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These guys are supposed to be our rivals? Here is the money quote;

The Miami players were bigger, faster, stronger, better, smarter, better citizens, better students, better sons, better boyfriends or husbands, nicer to old ladies and animals ...

I guess it's unfair to base your opinion of your fanbase on one guy, and one article. But shoot, doesn't this guy have some manner of professional obligation to cool off before he calls out the whole squad like this? They lost a football game. It has happened before, especially at Pitt.

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I won't read anything Cook writes.

Haven’t for at least 6 years. The guy is one of the biggest PSU and Paterno haters out there and is just too negative overall on all things.

But I have been reading Smizik’s blog (which is a million times better than his columns ever were). Pitt fans are really down….the nicest comments I’ve read thus far on Smizik’s blog about the game are from a couple of PSU fans. http://communityvoices.sites.post-gazette.com/index.php/sports/bob-smiziks-blog

Another guy I refuse to read is Zeise, the Pitt cheerleader and PSU hater extraordinaire. But I did read here a few weeks ago (most likely from Fugi) that he was of the belief that Pitt would easily beat PSU this year, last year, and maybe even 2008, and that it could be proven on the field if only PSU wouldn’t refuse to play Pitt (said Pitt isn’t the one not agreeing to play…meanwhile Pitt did indeed turn down PSU’s offer to play a 2 and 1). Anyway, I wonder if Zeise still truly believes Pitt could beat even this year’s substandard (by PSU standards) PSU team???

I actually feel bad for Wanny. I think he’s a good guy with good intents and no, I don’t think the recent arrests (which can happen anywhere, as we well know) are indicative at all of the type of player he wants on his team. But I do take great pleasure in seeing the Pgh media have to eat their words about Pitt football, who they constantly overrate and over-promote. They need to cut the cheerleading and increase the objectivity. No way was this Pitt team ever a legitimate national title contender.

by J Breezy on Sep 24, 2010 10:26 AM EDT reply actions  

I mentioned Zeise and what he said a few weeks ago.....

he mentioned that garbage in a sPitt column and within the last couple of days, I found out that he is a Temple grad….fancy that. The PG Sports department is a haven for doucheas, I believe ,and I have quit reading them for years. He does a weekend sports show on ESPN1250 in the Burgh and he is anti-PSU 24/7. When he comes on, I change the station and listen to Rap.

by DerryPharmer on Sep 24, 2010 1:42 PM EDT up reply actions  

Speaking of Temple grads.....

Ran across this video accidentally last week and thought I’d enjoy it (Curt Warner’s Penn State Touchdowns). Imagine my surprise when I saw my buddy, who played at Temple, wiffing on a tackle (around the 1:12 mark…#34). You can bet I had some fun with it sending it to him and his brother!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJbSwFtAe70

(Here was his response when I sent it to him: I was anticipating the cut-back and tried to “Funnel” him to my fellow defenders—you always have to have an excuse as my own players have taught me!)

by J Breezy on Sep 24, 2010 1:59 PM EDT up reply actions  

Wow

And they can’t even comment back nicely (to the PSU’ers giving their $0.02. Those Pitt fans are really butthurt.

by GreatScawt on Sep 25, 2010 12:53 AM EDT up reply actions  

Thank-you!

I thought the exact same thing when reading it. How petty can you get?

by J Breezy on Sep 25, 2010 9:39 AM EDT up reply actions  

Sometimes I wonder what you would have to do,

to be reprimanded or fired from the PPG sports dept. Then I just put the paper down and go to my happy place.

"Until somebody knocks you on your rear end, and pardon me ladies, but unless somebody knocks you on your rear end, you're never going to learn." - Joe Paterno

by Illegal Formation on Sep 24, 2010 10:29 AM EDT reply actions  

Haiku

Miami goes North.
Battle the Panthers at night.
Epic Fail for Pitt.

"If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?" Vince Lombardi

by usn_kologi on Sep 24, 2010 11:09 AM EDT reply actions   1 recs

LOLZ

Fans calling The X this morning were screaming for Wannstache’s head. “THERE’S NO DISCIPLINE!”

