As long-timer readers should remember, I’m not very tolerant of sock puppetry in the comments.
Consequently the filters toss comments into a general queue for review if the username or e-mail don’t match-up to your previously approved comments under a different username/e-mail. And given the volume in the queue I may not get to them all, since that means I have to search through old comments and confirm its the same person. And make sure they aren’t playing games.
You can drop me a line if you feel that there is a problem, but be sure to let me know what username you are/have been using. It would also help if you could explain why you felt the need to change the name.
I can’t stand Digger Phelps, I hope we crush the Irosh tomorrow, please!
Happy Birthday Pitt.
02 Graduate SAE
I’ll be skiing at Elk Mtn tomorrow. Holla
He did say something that was hysterical.
Talking about the charge/block rule, and the change to it this year. He was very cordial and gracious to the refs, and understanding that it may take awhile for refs to get it right after calling something the same way for 20 years.
He did say, though, that there are in fact some refs out there, that do crave the attention and spotlight.
“oh, you know, when some of them make a charging call, and they run all the way across the court, stop, and point the other direction for the fans, basically making a scene”.
Ha Ha Ha LMAO!!!!!!!
Making a scene. Loved it, and how true.
Refs, you are not bigger than the game!!
How often we’ve seen that.
Always remember an NFL ref, a top guy, well respected, always said, the best referee’s are the ones you hardly ever see or hear.
Alfred Lord Emel (2014)
Please don’t change your name. You have a “rep” and history that we all value.
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“Thing is, there are different types of “work to do” teams, because there are different types of work to be done. Two, to be exact.
The first is maintenance: Teams who would be in the tournament if it were selected and seeded right now, but who have to avoid bad losses in their remaining handful of games to feel safe on Selection Sunday. The second is advancement: Teams who wouldn’t be in the tournament, or risk leaving themselves at the subjective whims of the committee, if they don’t move the needle in a positive direction before Selection Sunday.
Pittsburgh is a good example of the former. The Panthers have a decent résumé lacking in big wins, with a lot of narrow misses against good teams, games the committee will likely have seen. They’ll probably get in the tournament. But if they lost their last three games (at Notre Dame, versus NC State, and at Clemson) and suffered a bad loss in the ACC tournament, they might be in serious trouble.”
“Pittsburgh [21-7 (9-6), RPI: 45, SOS: 79] It’s a strange feeling, watching a good Pittsburgh team desperately try to avoid slipping into genuinely threatened bubble territory (which they did at Boston College in a 66-59 win on Wednesday). To some extent, it makes sense: The Panthers have had copious opportunities to win marquee games, but they’ve come up just short time and again. Losses are losses as far as the committee is concerned. The reason it’s weird, though, is because Pitt might not be in this dilemma if it had given itself more opportunities during nonconference play. Or, at the very least, if it hadn’t scheduled quite so many RPI-draining guarantee teams, including Savannah State (299) and Howard (341). For years, Jamie Dixon has been one of the nation’s savviest nonconference schedulers, deftly gaming the RPI in his team’s favor. Not so this season.”
I won’t on one condition. You must have those B & G’s cleaned and ready to go for ND.
For we need all the… voodoo that you do…to beat the pesky Irish.
The Basketball Gods are watching !
They are clean, folded and waiting in the drawer (no pun intended). I am going to a memorial service for a friend tomorrow morning. Really did not want to have to pull them out of the hamper and then go to the service. But, my buddy Tom would have understood. Anything for the team.
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I got confused when he said “sock puppetry.” So, not sure what the issue is. But, I love PittBlather and we all need to play straight.
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You just need to hold the previous info in a database and compare when a post is submitted. If it matches a record in the database, the message is posted. If it doesn’t, you can just review an exception report.
I have no idea what you are saying. But, I am happy to do it if it helps us beat Notre Dame.
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Pitt’s first one & done.
What you didn’t like Horace Mann. lol
It’s TGIF, and almost Happy Hour !!!
pmd, you done good, get a drink on me !
That said, I have little confidence in this team in The NCAAs. Duke did show teams how to beat us–by pressing our perimeter passing, which is exactly what FSU did.
I am still holding out hope for Pitt in the Final Four and we all party at Upitt’s. Once I get my mind off the girls at the bar (I forgot the name, Peaks something), I will focus on the rest of you crazies. I graduated in 1971 and all of our teams sucked. So, I am enjoying where we are right now and hoping (drinking the KoolAid) for even better days to come.
@Upitt—Don’t go negative on me. You turned the corner. Remember?
Kill. Shred. Eradicate the Irish. They all suck.
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So says Cardiac Hill.
link to cardiachill.com
We need to be concerned about what Franklin is doing. We have four games scheduled against them.
Penn State isn’t West Virginia. We can’t run and hide from them.
Hail to Pitt!
Football still remains a game of blocking and tackling. I don’t worry about how many stars the “Experts” give a 17 year old kid. Aaron Donald was a 3 star and won the Outland Trophy, as the best lineman in the country and the Bedaric Award, as the best defensive player in the nation. You never really know how well you’ve recruited until the players develop. We’ll know in a few years who did the better job.
Guy has NFL written all over him.
Coach Chryst, still has his own way of viewing the world however and I really think that his recent comments directed at Franklin’s “dominate PA” blowhard news conference were “off the cuff” sincere.
In essence, Chryst doesn’t give a damn what anybody else is doing, he’s only concerned with conducting business his way and sticking to the grand plan that he has been boringly, methodically plodding along in accomplishing,completing his check off list along the way as he goes.
The guy is not very exciting in his methods but time will tell if they are effective or not as equated with the W-L records of this season and the next. Many people condemn his tactics but the guy DOES have a plan, believe it or not.
Remember the horrid condition of Pitt’s offensive line in 2011 during Fraud’s spread offense experiment before he beat feet out out of the Burgh on the midnight express to ASU? Now we Blatherites have totally forgotten about all the hand wringing energy spent over that ugly situation back then and now the future of the OL is transforming itself into a team forte all of a sudden.
That didn’t just happen by accident. Chryst is building a program that was really screwed up and riddled with holes in the roster, lacking quality players, into a program that WILL be able to compete effectively in the ACC, and SOON.
The only thing that I really find disheartening during this process however is the lack of attention to the smooshing up to the fan base/media required and the disregard for appropriate PR to build excitement in this process as the program matures. Unfortunately, HCPC just doesn’t seem to give a damn about that aspect of running a major college football program, and that can directly effect the success that Pitt sees in it’s recruiting efforts.
Therefore, he better start producing some major excitement on the field because that is going to be his only Ace in the hole when he neglects the other aspects of producing hype for the Panthers. This season has to be successful in producing wins. Eight minimum or the villigers will start assembling the pitchfork and torches mob by season’s end.
I’m in Chryst’s corner, I hope he can pull it off. This season will tell a lot.
Sincerely,
Dick millhouse nixon