7:30 PM. Root Sports and assorted other RSNs.
Greetings from my couch.
Wife has bronchitis and the kids have been a special kind of crazy. So with her laid up, I have to be here to keep the peace. Does it serve me well later in the season when I will go to a game on her birthday and one of the kids is having a sleepover? Maybe, but that’s not important right now. What’s important is me being a good husband and father today — at least until the game starts.
This game has intrigue insofar as what Pitt’s much-maligned secondary can do. They have been torched, nuked, destroyed, exposed… whatever adjective you wish to use. Those were against three legitimate major conference teams, so what happens tonight?
I don’t know. You have a rather well-coached mid-major team with a QB that arguably could be playing in a major conference.
Litton threw for 2,605 yards as a freshman last season while leading Marshall to a 10-3 record.
Narduzzi stopped short of comparing the 6-foot-6, 211-pound Litton to another quarterback area fans know well. But he’s nonetheless impressed.
“I don’t want to say he’s (Ben) Roethlisberger,” Narduzzi said, “but he’s a tall guy who surprisingly eludes defenders.”
Litton wasn’t a high-profile recruit due to an injury during his junior year of high school in Tampa, Fla., but he had an offer from LSU.
“If he wasn’t injured as a junior,” Narduzzi said, “he might be playing at Alabama. I think he has a future. He has a lot of moxie.”
Perhaps a bit of hyperbole from Narduzzi, but until Pitt can stop the pass against a FBS team I can’t judge.
The Thundering Herd is nearly as bad as Pitt at defending the pass, so this could be a chance to see Pitt open up the offense a bit more. Not that Pitt will stop running the ball but it will be a chance to run a more balanced offense for at least a week.
Still, all eyes will be on the pass defense.
Did you all see how open Orndorff was down the middle.
We will take it.
Got to give credit to O’Canada for not ‘turtling’ on that call.
Mashall’s pass defense was almost as weak as ours, so thank God he recognized that.
Our pass defense will cost us the rest of the year. I’m afraid more bad is yet to come.
Need to revamp our defense.
A win is a win….is a win….
HAIL TO PITT !
UNC and OKST should be in the top 25 next week, what might have been.