@EpicTripod
SBN - Pittsburgh
Success With Honor

by Jeff Junstrom on Sep 24, 2010 11:20 AM EDT reply actions  

I'm suprised!

Not that they called, but that Pitt has fans!

"If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?" Vince Lombardi

by usn_kologi on Sep 24, 2010 11:21 AM EDT up reply actions  

It's hysterical...

It’s like the blind, leading the deaf and blind. The people who cover this program are the worst kind of ignorant, the kind that think that they have any idea what they are talking about. They were complaining that Wannsdedt didn’t try and throw the ball more….

YOU MEAN LIKE WALT EFFING HARRIS DID YOU STUPID JACK-ASSES? You know, the coach you fired after THE BEST SEASON YOU HAD IN TWENTY YEARS!!!!.

Clueless. I get into trouble with Pitt fans, not because I hate Pitt, because I don’t. It’s because when they start talking and my only response is; “You are a Karate Kid-esqe learning montage away from being able to participate in a conversation with me about this sport, you are humiliating yourself, and you should be quiet now”.

I don’t know why people in Pittsburgh refuse to understand that this is not professional football.

Make sure you wear a tie to your job interview Al.
Beat Temple.

by jesse. on Sep 24, 2010 11:29 AM EDT up reply actions  

Oh sweet justice

Remember three years ago when the Pitt fans were just gushing as they passed around the bogus PSU wrap sheet full of charges against PSU players?

Karma, bitches. Karma.

by BSD on Sep 24, 2010 11:39 AM EDT reply actions  

Hey its ok

Jabaal Sheard threw a guy through a window 2 WHOLE MONTHS ago, so he was fine to play last night, no big deal. Dan Mason was in a car getting pulled over for in a DUI bust last weekend, so one week later he’s good, dont worry about it (legitimately sorry about the injury though, that looked awful).

"He's a beast. But so am I. So let the beasting begin."

by PSUtopia on Sep 24, 2010 11:55 AM EDT up reply actions  

To be fair, you should have picked better examples.

Sheard’s incident, by all local reports, was triggered (or enhanced, if you will) by some racial slurs being thrown around. And Mason was simply a passenger.

The better example would be that kid that got into a fight in Oakland recently and busted some kid’s face up and the player bumped into the guy’s girl.

@EpicTripod
SBN - Pittsburgh
Success With Honor

by Jeff Junstrom on Sep 24, 2010 12:41 PM EDT up reply actions  

Simply a passenger??

Yeah, but he got into a car that the driver was so messed up he couldn’t even stand up. What kind of good judgment does one exhibit not only allowing a person in such a state to drive, but gets into the car with him?!

Sorry…I can’t go along with Mason’s being victim in this one. And even Sheard I can’t really excuse. I honestly didn’t hear that racial slurs were involved, but even if they were, so what? Words won’t hurt you…just walk away. I don’t think being called a name gives somebody a license to physically assault (with intent to injure) another.

by J Breezy on Sep 24, 2010 1:10 PM EDT up reply actions  

I tend to agree with you on the second point.

However, as the lawyers will point out, racial slurs and other 2 am tomfoolery are mitigating factors for what could have been felony assault.

As for Mason, I really don’t know the state of the driver, so I can’t pass judgment. Is there a report that says what his BAC was? If he was fall down drunk, that’s one thing. If he was one drink over the minimum, that’s another. And Mason is not a victim. He’s either an idiot for getting in the car with someone obviously too inebriated, or just unlucky for getting in the car with someone who may have just barely failed the breathalyzer.

@EpicTripod
SBN - Pittsburgh
Success With Honor

by Jeff Junstrom on Sep 24, 2010 1:13 PM EDT up reply actions  

Oh he was definitely

barely able to stand up. I know for certain that I read that. I think he even hit a pedestrian (not sure about it though). I could look it up…maybe I will, but right now I’m feeling lazy!

Oh yeah, falling down drunk. Ok…wait, I’ll look it up ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. ok, here it is:

A University of Pittsburgh football player was arrested early Sunday and charged with hitting a pedestrian on the South Side and leaving the scene of the accident.

