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looking forward to home opener against G Town on 8/22. how are supposed to look this year?

We are #18. Pretty good with the loss to SMU. No complaints H2P

2025 guard Chance Mallory just decommitted from UVA earlier this week. Two sources told me this evening that they expect Pitt to take a hard look at Mallory. I have also talked with Mallory since he reopened his recruitment and he is in no hurry. He is going to take his time to figure everything out. Kevin Willard from Maryland visited with him today

Whimper. .209 hitter. Somebody make it stop.

UGH. That is all I can say. I didn't start until I got home on DVR when the game was already at half time but my texts betrayed how bad we were playing. Here are some thoughts.

• I'm really happy that our players are mentally tougher than our fans. Some of the posts on here are embarrassing. Yes, we probably were not as good as most of us thought we were.
• It's hard for me to pin any of this on the coaches. I don't see Narduzzi as someone that takes any team lightly. It was just a bad night where everything went wrong.
• Holstein isn't right. Whether it's the shoddy o line play or not wanting to have another game like the Cal debacle, he's not hitting open receivers and is bailing from a clean pocket when he has one. 3 fumbles also aren't going to do it.
• I'm not about to discard the Bell offense because we see guys open on replay. However, we do not have a good run blocking line and played a stout run defense so why we continue to try and run for it on 3rd and 2 is beyond me.
• We need to get some linemen in the portal. We aren't going to run any offense with what we have this year but hopefully we see some improvement.
• Lost in all of this was a pretty good Kenny Johnson game. Season high 8 catches and his first TD since YSU.
• Congrats to Malachi Thomas on first college action and TD.
• I have to say, I really like Jake Overman. Shame he's a senior.
• That was the worst tackling I've seen from a Pitt team since I don't know when. I do think there were a few standouts even if our defense mostly sucked. Louis, Lovelace, McMillon (glad he's ok), Lynum, Bass, Edwards, Matlack, and Marcelin all flashed.
• If I had to guess where we end up, I'm saying 9-3. I think we will handle UVA and BC and likely lose to Clemson and L'ville. But I also think 10 wins is still possible either through a bowl game or a big time performance in either of the two potential losses. If I told you before the year that we might win 10 you'd have thought i was drunk. Luckily, no matter how bad we lost that game, it only counts as one loss.
• BONUS - PSU really is always the sum is lesser than the parts. OSU tried to give that game away. They were up 10-0 after the pick 6 and never scored an offensive TD. Smith stopped running on what would have been a walk in TD in the 4th. Warren is an incredible player and you somehow only have him touch the ball 7 times. On the final drive, OSU ran a read option twice and both times no one took the QB. Then you have Franklin jawing with a fan calling him out about being a man a week after hiding behind a curtain refusing to answer questions about yet ANOTHER rape under his watch.

Frankly needs to retire. Awful showboating performance as usual.

As @JimHammett said the one sequence that the ball went out off Redford, he somehow thought he blew an “inadvertent” whistle when it was clearly OB.

Dude is awful,

Is it just me or is there an obvious issue there? It seems we have not gotten alot of good to offensive lineman lately . I know Enos is new and there is a learning curve there or possibly strength ...but the guys were just blowing through and by him in the last game . Maybe its due to the quickness of the other team . The entire offensive line with possibly the exception of Williams seems slow and unable to give the QB any advantage. I am not cutting anyone down I am just asking if there is any help that is available there. I love Reid but he is not the only weapon on the offense running or receiving. Other teams are gearing up for him, I feel like there are other weapons that can be utilized. It seems like Holsteins only choice is I gotta go with Reid. Kenny Johnson, D Reynolds and Rodney Hammond and Carter are good players and I still feel like we should be using Bartholomew more. Its almost like he has to help block to make up for our offensive line inconsistent play.

Welcome to the 2024-25 College basketball season! I am at the Petersen Events Center tonight for the Panthers' opener against Radford.

I'm starting the game thread early, well, because I'm here early because I thought traffic was going to be worse than it ended up being.

Cheers to a new season!

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Funny how media narratives drive public opinion. One is an MVP and the other is a washed up loser.

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Does anyone else see a little Julius in Ish?

Just wondering

I just saw a Pitt fan in the stands with a “new colors” t-shirt with “Joe Knew” on it.

