You would think that at the one quarter point in the season we’d have a solid idea of how good the team is and how well the primary players are producing. It seems not to be the case this season for PITT. Granted we are 3-0 going into Saturday’s noon game against the Iowa Hawkeyes at Heinz Field but really doesn’t feel like 3-0 given who the wins were over.
Delaware and FIU are both teams that PITT should beat handily even if the PITT team isn’t that great and in essence we did that, so for an optimist that is OK. Beating Boston College up in Boston is on a different degree of difficulty level and the Boston College Catholics, err…I mean Golden Eagles, pretty much looked like a lost team out there for the majority of the game. But they did have a couple of big plays early for scores and recovered an onside kick at the end of the game so at least there was some tension during that game.
Reed and Justin with their usual thorough postings have sucked all the oxygen from the room (primarily Reed, this week but every week brings something different from both of them). Oddly enough, I think I’m glad Reed hasn’t gotten a Twitter account or I wouldn’t have anything to say at anytime. Time to hit the links and final thoughts that I may have.
Maybe it is teams from Miami. I don’t know, but that first quarter gave me odd flashbacks to the Miami-Pitt game last year. Where Pitt looked completely unprepared and the Hurricanes jumped all over Pitt. The Panthers tried to recover in that game, but never was able to dig out of the hole in which they put themselves.
That wasn’t the case on Saturday. Obviously there was a significant talent difference, but I like to think that this team is a little different in attitude. With all the talk of how the team is taking on part of Head Coach Paul Chryst’s personality, the even keel probably came through as Pitt did not try to go for the homerun plays on offense or defense. They refocused, and did what they should have done from the very beginning.
