As BigEast.org comes up on my screen, I see the Pitt and West Virginia logos near the top. You would think it might say “Listen Live For Free To The Backyard Brawl”.
Nope…
No doubt the higher-ups of the Big East offices want to see West Virginia advance to the BCS title game. Will the refs give the Mountaineers a few calls? Conspiracy theory? Or am I just looking for an excuse after White/Slaton put up 600 yards and 50 points on us?
Fire the coaches! Their llloooooozzzerrrssss! Never will win! Worst ever! Can’t win in 3 years, never will!!!! Boo Wanny!!!!
The long-awaited secret is out: Joe Paterno’s salary this year will be $512,664.
What the information from the retirement system doesn’t show is other compensation, such money from television and apparel contracts, that Paterno may earn
Don’t think the naysayers are local paranoids like me either. Anyone hear PTI? Both the slobbering fat one and the old Jewish grandpa dissed us big time. The world is well aware we stink.
It was kind of lame. Mark May came out in an old Pitt jersey and for the love of God dude looks like he could go out and play tomorrow!
In BBall news, folks in chicago are pleading for Gray to get more time, thinking he’s the answer to their awful season:
“Among the many suggestions offered to jump-start the Bulls, one of the most popular ones expressed by fans on the radio or online is to play rookie center Aaron Gray more. Entering Tuesday night’s game against the Atlanta Hawks, Gray had played 39 minutes in six games, scoring 16 points on 6-for-13 shooting.”
Skiles pays it some lip service, lofts an insult, and it seems pretty certain he’ll continue sitting on the bench watching them be awful. I really wish we could see what he can do in the NBA, i’m truly curious…
Thats only $175,000 per win for you morons!!
Nice gold out for the South Florida game, oh wait, those were EMPTY SEATS!
Final score: WVU 84 Pitt 3
The old hillbilly STOMP!! Keep dreamin – your program sucks, try and catch up to UConn or South Florida before you start running your mouths!
Penn State sucks but WVU swallows, you suck you moron!!!
Go crawl back under a rock in Frametown you toothless loser!
Paul Zeise reports on the Post-Gazette website that Steve Pederson will be introduced this afternoon as Pitt’s new AD.
seriously, what the fuck. i hate pitt’s administration. at least go out there and pretend like you arent lazy and incompentent and actually interview some people. dont just go back to what you know. son of a bitch i hate steve pederson. thanks to his bill callahan hire nebraska is a joke of a football program, and i havent seen their basketball team in the tournament yet. if we go back to ‘pittsburgh’ again ill be even more pissed.
sorry for the language, im not happy, and havent even had my caffeine this morning.
Omar,
I agree he did a good job..
IMO, just maintain status quo on the B-Ball front (both programs in VERY good shape with Agnes and Jamie….don’t rock the boat and keep ’em happy) and take care of football.
Heinz Field isn’t perfect, but maybe if Pitt had a fanbase that was willing to come out and support the team NO MATTER WHAT – you know, like you see at most of those other iconic schools – the opinions of it would be different. Too many Pitt fans need it to be worth their while and their money to get them to go to games. They need to see either a marquee opponent or a winning Pitt team. That’s not the case at these other schools. Until that changes, they could be playing in The Big House or South Bend or The Swamp or Death Valley and it isn’t going to make a damn bit of difference.
I was a season ticket holder in 2003 and no one had a problem making that 10-minute trip from Oakland to the North Shore. The place was packed. Why? The team was competitive (at least one prerequisite for Pitt fans to show up).
But what’s more…it felt like a college football atmosphere, not the Arena League/Minor-league football atmosphere we’ve had here the last couple of years.
Please? Go Panthers?
I also think the rehire of pederson was a stupid move for pitt or should i now say pittsburgh.
looks like steve pederson is back. recommitting to football?
If it pains you so much, I hope WVU wins then. Go Big East!
its sad, ive actually had some friends from Va Tech tell me they are rooting for us this weekend. makes me feel dirty inside.
Kudos to you for being a good fan, and I mean that with all sincerity.
But how about packing a parachute the next time you want to take a leap like that by automatically assuming I’m not a bad fan, huh?
Or how about next time, let’s hold off on derogatory assumptions when it would’ve been just as easy and infinitely more polite to simply ASK MY WHY I DIDN’T RENEW THEM beforehand, K?
If you must know, I couldn’t afford to continue getting season tickets. I lost two very close family members within three months of each other and helped my family defray funeral costs in each case. I had a car at the time that was bleeding me dry with repairs right around the time I was saving up for an engagement ring. I got engaged in January of 2004 and had a year and a half to save up for a wedding for which my wife and I would have to foot most of the bill. On top of that, my wife shatterred her leg in an accident in mid-January that kept her out of work for the better part of three or four months, and unfortunately. Her short-term disability was practically non-existent and the insurance wasn’t much better in terms of picking up all the doctor’s bills.
