Or do they just turn a blind eye because it aligns with the ideology? Little do they know that their ideology is what it is largely because of the media.

I can’t believe I’m posting on this board but does anyone else still follow Harry Psaros and see some of the stuff he’s been posting?

All true, partially true, or is he just grifting? My guess is the answer may be somewhere in the middle. I try to eat relatively healthy and avoid processed/junk foods for the most part but seeing tirades against even certain meats, dairy and bread is… something else.

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In case you are wondering, here is the updated commitment list with all 15 of the 2026 commitments (and of course, all 10 of the ones from the weekend)....

Karl will have a comprehensive notebook recapping the weekend at some point today.....

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Borrowing Meisters list here for a minute

Class of 2026:

1. Matt Sieg - Fort Cherry - 6-0, 170, safety (#7 recruit in PA) - Penn State

2. Jay Timmons - Pine-Richland - 5-11, 175, defensive back - Indiana

3. Reston Lehman - Peters Township - 6-4, 230, linebacker

4. Colsen Gatten - Central Catholic - 6-1½, 210, linebacker - Down to Rutgers, Indiana, and Pitt

5. David Davis - Imani Christian - 6-0, 190, defensive back - Penn State

6. Ashton Blatt - Central Catholic - 6-4, 230, defensive end - Soon to be crossed off, Pitt not one of his official visits:

7. Kyshawn Robinson - Westinghouse - 5-10, 170, defensive back

8. Brendan Alexander - Central Valley - 6-4, 290, offensive line

9. Da’Ron Barksdale - Steel Valley - 5-11, 175, defensive back

10. Daiveon Taylor - Aliquippa - 6-2, 210, linebacker - Kent State

11. Lucas Shanafelt – Peters Township – 6’4, 235, tight end – Stanford

12. Lincoln Hoke – North Allegheny – 6’2, 260 – defensive tackle


According to the story in the PG, only 2 from the list (Hoke & Lehman) will be onsite this weekend. Less than ideal. I wonder what is going on with Robinson, haven't heard anything on him. I thought I saw on Twitter Karlo wasn't super optimistic on Lehman either, Rutgers might be in the lead for pete's sake.

I started this thread on the basketball forum and would love your thoughts over here......

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I have watched this 30 for 30 a bunch of times and the other day I was laying in bed and it was on again. And I watch it with a different filter now as the ACC is going through many of the same struggles now as the Big East did back then. Here are my thoughts and I would love yours....

1) There is a lot of revisionist history going on in that show. The conference blew up because the basketball schools never wanted to acquiesce much to the football schools and Mike Tranghese was a good commissioner but he was a basketball guy and wasn't strong enough to get the Georgetown's and Villanova's to see the future of college athletics. The model was never going to work and needed to change and I remember covering all of those years when teams started leaving. It wasn't "greed" as they said and it wasn't that football was trying to take over - it was and is very clear that football revenues drove the bus. And the Big East was the first of the conferences to create their own network (or at least produce their own games) and had they struck a deal that made sense for everyone they could have survived. But again, when Tranghese was trying to constantly appease the basketball schools it just wasn't going to work. They should have worked hard to create a 10-team football conference and an 8-team basketball conference to survive the changing landscape. They didn't want to and it all blew up.

2) The ACC is now doing a similar thing. The one thing they did better than the Big East was at least get something (five football games) out of Notre Dame. And now that Notre Dame signed a 12-year deal with Clemson, Notre Dame is trying to make it so all 12 games count towards their allotment of ACC games over the course of the agreement. That means there will only be four ACC games for Notre Dame (plus Clemson) every year and further cuts the pie in terms of how often teams get to play Notre Dame. It is not good. Pitt was probably being a good partner and didn't pursue its own deal with Notre Dame but as we have seen, Clemson does what it wants and the ACC is held hostage because they need Clemson and know it. If I was Allen Greene, I would still pursue some sort of separate deal with Notre Dame, especially since it looks like the USC game is falling apart. The ACC is at a critical point right now and the way they are going to divide revenues now (unequally) is a dangerous game to play.

