Seems that Zach Brown may not be the only thing Wisconsin sends Pitt’s way. How about the possibility of a home-and-home with the Badgers? (Hattip to Brad)
University of Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez said this week that attempts are being made to add Pittsburgh and Kansas State to future non-conference schedules.
Alvarez declined to offer specifics, but confirmed that talks are taking place with those two Bowl Championship Series schools. Kansas State is out of the Big 12 Conference, while Pitt is a member of the Big East Conference.
Alvarez said no contracts have been signed with either school. The same goes for Brigham Young, an independent which has reportedly agreed to a non-conference series in 2014 and ’15.
Alvarez grew up in Pennsylvania and is known to have an affinity for Pitt, which has played the Badgers in football only three times, the last in 1967.
Needless to say, a really quality non-con opponent is always great to see on the schedule.
Not sure how far out this would be. Pitt appears to have openings in 2014-15, but if Wisconsin is slated to play BYU then, I doubt they would do both series. Expect this one to be a good 5 years or so away.
No, not jumping for joy. Not good for the Big East. Hopefully they will get some scholarships taken away etc., and not be restricted from Bowl games or tv games.
Yes, I hate them, but, was really amped for Pitt, WVU, and TCU in a year making the Big East relavant in the other BCS conferences eyes.
Coaches move around at will, are much more stable financially, are wiser for the years, much easier for them to move on, hell, if anyone should have to sit out, it should be coaches for a year.
I’m no bleeding heart, don’t believe players should be paid or anything like that, but, the transferring rules are absolutely ridiculous for the kids, when the people that spent two, three sometimes four years calling them, stopping by their home, sending them mail, begging them to come to their school, can just up and leave in an instant, and somehow, an 18 year old is suppossed to stick by his “committment”????
Best of luck to ya son, hope your Mom isn’t seriously ill, and, if you decided you just wanted to go home, sorry you have to sit out a year, none of your recruiters are!
Shows lack of character?? BS! These kids are 18, 19 years old, the juniors and seniors rarely transer.
I’m 46, if a guy came to recruit me to his business, begged me, introuduced me to his staff of 14, told me how good I could do for the company, how much I could accomplish, then, I decide to go there, and in the first month or two the head guy, and the staff I was going to be working for quits or gets fired. Think I’m gonna have some sort of loyalty to the company itself, when my boss and all the people I was told I was going to be working for are suddenly gone in an instant, and it’s all new people, with new ideas, have no idea what the other people told me, and secondly, may not live up to anything the previous guys said???
No, the kid should have the right to walk without having to sit out a year, nor worry about making any excuses for his actions.
Allthough, seems like it was just April, gettin’ closer. Enjoy your Sunday!!
