The title suggests plenty to cover, so let’s go.
During the last year or two, Pitt fans have been a bit upset at the Big East for making our conference home schedules so uneven. One year we’ll have the loaded side with Louisville, WVU, and Rutgers. Before this season we thought that the opposite year’s BE home games would be bad — not anymore (or at least this year).
We knew South Florida was going to be good, but I don’t think anyone could have predicted them to be “Top 5 good”. Cincinnati has seemingly come out of nowhere to become a ranked team with a great coach who knows how to get his players to play well. With this rotation we also get to see UConn, who might not be amazing but a team we seem to make into a National Championship caliber squad. Add in Syracuse, a team that we should be happy to play just because it might allow us to actually see a win at home, and it’s not all that bad. Now we just need to get that non-con schedule improved just a bit (or a lot)…
Speaking of the Pitt-Cinci game on October 20, kickoff is set for noon. TV coverage will be on ESPN Regional (WTAE locally) as the Big East Game of the Week.
This week’s game against Navy allowed Chas to talk with Adam from Pitch Right. The questions deal with Pitt’s numerous injuries, Pat Bostick and the offense’s troubles, our inability to do much of anything on first down, and a prediction. Good stuff.
Some fun from hoops alum Aaron Gray: at Chicago Bulls fan night, the rookies sang to the fans. A clip of Aaron’s performance can be found on OnlyTheBulls.com. (Sorry, my computer won’t let me embed the vid in this post — blame my somewhat outdated Dell.)
While perusing the Pitt online store, I came across this.
The description:
New for this season, our alternate home Vegas Replica Football Jersey by adidas
Expect to see them on the field some time this year (hopefully not Wednesday on national TV).
Update: Left in the comments by Tony in Harrisburg…
Also new for this season!
My head gear for Pitt home games.
http://home.ptd.net/~racertci/Baghead1.jpg
http://home.ptd.net/~racertci/Baghead2.jpgExpect to see this at the Navy game once we get down by 14…Should be late 1st or early 2nd quarter.
Solid stuff right there.
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