Since that time, we got married, bought a house, bought a new car, and sunk something around $25,000 into the new house for renovations that had to be taken care of to really make the house livable…you know, generally a lot of the things that newlywed couples try to do to start making a nice, comfortable, survivable living for themselves.
Needless to say, as much as I would’ve loved to have gotten Pitt season tickets in each of the previous three seasons, the disposable income hasn’t quite been there. Some more important things have taken over on the high priority list.
Now, if it’ll still allow me back into the stadium when the program is rebuilt, I’ve gone to as many games as money and schedules will allow, and that’s been two or three home games in each of the past few seasons with the exception of this one. Time constraints and scheduling issues allowed me only to get to the Grambling game.
Obviously, I didn’t expect you to know any of the aforementioned reasons why I wasn’t able to keep my season tickets after that 2003 season. My heart, I would hope, is in the right place here. I count Pitt football as my second favorite sports team in town, behind only the Penguins. I love rooting for the team, following the team and as soon as my wife and I can make room for them, we plan on getting tickets again.
I desperately hope that all the reasons I outlined above for having to forego my season tickets will be well received by Pitt Nation. I hope the eight or nine games I’ve gone to since I gave up those tickets will be looked upon favorably and it’ll be enough to let me back into your club, because I desperately wish to be a part of it when Pitt football is rebuilt.
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On second thought, you could’ve asked nicely. You could’ve asked why I didn’t renew them or made some attempt to understand why extenuating circumstances and that little thing called REAL LIFE sometimes gets in the way. You didn’t, because it was apparently a lot easier to assume I’m just a bad fan.
So I’ll be as polite as I can.
Politely go fuck yourself.
I think Pitt NEEDS fans like him to come to games so we’ll all stop bitching about attendance.
Face it, in the ‘burgh if you’re not the Stillers and maybe the Penguins (or the Pirates on fireworks night), you have to win to bring in the fans.
It’s common of all pro-city college teams.
The fans would have gone to Pitt Stadium for a winner, just like they’ll go to Heinz Field, and like they’d show up at a new on-campus stadium.
USF finally started to draw this year in a stadium that’s a 25 minute drive from their campus BECAUSE THEY’RE WINNING!
Cincinatti is drawing now too, (repeat it with me) BECAUSE THEY’RE WINNING!
It’s not rocket science. I’d rather Pitt have their own new stadium in Oakland myself, but I’m not fooling myself into thinking that a new stadium alone will increase attendance. Winning does that.
Look at Miami. The most successfull college football program of the last 25 years. Have you seen their attendance at the Orange Bowl the last two years? Worse than Pitt’s at times. The place looked about 1/2 full for their big “let’s say goodbye to the Orange Bowl” game this year (which they got mauled in).
If you’re a college team in a pro-sports city like Pittsburgh, Cincy, Miami, Tampa (USF is actually in the suburbs because in Tampa the suburbs are part of the city limits geographically… yeah I don’t get it either) YOU MUST WIN TO DRAW FANS!!!
See, in West Virginia there’s a lot of Steeler fans. But those people are still all Mountaineer fans first, Steeler fans second.
Up the road in an actually civilized area like Pittsburgh, the people are Steelers (and sometimes Penguins and even Pirates) fans first, then they might pay attention to Pitt athletics if they’re good.
It’s not a unique situation.
And BTW, if Pederson changes us back to “Pittsburgh” I’m going to fucking scream. I was just trying to get all of my newbie college football fan friends down here to stop calling us “Pittsburgh”, and call us what we SHOULD be called…. PITT!!!
i did ask why you didnt renew your tickets. i appoligize if i offended you, but there were many people without reasons who had season tickets in 2003 because of the schedule, and then dropped them afterwards..look at the attendance the last 5 years…Every college team goes thre its ups and downs, but the great schools keep there fan base.
I guess what happened was that instead of expanding Pitt Stadium to keep up with the constantly filled seating area for every game, he had the place torn down.
Do you really think more than 30,000 people would go to an on-campus stadium this year? No. Sure they may go to see a new stadium but if there still was Pitt Stadium there would be 25,000 people and everyone else would say “well, parking in oakland is a pain; traffic in oakland is a pain; it is raining; i have to repaint the shed”
If the team has expectations and wins, you get 60,000 to Heinz Field to watch Kent State & Ball State.
Stadium location is a terrible excuse. Pittsburgh doesn’t need another stadium used 6 days a year, there is nowhere to put it in oakland, oakland is a mess anyway and Heinz Field is fine. There is parking, public transit and free buses for students.
