Heading down the home stretch....3 more weeks before tournament selection. Each team has 6 matches remaining in the regular season......but these are the top matches left for #1 Pitt, #2 Nebraska, #3 Louisville, and #4 Penn State. The only head to head matches are Pitt at Louisville and Nebraska at Penn State. Creighton (#5) is breathing down Penn State's back and probably won't lose again. One loss by Penn State will likely kick them out of the top 4. Home matches are in bold.

Pitt

• #22 Florida State at Pitt on 11/15
• #3 Louisville at Louisville on 11/27
• #15 Georgia Tech at Pitt on 11/30

Louisville

• #1 Pitt at Louisville on 11/27
• #7 Stanford at Stanford on 11/30

Penn State

• #8 Purdue at Penn State on 11/21
• #2 Nebraska at Penn State on 11/29

Nebraska

• #16 Minnesota at Nebraska on 11/14
• #6 Wisconsin at Nebraska on 11/23
• #4 Penn State at Penn State on 11/29

I’m really concerned about Kade Bell as the OC moving forward. In the beginning the scheme was great the tempo was working. P4 coaches weren’t watching WCU film to prepare for Bell. Once teams got film and figured out the scheme it’s not working. Losing the UVA game was on the offense for failing to execute. Yes the refs sucked but we have to be better. We can’t do the little things right now and we aren’t being put in positions to make plays either.

For 5 weeks now our offense is struggling.
Offensive line- they are not able to initiate the line of scrimmage. They are getting no surge and we are unable to sustain drives running the football. Pass pro is a train wreck we are often getting beat before the QB has time to hit his hitch step or his drop. This is a problem that can’t be fixed until after the season. Tactically they are terrible. We aren’t initiating contact and it’s not getting better

Quarterback- mechanically we are bad. Eli and Nate look uncomfortable they are throwing the ball from unnatural positions the ball is inaccurate and they look bad. Often times they are not aligned to their targets and are fading away from the throws. When they are in the pocket they are not feeling pressure they are escaping into the pressure they aren’t moving correctly. This is a coaching and a feel issue. We are missing open guys when they do get open. We are too slow to throw with anticipation and missing windows. We aren’t good right now.

RB- Reid was a great story but the splash is gone he is getting hit at or behind the line on most carries he is no longer a threat in the passing game. Carter needs to see the field more he can initiate contact and break tackles behind the bad blocking.
Hammond and Davis are no longer even being used. As a group we are making no splash plays.

Receivers and TE- we aren’t getting open enough. Route concepts are terrible and they aren’t beating their man. We have forgotten that Kenny Johnson is a playmaker. Mumpfield is hardly an option any more and rarely running routes to get open. Bell has basically minimized the top 2 WR on the roster. Poppi Williams gets open but can’t catch it now. The WR group needs to be better won’t even mention the drops. The routes right now look to be choice routes constantly and that is not working we aren’t pushing secondary guys and we aren’t winning match ups.
TE aren’t being used at all. Bart most the time is running routes 3-5 yards and being covered by linebackers. We haven’t worked the middle of the field we haven’t used mismatches the TE looks like it did when Cignetti was in charge.

What has happened to the middle of the field three level route concepts. We aren’t flooding zones. We aren’t rolling the pockets. We aren’t using match up football it is bad. We look like we are playing without correction and without reaction there is nothing positive with the offense right now.

Kade Bell looks overwhelmed the offensive staff is showing they as a group are not ready for big boy football. Since the California game our offense hasn’t made changes. This group has to get it figured out right now they appear that they can’t scheme at this level. I am not saying they are incapable but right now they have to be challenged. Pat Narduzzi has to be asking this group if they belong here.

We are 7-2 the season isn’t over we can still win 10 games… time to put this stretch behind us and get back to winning football. Things have to change and it starts with the offense. The offense and the refs lost us the Virginia game. However we put ourselves in the position that the refs could impact that game. Tough to swallow 7-2 when easily we should be an 8-1 team today. Eli getting hit as we were driving to go up 20-7 changed the whole game Sauls kick gets blocked and Yarnell throws 2 key interceptions and the points taken off the board by the bogus hold and we all know about 5th down

Hello!

