A Q&A with former Pitt RB Brandon Miree, now a fullback with the Green Bay Packers.

Question: You played college football at the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Alabama. Can you talk about the differences between the places?

Answer: Pitt was like New York City compared to Alabama. Alabama was real rural and pretty much a campus town. It was an awesome experience, but at Pitt, you really felt like you were in the big city. We had bigger buildings on campus than they had in the entire city of Tuscaloosa. There’s not much there.

In a shock to few, yet another pro athlete tabs “Scarface” as his favorite movie.

Sorry folks, my host server has been completely messed up all day today. I also needed a little break this afternoon. The downside of 10 hours or so of watching college football and blogging it, is that I have found myself dreaming of blogging and watching football. This is the second straight weekend of that happening. Disturbing trend.

I got something out on Darrell Strong, and I will have more to recap the debacle.

…because its basketball time!

Keith here, making a random cameo appearance.

Pitt defeated California (Pa.) tonight, 80-65. The box score is only available in the Game Tracker right now, but it should be showing up on Pitt’s page anytime.

I didn’t get to watch the game, but the box score has some good and bad. It’s been a good-bad sort of day in Pitt sports I suppose – but I am not going to touch that. Here’s my take on the basketball:

Good: Levon Kendall; he shot 8-for-11 from the field and 2-3 from downtown. If he can regain the shooting touch he displayed two years ago, he could become one of the premier players (right now he is a premier role player) in the Big East – in a Dirk Nowitzki sort of way.

Bad: Mike Cook; I will not bash the guy; I will bash the unfair expectations Pitt fans seem to have for him. 0-5 from the field, 0-2 from three, 1 assist, 1 rebound, 2 fouls. I am not saying he wont turn out to be good (or great) but just be careful with him. Be nice.

Good: Antonio’s confidence; if a box-score line could ever indicate a player’s confidence level, than Graves’ does. He’s taking shots (4-9 from the field), taking three pointers (2-5), and – and this has never been a huge part of his game – dishing boat loads of assists (8). That’s my biggest surprise of the game.

Good: Aaron Gray’s free throws; the big guy was 5-5 from the line and didn’t turn the ball over once while scoring 23 points.

Bad: Little contribution from Benjamin or Young (coming back from injury).

Question: In what capacity is Fields going to be used this season? I didn’t watch the game so I couldn’t see what he was doing, but only two assists for everyone’s PG of the future isn’t good.

Good: R Squared; Ramon had 7 assists and zero turnovers. He also shot 2-4 from downtown. I just want to see him shoot more!

It’s only one exhibition game and it was against sub-par competition by Pitt’s standards, therefore none of this is an end-all-tell-all, just a jumping off point. With more good than bad maybe it will coax a few of you football fans (hello, football fans, anyone, anyone…. *crickets chirping*) away from the ledge.