Parents visiting for a week. Kids heading back to school this week. The usual chaos of the transition of activities.
How about a terrifying concept of the worst case scenario for this season?
PITT: Can technically start the season with losses to Bo Pelini, Terry Bowden, and Kirk Ferentz. Good God.
My sphincter clenched upon reading that.
It should be no surprise that Head Coach Pat Narduzzi didn’t waste time game planning for the Youngstown State game. He is no doubt aware of what happened to Chryst in his debut against this same team. No one wants that redux.
We’ve all thought, written and talked a bit on how the schedule is significantly tougher this year than last. So that even if Pitt is a better team, the record might not be significantly different than previous years.
The other part is with the way the schedule sends Pitt on the road for over a month. That home game with Youngstown State followed by three road games and a bye week. How does that set Pitt up for fans and attendance.
It is hardly inconceivable that Pitt could be going into the Homecoming game with Virginia — only the second home game of the season — with a 2-2 record. That game is followed by two more road games — Georgia Tech and Syracuse.
By the end of October when Pitt is home for four of its final five games, Pitt could be painfully familiar 4-3. And those are going to be anything but easy home games — UNC, ND, Louisville and Miami.
What would that do to the enthusiasm and energy that is so obvious among the fanbase at the moment? Will fans be showing up if the games don’t have “meaning” beyond trying to get to 6-6 and another bottom tier bowl game? History has clearly said, no.
It’s easy to say in August that there will be patience and understanding with the team. The schedule issues and what we believe/hope will be the right direction. But will there be many people there to want to go to Heinz Field in November, see it in person, and deal with the frustration?
We’ve had our fill with close losses. The headscratchers.
Pitt has to come out of September with three wins at a minimum. That Iowa game looms larger everytime I think about it. The Hawkeyes don’t look that good. Yet, as much as the discontent with Kirk Ferentz grows, they are hardly going to be an easy game.
IMHO, they are taking a chance on Newkirk with his bum knee. He supposedly had microfracture surgery like Uchebo had. It might not even heal properly and he could be gone from the Hoosiers without ever contributing.
Pitt football will not have a campus stadium again. It’s nice say what if but it ain’t happening. SP gets credit for the Pete and the blame for tearing down Pitt Stadium because he was the AD at the time but in reality both had been in some stages of development since the 80’s. It was a board decision not an AD decision or even a Chancellor decision.
It would take a decade of sustained success in addition to the Steelers building a new stadium. As long as Heinz field exists, Pitt will not have a new home.
Bostick probably makes around $50K now… that’s the mean for radio sportscasters.
1) OCS
2)Who’s the troll
3)Ex AD, Chancellor, coach, defensive coordinator
4)Backup QB
5) Anything Jamie
6)The superiority of the Southern player(or life in the South in general
7)SOP
8) The Weather
You get it,right!
Add 9) Where in the world is Emel?
H2P!
I’d like Pitt to have its own stadium, on campus or off, and more needs to be done to make Heinz feel like Pitt’s home and not a rent-a-stadium. But playing at Heinz has no affect on my attendance and little affect on my game day experience. Anybody who says it does is looking for excuses to not attend.
Frankly, winning or losing affects my game day experience more than any other factor. When attendance is good and Pitt is winning, Heinz rocks like any other stadium. When you lose to Akron, well, not so much.
By the way, the open end at Heinz isn’t open anymore.
Might cost some money for a crew to do that? We have money, do it.
Rooney’s won’t allow?? W. Pa. taxpayers paid about 66% of it I believe, why do the Steelers get to say no to something like that? (if true)
Won’t fix everything, but at least it would look more like our home.
If that middle school lookin’ logo is at midfield again i’ll puke in my seat!!
Well, maybe someone elses seat!
I’ d also like to hear the Pitt band micked up from their seating section and broadcast on the PA system rather than the alternative of piped in music. That alone would improve the atmosphere on game day.
I’m going to make a wild guess that Dark Knight gives his vote to Nate Peterman.
However, it would do wonders for me to look like my team is playing on a college football field.
I’d take 10-2 on a sandlot over 6-6 on a pretty field, but in the meantime
paint the friggin’ field appropriately!!!
I’ve heard everything from,
it’s a grass field it’s too hard
the Steelers won’t let them
the Steelers need to do a “walk through” after the Pitt games are over
it would be expensive to hire a crew to do it correctly, they’d have to work through the night
and some others I can’t think of now.
Ray is totally correct, winning!!!
In regards to the conversation though, in lieu of not getting an on campus stadium, what could they do to make the game feel more
“collegie” for lack of a better word?
College atmosphere? More like Pitt’s home.
You do all you want, if the field looks like Pleasant Hills Middle School, everything else doesn’t look good either.
Ok, enough, I see we’ve moved on with another post.
Hey, I don’t bitch to bitch, when they fix something, I shut up.
Haven’t heard a peep from me about Pitt script since last October!
