Cut the “ muth muth” crap out. He sucks

Realizing this is stating the obvious, I wanted to look at what his stats looked like only in games he finished (SMU and YSU count). 250 YPG, and looking at 26 TDs across a full season. It finished so poorly that it's easy to forget how great it started. 300 yards passing in every game except YSU because he was both pulled and we rushed for 295 yards. Until the Cal game, he had 3 TD passes in each of the first five games.

He should be able to give us a chance in every game. I see Duq, CMU as locks. BC and NCSU are likely wins. But other than ND, I don't really see a game that we don't at least have a shot of...and that's only because they are getting $25MM from the playoff which is going to load up their NIL. Wish we had GT/STanford/Cuse at home.

Pittsburgh Panthers​

2025 starter: Eli Holstein, redshirt sophomore

Why he'll start: The Alabama transfer put together Pitt's best season by a freshman quarterback since Alex Van Pelt in 1989. He matched Van Pelt's 17 touchdown passes while completing 62% of his passes for 2,228 yards. Holstein also provided a true dual threat for coordinator Kade Bell's offense with 328 rushing yards, which ranked second on the team, and three touchdowns. He's coming off a late-season leg injury and will need to be monitored in the spring, but when healthy, he gives Pitt a real spark.

Competition: Freshman Julian Dugger finally saw the field in the GameAbove Sports Bowl and provided a spark with two passing touchdowns to complement 88 rushing yards and a score. After the strong debut, he could be good insurance behind Holstein in 2025.

It's funny................

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We didn’t rebound or play good enough defense today to win and it was disappointing. But FFS it is January 11th and there’s a ton of basketball to be played. Quit being a pu##y and keep supporting the team. Louisville is one of the top 5 teams in the ACC and will be in the Big Dance.

Apparently, somebody on the Women’s College Volleyball Nerdz Facebook page saw a post that Torrey Stafford is entering the portal. I don’t believe it for even a millisecond. Then somebody else mentioned that the only Panther in the portal is Garibaldi. Has anybody heard anything about that?

At least 10,000? You can get in for the price of a Diontae Johnson jersey on the secondary market.

Here's the latest on UTSA center CJ James, who has been pursued by Pitt as a transfer target.

James was expected to visit Pitt today, but I actually don't think that visit happened.

Turns out, James actually isn't eligible to play college football this year. He was a freshman in 2019 at Lackawanna Junior College; under the recent Diego Pavia ruling - and subsequent NCAA reaction - all JUCO players who would have been out of eligibility this year were granted an extra year to play. That would seem to give a player like James eligibility for 2025.

The problem, as I see it, is that James didn't play in 2019. He redshirted that year. He then went to Abilene Christian and played in 2020. That was the Covid year, of course, so he got that year of eligibility back and played the next four seasons - 2021-24 - at New Mexico and UTSA.

The point of the Pavia ruling was that his time in junior college shouldn't count against his eligibility clock. James already used all four years of his eligibility - plus one for the Covid year. So it looks like he is out of eligibility and off the table for Pitt (and all other schools).

That's how I see the situation. I'm still trying to gather more information, but that's the gist of it.

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Might be worth giving him a ‘ship. He just got some offers, with Colorado St being the latest.

Just LOL

Some on here. The media. Loser ass cam heyward. Mostly the Steelers fanbase.

Would love to see the Steelers get blasted by the ravens. At least we can get rid of all those stupid king of the north memes.

Same results essentially the same coach except one got fired like a decade ago.

I would like to know from Chris and Jim if we were ever in on this guy and if not, why not?

Two year starter at Texas Tech. One year starter at Louisville. Gave up one sack and 4 pressures while starting every game. Three sacks allowed in two previous years as starter at Texas Tech. Very high PFF ratings.

IMO this is a guy Pitt should have been all over. UVA had a really bad OL last year. They have 3 returning starters and 5 new OL from the portal. We have a guy from Charlotte who looks good and a guy from Richmond who started less games each year for the past three years. And, we needed more than two OL in the portal.

He is UVA’s 15th commit per their website. I don’t think they are one of the schools with a huge NIL pot. I can’t understand why we don’t appear to have been in on this guy at all.