Great!

Pitt moved up from #37 to #32 in KenPom and from #50 to # 44 in Torvik ratings.

• Miami takes down #5 Stanford.....3 sets to 2
• Missouri takes down #9 Texas.....3 sets to 2

Also....#3 Penn State beat Iowa and #2 Nebraska beat #7 Wisconsin

Nate Yarnell has more composure, sees the field better, makes faster decisions and throws a nicer ball than Holstein.

I get that Holstein is a Rs Freshman and played well early but for whatever reason he is playing scared and is tentative. I hope he figures it out soon because QB play is going to be the difference between 7 - 5 and 9-3 or 10-2.

If anyone can't use their's. Feel free to text 814-241-8525.

I’m still pretty confident in our team. That defensive effort last night was an outlier against a team who was clearly very talented and better prepared. We routinely missed tackles and gave up on plays, which is very uncharacteristic. That doesn’t happen to us often, and I don’t expect it to happen again.

Offensively, they’re having trouble making a counter punch to the adjustments defenses have made against us. But I think we’ll eventually take another step forward. There’s still a lot of talented players on that side of the ball.

Oddly enough, I felt more nervous about that SMU game than I did about playing Clemson in a couple of weeks. They are clearly very good, the night game, atmosphere, stakes, and our team being very young and inexperienced… It was a perfect storm.

I think we’re clearly better than Virginia and Boston College. They don’t have big-play offenses and their defenses give up lots of yards.

Clemson at home is certainly a bigger challenge, but they really don’t blow me away on either side of the ball. Most of their impressive wins have been against terrible teams.

Louisville on the road is probably the toughest game left, and that defense gives up lots of yards, too. Shough is extremely streaky at QB and makes his fair share of mistakes.

I guess what I’m saying is 10-2 or 11-1 are still on the table. We were never gonna be 12-0. If you thought that after 3-9 last season, you’re just not being rational.

I’m looking forward to see how we rebound at home this weekend.

H2P

Been taking our cars here for years, was there last month everything same as usual

Took my dad's car up there earlier today to get it inspected, lobby emptied out, sign on the door says Permanently Closed

Anyone know anything about this? In the old Davis Shopping Center where Seabase is and the DMV office used to be. I know Sheetz is putting in a location there, wonder if the AAMCO franchise owner decided to hang it up or Sheetz bought out his lot along with the rest (Seabase is still going to be there)

Hope they open at a new location, really don't wanna have to find a new place to take our vehicles

That last night was WITHOUT amsal, who I think a lot of us are thinking will be one of our best players. Can’t wait to see him out there.

Pitt -7

And after this last game I now fully believe Vegas so we can write this one in as a W

The Pitt Panthers overwhelmed Radford 96-56 on Monday night at the Petersen Events Center to start off the new season with an emphatic victory. Pitt turned things up a notch near the end of the first half and ran away with it after the break. The Panthers are 1-0, so what stood out from game one?

How it’s supposed to look

If this Pitt team is going to have the type of season some believing they are capable of having, then the driving forces are obviously going to be Ishmael Leggett and Jaland Lowe. The Panthers have several talented players, but what can separate this team is elite guard play.

On Monday, the dynamic Pitt backcourt lived up to the preseason hype.

“Yeah, well, those two guys have the ability to make plays with scoring and with passing and creating for others,” head coach Jeff Capel said of his backcourt’s performance. “It's great to have that two experienced veteran…Jaland’s, I guess you would say he's a veteran, but just good guards.”

Those two good guards combined for 40 points, 17 rebounds, nine assists, and five steals on Monday, and both of them were thriving in the areas you would expect. Lowe played with confidence. He has one of the quickest first steps in college basketball, and when he wanted to go to the rim that is exactly what he did. The star sophomore finished with a career-high 21 points, six assists, three steals, and no turnovers.

Leggett looked even more comfortable in his game than he did last season. The senior went for 19 points on 9-of-13 shooting. He also grabbed a team-high 12 rebounds. Leggett is so good at contorting himself around the basket and making tough layups. In the 40-point win, the 6-foot-3 senior also got up for the play of the night on a putback slam.

“Legs just feeling good,” Leggett said of him highlight dunk. “Yeah, legs just feeling a little better today.”

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