Yes, even this site is not immune to the changing forces that have swirled around college athletics.
Okay, so it’s really just some new contributors on the site. Still, with the loss of Pitt Script Blog to the SBN borg outpost, Cardiac Hill. It could be viewed — with enough to drink — as the Pitt Blog Expansion Wars of 2012. Or something else.
Chris Gates is a Pittsburgh native, loves Pitt athletics, and has spent the past year working at 93.7 The Fan. Among the things he did there was blogging. He’s just moved across the country to work at Oregon State as the Web/Interactive Media Coordinator for RecSports, but he still wants to write and talk Pitt. Happily he took me up on an offer to continue doing so here. You can also follow Chris on Twitter. Oh, and he just loves to here Kent State jokes. Can’t get enough of them.
Once upon a time, there was a blogspot blog that focused on Pitt recruiting. Then it got deleted by the person who had it. So others, slightly less serious, brought the place back and opted to have some fun. For a while all was well. But then the incident. A trauma that changed things.
They were never quite the same after the horrible incident known as the 2008 Sun Bowl. Even after the rehab from the mental trauma, the strain proved too much for them. They could never quite recover and generate content with any consistency. Which was a shame since they had some good stuff. A few of them want to try again, but without the pressure of needing to do it on a regular basis. So, now they will try to bring the funny here when so motivated. You can find at least one of them skulking about on twitter as well.
Finally, the mystery* known only as Dan. He’s the new guy. He’s a student at Pitt. Lifelong fan. He’s been in contact with me over the summer and wants to give the blogging thing a go.
*”Mystery” being a relative term. I’ve vetted him to my satisfaction that this won’t be a Sarah Phillips thing. As I’m not sure how much of his actual background he wants to share, however, there’s not much more to tell you about him.
Just one more reason to make sure to glance at the byline under the post title before you angrily complain about (or even compliment) the person who wrote something.
How do I buy shares?
MUTUALLY BENEFICIAL ARRANGEMENT?!
Seriously though, welcome aboard gentlemen.
Hail to Pitt!
BTW, to those who commented on the lack of consistent levity and sarcasm on this blog (that would be you wbb), I take that personally. I spend many a sleepless night thinking of the funniest sarcastic possible replies to the other contibutors comments on this blog.
In the future, I will refuse to make fun of your comments from this time forward until you demonstrate some love coming my way for all my past hard work.
So a grasshopper sits down at the bar. Bartender, ecstatic, runs over to him and says “first time I’ve ever had a patron a drink was named after.”
Grasshopper, stumped, asks “Sam?”
