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As usual, Jerry DiPaola actually covers things that the PP-G does not even mention. Here is his report from Saturday’s camp.

link to blog.triblive.com

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Comment by pmdH2P 06.01.15 @ 10:49 am

I think that Dark Knight is legitimately one of us. Just like my buddy Upitt, he can get his shorts all twisted up at times.
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Comment by pmdH2P 06.01.15 @ 10:51 am

link to blog.triblive.com

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We should have enough experienced interior linemen to be pretty stout in the middle.

Obviously due to Narduzzi’s pedigree we are all expect a big upgrade on D. Don’t think we have the horses to be great, but with the offense we have, they need to be good enough to win.

Anyway the stats seem to be indicative of a very poor defense.

I remember figuring out standard deviations by hand. No calculator. Of course, no kid today would even think of doing that. So, statistics classes have changed from the “good old days.”

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And it was interesting to see Jameel Poteat, a transplanted RB in the two deep after Spring.

Maybe another Zeke Gadson ! Let’s hope !

You can’t teach his size. Problem is, you can’t teach him to play mean either. That was the thing that TJ didn’t have on the defensive line. He played soft on defense. Athletic and all, but soft. Tyrique is the same way. He needs to learn controlled violence for 5 second spurts. If he does that, he will position himself for the next level. But, he has to do it now.

Talenni is the same way. 5 second spurts of violence will do him very good. Those two players hold the key for the defense. If they fail, new blood is coming next year. If they work hard this summer, they will position themselves well for big paydays.

I tried to buy a couple of tickets following the link this morning….but it was down!

I remember buying my first electronic calculator – 3 or 4 years after I gradusated. Would have been nice to have in college!! Went thru PLENTY of erasers!

Yea I wonder if I have still have my old Slide Rule.

Don’t see why I would have throw it away. It could be in the infamous childhood chest. Still have some model plane kits in there, that were never put together ! ha

Smiling Larry I remember well for some reason my mind becomes blank regarding organic chemistry, Dr. Vaux??

Oh man I think the disconnect here might be related to a totally different Generation of Football lol.

I grew up in the Sports-Science, Run-and-Gun days where Steve Spurrier was starting to dominate College Football and Joe Tiller and Jim Chaney introduced the True-Spread to College Football with Drew Brees / Kyle Orton at Purdue….And I had Graphing Calculators from Day-1 (p.s. in Stats at Pitt we didn’t even get to use calculators for Standard Deviation, we barely used it in the intro-course).

I think some people are used to “3 yard and a cloud of dust” football.

I was perplexed about where the opinions here were from?? I get almost exclusive agreement among my Pitt-Fam who are almost all “Casual Fans” (i.e., they don’t get all-worked up over it, they just want to tailgate lol and enjoy the atmosphere) — They pretty much all shrug and say, “Our Quarterback is horrible, but we always have bad Quarterbacks. At least we have LeSean McCoy / Aaron Donald / Tyler Boyd / James Conner / etc.” lol

One person here is almost like a conspiracy-theorist, posting incomprehensible stats (literally, I can’t read them lol, totally jumbled and incoherent) to back up why Pitt is ‘A-Okay’ with a 6-7 QB.

Does anyone watch any other team in College Football?? I salivate about how a Marcus Mariota / Robert Griffin III / Russell Wilson / Connor Cook (all 3 star and 2 star-guys, btw, not 5 Star) would light-it-up for Pitt.

P.S. all of the stats one poster are putting up are either un-readable or are not explained for how they show Chad Voytik can help Pitt win games.

6-7. 16 TD’s (8 to Tyler Boyd) 7 Interceptions.

Less than 500 Rushing yards and 3 TD’s.

Boring to watch play, No-Arm. Football in the end is entertainment—watching Gladiators play.

I want to see Russell Crowe, Maximus out there. Instead we have Justin Bieber tossing ducks everywhere and his crazed Fanboys who think a Quarterback in football just needs to hand off the ball and not throw interceptions lol.

6-6, 6-6, 6-6, 6-7 . I’m doing you guys a favor, and showing you the light lol.

And if you’re going to post stats, it helps to make your point (whatever that is haha) if they’re legible, and their relevance is explained. I.e. 6-7, time for a new starting QB period. Quite simple. lol

And btw that’s the way those stats copy and paste.

Surely a person with your supposed intelligence can decipher them. I even deciphered Peterman’s pathetic stats for you.

I don’t think if the stats were totally clear and as plain as day, would it matter with you.

I don’t know what else to do with you, except to go….meh.

I’m younger than most posters on here. I’ll be 39 in September. I don’t think it’s a generation gap problem, think it may be thinking your opinion is fact and not debatable.

But lets not throw Chad under the bus. The other TN boy is no sure thing. Pitt can win with Chad. That is opinion. Fact will be if Pitt goes 9-3 with him as the starter. Winning can be debated because who knows if someone else could have gone 10-2 and who says that 9-3 is good enough to call yourself a winner. Especially if one of those losses is to YSU.

What don’t you understand about Pitt’s offense, led by Voytik at QB avg’g (that means averaging) 36.4 ppg (that means points per game) over the last 5 games of the season ?

Yet we still went 2-3 in those 5 games.

There was nothing ‘Boring’ about Pitt’s last 5 games.

Only a Pedo or Hillbilly would suggest Pitt’s football team was boring last year.

ACC player of the Year.
ACC best Receiver of the Year.

The only thing boring is…. these continual illogical posts of yours.

And that is no conspiracy theory !

You blame Voytik for the 6-7, never mind we had no defense.

Then you opine how great guys like Grigsby and Bradley will do with new coaches.

You opine that Peterman is much better than Voytik.

Maybe you are right, and you are entitled to your opinions, but I don’t see any facts to support those positions.

We all like Marcus Mariota, hell I like Sophia Vergara, but I have as much of a chance getting a date with her as Peterman has being the next Marcus Mariota.