The Big East put out the full schedule.
Here’s Pitt’s:
2010 Pitt Football Schedule
Date | Opponent (TV) | Time |
Sept. 2 (Thurs.) | at Utah (CBS CSN) | TBA |
Sept. 11 | New Hampshire | 1 p.m. |
Sept. 23 (Thurs.) | Miami (Fla.) (ESPN) | 7:30 p.m. |
Oct. 2 | Florida International | TBA |
Oct. 9 | at Notre Dame (NBC) | 3:30 p.m. |
Oct. 16 | at Syracuse* | TBA |
Oct. 23 | Rutgers* | TBA |
Oct. 30 | Louisville* | TBA |
Nov. 11 (Thurs.) | at Connecticut* (ESPN) | 7:30 p.m. |
Nov. 20 | at USF* | TBA |
Nov. 26 (Fri.) | West Virginia* (ABC, ESPN, ESPN2) | TBA |
Dec. 4 | at Cincinnati* (ABC, ESPN, ESPN2) | TBA |
Good news. No Friday night game (for now). A Thursday nighter at UConn.
5.5 games on national TV at this point.
My friend has Verizon cable and he gets it with his regular package, my sister has satellite and she gets it as well.
On most local providers, it’s part of a sports package that only costs about $5 per season and gives you about a dozen other sports-related channels (including the Big Ten network, future home of YOUR Pittsburgh Panthers… I kid, I kid).
So do the math, if you’ve ever ordered a game off of ESPN it costs about $25 for 3 1/2 – 4 hours of programming. For $5 you get a bunch of channels (for a month at least if you choose to just cancel it), as well as getting to watch the Pitt game.
Sorry if I sound like a sales rep for CBS here, but it’s really not that bad.
Looks like they are expecting the Dec 4th game to come down for the BE championship again.
Note that these ratings are based on signing the top players … I also heard a scout on the radio stating how well Pitt does in recruiting players that fit their system, and how many of them have really good upsides. Time wll tell.
31st: Rivals
(In other words, what wbb said.)
Oh, and I meant that the sports package was $5 per month, not season. Still a hell of a deal. If you’re a puck fan, that’s worth it for the NHL Network alone.
As for the recruiting class, I think that this class will produce several multi-year starters along the lines. I also think this Myers kid has the potential to be a star. From his highlight videos, he looks to have a cannon arm and fairly accurate. We’ll see if he can read a defense, though.
At the signing day event at Heinz, Andre Givens (RB) really looked impressive. VERY quick and shifty. I’m not sure what his level of competition was in high school, damn he looks fast.
Yep, Herd said it as if he knew it over a foregone conclusion. Then he went on to discuss how the Pac10 does not have really good options like the ACC/Big Ten does. I heard he said for the Big Ten to choose anyone but Pitt would be extremely shocking and out of character b/c Pitt fits the profile and no one else really does….FWIW.
HTP!
If you think about it, it’s hard to argue with that opinion, not matter who said it.
Big 11 possibly expanding by 5 teams to go to sixteen. If the ACC decided to do the same, then the Big Ten and ACC could each take four of the BE football schools (with MU being the 5th in the Big Ten). I’ve said this before, I think the super conference is where we are headed. After you get to twelve teams, and you have your conference championship game, and TV says no mas, and your ticket prices and seat “donations” already piss your fans off…how do you increase revenue? You increase the size of your league.
HbgFrank, I’m a little dense this morning. (OK, all mornings.) OSU makes $X with 12 teams in the league. Now the league suddenly has 16 teams comprised of non-traditional rivals having smaller-sized stadiums. How does that put more money in OSU’s pockets?
It puts more money in OSU’s pocket because of the lucrative nature of the Conference Championship game.
I think I got it. In this scenario, Pitt is not one of the 12 teams in the newly expanded Big 10. Michigan plays OSU on national TV during the regular season. Pitt fans have a mild interest in watching the game. Next, Michigan plays OSU in the conference championship game, Pitt fans have only a mild interest. Pitt then joins the Big 10 along with 4 other teams making it a 16 team league. Now Michigan plays OSU in the conference championship game. The TV audience increases by more than the 33% increase in the number of teams because Pitt fans are now enthusiastic about watching Michigan play OSU. After the Big 10 divides the TV revenues among the 16 teams (instead of 12 teams), OSU has more money in its pockets. Makes perfect sense to me now.
Pitt has a great shot of winning the conf every yr in the be and going to the bcs, while in the big 1-, there chances are much slimmer due to the number of teams.
School potentials – Mich State, Wisconsin. Add ECU & Memphis & a couple others and you would have enough for a conference championship. It only helps the hoops conference too.
Of course, if the NCAA really had the best intentions of all the universities in mind, they could just let conferences with 10+ schools have championship games and avoid all of this mess!