Anyone watch the Rutgers-USF game last night? The chance to watch the USF version of Sunseri in B.J. Daniels? It gave me the chance to feel like others from outside the Pitt fanbase when they watch Sunseri. The befuddlement that he is the starter. The moments where you think you see why he starts, then the sheer boneheadedness of the decisionmaking. The demoralization of the offense. USF, I feel your pain.
On that note, add Bob Smizik to the list wondering aloud if Sunseri might be done after the VT game (added bonus, misspelling Voytik’s name).
Not much to it. It’s one of Smizik’s “…” columns so he devotes very little thought to it. It’s the same chatter we’ve had on this site, and on message boards and the radio. Essentially anywhere there are Pitt fans. That if Chryst wants to make a change for the future — not to mention to try and spark the team — waiting until Gardner-Webb would make more sense. Not throwing out a true freshman in his first start against a top-25 team with a Bud Foster defense.
Hey, news of a Voytik start might goose attendance for the Garndner-Webb game which couldn’t hurt. There would have to be tens of fans who other wise wouldn’t have gone to the game that might do so if the news was that Voytik would start.
For that to happen, though, this game on Saturday would have to go as expected.
That raises the hypothetical question/fan dilemma. Would you take the win over VT with Sunseri playing like he did against USF last year — thus likely to remain the starter for the foreseeable future. Or would you accept the expected performance — and loss — if it meant Voytik or even Anderson got the nod next week. And for the rest of the season Sunseri was 2d string?
If Anderson is healthy and still considered the second stringer, he should get the call — thus preserving Voytik’s redshirt. If no, burn it and start the Voytik assessment. Even if its a blowout, playing against a team like VTech is good on the job training and will make either Anderson or Voytik ready to deal with the pressure from the rest of the schedule. If the kids are competitors, they’ll want that chance — plus, if VTech is way ahead, no need to try to win the game anyway…just keep to your basic offense and let the new QB run it in preparation for the following game. I see no downside other than maybe getting one of them planted in the ground a few times if VTech’s D-line is really bringing it…and even that is good experience.
That’s a good one Chas.
If there is any other starter at any time I will buy tickets & show up. I stopped my ten year run of season tickets because I can’t watch Tino. I just can’t do it.
Daniels also caught my eye because he is so bad and somehow seems to get good publicity. No one ever accused Tino of having the kind of talent Daniels was rumored to have.
I also could not help but notice that RU has switched places with Pitt…that Pitt expects to lose, is the running joke and can’t get out of its own way even thought it sits in the middle of fertile recruiting territory.\
That used to be Rutgers….
Now Pitt has that tag.
Shame on Pederson. Again, look at the goals Pederson put out after returning to Pitt.
All miserable results.
Until he is gone, the rest is just details to fill out the Greek tradegy that Pitt football has become.
and 5 TD in first game at new school any thing from his second game?
Im sorry, but we will not see either Anderson or Voytik as a starter this year. End. of. story.
Another thing, we likely wont see them even if we’re getting blown out..Chryst wants to get Tino the most reps as possible in this system.
Lets face it, we’re only 0-1 in Conf with 3 weeks until the next conf game…Tino isnt going anywhere so please stop.
Until we lose another Conf game, this league is still wide open.
Now, without a doubt I’ll take the win over VA TECH, plus I WANT Tino to be the hero of the game too.
Here’s how it would play out perfectly. In the last drive of the game with under two minutes to play, Pitt is behind by 4 points. Tino puts the team on his back and in a third and long with the final ticks of the game clock Tino throws a desperation pass OVER 30 YARDS perfectly into the arms of my man Shanahan in the corner of the endzone for the win. However just as the pass is away, Tino gets clocked by a rushing linebacker getting his bell rung good enough that for precautions he has to sit out for the Gardner-Webb game the following week. Voytik has to start the following week, he has a good game and Tino never sees the field again, while still supplying Pitt with a veteran back up if ever needed.
Hell, If I’m going to dream about a win over VA TECH I might as well dream BIG!
Pitt will be hosting several DOZEN recruits at VT game…
That can’t be good.
it seemed plausible until you said Tino put the team on his back…
(Please, someone get the recruits out of Heinz Field before the boos start)
Bottom line is Pitt is in full rebuilding mode, and this might just have to be a lost year. Sucks for the seniors who have put in so much, but hopefully they all come away in good health with a degree from one of the finest public academic institutions in the land and one day they can come back and be honored on the field for seeing Pitt through its dark times or something.
So yeah, a win, a win, any win, any way, we need a win.
I say we switch…let Clint Hurdle coach Pitt tomorrow and Chryst go to Chitown and finish the series. It cannot get any worse.
My point is “utter futility” in Pitt sports brought on by Steve Pederson. It’s become addictive in other sports in the Burgh. I would kill for a win tomorrow and will post a picture of my best bud Tino if he pulls it out….but lets face it. We have zero OOOOOOOOO chance.
This is a bad Pitt team, coached as best possible by a lot of new people thrown “to the lions” on Stevie P’s watch.
Will hang until halftime tomorrow. Tee time at 2PM.
Since Reed is killing all of my posts…hope you folks will post for me.
If we could slide him into a comfortable situation on a high performing team, we wouldn’t be considering it in the first place, would we?
Couldn’t agree more with you Matt N. The Gardner-Webb game would be a perfect coming out party for Voytik. Last time I checked he is a football player, I think that his delicate psyche will fare just fine.
You want to discuss a damaged psyche????? All you have to do is look in the mirror and thank terrible Tino for the gloom and doom that permeates my current attitude towards Pitt football fortunes.
After this game, “Tino Time” has ended, now “Chad is the Fad”. Please, I can’t take this for the entire season, I need at least a glimmer of hope.
Hail To Pitt!
chance to win.
…it would be kinda neat!
they say it is time to start voytik
i am with them best idea i have hard all week.
He thinks the biggest issue Pitt has is the defense team speed…
it’s all about the speed baby….
Oh, wait. The waiting list is for hoops. Nevermind.
Maybe some big changes are needed. Tino is not a college level quarterback and Pitt needs to start playing one very soon.
Would I take the win and have him play the rest of the year? Absolutely. The team needs a win and you have a real good shot of being 2-2, if you can get to 1-2. Regardless of how the season ends, this would be a recruiting win and it would show the promise of success in the future. Conversely, IF (yes, big if intended)Voytik comes in and Pitt wins, the visitors will commit on the spot, especially the offensive ones.
Reports indicate that an order to an online adult novelty store catalog site was placed under a fictitious name and address but somehow the delivery ended up in the Pitt football locker room. The order request was for an anal plug!
Now you got to give them full credit for their ingenuity in exploring all possible solutions to this problem.
But, I still expect Tino to $hit himself under the unrelenting defensive pressure that VA TECH is going to lay on him in this game. I hope that I’m wrong though.
However, I would hope Voytik and/or Anderson get some playtime for some series against VT (not mopped up duty).
And then grow the reps at the GW game…
and go from there.