assuming everyone stays is Lovelace big enough, or the freshman Marcelin and does anyone know how cam Lindsey is doing

This is crazy. They've lost so many people to the portal that the school may cancel the bowl game.

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NIU isnt official yet but it seems like it will happen. These additions dont make any sense to me. NIU is for football-only. Is NIU's football brand that strong that the Mountain West needs a fish out of water school like this? And for NIU, is this new Mountain West really that much better than the MAC and so much so that you have to relegate all of your other teams to the Horizon or Summit Leagues?

As for UC Davis, I can understand why theu'd want to do it but what value does UC Davis basketball bring to the Mountain West. Seems like it just waters it down. With bball programs UNLV, New Mexico, Nevada, and Grand Canyon, the league wouldn't be too bad. Adding UC Davis to that just seems off.

Go Army, Beat Navy! I'm pretty sure CBS already released their pregame intro unless it was a fakey I saw on tik tok. Easily the best pregame intro to any game, ever.

Go Army!

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I mean they all are tremendous

H2P!

Showing up to the strip club with only 40 bucks. You're not expecting much, but you park your car and walk inside anyway.

You see Billy Buckeye at the bar; he's going to drop a G tonight. And Larry Longhorn just got done writing his final check for alimony; he might part with $1,500 or so. But you and your paltry 40 bucks order a Diet Pepsi and take a seat.

An adventurous stripper - stage name Priscilla - senses you're impoverished and figures, "Ah, what the hell?" She grabs you by the hand and takes you to the backroom figuring she'll show you, Peter Panther, a good night anyway.

Things start to progress: a Washington here, a Lincoln there. Not in your wildest dreams would you have expected to get to this point tonight. Wow, what a fantastic experience!

But then Priscilla's friend, Lexie, pops her head in the room. "Hey, baby; guess who just showed up. Dick Duck!"

Dick Duck is known as the highest of rollers around these parts. Priscilla simply can't afford to play charity ball with you anymore. She buttons up immediately. Hell, she even throws on a sweater she didn't wear *into* the room. That's correct: she is leaving with more clothes on than she actually walked into the room wearing. And the only thing left in your pocket - those cheap Wranglers you bought used and unwashed at a yardsale - is a ketchup packet you took from Wendy's a few days ago (even though you didn't even order fries, you pathetic cheapskate).

It's time to drive home now. You can't even afford to stop at Sheetz to buy a muffin to help soak up the carbonation from the Pepsi. Back to your wife you go. Yep, back to Tammy Toledo. She's a real Rocket alright. At least she kind of makes you want to attach yourself to one, prior to it blasting off for the moon.

Hopefully the big fish get tired of showing up to the strip club with paperboy money. Guess we'll know what's happening with our NIL collective in these next few weeks.

What a comeback!!!

Interestingly other bracketologists have Pitt higher, in the 4 or 5 range.

Lunardi also has UNC as an 8 seed which is surprising because most bracketologists have them in the last 4 in or out range.

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so fortunate to not have lost to what appears to be a quad 3 team. getting smoked by auburn.

What you got.

My idea. Pitt needs to roll with 65 Players. Save the million you use on the last 20 kids and spread it across the 65 that you have.

In the era of Unlimited transfers why not. Players being in the program for 4 years is ending quickly. We know on every 85 man roster Pitt has at least 20 kids never gonna sniff the field.

Pitt Cannot compete the way CFB is moving need to try and do something else or continue to average 7 wins.

Sell it to the kids as more individualized attention/ instruction.

10 Dline
8 LB
5 safeties
5 CB

12 Oline
6 WR
3 TE
4 RB
3 QB

1 ls
4 Kickers/ Punters

4 whatever,

Said expect some good news coming very soon from Pitt football. He didn’t offer specifics but probably sone major announcements of key players returning to Pitt for the 2025 season. I know a few have announced their intentions so far but the big names are out there from our current roster. Basically we have lost depth pieces so far for the most part but needs to be very aggressive in addition to our key starters returning because we need help in most areas if not all positions whether it be starters or backups!. Stay tuned!

This is depressing, conference is pretty damn bad right now

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Portal Running Back

Wonder if Eli and a percentage of our remaining NIL could land a big fish like this.

Need a bigger, difference making back to complement Reid and help Holstein and the much maligned o-line.

Updates please. Is it in tv?

So, Dick Rod has fired the first salvos in the Pitt/WVU rivalry. Starting with his introductory press conference and continuing on the Pat McAfee show. So much fun being their main distraction. Or at least being thought of as playing the head games. Either way, it is so hilarious!!!! Wonder if they burned a couch when the news of Dick Rod's hiring was made official? LMAO!!!

** Wow was that a whuppin!

** To be honest, earlier this evening, I was thinking to myself that we were due for a stinker. But I think that if this game had JUST been a stinker this would have been a huge upgrade over what we actually had to watch..

** I’ll always try to offer that good with the bad when writing about any game. But trying to uncover anything good that happened on the court in Mississippi tonight seems kind of silly.

** What we all know, however, is that a College Basketball season for every team is indeed a journey. And like the rest of the Pitt Hoops faithful, the last few days have been fun thinking that our journey would be a full throttle ride to the top.

** I still believe that this Pitt team is a good team. I also believe that this Mississippi team is a good team.

** And the Bulldogs came out full throttle with their fullest physicality on display. After getting knocked to the floor, we never got up at all. And Mississippi State kept kicking us when we were down.

** So with that, maybe I can find something good that happened on the court tonight.

** Within our journey, this was a lesson of the highest magnitude. We have seen our Panthers play with toughness at times. Now they know how bad it can hurt if you don’t bring it all of the time.

** Maybe it’s almost better that the Panthers never even came close to battling back and getting the score to something around a respectable dozen.

** Maybe it’s better that the Panthers were embarrassed and outclassed, and then some, and some more after that.

** Maybe this is just what the Panthers needed at this point in the season to push them to a better place later in the year.

** That’s what I'm thinking at the moment anyway.

** There are times when a coach just asks a team to put a game behind them and move on … “shower well” as Clint Hurdle would say. Allow me to suggest something a little different. I hope this is a whuppin our Panthers never forget. I hope it burns in them all the way through March.

** One might argue that the Panthers really never got off the plane in Mississippi. Regardless, I want to see them get off the plane in Blacksburg on Saturday filled with some anger and a terrible resolve.

** This is what good teams do after a whuppin. This is what I expect to see from our Panthers three days from now.

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