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  1. lilspainishflea

    NFL Draft

    20 could be a good spot for a team to trade up, too, if a dude like Brian Thomas Jr. is on the board. I think there's a pretty big drop off between him and the next WR.
  2. lilspainishflea

    NFL Draft

    Bub Means is bigger and from the P5 Quez Watkins. In other words, he's an NFL player with a vertical skillset that is fundamentally required to operate an NFL offense. He's going to get drafted and be in the league for at least 5 years.
  3. lilspainishflea

    Hayes To Colorado

    Doubt it's that personal. Deion is lazy. He relies on a huge war chest and kids coming to him because he's the cool new thing. Even then, they had a really disappointing 2023. Hayes got paid and will play for a sexier program but not one who will experience more meaningful on-field results.
  4. lilspainishflea

    NFL Draft

    Would love for a big WR to be there at 20 and have the Steelers trade down, maybe to Buffalo, and pick up an extra pick. I've seen recent mocks of the Steelers picking Brian Thomas Jr. I like him a lot as a player but think he'd be a bad pick for us. Arthur Smith has trouble feeding 1 WR let...
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    OT: Kennywood's The Steel Curtain

    I went to Universal Studios with some friends in February and the VelociCoaster was - by far - the most intense and incredible ride I've ever been on. It was like flying an F-16.
  6. lilspainishflea

    Alleged Format Of 70 Team College Football Super League Leaks, Might Enrage Fans

    It's actively discouraged to root for schools that you didn't attend. You're going to be looked at like you have two heads if you're at an OSU tailgate and someone asks "oh I went to Pitt but I'm a Buckeyes fan now because they're in the mega-conference." You will never be accepted as a real fan.
  7. lilspainishflea

    Alleged Format Of 70 Team College Football Super League Leaks, Might Enrage Fans

    Yep, even where the NFL has killed teams (Baltimore, LA, Houston, Cleveland) they tend to bring them back because it's a built in fan base. And they only do that one at a time, often spread out by years so they aren't totally disrupting their market. I think it's crazy to assume that a bunch...
  8. lilspainishflea

    Alleged Format Of 70 Team College Football Super League Leaks, Might Enrage Fans

    I think it's an awful gamble to trade away current college football fans for speculative from-the NFL-to-college fans. What's the upside to watching college rather than the NFL? The players are less talented, less physical, you have less familiarity with them since they have 24/7/365 free...
  9. lilspainishflea

    Alleged Format Of 70 Team College Football Super League Leaks, Might Enrage Fans

    But for all of these games, the mega-conference shutouts (e.g., Pitt, UVA, Oregon State, Stanford) are still in the same league as the mega-conference participants. So you can't use this data to just assume "oh people will still watch college football, because they're doing it now." The...
  10. lilspainishflea

    Alleged Format Of 70 Team College Football Super League Leaks, Might Enrage Fans

    No, this is an assumption. We can't really know how fans will react to the SEC and Big Ten literally absorbing the most prominent 40 brands and killing the remaining 100 because nothing like that has ever happened before. Ratings continue to go up because ostensibly most fans still have a shot...
  11. lilspainishflea

    Alleged Format Of 70 Team College Football Super League Leaks, Might Enrage Fans

    The risk to the SEC and Big Ten is that probably half or more of the total college football market are fans of schools that would be shut out in their mega-conference model. And locking those programs out of the mega-conference will probably cause irreversible damage to the total addressable...
  12. lilspainishflea

    Solomon DeShields Hits the Portal

    The problem is that because there are basically no free agency rules, Alliance412 is forced to pay players to remain on the team even when they don't play games. So we just paid a $100,000+ for Haynes and DeShields to be a part of Pitt football from December through mid-April. It's just lighting...
  13. lilspainishflea

    "I don't believe we can win now."

    People judge coaches for leaving all the time. Saban and Petrino were pilloried for abandoning their NFL teams so soon after signing. We still make fun of Todd Graham for being a job-hopping opportunist and he hasn't coached here in what, almost 15 years?
  14. lilspainishflea

    I'm About Done With College Sports

    Unemployment rate all time low Wage growth crushing inflation Housing prices all time high (most people's retirement) Nasdaq and S&P 500 all time high GDP growth good (and one of the best all time rates for an advanced, service-based, economy) Consumer spending high Interest rates...
  15. lilspainishflea

    College Football Free Agency Summed Up By Kadyn Proctor

  16. lilspainishflea

    Solomon DeShields Hits the Portal

    I don't think the analogy works. MLB has things leveling mechanisms such as the draft, revenue sharing, and arbitration. When the Pirates suck, they still get the #1 pick and tens of millions of dollars from other teams to help them compete. When Pitt sucks, NIL donors pull their money and...
  17. lilspainishflea

    Pickett Steelers divorce

    Stroud wasn't the 1st QB taken. There's also a huge difference between 2nd overall and 20th overall. The Texans also went 11-38-1 over 3 seasons for the right to draft Stroud. There's a pretty significant cost to drafting a top QB and even then it's often a crapshoot. Look at "generational"...
  18. lilspainishflea

    Pickett Steelers divorce

    Teams that have won a playoff game more recently than the Mike Tomlin Steelers AFC - Chiefs - Chargers - Ravens - Bengals - Browns - Texans - Jaguars - Titans - Colts - Bills - Patriots NFC - 49ers - Rams - Seahawks - Lions - Packers - Vikings - Bucs - Saints - Falcons - Eagles - Cowboys...
  19. lilspainishflea

    Well, we lost our best player today

    With the way the NIL and transfer rules are currently structured, Pitt is destined to be a farm program for bigger schools. Either Alabama, Ohio State, and Southern Cal get them out of high school or Pitt finds the gems and develops them...and then loses them to the wild west "everyone is a free...
  20. lilspainishflea

    I'm About Done With College Sports

    I don't know about DeShields' and Hayes' contracts but I am personally familiar with the contract details of at least one prominent player at Pitt. It's split into two phases: the offseason and the season. So this player gets paid to practice in the Spring and then they sign another deal to play...
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