The driver, identified as Douglas, stumbled from the sedan and nearly fell, according to the affidavit. His breath smelled strongly of alcohol, and officers had to help him stand, the affidavit states.

Douglas was given a breath alcohol test at the scene, registering .178 percent.
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/sports/s_699294.html

by J Breezy on Sep 24, 2010 1:20 PM EDT up reply actions  

In that case, maybe some punishment is warranted.

Not legally, of course. But the Stache wants what the Stache wants, so Mason’s punishment came in the way of karma.

@EpicTripod
SBN - Pittsburgh
Success With Honor

by Jeff Junstrom on Sep 24, 2010 1:27 PM EDT up reply actions  

Well, that sucks for Mason.

Honestly…I don’t want anyone to get hurt. That’s a shame. He’s a good player and I feel bad for him.

I guess though it is karma because if he had been suspended for the game the injury never would’ve occured. Maybe that’s what you meant….I’m kinda slow….all the beer in my younger years nearly killed my perspicacity.

by J Breezy on Sep 24, 2010 1:31 PM EDT up reply actions  

Sitting in the car while somebody gets a DUI isn't a crime.

We’ve had kids get DUI’s in the past, and I’m not sure they even sat out a game.

Sheard and Scirroto et al. are so closely analogous that we shouldn’t be throwing stones. The charges got tossed. Frankly, if two grown men get in a brawl, and the next day decide they don’t want the cops involved anymore, so be it.

Make sure you wear a tie to your job interview Al.
Beat Temple.

by jesse. on Sep 24, 2010 1:19 PM EDT up reply actions  

I believe it isn't a crime, but....

I thought I’ve read…now I’m not sure about this…that you can get a DUI for being a drunk passenger. I’m probably wrong on this one, but I thought I read or heard that once.

Regardless, I’m never said it was a crime. I’m saying it shows incredibly poor judgment to let somebody operate a 2 ton moving pile of metal on public roads, let alone go along with them for the ride. What if he had killed the guy he hit? Would Mason have been culpable in any way for not taking the keys from him in the first place? I don’t know how the courts would look at it, but if the victim were a relative of mine I know how I’d feel towards Mason about it!

by J Breezy on Sep 24, 2010 1:28 PM EDT up reply actions  

The D stands for Driving.

I don’t believe that Mason has any legal responsibility whatsoever. He was a bad teammate, and deserved whatever punishment he got for that. I’m not the arbiter of what the punshment is for being a bad teammate on the Pitt football team is. I’ll defer to Wannstedt.

Seriously though, did Tony Johnson get suspended at all for his DUI?

Make sure you wear a tie to your job interview Al.
Beat Temple.

by jesse. on Sep 24, 2010 1:34 PM EDT up reply actions  

Well you can get a DUI on a bicycle.

Or a riding mower. Normally you ride a bike and ride a riding mower so really you should get an RUI.

I know….I’m just splitting hairs with this. Just messing, really.

Maybe what I’m remembering is if a juvenile is a drunk passenger in a car…maybe they can lose their license for that. I dunno….I’m probably all wrong on all of this.

by J Breezy on Sep 24, 2010 1:54 PM EDT up reply actions  

Two separate ideas.

What jesse. is talking about is the fact that merely riding in a car with a drunk driver is not a crime. Your point, while correct, is different in that you can get a DUI for operating other vehicles while intoxicated.

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SBN - Pittsburgh
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by Jeff Junstrom on Sep 24, 2010 1:59 PM EDT up reply actions  

So basically....

…I’m wrong.

Again….the whole “beer in my youth” thing is my crutch in this.

by J Breezy on Sep 24, 2010 2:01 PM EDT up reply actions  

You're not wrong.

In fact, you’re right. You’re just right about something that wasn’t being debated (or discussed).

@EpicTripod
SBN - Pittsburgh
Success With Honor

by Jeff Junstrom on Sep 24, 2010 2:02 PM EDT up reply actions  

Actually it is in at least one circumstance

You are drunk. You own the car. You have a drunk friend drive. You’ll be guilty in that case. Fact.

