Elsie….longtime chairwoman of the GOP in Allegheny country and greatly influenced who the statewide GOP endorsed for US Senate & Gov.

Knew her from my days in politics. Very nice lady,,,,when she wanted to be. ha

Nice to see the Women’s BB team getting back on track where they were 4-6 years ago.

3-3 in the ACC with a huge win over the Tarholes.

And 13-6 overall.

Good job by Suzie.

@Emel

Heard the crowd was decent. It was their annual “Pink the Pete” event.

We’ll soon find out about Narduzzi, but Pitt has pretty good coaches in place. Suzie, Jordano, Stottlemeyer, and Dixon(I think)

Maybe we can get that elusive point in the Capitol One standings someday…

link to news.pitt.edu

Just got back from the Pete. Good showing by the fans & an even better showing by the Pitt ladies. They could make some noise this year & are going to be real good in a couple years.

I agree with the good coaches but Rande Stottlemyer retried and Jason Peters is in his second year as head coach of wrestling. Under Rande they were winning the EWL titles and now under Jason ACC.

Funny stuff, Pap. & thanks for the kind words. I am blessed to have 3 great kids. I out-kicked my coverage by a mile when I got married. I love baseball, too. Hoops was my favorite sport growing up. I quit baseball too soon and realized it was a mistake.

Good job all refraining from politics here

FSU gave the Tarhools all they could handle today.

At Chapel Hill. 78-74 Holes. We beat them by 9.

So who knows maybe we can hang with them.

Geez, I am really impressed, Reed and Emel on a first name basis with members of a Billionaire family.

Probably the only one in town that could single- handedly build that shiny new on-campus stadium, if they wanted too. LOL

well, I comment on the same blog as 2 people who are on a 1st name basis with billionaires

@JD

Didn’t know that. Stottlemeyer was there forever. This new guy has done a tremendous job then, considering the success of last 2 years…

Majors had juco success with Gary Burley, who went on to play in the NFL Bengal.

Thanks for the memories of our best JUCO’s Remembered there had been great ones, but the names wouldn’t come.

Last night I wrote about noone talking about the SOD.I wrote that after returning to my hotel room after a few beers at the bar and a 4 hr drive to nowhere, ohio for a volleyball tournament. Scrolled quickly throuh the comme ts (my, this thread is long!) but wanted to relay a story. One night at the SOD one of the locals got in a fight with a student. Grabbed a bat and smacked the kid in the head. At the time I was a member of Peer Medical Aid Program-we had weekend hours at the health service on weekends when it was closed. Me with my first aid training and a kid with a car took the student to Presby and dropped him at the ER. I didn’t return to the bar bc I was afraid the cops would be there and I was underage. At the time I lived above the Food co-op that someone mentioned in an earlier post.

Pap76

Rande took over for coach Adams in 79 or 80. Rande plans to spend more time fishing but you’ll still find him attending the matches. Peters was the Ast. coach for a while but I’m not sure how long.

Christ – that did sound pretentious, I apologize.

Let me put things in perspective – I knew those people because of my Dad’s personal and professional connections… it had nothing at all to do with our family being wealthy or anything, which we absolutely were not. Both parents were educators at PITT and made average salaries – straight middle class family all the way.

In my defense though I talk, and brag, a hell of a lot more today about knowing and talking with you guys on The Blather than anyone I knew in the Way Back.

The fact is that kind of heavy dough is what makes things happen behind the scenes at PITT and elsewhere in WPA. It also has had its effect in PITT athletics as well as other aspects of the university. Hey, if I see him again maybe I’ll drop some hints about buying some higher quality recruits now that we have a new HC, that would be OK, right?

Emel – “Steel wrapped in velvet and not to be put off”. That was a description I heard of her one day. One of the few Republicans I would vote into any office.

@Emel, yes, that’s the Ritter’s I went to in the 80’s, and the one I went to last year.

Randy McMillan, one of the great backs of Pitt football! Very under rated.

Remember him just taking it to Washington up on Pugent Sound, when both were top 10 teams!!

Reed, I was making a joke not casting aspersions.
Pittsburgh is a small town and people are usually pretty down to earth whether they have money or not.

I spent a lot of time in a great facility called the Hillman Library and we are in a town that is lucky to have a lot of the greatest philanthropists of their time.

I recently finished a book about the East End, which at one time was the richest neighborhood in the world. Residents included Westinghouse, Frick, Heinz, several Mellon Bros, Carnegie’s Brother, and many others. It is too bad that many of those businesses are long gone, but we still benefit from their philanthropic efforts.

My favorite McMillan game was when he pounded Penn State into submission. Be great if Conner would stay to do it again in 2016.

I wonder if any of Randy’s runs are on UTube?

@Reed, not pretentious at all, good story.

You have lots of credit built up on
here anyways!

@ joe Lawrence ..yes was I Phi Delt..actually started out in Gamma Tau Alpha who worked to have the Phi Delta Theta charter reinstated at Pitt which had been revokedseveral years earlier… Something to do with Dean Vernon Wormers wife and one of the brothers… Great times on N ditheridge

Annie, In my day the predecessor of the SOD was known as a local bar where students were not welcome. My understanding was that changed with Marino because he was a local as well as a student, I wonder if that is true?

I doubt Edwards will be much of a difference maker but he’s a veteran body that will help a bit with depth. If this class is filled out with a few more d lineman, linebackers, a qb, and a wr ill be thrilled.

