Well, for those who hate noon games, this is actually worse. The Saturday, October 13 Homecoming game of Louisville-Pitt is getting a start time of 11 am for an ESPNU game.
Thanks to our overlords at ESPN for that. Pitt has no say on the times for a conference game. That’s between ESPN and the Big East. Well, really, it’s all up to what ESPN wants.
I repeat 11 am. Not 11 Central. 11 am, Eastern.
If you are a student or in for Homecoming weekend, I recommend the all-nighter. What, with Midnight Madness that night.
Going to be a lot of fun to get up at 5 AM to drive to Pittsburgh that morning. Bitter venting at this not only permitted, but encouraged.
keep calm.
hail to pitt.
Anyone else thinking….post game tailgate instead???
What a joke.
Tailgating afterwards is a good idea but a win definitely helps and this will be a tough game. Moreover, you’ll need to sober up before the ride home and that could take some time.
I think the time is to Pitt’s advantage. Chryst just needs to make sure his players are on curfew and get a good night’s sleep. Save your energy for the big Saturday night party after the big win.
I’ll be watchin down here in Texas with a Shiner by the pool. I’ll be in for Temple.
Since this is our last year in the BIgLeast, if PITT had any balls, they’d tell ESPN/BigLeast to shove it. Yea right…. lol
Hell it might be better just to stay home, since the University/Athletic Dept. has no regard for people coming from out of town obviously.
Doesn’t this suck.
Fall weddings suck . My sister got married last year when Pitt played ND. Considering I walked her down the aisle, it would have been a bit tough to miss that one. Although I missed a loss, I still wanted to be there.
Good luck getting the game on one of those new fangled video “whatchyamacallits” while your at the wedding.
BTW, your relative’s wedding wouldn’t happen to be at the Doubletree in Greentree Friday night?
12noon – Syracuse @ Rutgers – ESPN3/BE Network
1PM – Temple @ UCONN – ESPN3
Previously scheduled: 7PM – Fordam @ Cincinnati – ESPN3
I will be at the Maryland/Wake Forest game this Saturday. Will be wearing my Pitt gear just to remind them of one more football and two more basketball losses they can look forward to starting next year.
In any event, I enjoy breakfast tailgates as much as any other, so bring on the egg casserole and bloodies!
Since I will not be driving I can drink
before AND after.
It certainly does seem to be raining shit on my Pittsburgh sports life.
it is over.
Next year all 11 a.m. starts will be games
featuring long awaited match ups such as
Temple and San Diego State.
Embrace it I suppose. Will allow me to golf that afternoon.
Just win the damn game.
The season will be only 6 games old and we had the Thursday AND Friday nite games AND the 11 am Sat. Start. And it’s homecoming weekend !! And we have Midnight Madness the nite before, WTF !
And we all should know by now, ESPN gives the orders in this arrangement, the Providence peeps just listen and go…”yes sir”.
This is what money and overt money grubbing has done to college sports and tradition. Basically thrown it in the toilet and flushed it.
Let me have old musty historic PITT stadium, with 1 pm or 3:30 starts, the walk/stumble up Cardiac Hill from the Keg or Zelda’s or frat house bar, provided the kegs weren’t blown from previous nite’s activities. And something hidden, that nobody cared about in the student section. That usually was passed around. Now that was a great college gameday(hear that ESPN). Not the crap we have now. Too bad these kids at PITT now will never experience what we had.
Here’s to PITT Stadium, the Script and the Mustard and Royal Blue !
Comment by KRF 10.01.12 @ 9:40 pm
Surely you jest KRF 🙂
Just kidding! Have my daughters pitching lesson in Punxsutawney @ 7am so getting down in time for the game is gonna be tricky!
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Aren’t you glad you had something else to distract you from the pain of losing to Iowa? Nothing better than keg-stands of Penn Oktoberfest for that.
It’s all good, it just made my decision exceptionally easy in deciding to stay over in Pittsburgh Friday night. So now my Son and I catch Midnight Madness and get to wake up and just walk over for the game on Saturday morning. No 4 1/2 hour drive as a warm up to the game festivities. It is all in your perspective.
Happy Homecoming! 🙂
HTP!
Regarding our cry baby fan base,I’m much more direct and much less suble. My request to the Panther fan base, drag your lazy ass out of bed, pull up your big boy pants and go chug a few beers before showing up to cheer on the Panthers to victory! Kill the Ville!
Next you’re gonna mist up over the old Pitt stadium piss troughs ;
Seriously, I’d rather have an 11 am game at home than on the road, I think this favors Pitt more than Louisville. It’ll be up to PC to make sure his guys stay focused and ready to get after it at 11, but I have a good feeling about that start time!