"Every player we have, someone-maybe a parent, a grandparent, someone-poured their soul into that young man. They are handing that young man off to us. They are giving us their treasure, and it's our job to make sure we give them back that young man intact and ready to face the world."

-J.V.Pa.

by psume06 on Sep 24, 2010 6:09 PM EDT up reply actions  

In certain states

You can get a DUI if it’s your car and you ask a drunk person to drive it for you (see “Have you been charged with allowing an intoxicated person to drive?”).

by gumbercules on Sep 24, 2010 1:50 PM EDT up reply actions  

Damn.

Posted this above before I got to your comment.

"Every player we have, someone-maybe a parent, a grandparent, someone-poured their soul into that young man. They are handing that young man off to us. They are giving us their treasure, and it's our job to make sure we give them back that young man intact and ready to face the world."

-J.V.Pa.

by psume06 on Sep 24, 2010 6:10 PM EDT up reply actions  

Wish I hadn't read it.

It was ok until I got to this part:

“Pittsburgh fans are not as rude as their cross state brethren can be..”

I feel pretty safe in assuming they don’t mean Temple so it has to be us – PSU fans. Yes, we do have our fair share of slob fans, but the only reason we can be worse than Pitt fans is that we vastly outnumber them. I feel pretty confident that if we went by a percentage base for obnoxious fans, Pitt’s would come in much higher than ours.

Another classic line in that article:

“Dave Wannstedt is just a clog in the Pitt athletic department’s football on the cheap.”

A clog? What the heck is a clog in this context???

by J Breezy on Sep 24, 2010 1:40 PM EDT up reply actions  

Hmmmm...probably.

Man, I am stupid today…just missing everything. I think all the comments I read today from Pitt fans (on Smizik’s blog) has dumbed me down!

by J Breezy on Sep 24, 2010 2:38 PM EDT up reply actions  

Maybe this latest embarrassment by Pitt...

…will cause some of their recruits to re-think their decision.

by J Breezy on Sep 24, 2010 12:31 PM EDT reply actions  

No way.

They’re still undefeated in Big East play! Sugar Bowl here they come!

@EpicTripod
SBN - Pittsburgh
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by Jeff Junstrom on Sep 24, 2010 12:42 PM EDT up reply actions  

the sad thing is...

…there is a decent chance of this happening

by hbeach08 on Sep 24, 2010 1:00 PM EDT up reply actions  

Seriously

Who in the Big East is going to beat them. Pitt is bad, everybody else is biblically awful. Cincinnati couldn’t stop a team if they had 12 guys on the field.

Make sure you wear a tie to your job interview Al.
Beat Temple.

by jesse. on Sep 24, 2010 1:06 PM EDT up reply actions  

They'll blow it.

Just like Rick Vaughn in Major League 2 before he re-found himself.

@EpicTripod
SBN - Pittsburgh
Success With Honor

by Jeff Junstrom on Sep 24, 2010 1:10 PM EDT up reply actions   1 recs

+1

For the Wild Thing reference.

I always imagined he’d be a member of the Unleash The Dragon club.

by nylyst on Sep 26, 2010 12:29 AM EDT up reply actions  

WVU has a good shot.

They have 17 starters back. Plus I’m starting to think Wanny has lost this team.

by J Breezy on Sep 24, 2010 1:13 PM EDT up reply actions  

There was a shot of Wannsdet last night...

…where he legitimately looked scared. Wife and I saw it and said it at the same time.

Make sure you wear a tie to your job interview Al.
Beat Temple.

by jesse. on Sep 24, 2010 1:16 PM EDT up reply actions  

When did GF become

wife? Since we all live our lives out on BSD I don’t recall this coming of age.

One man doing the work of 100's for the good of 1000's

by rahpsu92 on Sep 24, 2010 1:50 PM EDT up reply actions  

Two weeks ago today actually.

I announced it in an open thread the night before. Several BSDers found out before my parents.

