The support and loyalty of everyone is always appreciated, even as it embarrasses me a little. It means a lot, since I’ve never actually met any of you except for Steve G. Hmm, there may be a bit of correlation.
Buzz is not getting banned for giving me some crap.
I have banned only a few people in the 4+ years of Pitt blogging. I don’t have hard fast rules that constitute banning, and I do give warnings. Buzz never approached anything that even had me considering banning him. Basically, to get banned you have to repeatedly do any or all of the following:
- Personally attack people in the comments to the level of complete derangement (Buzz’s complaints do not even reach a threshold that would merit a warning).
- Go after Pitt players on a personal level — it’s one thing to criticize their play, but to declare that a player is “garbage” or has some personal defect based on what they do on the field or court is not something I feel is acceptable in college.
- Be a useless troll
- Spam
- I’m sure there are some other things, but they haven’t happened yet.
Now, I’m not sure who Buzz thinks started this blog, but I’ve been here from the beginning. I’ve been lucky to have several quality people who contribute. Dennis being the latest. But, others like Keith W., Shawn, Lee in Altoona State College, John, Harlan and Pat have all been here posting (and are still able to if they feel like it).
I don’t look to this site as a money maker. It has turned into something that has created opportunities for me outside of this, and that has been a great side effect. It was, however, never the goal when it started This is my fun stuff. The place where I can share all the news I would gather anyways, and offer my thoughts on them and Pitt basketball and football games.
That this site has increased in readership is fantastic, but here’s reality. The increase is more connected to what Pitt does, not what I or anyone else writes. When things are well, or there is active news, the numbers go up. Just take a look at the past 12 months and you can see what happened to readership during football season when things weren’t going well, and the spike in December when so much good stuff happened (beating WVU, recruiting news and beating Duke). Honestly, if I was only interested in increasing eyeballs, I’d just talk about recruiting. Nothing seems to help the hit count more than speculation on the future.
Now, back to the fun.
I appreciate Your style, how you operate the site, and why.
Keep up the great work—it is appreciated!
Hail to PITT!
-al-
Also, what are the chance of landing Mr Jenkins from WV?
Lastly, Is pitt in the Pryor sweepstakes?
Cool. Well then… PENN STATE SUCKS!
Any chance you could do more with recruiting? The pryor mention now has me even more interested in the game tonight.
Wannstedt talks to Pryor regularly so don’t count us out just yet. I want to think he has some interest in coming here but all of the signs we have received thus far do not look good. He also is the type of guy that it doesn’t matter what type of reaction he gets from the crowd at the game tonight, it probably won’t make a difference. He’s been having people kissing his a$$ for the better part of 2 years now and really loves the attention. All I can say is that the staff is not expecting to land him.
Zach Stoudt is back to being Pitt only again after his visit. He was thinking Louisville but told the coaches again this weekend that he will be coming to Pitt. His dad wants him here and he believes he can be the starter down the road.
We have 4 scholarships left to give and the staff really wants to use 2 of them on Holley and Alexander. The coaches met yesterday to breakdown their top 12 guys who have offers and rank them from 1-12 so that they can let the players know if you want to play here you will have to let us know fast because there are not many open spots available. It will be interesting to see if that technique can work in getting us a few more players or if it backfires on us.
Great Feedback. One point about the Pryor’s recruitment- Does Pryor have serious ambition of being a NFL QB? If yes, Pryor should look at RR’s track record of developing QBs for the pros. It is horrible. If Pryor really has an interest of being a pro QB, not a Ronald Curry, he must realize that RR is not the person to get him there. Yes, TP is a special talent but what does RR histroy say about his development of black QBs to the next level
Hey Rich- what happens if DW pull off the miracle and TP signs? Who do we lose and how can we use those new scholarships to strengthen or team? We all know that atleast two or three of the qbs will go elsewhere if that happens
The speed and size of the average NFL linebacker and DBs and even linemen make a spread QB an accident waiting to happen. And that means colleges may start to think twice about spread QBs…..it’s possible.
I wish Pryor well, but I am not holding my breath for him coming to Pitt, or for him ever getting to the NFL to play QB.
Keep up the good work Chas and other fellow bloggers!!
Oh and my family will all be at the game tonight 2nd row behind the zoo!! Let’s get ready to rock out the Pete tonight!!!
(sadly.. I live in NYC, so I only get to see Pitt play at the Garden..wait- that’s not sad! that’s awesome!!)
I think it’s crazy to say that Pryor is better than Vince Young at this stage. I like to watch Pryor play. He’s a ton of fun to watch. But dominating AA ball does not make him Vince Young….at least not yet.
Now I am on my way to the game…Hail to Pitt
I beleive that Pryor need to look at that track record and match it to his goal and see if it is viable. If yes, than go to Michigan but if the answer is no he needs to look elsewhere.
Is Pitt the answer? I dont know but I do know PSU is not the answer
