I meant it when I said I was scrambling to get things done before the game. Sick kids and wife only makes it more difficult. But, mostly there.

I just don’t trust that I’ll be able to go the entire game without having to pause along the way for some family issue. So, it’s an open thread. I’ll check in, and will be on Twitter tonight, at @chasrich27.

Let’s go Pitt!

Because this has been a bye week we’ve had 13 days to reflect on the 2-2 start PITT has had so far and have looked both at the wins and losses from many different angles.  However, we are still collectively scratching our heads as to just what sort of football team we actually have in Paul Chryst’s first season as our head coach.

To recap: we shat the bed in a 31-17 loss against YSU; play pretty poorly again in a 34-10 drubbing by Cincinnati; played to a convincing win against a 13^th ranked Virginia Tech which was even more lopsided save a VT punt return and a 85 yard passing TD then soundly beat a lesser opponent in Gardner Web in a 55-10 rout.

Huh?  So which of those games is the real indication of what this 2012 team is made of?  Well, that isn’t easy to answer.  Sometimes if you peel back the scores and look at how a team actually played football in their games, regardless of wins or losses, you can get to the tenor of how the team produced on the field.

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Okay, busy day ahead. Have to clear out work. Get other crap out of the way. Then have to do enough that the family will leave me alone by 7pm.

Someone fire the guy (or gal) who does the headlines at the P-G. There is no Pitt-Syracuse rivalry. Both fanbases know it, and accept it. Heck, read the article. The only mention of “rivalry” is in the context of both teams moving to the ACC. You don’t hear fans, players or coaches refer to it as anything but a conference game.

QB Tino Sunseri plays up the noise factor of the Carrier Dome.

“They’re making sure they’re loud,” Sunseri said. “They definitely use that to their advantage. I think their players feed off of it, definitely. We have to be able to handle ourselves, we have to be able to handle the snap count.”

That may not be as big a factor as the Syracuse brass try to pump up the size of the crowd for TV by making it part of a “family” weekend. Spreading out the students rather than concentrating them in a section.

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