Make sure you wear a tie to your job interview Al.
Beat Temple.

by jesse. on Sep 24, 2010 1:54 PM EDT up reply actions  

That explains it...

my schedule rarely allows me to join in on the nightly open threads.

I’ll just briefly make mention of a joke about a divorce lawyer marrying again and quickly move on to a belated gradulations.

One man doing the work of 100's for the good of 1000's

by rahpsu92 on Sep 24, 2010 2:06 PM EDT up reply actions  

It was a substantially less formal affair the second time around.

And thank you.

Make sure you wear a tie to your job interview Al.
Beat Temple.

by jesse. on Sep 24, 2010 2:10 PM EDT up reply actions  

Less formal.

Is that code for cheaper? Regardless, I wish I had gone “less formal” when I got married. What a waste of money in hindsight (well, actually I knew at the time that $800 for a stupid dress along with a lot of the other expensew were a big waste of money, but what can you do?).

by J Breezy on Sep 24, 2010 2:14 PM EDT up reply actions  

It's code for getting married in jeans

at the Justice of Peace on the last Friday of your vacation.

Make sure you wear a tie to your job interview Al.
Beat Temple.

by jesse. on Sep 24, 2010 2:21 PM EDT up reply actions  

Yeah, that's the way to do it.

All except the last day of vacation thing. I did really like my honeymoon. I should’ve just gone straight to Hawaii and gotten married there, skipping all the rest of the ripoff wedding parts. That’s what my sister did.

Anyway, good job and best wishes!

by J Breezy on Sep 24, 2010 2:31 PM EDT up reply actions  

Here's something.

We took our honeymoon a week after our wedding instead of going the next day like most people do. We did this because the air fare to Hawaii was for some reason much cheaper the following week. That turned out to be a good move regardless of the savings because we still stayed a hotel the night of the wedding. The next day we had a nice breakfast and didn’t have to rush around to be anywhere. We also got to open all of our gifts and kick out the thank-you notes, all before we went away. And we were able to get settled into our place.

Another tip…. after a baby is born go back to work while your wife is still in the hospital (usually just one more day after the birth). Why waste a vacation day while she and the baby are in the hospital? The staff are taking care of them both so there’s no need to burn a day hanging around there. Your wife will need you and your help the most when she comes home.

by J Breezy on Sep 24, 2010 5:20 PM EDT up reply actions  

Life lessons at BSD!

"I have my Joe Paterno autograph already, but I don’t know that I’d begrudge anybody else from getting theirs no matter their age. That’s kind of like meeting Winston Churchill." jesse. @ BSD

by bconway6 on Sep 24, 2010 5:33 PM EDT up reply actions  

Themselves ... or West Virginia

If you assume Maryland is analogous to most Big East teams.
WVU beat them by two touchdowns, 31-17.

I’d say they’re bound to enjoy the Gator Bowl whatever bowls Jim Delany didn’t think were worth stealing out from under the Big East.

by Aaron PSU on Sep 24, 2010 1:14 PM EDT up reply actions  

Of course, WVU should have lost to Marshall, so who knows…. But I think there are enough equally mediocre teams in the Big East to not know who exactly will win the conference.

by Laaaaazzz on Sep 24, 2010 1:37 PM EDT up reply actions  

I've been in the middle of a WVU/Pitt fans email fight the past few days.

(I don’t comment because it could open me up to a 2 front war…the classic fatal mistake.) A Pitt fan actually had the nerve to make fun of WVU’s close call against a MAC team (Marshall). Pitt fans’ collective nerve/stupidity never ceases to amaze me. WVU has never lost to a MAC team; Pitt has lost to 3 in the last 6 years. Of course they also rip PSU for losing to a good (better than PSU) Toledo team…meanwhile they lost to a lesser Toledo team a year or two later! And have lost twice more since to MAC teams.

Same Pitt fan also admonished the Hoopie fans not to celebrate to soon because they could be getting a smackdown too against LSU. Perhaps…I don’t expect WVU to win, but they rarely embarrass themselves in big games. But the big flaws in that argument are that LSU is at least as good as and probably better than Miami and WVU is playing at LSU. Playing in front of 90,000 rabid and hostile fans is much tougher than playing at home with 50,000 easily jaded “fans”.

by J Breezy on Sep 24, 2010 1:47 PM EDT up reply actions  

How much better can that LSU team be than they were last year?

