordano’s how to lose 14 of 17 games and keep your job.
10. Chad Varga 1995 Game Used jersey against BC.
Proposed topic – Emel and Wbb on the merits of Tiny as the 3rd best Pitt QB of all time. Just kidding on that one.
I remember three players in tv giving a press conference regarding players refusing to practice and Foge allowing them to play.
I would propose an immediate increase in football scholarships from 85 to 100. Out of those 100, a team must keep a player on the roster, regardless
of circumstance for 4 years. As an example, if 5 player’s leave early for the draft, good for them. The university cannot add 5 schollies to the next class.
Additionally, the coach would not be able to use the old “it’s not working out how we planned speech and I think it’s best you move in a different direction so we can get more warm bodies in here to contribute. Also, all schollies are for 4 years guaranteed.
Your proposal would decimate teams that did the best job of talent evaluation. It is possible to have many more than 5 leave early. So you would then deprive those who were the best evaluators from restocking their shelves by prohibiting them from replacing those scholarships.
That ain’t much of a carrot for the Wabbit.
Now I’m sure we have dropped that unwritten policy.
However, the hundred limit would help the rich get richer, because they could hoard more elite players.
It was Schembeckler that whined when they reduced the limit (largely because of Johnny Majors), “How am I going to win now?”
