Last August Pitt Sports Blather was launched. Last year, we had the high expectations for the Pitt football team, along with the national media. The football season crashed and burned, and frustrations got higher; but the basketball season, despite an unhappy end exceeded expectations.

This year we don’t expect a lot from the football team as far as contending for a BCS bowl; but the basketball team can be expected to be top-15 this year.

We’ve stuck to our mission statement as, A bunch of Pitt fans/alumni writing and ranting about the University of Pittsburgh Panthers and anything sports and entertainment related. We made it through the off-seasons with some posting, and it looks as though we’re not going to fade away.

Personally, I’ve loved this. This is still a lot of fun for me, and hopefully the rest of the crew feels the same. As hit counts are the coin of the realm in blogging, it has been gratifying to see that our hits grew steadily during football and basketball season. Even over the late spring and summer, we have remained remarkably steady with the hit counts (that can’t be totally attributed to the group). It has also been nice to see us continually be a top search hit for things related to the Pitt Panther.

Here’s to another year of Pitt wins, little in-jokes, bad puns, some gratuitous Penn State and Hoopie bashing, useless pop-culture references and plenty of sarcastic comments. And every now and again, some useful commentary.