They get a couple of tailbacks back, but they weren’t that great at all.

Make sure you wear a tie to your job interview Al.
Beat Temple.

by jesse. on Sep 24, 2010 1:56 PM EDT up reply actions  

I dunno, but probably better

than Miami is. tOSU, while a very good team, crushed Miami. And Harris is not a good qb.

As for last year’s LSU team, our PSU boys beat them mainly due to the horrible field conditions.

by J Breezy on Sep 24, 2010 2:03 PM EDT up reply actions  

LSU is probably better right now then they were 1/1/10

Certainly at home.

I very much disagree with you about the field conditions though. I think Penn State scores 35-40 points on a fast track. We didn’t have the turnovers that LSU had, mostly because we recovered our fumbles. We had many a drive that got three rather than seven because of a slip and fall or a fumbled snap. The better team won that game.

Make sure you wear a tie to your job interview Al.
Beat Temple.

by jesse. on Sep 24, 2010 2:13 PM EDT up reply actions  

I'm not sure who the better team was.

I think they were pretty evenly matched. But I think those type conditions favor teams from this area. The southern teams don’t like playing in anything other than the warm sunshine and a dry field and the way their teams are “built” shows it.

by J Breezy on Sep 24, 2010 2:36 PM EDT up reply actions  

Crappy weather sure didn't help us against Iowa.

Didn’t really do us any favors against Minnesota either, but they sucked hard.

Make sure you wear a tie to your job interview Al.
Beat Temple.

by jesse. on Sep 24, 2010 2:37 PM EDT up reply actions  

Because Iowa is one of us.

There was no advantage….it was a push.

by J Breezy on Sep 24, 2010 2:39 PM EDT up reply actions  

No it was advantage Iowa by a mile.

Penn State’s a finess team. Has been for the better part of ten years. Conditions don’t help us in the slightest, I knew we were screwed against Iowa the second I saw the forecast of rain, more rain, and seriously dude – buy a canoe.

The perception is that the conditions benefitted Penn State, but I don’t think that’s the case.

Make sure you wear a tie to your job interview Al.
Beat Temple.

by jesse. on Sep 24, 2010 2:45 PM EDT up reply actions  

I dunno....

Maybe Iowa is better built for inclement weather than PSU is, but I still don’t think PSU is a finesse team the way SEC teams are.

by J Breezy on Sep 24, 2010 2:51 PM EDT up reply actions  

You have no idea how much it kills me that we're a "finesse" team.

How do you ask a man to be the first man to commit to Temple? How do you ask a man to be the first man to play for a lost cause?

by ReadingRambler on Sep 24, 2010 9:56 PM EDT up reply actions  

Minnesota is one of us, too.

And I wonder how many Super Bowls the Vikings would have won hd they played them in Minny.

by J Breezy on Sep 24, 2010 2:41 PM EDT up reply actions  

This is exactly what happened...

…with Pitt in 2004 (I believe it was). The year they went to the BCS bowl. They started 2-2 with a loss, I believe, to a MAC team. Barely beat Furman in OT, but won the ALWAYS weak Big East and went to the Fiesta Bowl (I believe) and got annihilated by Utah.

This is exactly why the Big East’s auto BCS bid should have been rescinded years ago.

by J Breezy on Sep 24, 2010 1:12 PM EDT up reply actions  

I'd like to see them play somebody...

…like that in the regular season (not in a bowl because then that bowl would not be worth watching). On Smizik’s blog today some Pitt fan made fun of PSU’s record against tOSU since 1993. Said it’s 6-11 and to enjoy our game this week against Temple.

I don’t know why they have to constantly bring PSU into everything regarding their football team (which is a clear sign of an inferiority complex), but it’s really stupid to bring up dumb examples like that. I mean…Pitt is 0-4 against tOSU since 1993, having been outscored in those games 216-45 (for an average score of 54-11). That’s almost unbelievable.