3) I am not sure how you could watch that and not miss Big East basketball. My first year covering the ACC tournament in Greensboro - after years at the Garden with the Big East - my comments were "this feels like an NCAA regional, not a conference tournament." There just is no real atmosphere, it is stale and quite frankly a lot of the ACC games just feel stale. That's not to say Pitt isn't in the place it needs to be right now but man, those days in the Big East were the best of times, especially when Pitt was rolling. And those games in the 1980s were just basically wars. Almost all of my best and favorite memories of Pitt basketball came in the Big East.

4) The Big East teams are probably going to get the last laugh in basketball because all of their revenue sharing is going to go their basketball programs. That means they will have higher payrolls and probably be able to compete at a higher level than most of the ACC except the top blue blood type teams. The ACC has a problem in that it is trying to get into the big boys room in football and that has hurt its basketball conference. It really has. You can't spend all the money on football and then wonder why your basketball conference is falling behind. The Big Ten and SEC have a lot of resources and money and they have been able to spend to build both their football and basketball conferences. So far, looking at the commitment from the ACC schools, it seems like it has been an either/or proposition. It can't be, these schools need to figure out how to be viable in both sports. I am reading some horror stories about some schools in the ACC - Pitt might be one of them - looking to cut sports and do a number of things like that in order to survive. The Big East football conference could have been a thing but the people running the conference didn't understand that schools like Miami and Virginia Tech needed to be taken seriously in terms of what their priorities were.

5) One last thing, the Big East not inviting Penn State was a misstep but I firmly believe even if they had and Penn State joined the conference it would have been in the Big Ten by the end of the 1990s anyway. The powers that be at Penn State believed they fit best in the Big Ten, academically and athletically. So I think it is a stretch to say if Penn State had come, it would have changed everything because I think they would have come and gone and that might actually have moved the timeline up for the implosion of the conference.

I don't know what your thoughts are on this but would love to get them.

Pitt playing Clemson twice. You can already chalk up two losses.

One popular theory was that Elons Epstein tweet was intentional and calculated, as it brought out more Dems to call for the release of the files, giving the trump administration the opportunity to give Dems what they were asking for.

But I never bought into that nonsense.

So why aren’t the files being released?

Is it because Epstein was an Israeli intelligence asset?

Or is it something else?

Mr. Walczak, 55, joined his mother’s nursing home business after dropping out of college, eventually becoming chief executive. After she sold the company in 2007, they invested $18 million in a new nursing home venture based in South Florida, where they lived a luxurious lifestyle.

By 2011, prosecutors said, Mr. Walczak had stopped paying employment taxes.

Between 2016 and 2019, they said, he withheld more than $10 million from the paychecks of the nurses, doctors and others who worked at his facilities under the pretext of using it for their Social Security, Medicare and federal income taxes. Instead, he used some of the money to buy a $2 million yacht and to pay for travel and purchases at high-end retailers, including Bergdorf Goodman and Cartier, prosecutors said...Still, weeks went by and no pardon was forthcoming, even as Mr. Trump issued clemency grants to hundreds of other allies.

Then, Ms. Fago was invited to a $1-million-per-person fund-raising dinner last month that promised face-to-face access to Mr. Trump at his private Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Fla.

Less than three weeks after she attended the dinner, Mr. Trump signed a full and unconditional pardon.

It came just in the nick of time for Mr. Walczak, sparing him from having to pay nearly $4.4 million in restitution and from reporting to prison for an 18-month sentence that had been handed down just 12 days earlier. A judge had justified the incarceration by declaring that there “is not a get-out-of-jail-free card” for the rich.

absolute corruption shoved in our faces as the cult shrugs their collective shoulders and pretends it's OK. I guess MAGA + Kleptocracy = Trump and all of his cult acolytes. His press secretary, Baghdad Barbie, said the WH would not release a list of attendees.....Transparency.....Yep.

Here is Karl's story on the big commitment from this morning.....

I know that Johnson was the DC at Pitt for two years but left and there were hard feelings between him and Jackie. Does anyone know what started the bad feelings toward one another?

It’s a good theory actually. We all know plenty of gay people who are conservative. Heck even JoeyDotard attests to that. We know that Trump expanded his gay support in 2024. So why is the left getting weirder and weirder? Grennell has a theory and he’s spot on.

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