No the basketball season has not beaten me down so far I stopped posting. The offline world has conspired against me. Some family stuff. Kids being sick –which of course led to me getting taken down as well.
Then the topped being my car abruptly giving up the ghost. So I am trying to work quickly to replace my car without being reckless and stupid.
Hopefully I will resume consistent posting soon.
Was it a good car? How long has it been your car? Was it a good game day car? Did it get you to bowl games? BCS bowls?
Did your car quit to take a postion at ASU? Does it have family out west?
Are you going for a big name replacement? With head car experience? Pay the price for a car that will take you to the next level?
Can the assitant cars keep the carpool together until the search is complete?
Seriously Chas, good luck with your car troubles.
A poor college kid from a dysfunctional home shares a fifth-floor Washington Plaza Uptown apartment with Dante Taylor. I don’t know the specifics of their pad, but I suspect that it may be upscale from the standard Pitt dorm. I assume that he is on a full athletic scholarship; however, he is also the recipient of a $5000 Pell Grant. He is also the owner (purchaser) of 80 pairs of quality sneakers as well as an up to date wardrobe. He must have had pretty good jobs in the month off between semesters. It’s really not a bad country.
@ Chas – Good luck w/car
Personally, I don’t have or drive any vehicles younger than myself (b ’52). But just like a good woman, they can be temperamental, but you don’t mind investing the time and money cause they are worth it!
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I for one, am not taking the ledge for anything, however, I am just wondering aloud…..
1. we only have 20 or 30 offers to recruits, while many other schools have 70 or 80 out???
Is this true?? If so, is it a big deal, we do have a year I realize, but does seem a little bit odd.
Nothing to get excited about?? They are just getting their feet wet?? I’m ok with those answers, does just seem odd, if true.
Bostard was obviously throwing his name out to NFl clubs before he ever boarded a plane to Pittsburgh. The level of sleeziness and undermining is really unbelievable.
Todd Thomas out for spring with knee injury. 1AA team to be put on schedule to replace WVU.
geting call from quality guys who want to join
his staff.
So you were right it was money pitt must have
going cheap on the amount he could pay his coachs.
so PITT was to blame more than the coach as far
as the RB coach not being hired so i admit i was
wrong.
Wbb how did you know that it was the money and
there for the ADs fult and not the coach.
(2) Our clueless AD had no idea what the market is for salaries as shown above. The staff under Wanny was one of the lowest, if not the lowest, in the BE … thus one of the lowest in the BCS, and his recruiting budget was cut a few years ago. Now I’m not sure how much this is a reflection on Nordy … or the AD not fighting for his coaches.
I can only come to the conclusion is that WVU coachingf budget is much higher than Pitt’s
justinian i think it was 10 not 42
Dan i dont know if you should ask abought the recruting.
if you do they will jump on you for not giveing him a chance.
only EMEL and you and i have noticed that and
so i dont think you want to go there i no i wont
untill i see the results at the end of the year.
you were right.
You know wbb, if this is true, why don’t they just come out and say it, and save a lot of us, a lot of grief.
Couldn’t compete coaching staff salary wise in BE, what’s gonna happen in the ACC?????????
If you are gonna pay peanuts, that’s what you’ll get on the field, and in the stands. It’s that simple.
Hey, maybe thats what Nordy and Steve really want with the ACC. The academic thing, and don’t care about football. Maybe they want to rub elbows with the Dukesters and Techsters and if we field a half decent team, fine, if not, that’s fine too.
Depressing to even hear the talk of we’re still low rent with staff salaries.
read what Wbb posted at 441 WVU must have a higher budget than us it is very intresting.
The only thing I suspect is that chryst is having a harder time in hiring assistants than many others due to salary budget restrictions. Just a guess .. but Pitt has a history of not being competitve.
after all and WVU just stole him away.
i wondered why you did not rake me over the coles
when we ended up with the coach from UCLA
thanks Wbb
but every thing that goes wrong is still TINOS fult just kidding Wbb .
My car broker tells me used cars are overpriced due to short supplies. Dealers still have good interest rates, time to bite the bullet. Good hunting.
