Curse the fates that have two games at the same time. No way to avoid the basketball score, even if I stayed off the net. Our TV is a projector so the painter tape over the portion of the screen that is the ticker on ESPN trick, just won’t work.
Big game for Pitt as it is the difference between bowl eligibility and the ignominy of not even managing a 6-6 record. To say nothing of only managing 2 conference wins in the final go-round.
The options are either the Pinstripe or Beef bowl if Pitt wins. The Beef O’Brady Bowl just announced that incoming Big East team — but presently a C-USA refugee — Central Florida will be the C-USA rep. Pitt, as you may remember, had to cancel their home game with UCF for this year when the Big East thought TCU was joining. That led to the need to schedule Gardner-Webb at the last minute. So there could be a whole logic to it all.
B10 looking at GT but I cannot believe GT would entertain going to play all sports in Midwest.
It is musical TV chairs.
UCF could have beaten OSU that day: only their “wide eyed” mistakes took them out of the game.
H2P
PG says our ACC conf. pals Cuse get NYC with
the Hoopies.
Which confirms my hypothesis from above. lol
But, I love the matchup. Ole Miss. SEC. Someone we haven’t played in forever, if at all.
Singin the Birmingham Blues
I was hoping for the Peabody Hotel in Memphis instead. Oh well drinks will be more economical at the Redmont. Always a bright side !
Helped a lot against YSU !
must live in the same area!! i saw u on the tube. yellow shirt right?
BigEast teams have done well against lower echelon SEC teams this year.
Buttgers won @ Arkansas
Syracuse won @ Mizzou (when Mizzou needed a win to get to 6 wins)
Ole Miss has a dual threat QB who passed for 19 TD’s and ran for an additional 8 TD’s. Also throws a lot of picks (15). Haven’t seen him play so I can say if he’s worse than Sir Tino.
Kind of weird for a program with over 600 wins.
Pitt has never played Ole Miss. That’s the one thing that will make it interesting – but Go Pitt!
It is not just any AD that would give Dave Wannstedt a contract extension, then have no Dave Wannstedt, then hire Mike Heywood, then have no Mike Heywood, then hire Toddie praise the lord Graham, then have no Toddie Graham, then hire Paul Chryst (maybe, because all of the reports were he was against him, and wanted to hire the legendary Mario Christobal).
Hats off to Paul Chryst. If Pitt had a real QB this year, even a Bill Stull, it would be playing in a BCS bowl. This may be the best 6-6 team in the country. And there could not be a person that deserves a bowl game more than him. The guy is a total class act.
But, I will admit, he is no Bill Callahan.
Any word on recruiting on the recruiting outlook?
We will fall behind by 3 TD’s and Sir Tino will lead his first ever and last ever 4rth quarter comeback to lead us to victory.
I’ve had a vision ! lol
P.S. won some money on Charlie Batch today so anything is possible 🙂
And Georgia covered the spread !!
It will be nice to see how we play now that we have a head coach for the first time in this bowl.
ole Miss should be an interesting game.
HTP
Just hope/pray that SP does not get a contract extension.
“To get to run out of that tunnel with my boys one more time before I take my talents to the next level, and I’m happy about this.”
Very solid team at 6 and 6.
Passing offense competitive with Pitt. Rushing better than Pitt. Overall Defense better than Pitt.
Ole Miss Qb Bo Wallace does have a tendency to turn the ball over. The other good news is he’s no relation the other Wallace from Ole Miss and not nearly as fast.
Guessing Pitt will be the underdog in this one.
Two pretty evenly matched teams. Sets up as a hard fought physical football game.
However, Ole Miss is ranked 13th in sacks with 34 to Pitt’s 23.
When you’re playing against Tino this alone can make you the BETTER Defense.
See, my wife caught scent of that potential last week and already has us ready to make reservations at a NYC hotel with a room overlooking Central Park. She wanted to see “The Lion King” on Broadway and ring in the New Year in the Big Apple as well during our stay in the city. So needless to say, we were going to spend a few days in New York City if Pitt played there.
Tickets to the Pinstripe Bowl x2 $250
Three nights hotel reservations $1,900
Three nights hotel parking $180
Three days dining $400
Broadway play tickets x2 $225
New Year’s Eve party tickets $180
The required “shopping” bill $900
Sitting at home watching the Panthers beat Old Miss on TV with beer in hand on Jan 5th, PRICELESS!!!!!!!!
I LOVED Wanny and really wanted to see him thrive. But I got tired of getting kicked in the onions by losing every game — EVERY!! game — which would have given Pitt a BCS bowl, especially with too much talent for such continual underperformance.
And an argument can be made that Wanny should have been fired just for recruiting Tino the Magician, but I’ll let Wanny write off that brain fart as 20/20 hindsight.
Plus Wanny played NFL-style offense from 20 years ago (read: boring) instead of learning & adapting to the modern college game. All of which was tolerable (barely) until his guys started a private crime wave.
Todd Graham was absolutely the right idea, albeit maybe the wrong guy or two years ahead of time, or both (Coach-Killer Tino running TG’s offensive was like running the Kentucky Derby riding on a donkey…).
My main knock against Stevie-P was killing the Script unis and “Pitt” brand.
He is obviously a damn good O coach. His best characteristic IMO is that he is aggressive during games. Something we have been longing for.
This spring the staff will not be installing from scratch. They will start with player already having a good understanding of the play book. That is a huge difference from this past spring. Add the extra practices for the bowl game and you are advancing even more before next year.
PC will prove Pitt found its coach next year!
Is that Handel’s “Hallelujah Chorus” that I hear?
Forever and ever, Hallelujah!!!
Both bowls would be the Pinstripe. Seems like that bowl was created for them by ESpn. lol