Without a large, loyal fanbase – the only way to generate attendance is by winning. That is what Pitt must do.
I sincerely apologize if the language in my rant got out of hand in my post above, and I also apologize for the length of the post. Some things just needed to be explained a bit and I felt the need to adequately defend myself a bit there.
It’s disingenuous of me to assume that every Pitt student or fan who doesn’t attend each game is a bad fan. I realize that by referring to the Pitt fanbase as “discerning consumers”, I MAY have been lumping in a bunch of fans who didn’t deserve that tag.
That’s not the point I was trying to make.
There are plenty of fans – fans and students alike – who would love to be at the games but can’t for one reason or another. For anyone to think I wasn’t capable of drawing that distinction is asinine. My initial rant was not directed at those fans because that’s completely devoid of common sense; don’t blame someone for missing games for legitimate reasons.
Instead, blame the fans who COULD go but WON’T because the opponent isn’t good enough or the team isn’t good enough. They have the money. They have the time. They could go. They don’t go because they don’t WANT to go. Why? Because the team or the opposition or some combination of both isn’t good enough.
THOSE are the “fans/discerning consumers” that people like “Hail to Pitt” need to be upset with.
These discerning consumers are the first people to complain about the state of the program, the coach or the inability to close with a good recruit. Ironically, they’re almost always the first ones to complain when Pitt doesn’t garner the same kind of national prestige and isn’t thought of along the same lines as iconic programs, or even second-tier programs like Maryland, Virginia, Iowa, etc…programs with less prestige and less “name pop”, but programs that still sell out practically every weekend.
These iconic programs and even these second-tier programs are more highly thought-of because their fan bases will turn out no matter what. Their fans don’t care who they’re playing or how their team is doing. The first, second and third reasons they’re there is to support their own school.
Those other programs have many more fans and far fewer discerning consumers.
That’s the point I was trying to make.
Correct. You DID ask me.
But before giving me a chance to respond, you said, “When Pitt rebuilds its football, we dont want fans like you to come.” Isn’t that pretty much assuming that I bailed on the tickets for the wrong reasons? Isn’t that assuming that I was only getting tickets that year because the team was good and the schedule was good, and the instant that didn’t exist anymore, I dropped them?
Couldn’t you have at least given me the chance to respond first? A lot of people bailed on their tickets that year for wrong reasons. I don’t think my reasons were the wrong ones. I wanted to renew them but didn’t because I simply couldn’t afford it.
That’s why I was offended by it. I apologize for the strong response and for the language I used in it. I just wouldn’t appreciated a chance to explain WHY I didn’t renew them after 2003. It had nothing to do with a less-attractive schedule or anything involving the program and everything to do with the very simple fact that my wife and I have not since had the disposable income to invest in season tickets.
As soon as we do, I plan on getting them again.
you would think that they would wait until after we upset WVU tomorrow, but whatever… for all that a contract means in college football, I guess it is not a big deal.
Hopefully it helps recruiting…
Good move in my opinion. He deserves a chance to get this program turned around. Plus, how many coaches out there will commit to Pitt for the longterm. We’re just a springboard for most up-and-coming coaches so I’m willing to give the Stache the benefit of the doubt.
Hail to Pitt
Pederson – if i had to give a ranking from one to 100, he’d get an 80 for the last go round. He did most things right in my estimation, except for his fixation with fucking with our names colors logos, etc. LEAVE IT THE FUCK ALONE THIS TIME DICKHEAD.
He did a terrible job at Nebraska – and what i don’t get is, what is he going to do here now? I don’t see any major problems that we have to fix – is he just going to piss with things for the sake of pissing with things? We gonna change our logo to fill up Heinz field – listen, winning is the only way thats getting done. Please don’t do any stupid ass (further) embarassing promotions.
And it is embarassing for the university that we take our ol’ retread out of the barn and prop him up again. We couldn’t find anyone with new ideas?
I’m glad they’re going to make him stand up there and say “see, im not going to piss with your football program for the sake of pissing with it – or make it even worse (i know, hard to believe)” and force him to grant Wanny an extension on his first day. If he fired him, i would have strung him up myself. The last thing we need (besides starting a o line full of 2* “football players”) is to set the program back even further. Not like it has that far to go to hit rock bottom…
Hail to PittSBURGH (i swear to god if he does this again i’ll find where he lives…don’t piss with shit just for the sake of pissing around)
Go Panthers..
Sorry it took a while to get that up.
Fire the coaches! Their llloooooozzzerrrssss! Never will win! Worst ever! Can’t win in 3 years, never will!!!! Boo Wanny!!!!