Since 9am (5 hours ago), I have had 50 spam emails in my personal inbox, and this doesn’t include those automatically sent to spam. I have no idea how many even go there.

Do you guys do anything special to limit these? Or are you OCD enough to flag them as soon as they come in and unsubscribe/report?

Run an offense

Let’s put aside the frustrating loss today. When I got into the Pete today 15 minutes before tip I was floored to see a hand empty are arena.

This is a borderline top 25 team. Yeah I know they lost a day but in reality, Louisville is a good team and it’s not gonna do much to drop them off. The fact of the matter the huge stretches of the pete today were empty speaks a lot with Pitt fans are.

This isn’t anything new either. The end of the Dixon era, we saw the exact same issues. Those were also still not bad teams, yet people stop showing up, and I saw all the excuses on here of how it wasn’t good enough.

Fast-forward to now and we are seeing the exact same thing. Excuse after excuse after excuse as to why the fan base shouldn’t support what is a pretty good product. Is it really the case that the only type of program you will except is a top 10 program. Will you not support it otherwise. Are you so spoiled by the success of the Steelers and the penguins that you have lost all perspective on what it should be.

Especially now in this age of pay to play, it’s more important than ever for people to show up and for there to be broad support from the fan base. I know not everyone can afford to be a whale. It is easy for me to say that because I am one of those people that can’t afford it. That said I do what I can I go to games and I support the team the team we played today not not only are they well coached they have both of money to throw around to players that frankly we don’t have

So what is it? You guys all seem to want Duke level results on a Duquesne level budget. We are consistently losing out on top transfer targets because we simply get out bid. I don’t want to rehash the adou situation, but it was frankly embarrassing and if he’s here we aren’t having this conversation today.

Not really going to lie, I’m really sick
Of It all. I’m tired of the pay to play, but I’m also very much over this group of fans that expects so much for peanuts. I tire I watching our “big” donors, who are frankly small fries compared to other schools play games to get they’re connections bigger deals elsewhere and think we can be big time on football when we have no shit .

I’ll say it again, if I were capel id get out of dodge. I think he’d excel at a school with a full commitment. The reason he’s kept rosters together is because of the culture he’s built…I guarantee jaland could have made more money somewhere else, but he wanted to be here, just like bub’ choice was nba or here.

I just have a real hard time seeing a good path forward

Here’s a fun offseason thread,

Which former Pitt player rising in the coaching ranks will get a head coaching job first? Tino takes over as the offensive coordinator at UCLA next fall while Mike remains in that same position at IU after making the CFP. Let me know if there’s someone who should be considered.

Jamie might be on his last legs at TCU…..I think that’s the move going forward!

The Pitt football coaches used the first January Saturday basketball game to host recruits, and here's a look at who visited and what they thought of the visit.

Markel Dabney made plays all over the field for the Huguenot Falcons last season, but the Pitt coaches are recruiting him as a linebacker, and during his visit to see the Panthers in person last weekend, he learned exactly how the staff would use him on defense.

So what do you guys think of what we saw from Dugger yesterday in terms of what he will do in 2025? True freshman in his first college snaps and shows some flashes but also as expected some struggles….but remember he also did this against a MAC school and didn’t really do a ton through the air on the day.

Pitt CB Tamarion Crumpley announced that he is entering the transfer portal.

I might have missed this somewhere on the board, but has anyone seen the report that Finkley (Texas DE) has interest in Pitt? I couldn't tell if he has 1 or 2 years of eligibility remaining. I saw it this morning, but couldn't tell you who was reporting it, but now PGH Sports Now is reporting his interest. Of course, he has other schools interested (WVU, Miss. State, Minnesota, Cal).
I think he was an Academic All-American in '23, and would definitely fill a need, even though we have brought in a few DE's.

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I don't think there are any Pitt Panthers' "fans" more desiring a win vs Clemson than the players themselves. At least I hope so. But among we armchair fans, where are you? Optimistic, pessimistic, or realistic? And I'm not asking just about the Clemson game, but the next 14 games before the ACCT begins

The optimistic me (after seeing the upcoming schedule) says we go 9-5 from now forward, and finish 21-10 before the tournament

The pessimistic me says we go 5-9 and finish 17-14

Realistic me? 7-7 and 19-12

We will all know by March 8

Let's hope the current losing streak ends at or about 2:00 pm EST on Saturday

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Vuk wrote a column in yesterday's PSN suggesting that Papa should begin to play a larger role. I remember when he had a season-ending injury last year that Capel said something to the effect that it would be a blow to the Panthers season. However, he has hardly played this year, which is surprising given this statement. Needing rebounding help as they do, it would seem that Papa might be able to help. Just wondering what others think about this.