And yes, we’ll enjoy our game this week against Temple (who would probably beat Pitt)….while they enjoy their game against Florida Int’l!

by J Breezy on Sep 24, 2010 1:25 PM EDT up reply actions  

The Pitt people hate the Temple series.

Over and over and over again, they play Temple but they are afraid of us. Seriously, like five people called in to a show yesterday to complain about it.

Like I said above, these people have zero, zlitch, none, nada, no effing idea what they are talking about whatsoever. Like at all.

Make sure you wear a tie to your job interview Al.
Beat Temple.

by jesse. on Sep 24, 2010 1:37 PM EDT up reply actions  

And as soon as Pitt agrees to a 2 for 1 deal like Temple has done, they’d be on PSU’s schedule. Simple as that.

If they aren’t willing to do such a deal then the comparison to Temple is irrelevent.

by Laaaaazzz on Sep 24, 2010 1:41 PM EDT up reply actions  

Spoken like somebody with a clue.

Which is eaxctly my point.

Make sure you wear a tie to your job interview Al.
Beat Temple.

by jesse. on Sep 24, 2010 1:41 PM EDT up reply actions  

Because they fail to realize

it’s got nothing to do with fear and everything to do with money. Pretty much everything in life has everything to do with money and college football is certainly no exception. This simple concept is lost on the average yinzer, though.

by J Breezy on Sep 24, 2010 1:49 PM EDT up reply actions  

Ironically, I converted a Pitt fan with the money argument a few weeks ago.

We were jawing about the Bama game when the whole “Why don’t you play us?” thing came up. I rationally explained the money argument, and he said “You know what, you’re right. I wouldn’t play either.”

Then other Pitt fans started with the poop jokes and all rational thought was gone.

@EpicTripod
SBN - Pittsburgh
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by Jeff Junstrom on Sep 24, 2010 2:01 PM EDT up reply actions  

I work with someone who went to Pitt

she went to one football game the whole time she was there, and only because she was dragged there. She could care less.

Joe Paterno - Not Unlike Hugh Hefner

by letsgopsu on Sep 24, 2010 5:04 PM EDT up reply actions  

i know a kid who couldn't get into PSU (up) and

decided to go to Pitt. He grew up loving all things Penn State and still does. I had the same type of situation but decided to go to a branch for 2 years.

by tlrpsu on Sep 24, 2010 5:19 PM EDT up reply actions  

other than this kid

I really have never met a big Pitt fan as I’m from the Philly area.

by tlrpsu on Sep 24, 2010 5:20 PM EDT up reply actions  

Most of the Pitt alumni I know never went to football games at all, but I’m old enough that my contemporaries would have gone there in the 90’s when Pitt was godawful. Still, even now it seems like “Pitt football fans” get more traction out of hating PSU than rooting for Pitt, which I find odd.

by Laaaaazzz on Sep 24, 2010 9:26 PM EDT up reply actions  

Two classes, at least in this specific instance.

One – There were the Pitt fans who were knowledgeable about college football and were able to engage me for more than 5 meaningful minutes. I don’t have anything against these people, as rational college football debate is good for everyone. There were but a few people at this party that fell into this category, and I have nothing bad to say about them.

Two – The asshole, illiterate, uniformed Pitt fan whose sole knowledge of college football is “PITT GUUD, PEN STATE EVEL” will be met with “Are you fucking kidding me?” reactions every time. These people were present at the party I was at, and it took every fiber of my being to not drop a bar stool on their head. These people have no business being in a college football debate. The ironic thing, and hopefully not to be sexist, but the asshole Pitt fan that pissed me off the most left the conversation and his girlfriend made more rational points than he ever could.

@EpicTripod
SBN - Pittsburgh
Success With Honor

by Jeff Junstrom on Sep 24, 2010 9:37 PM EDT up reply actions  

What's ironic is that a girl who is knowledgeable about football

would date an asshat who doesn’t know what he’s talking about.