This thread has gotten so long I am getting tendinitis in my right thumb

Reed, Good I thought you were talking about me.

Haven’t worn anything velvet, I don’t believe since the 70’s.

<<<middle class too. But I did get to stay in the Laurel Valley CC bungalows a few times. Must have been the off season. ha

Didn’t watch much but it looks like Clemmings acquitted himself very nicely in the Senior Bowl.
His team dominated.

@gc, one of my secret wishes, hoping Conner and Boyd would still be here for the PSU game.

I know it’s not gonna happen.

Whistling through the graveyard!

Reed, got to play Laurel Valley twice, both as a guest in a fund raiser. Pretty special place.

Pk, we had less than 1.5 sacks per game. Blair with the most at 5. I think we will see a lot more this year, and down the road.

Sorry Reed my Laurel note was to Emel, who slept on hallowed ground. LOL

Some folks have mentioned Wolfarth’s, was that on South Bouquet ?

And was it in the location of where Sanctuary/Chances R later was.

The only Wolfarth’s I remember was the great Wolfarth’s Bakery on Penn Ave in East Liberty.

@Dan, either one would be crazy to stay. Hopefully Nard Dog will have us reloaded by then.

@emel, yes Wohlfarth’s became Chances Are, then Sanctuary. Wohlfarths did not go through to the next block though.

yea gc…you could just feel the sense of….i don’t know how to describe it….power.. emanating from Laurel Valley bungalows.

Pics of George HW Bush with various other Fortune 500 types and other power brokers all around the place.

They had a really good mini-bottle free bar ! Needless to say with the best of the best !

The guy that was with me, was almost in a state of shock and aw. ha

^^Needless to say stocked with the best of the best ^^

Was there ever a North Bouquet?

The buffet’s not bad either. Lunch or Dinner

Yea above 5th Ave.

Dunno about the buffet at LVCC.

We always got taken to Nino’s or Denunzio’s some other pretty nice place when there. Ate in a private dining room one time at LVCC, when I was in good graces.

The Friday Nite Seafood Buffet at Seven Springs was a killer.

The Buffet at LVCC is like the Seven Springs buffet on steroids.

In terms of quality not quantity.

Im not doubting edwards because i think we have good ends, i just wasnt very impressed with his tape. He looked a lot smaller than 6’4″ 250 and he wasnt very quick off the ball. He might be able to come in and get 5 sacks this year. I expect blair’s numbers to increase as well.

I ran into Mike the old Mgr of Peter’s Pub down here the other month.

Mike was Mgr in the ’70’s & 80’s.

We had many drinks & cigars and a grand old time.

It was so wild bumping into him after 30 years.

He used to get so pissed when Marino & Me bounced chicken wing bones off the back bar and bottles into the trash bin every wing nite.

Still no confirmation on Maclean, hopefully just a rumor.

I’m sure it was gc….obviously.

What LVCC only has like 100 members.

as expected, DT Karl Howe committed to Wisc

Burley (Bengals) and McMillen (Colts) both had pretty long and productive NFL careers

Mostly CEO’s Emel.

Pk. I agree on the film, in fact I found Curtis’s to be more compelling, but not apples to apples in level of competition.

Well not real pissed….but he didn’t think it was funny. We had a chicken wing bone tossing game and you got extra points for bank shots off the booze bottles.

We are going out for some late dinner and the GF is pissed that I’m blogging so much instead paying her attn. ikr

So enjoy bro’s.

H2P
VeV

Agree with folks above….saw Gary Burley play…he came in as a JUCO….he was productive for PITT on the D. Line.

A very good get.

Hopefully, this DE pickup works out just as well. 🙂

HAIL TO PITT !

The old diner car at station square is definitely the original Ritters. Here’s a link:

link to tgrantphoto.com

We spent many late nights/early mornings there in the 60’s and early 70’s. Many good memories.

One of my favorites was the night we seated ourselves at the counter and the waitress, Big Barb threw a handful of menus our way. The menu listed a cheeseburger and a cheese “dinerburger”. One of my roommates wondered outloud what the difference was. Big Barb didn’t turn around but just shouted over her shoulder, “fresh meat.” There were no more questions.

Gc, we started going there in the fall of 1977. I graduated in 1980. It was very much a local bar. They tolerated us because we didn’t bother anyone or do stupid things. We gradually talked to them and mixed in. Don’t remember when it was, but eventually more students started hanging out and it started to get crowded with students. That’s when the fights started. I remember they would close the bar at 2, get rid of everyone they didn’t like, but still serve the rest of us. I felt priviledged to be considered one of them. They would not charge for beer after then, said it was illegal. Needless to say, the bartenders made all the $ in tips from that point on. Never saw Marino there- he was too young at that time.

Too many posts so I apologize for joining the party late, but I have to throw a vote for my first ID (unless it was mentioned earlier), but the Santionary was very cool, but CJs was always my favorite

Many happy memories at Chauncy’s, Claico’s, Attic, S. Oakland, Donzi’s (although not quite O town)

Should I be surprised at the number of posts? Great memories. Remember Whisky Dick’s in the Strip and Roand’s? Fiesta Bowl bar too was a great time. Walt gave some good times. as well.

Calicos!!!

On a more current vein WTAE 6pm news lead ,Pine Richland qb Dinuzzie commits to Pitt . Pics him and Nardog comments by Dinuzzie “always followed Pitt and glad to stay in town and play for them”.