Sorry about the quiet today. Moving out of the hotels into an apartment for a few months until everything is taken care of at the house. (Not the way I expected to spend Rosh Hashana, but what can you do — at least Pitt’s tradition of scheduling a home game during at least one High Holy Day continues.) So, no chance to listen to the audio of a satisfying rout.
Look, I wish Pitt wasn’t playing 1-AA teams. I don’t think there is a fan of any legit 1-A team that likes to see a 1-AA opponent on the schedule. I’m not about to stop railing against them and ripping on them when I see them on the schedule. That said, Pitt did what it was supposed to. Destroyed them. Took them apart, made sure the game was fully salted away, and got the starters out by the end of the 3d quarter.
There’s not much to really discuss about this game, given the quality of the opponent. I’m more of the opinion expressed by H.B. Blades.
“My mind is on Toledo now.”
“We can’t underestimate a MAC (conference) school (like Toledo). They have talent and we need to be focused on details.”
Was it really 3 whole years ago since Pitt lost to Toledo 35-31? It wasn’t even televised, but that loss still haunts me — that and the fact that Lee’s wedding was that night and it was bone dry.
I can remember..
Kinder’s top ranked also.
but on the plus side, this is the not the walt harris era, where we have to sweat out games vs 1-AA schools. wanny beat that team just like he should have. hail to pitt.
Kids that choose Pitt did so knowing that it is a city school, and not a rah-rah “lets see how many frat boys we can cram into a phone booth” type school, like PSU. If a kid wasn’t a fan of the football team as an undergrad, then they probably won’t care enough to go to the games as an alum. It’s also a problem that the team is now off campus, and Pitt games no longer have a college atmosphere.
Couple that with the Steelers gobbling up all the locals who like football but don’t have ties to Pitt, that explains the lack of fan support.
Um, whaddya call YSU?
Also, I’d like to see PSU take on Cinci right now. I don’t think it’d be one of those cakewalks that JoePa scheduled 20 years ago.
My emotions that year during that three-week stretch were so yo-yo. First, the loss to Toledo, which didn’t hurt as much because it wasn’t televised, but still stung bad. But then we went to A+M and beat them up good, which bolstered my confidence big time. Then the first game my dad came to with me at Pitt, that awful loss to ND. Yeah, at that point, I was so up and down, every week with this team…it was tiring.
Meh, in other news, good game today, I guess. It was nice to have a football weekend where I didn’t have to worry about Pitt probably losing. But then I thought about that Furman game…which is when I decided to take a walk, which was probably the best idea anyway.