For the glory

by Paige2PSU on Sep 27, 2010 1:29 PM EDT up reply actions  

it's slim pickings out there Paige

and we both know it

Joe Paterno - Not Unlike Hugh Hefner

by letsgopsu on Sep 27, 2010 8:18 PM EDT up reply actions  

Yeah, I know it.

And sometimes it’s better just to be single! Rule number 1 for me – if a guy’s not a Penn State fan, he has to be able to at least talk intelligently about football and know that EVERY Saturday in the fall is going to be devoted to football.

For the glory

by Paige2PSU on Sep 27, 2010 10:40 PM EDT up reply actions  

Funny thing...

Riding home they were talking about what Pitt could do to mimick the success and intensity that Ohio State had against Miami. My response was better players and about 45,000 more people.

Make sure you wear a tie to your job interview Al.
Beat Temple.

by jesse. on Sep 24, 2010 1:40 PM EDT up reply actions  

As Colin Cowherd said today

when asked what would make him like the Chicago Bears – he answered “You can start by giving them Green Bay’s players”. I see a Pitt-OSU corollary.

One man doing the work of 100's for the good of 1000's

by rahpsu92 on Sep 24, 2010 2:10 PM EDT up reply actions  

All day yesterday, I was stumped.

Who was I going to root for (or actually just root against) in this game? I HATE all things Miami and thoroughly enjoyed watching them get smashed by tOSU. That being said, if Pitt fails to win a game for 27 years in a row, I’d still want them to lose more. In the end, I fell back on “OSU already beat Miami, and if Miami wins it will make OSU look better, which in turn would make us look better if we happen to beat them.” It’s a big if at this point in the season, but seeing the sadness on those Pitt fans’ faces brought tears of joy to my eyes. I celebrated their loss almost as much as I celebrate our wins. The Pennsylvania Football Gods smiled down on me and let me witness the utter ineptitude of Pitt. I will now go sacrifice a calf to them in order to prevent their anger from being aimed at PSU.

"If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?" Vince Lombardi

by usn_kologi on Sep 24, 2010 3:10 PM EDT reply actions  

Thank goodness tOSU beat Miami.

And that Miami beat Pitt. Could you imagine the reverse – Miami beating tOSU and then Pitt beating Miami? All the Pitt fans would be gloating how they beat a team that beat the top team in the Big 10, therefore Pitt is better than all teams Big 10, as would be the Big East as a whole. Plus tOSU is most likely going to beat PSU this year (and it could get ugly) and if that were to happen, coupled with the aforementioned…..oh man, we’d never hear the end of it from the Pitt fans.

tOSU not only beat Miami, they creamed them. I for one am glad about it and also very glad Miami slaughtered Pitt.

Most of my Miami hate has dissipated. They aren’t nearly as cocky and thuggish (and as good!) as they once were. Plus I have to give them tons of credit for the OOC schedule. I actually admire them for that. Even though the hate is mostly gone, I still don’t really root for them. In fact, now that they’ve lost to tOSU and beaten Pitt, I hope they lose the rest of their games to make tOSU’s win look not as good and Pitt’s loss look even worse.

(Yeah, I’m a weird dude.)

by J Breezy on Sep 24, 2010 4:34 PM EDT up reply actions  

Pitt players beat their pregnant girlfriends?

After Thursday’s night’s game, coach Dave Wannstedt called Knox’s actions, “Very disappointing. Some things we won’t tolerate. That’s one of them.”

by cjapsu on Sep 24, 2010 4:26 PM EDT reply actions  

Old news.

Latest at Pitt is a hoops player (Lamar Patterson) crashing his car into a building in Oakland. Media reports indicate it was a legit accident and not his fault, but Pitt doesn’t need this. “No news is good news” is what they need right now.

by J Breezy on Sep 24, 2010 4:37 PM EDT up reply actions  

I think part of the frustration with Pitt fans

is it seems they’ve gotten worse since the Utah game, they had a chance to win that game and Utah is a pretty good team. I think it was reasonable to expect a better performance than that, especially since Miami looked very beatable against tOSU.

by Joe 96alum on Sep 24, 2010 11:58 PM EDT reply actions  

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