uhhh is he too young to remember 2 and 3 years ago or is this the local thoughts on Pitt??? kinda concerning imo

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All three sets close, but this is a good result for Pitt with Stanford on the horizon.

I am thinking 9-2 or 10-1 OOC and anywhere from 13-7 to 15-5 ACC. I am going to settle in on 10-1 and 14-6 for a total of 24-7 before the ACC tournament.

What is your prediction?

Paraphrasing but in his media day, he said what we've all been saying:

- they hired someone to do a statistical analysis on scheduling and how it affects NET rankings in a response to the low number of bids

- making efforts to ensure "our coverage is appropriately reflecting the talent and the teams we have"

- highlighted ACCN as a positive but says without saying that they want better coverage on ALL (emphasized all) the ESPN networks

What I took away from this is what I and many of us have been saying. Lunardi and others have been too influential in getting into the heads of the committee. Remember, these AD's have 80 hour/week jobs and dont watch college basketball other than their own teams. They only look at NET rankings, non-conference schedules, and listen to what the analysts think. I'm not saying that anyone says "Well Lunardi thinks Pitt shouldn't make it so lets keep them out" but when you have a guy like that highlighting every single negative aspect of Pitt's resume without bringing up the good points (ie road wins and others), it reminds me of the 3 news channels telling only one side of the story. And he works for a company who has a business relationship with ESPN.

Its just not Lunardi though. The ACC isnt talked about as much on ESPN as the Big 13 and Big Ten.

- says the league has been "undervalued"

So seems like a lot of efforts are being made but the most thing this league can do is win the November/December OOC games. Those are the most important games of the season. Conference games dont help or hurt the league as a whole. You have a winner and a loser. For every team that picks up a Big W like Pitt over Wake, you have that Wake team whose resume gets dinged. This is why I say the league needs to play at least 2 and as many as 4 ACC games before Thanksgiving to prepare teams for crucial holiday tournaments and ACC/B10 Invitational. To me, it makes 0 sense to jam 18 games into January/February. Play more of those games in November and come up with a scheduling agreement with leagues like the Horizon, SoCon, etc to play some of those teams in Jan/Feb.

- also said he thinks the NET "point differential" is going to get tweaked but didnt make it seem like that's coming this year or what will happen. They should use my advice and "turn it off" once a team has like a 99% chance to win. So if Duke goes up 6-0 on St. Francis, the rest of the possessions in the game dont count. Now if St. Francis makes it interesting and are down by 6 at halftime, you retroactively turn it on. There are ways to tweak this. A team shouldn't be rewarded for winning by 50 instead of 20.

On today's Morning Pitt, we're joined by Pitt volleyball star Olivia Babcock for a conversation about the Panthers after their first loss, her ability to take over a game, her hitting accuracy and whether she can dunk a basketball.

in the Broncos v Saints game tonight. Mathis also playing.

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They Suck…

They even made that game look good 😂.

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Just wondering if anyone has a favorite? What do you like/dislike? Also, just wondering if Chris belongs to any, because I saw someone that looked like him at Costco Robinson..

These old gold mustard Saints unis are awesome. Makes you wonder why a team would ever ditch them for the bland light gold color. 😏

I’m all seriousness, that would be bad as heck if Pitt incorporated that into some kind of alternative uniform instead of “ice white”, “blackout”, or whatever other trend that every other school already does.

SMU points for: 245
Pitt points for: 245

SMU points against: 134
Pitt points against: 141

SMU total offense rank: 46
Pitt total offense rank: 11

SMU total defense rank: (T)-44
Pitt total defense rank: 64

SMU passing defense rank: 97
Pitt passing defense rank: 101

SMU rushing defense rank: 16
Pitt rushing defense rank: 31

SMU turnover margin rank: (T)-8 (+8 in turnover margin)
Pitt turnover margin rank: (T)-49 (+2 in turnover margin)

I'm just saying these are two teams that look pretty damn evenly matched in a lot of ways. Should be a tough but good game

Losing 2 fumbles in 17 minutes??? One at VT's 5 yard line the other at their own 20 yard line. It's tough to win when you're a walking turnover.

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Pat Narduzzi

Pittsburgh

$6,699,551

ACC

$6,699,551

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And that is only the 27th largest head coaching salary

Insane lol

Brings back memories

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5-0... scoring points... Steelers suck... non noon kickoff... 75 degrees with clear skies. You'd have to think so, no?

Not a lot of movement this week with six teams off and no game outcomes that really moved the needle. Here's how I have the ACC ranked:

1. Miami (1)
2. Clemson (2)
3. Pitt (3)
4. SMU (4)
5. Louisville (5)
6. Syracuse (8)
7. Georgia Tech (7)
8. Duke (9)
9. Virginia (6)
10. Boston College (10)
11. Cal (11)
12. Virginia Tech (12)
13. Stanford (13)
14. North Carolina (14)
15. N.C. State (15)
16. Wake Forest (16)
17. Florida State (17)

Honestly, that bottom seven is pretty much just a mess.

Here are my game picks against the spread in the conference this week:

Boston College at Virginia Tech (-8) - Tonight
Florida State at Duke (-3) - Tomorrow night
Miami (-4.5) at Louisville
Virginia at Clemson (-21.5)
Wake Forest at UConn (-2)
Notre Dame (-11.5) at Georgia Tech
N.C. State at Cal (-10)
SMU (-16.5) at Stanford

Let's see your rankings and picks.

Lol.

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