DO buy a retired Crown Vic Police Interceptor. Owning one myself I get respect I certainly don’t deserve.
And, best of all, you don’t get tailgated!
Many schools share a similar philosophy.
And, beer sales inside the stadium does help pay for it along with fans that actually show up to games and very influential boosters who help call the shots because money talks.
Pitt = CHEAP. Pitt is also not serious about making Pitt football ELITE.
Unless Pitt lowers standards, somehow finds new revenue sources to pay for highly regarded coaches and recruiting trips, coddles players and tell them what they want to hear, look the other way when kids throw people through windows, and yes, find the money to ‘pay’ players or their handlers, Pitt will always be non-elite unless they catch lightening in a bottle one year.
I’m not suggesting Pitt becomes WVU or Miami or USC or tOSU or any other program considered elite if you have to do those things to get there.
But, let’s not fool ourselves thinking Pitt will be a consistent 10 win program each year in a BCS conference. I’m hoping for a conference title every 4 years on average by doing things the right way and not having to sacrifice one’s integrity.
It would also help if Pitt’s football program experienced some stability and had a more competent AD. That is wishful thinking. I do think Pitt got the coach right this time but only time will tell.
Traded it in after only 40k and bought another Accord
The machine suffered from negative synergy…there was never a time everything worked.
And the guard thingee? It fell off after 60,000 miles!
Peeps don’t realize Wanny was giving PITT a hometown discount. And so was his staff.
Smiley then has the nerve to hire a nobody like Haywood to replace a PITT man. And I remind you Smiley is NOT a PITT man and I think he has antipathy against PITT men. Other than Nordy of course, his BF.
Smiley’s hires to date(major sports only): Walt Harris, Ben Howland (pure luck), Bill Callahan, Mike Heywood, Fraud Graham, Paul Chryst .
Chryst was more a selection by committee after the last two disasters that Smiley hired.
Hey we got thru the presser without Chryst resigning, things are looking up !
Emel, refresh my memory. There are (were) 20 teams combined in the BE and ACC. Excluding Miami, name for me the “big time names” that took jobs at the 19 colleges. BTW, how has Miami fared during the past couple of years?
except abought TINO just kiding Wbb dont rip me a new one
well got to go furnece is broke will freeze till new part gets here in two days
will be back on tommarow we all have are trails
in life.
have a drink for me EMel you to DAN.
chas they are haveing real deals on subarus now
and they say 97 percent of them that were ever sold are still on the road read that some were
i dont have one have a old dodge truck my self.
must go to room with the fire place in it good night all.
PS I hope your not mad at me for having fun at your expense.
Banks is a 5′ 11″ 185 lb cornerback. Quarterback ?? What position did he play in high school?
The fact that Chryst is shopping around for another body to play QB tells you all you want to know about Mr. Tino. Chryst will say nice things about Mr. Tino, however. one look at the films of his playing abilities has to send Chryst shopping for help. Obviously, Chryst will try to keep Voytik as a red shirt in order to work him into whatever system he finds workable with the talent pool (or lack of talent) that he has on hand.
NFL coaches do not have to recruit. That alone makes it a better job. People leave jobs all the time, unless and until Pitt becomes a destination, I have zero problems with being perceived as one step away from the NFL.
I think Chryst will use many players at the “QB” slot: wildcat, etc…
Thomas being out is no surprise but I would love an update on Ray Graham.
Go ahead and laugh now…if Pitt needs an FCS foe, make it Duquesne. Goodwill, money stays in area, will sell some tickets and get attention. Don’t give me ” we don’t want to lose to Duquesne” as an excuse not to play. I will laugh last and loudest.
HTP
We may end up playing someone like that..ain’t a whole lot of options left.
Does McGill have an American football team?
Here is the write-up about Chryst’s presser. Note the emphasis on designing the offense to fit the skills of the players as opposed to ….
I believe Chryst is having a presser today .. hopefully, he is not leaving to become Schiano’s asst head coach .. but anymore, I wouldn’t be shocked