Just wanted to ask if anyone had a parking pass they aren’t using for the clemson game anywhere on the north shore, and what you’d want for it?

Thanks and H2P!

Friends invited us. Reading it was named one of the best 50 restaurants in the US by the New York Times.

Saturday's game against Clemson will be Pitt's final date in Acrisure Stadium for the season, which means it will be the final home game for the Panthers' seniors. On today's Morning Pitt, we're talking about Pitt's seniors - their careers, their stories and a lot more.

Ishmael Leggett was probably very proud to win the ACC’s Sixth Man of the Year award last year.

And in a moment of honesty, he would probably admit that he had no intention whatsoever of winning it again.

I posted this on the football board but with basketball getting rolling and some not going back and forth I wanted to put this on here for those that want to follow along.

Select your projected winners to calculate conference tournament seeds

Conference Tournament Projector

Is he still around?

Loses at home to Columbia.

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counting the bowl game

It's Wednesday night, and you know what that means:

It's time for the LIVE Panther-Lair Show with Jim and me. Tune in at 8:30 pm to talk about Pitt's 2-game losing streak in football and 3-game winning streak in hoops.

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Saw this link going around Twitter. Not the prettiest of websites but effective on breakout and understanding how conferences can be won and lost by changing game results around. Will be a useful tool beyond Pitt for just us “playoff nerds.”

Conference standings adjuster

Scrolled thru their roster and the only guy I recognized was Devries, the transfer from Drake. Think he started last year on that team of theirs that ended up getting a 10 seed, so not too shabby. He's their leading scoring so imagine that's the guy we gotta key on so probably put Dunn or Austin on him since he's a small forward.

With one of those super cushioned helmet covers ? Discuss

Why are they ranked 6th and not 1st? Is anyone going to beat this team (winning at half v UK - watch, they’ll probably lose now).

They’re running a lineup where everyone is over 6’6”

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Where we stand at each weight on the different rankings services: Intermat, Flo, Wrestlestat
125: Babin: 16, 18, 21
133: Vin: 30, 26, 31
141: Ant: NR, NR, NR
149: Solomon: 29, 25, 33
157: Evans: NR, NR, NR
165: TBD: NR All
174: Augustine: 18, 20, 20
184: Heller: 13, 13, 17
197: Stout: 14, 17, 12
285: Pitzer: 13, 14, 14
7 guys solidly in the rankings. Evans and Santaniello could slide in with a win against Lehigh next weekend. 165 I am curious who we will see toe the line against Lehigh, either way that weight is currently our furthest from the rankings.

Fran Brown yesterday told the media he won't shower after losses because he "doesn't deserve soap".

I mean, this guy needs some help. He's screaming for it actually. What the hell!

Need another parking pass for Clemson. Doesnt matter where. Anyone have one?

Section 105 Row R. DM if interested.

What positions and how many would you add for the 2025 in the portal?

QB: maybe 1 but only if Yarnell leaves
RB: 1 could maybe stay put here
WR: 1
TE: 0
OL: 3

DT: 1
DE: 2
LB: 0
CB: 1
S: 0

From the PG today.

When teams go zone, I think part of it is that they want to slow you down a little bit and make you think, and when you haven’t seen it, it can make your offense go, ‘OK, what are they in? What are we supposed to be in?’ ” Capel said. “It messed with us a little bit. And then we got into our head a little bit. And those are two things we can’t allow to happen.”

But throughout the long field goal droughts that kept this game closer than was comfortable for Pitt, both Capel and his counterpart from Gardner-Webb, Luther, thought the Panthers were generating the right shots.

“I don’t know if we slowed them down more so than they missed shots. I think they missed 21 3-pointers,” Luther said. “They make some of those, and that game gets really ugly.”

im thinking 25

Grew up in Virginia and is an ACC football fan. I wonder what team? Possible conflict of interest?https://www.therecorderonline.com/articles/nate-black-named-football-official-in-acc/