Pitt AD Supports Sinking Ship

by BSD on Sep 2, 2008 12:21 PM EDT

When your athletic director starts making public statements offering his support for the coaching staff, it's usually a sign that the head coach's days are numbered.

Pitt athletic director Steve Pederson offered a show of support Monday for Dave Wannstedt, taking pressure off the Pitt coach after Saturday's 27-17 season-opening loss to Bowling Green.

The Panthers were 13 1/2-point favorites.

"In these situations, nobody's more disappointed than Dave and our team at the results of the game," Pederson said. "But I also know there isn't any group that's going to work harder to get us back on track than Dave and his coaches and the team. For Dave, this isn't really a job, this is a passion. He's dedicated to building a winning program here and he has all of our support as he works at that."

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posted this on the CC gameday thread

But I tailgated and went to the game rather than driving out to State College this past weekend, and man, by the middle of the fourth quarter it was like somebody died at Heinz. The BGSU fans were loud and fairly classy and the players walked over and cheered them at the end of the game. The Pitt fans had almost completely emptied the stadium with the game still in question though, which I found offensive. Also, Bill Stull probably wouldn’t start for Duquesne.

Here’s what the north end zone looked like from my seat as Pitt was driving in with a few minutes left.

by gumbercules on Sep 2, 2008 12:46 PM EDT reply actions

Yes!

more pictures of the Yellow-Out.

Nice work.

Kevin @ Black Shoe Diaries

by KevinHD on Sep 2, 2008 1:08 PM EDT up reply actions

I saw clips of the game on

tWWL and thought that was the stadium throughout the game. I guess Pitt fans didn’t think Bowling Green was enough of an opponent to bother showing up (similar to the team).

Is it true that McCoy was mouthing about Wannstadt during postgame? Somebody put a muzzle on him.

www.pinkertonpark.com

by rahpsu92 on Sep 2, 2008 1:27 PM EDT up reply actions

I still can't get past the fact that you went to a Pitt game?

I feel like the person that discovered the coelacanth? I mean you hear about people going to these games but you never actually run into any of them. Up until this moment I doubted their existence.

Patiently waiting for the return of Penn State Football

by ReadingNitFan on Sep 2, 2008 1:09 PM EDT reply actions

There is not much to do in Pittsburgh.

After you go to the Warhol Museum and the Duquesne Incline, you are SOL. Also wearing a PSU jersey into Heinz tends to incense a certain portion of the Pitt fanbase, especially drunken girls, that makes the $25 immediately worth it.

by gumbercules on Sep 2, 2008 1:13 PM EDT up reply actions

You paid $25 for a ticket??????

I thought they were going for $10 or $11 seriously??

Patiently waiting for the return of Penn State Football

by ReadingNitFan on Sep 2, 2008 1:33 PM EDT up reply actions

Now you tell us you spent $25...

time for an intervention. How many tickets to other Pitt games were you forced to buy?

www.pinkertonpark.com

by rahpsu92 on Sep 2, 2008 1:29 PM EDT reply actions

Hah, none this time.

Guys, you’re saying you wouldn’t drop $25 for an outside shot at watching the depantsing of a rival team? I was there for the pure chance of large-scale humiliation, which is really what college football is all about anyway, and my bet paid off well. I became one of the biggest BGSU fans in the stadium in the third quarter.

Attendance was 45,063. I’m going to enjoy contrasting that figure against next week’s attendance.

by gumbercules on Sep 2, 2008 1:40 PM EDT up reply actions

Ummm, from the looks of that picture

the attendance was more like 5,063. Are you sure that first 4 wasn’t a typo?

I bleed Blue and White.

by Horse N Buggy on Sep 2, 2008 2:45 PM EDT up reply actions

Misplaced decimal point, maybe?

I mean, in Europe they use commas instead of decimals. What is it, Frenchy? WHAT IS IT?

by Run Up The Score on Sep 2, 2008 7:36 PM EDT up reply actions

I was there, too. What a mess.

I was at that game, too. My ticket was $2 less than the Bowling Green visor I bought specifically for that game. The Bowling Green fans were great and were more enthusiastic tailgaters than any of the Pitt faithful. I couldn’t get over how the BGSU defense just smothered McCoy. And the sad part was that the refs were trying their hardest to give that game to Pitt. They took 6 off the board from BGSU because of an “inadvertent whistle” and called the WORST excessive celebration penalty I’ve ever seen after a BGSU sack.

by Spats on Sep 2, 2008 3:08 PM EDT up reply actions

I've been to a few other games.

The Pitt students are hard drinkers and lewd and obnoxious and are my vote for the best part of their fan base. The rest of the crowd is incredibly meh and show little pride. And yeah, I tried reffing PIAA last fall as a way of getting involved with football after high school, and learned referees consider inadvertent whistles the biggest mistake they can make. It’s difficult to know whether the recovery would still have been a touchdown if it hadn’t happened, but at least they made the correct call (giving the TD would have been worse). My money is on that Big East crew replacing the official, who himself is out a lot of money from lost future work.

by gumbercules on Sep 2, 2008 3:29 PM EDT up reply actions

We were in a lot that was primarily used by out-of-towners, so any Pitt fans were significantly outnumbered by BGSU fans. That may account for my take on the Pitt tailgaters. The parking at Heinz Field SUCKS!!! Every lot remotely near the stadium is pre-paid. We were in some tired lot that was littered with broken glass, syringes, and used “Allegheny White Fish”. The place screamed of bio-hazard!

by Spats on Sep 3, 2008 1:29 PM EDT up reply actions

Today..........

I have laughed outloud more reading the posts than any other day in the few years I have been reading this board.

“Allegheny White Fish”. Classic.

Eric Watters Atlanta, Ga.

by ech2os on Sep 3, 2008 4:17 PM EDT up reply actions

Every lot remotely near the stadium is pre-paid.

This is my third year out at a game and I’ve never seen anything like what happened on Saturday. Parking was ridiculous, even my normal garage about 4 blocks away was sold out. Last year you could have probably gotten gold lot parking next to the stadium for $20, but this is what hype can do to a fanbase. Also, I’m personally wary of parking in shady lots next to the river, 30 minutes of rain is all it takes for your car to become a makeshift Allegheny River cruiser. Even though it’s hilarious to watch on the news.

by gumbercules on Sep 3, 2008 5:47 PM EDT up reply actions