A GOOD SIGN & TREND I'VE NOTICED!!

[Sean Miller Fan]

For what it's worth. I just spoke with a high school coach with a close relationship with the PSU staff. He says their staff is pretty confident Hamlin will commit to PSU.

OK, but why wouldn't they be? They want to "dominate" the state and have had their pick over the last couple years losing only a couple recruiting battles so of course they're confident. I have no inside info but I think its Pitt or OSU.

 

[Pitt is #1]

And that's why I started my statement off "For what it's worth."

 

[PSUPALY]

For what it's worth. I just spoke with a high school coach with a close relationship with the PSU staff. He says their staff is pretty confident Hamlin will commit to PSU.

I hope you're right, but that's the first I'm hearing he's leaning towards PSU. even the guys on the premium board are saying OSU/Pitt battle. He was suppose to come up to State College last weekend and skipped out. possibly a legit reason, but skipped out nonetheless.

again, I hope you're right.

 

[recruitsreadtheseboards]

I mean....we've had some success, gosh.

2 Big Ten Titles (better than Michigan), beat Ohio State 3 times (sadly, that's more than anybody else), beat Florida State, LSU, Texas A&M, & Tennessee (when they were good) in bowl games, three 11 win seasons. considering the last couple years.....ehh, we haven't been too bad, in my opinion. Michigan, on the other hand, has been awful.......how's their recruiting going? just fine....ya know why?.....because they're Michigan. sorta the same reason why our recruiting is going just fine. the old regime was holding us back.

Pitt should've kept Wanny. he was a beast recruiter, and he was dedicated to the program....plus he had a great stache. Pitt sorely misses a Pitt guy...or a Pittsburgh guy.

we'll see what Narduzzi does, but recruiting's been underwhelming thus far. obviously, win some games....that'll change.

Actually, this is a fair and reasonable post. So is the one by Lionlurker. I know Pitt fans hate and can't admit to anything PSU football that is positive, but I mean the truth is the truth. Hiding your head in the sand and not admitting it doesn't change things.

 

[geeman2001]

Actually, this is a fair and reasonable post. So is the one by Lionlurker. I know Pitt fans hate and can't admit to anything PSU football that is positive, but I mean the truth is the truth. Hiding your head in the sand and not admitting it doesn't change things.

Gee, perhaps it's because they (collective, not "one guy") purposefully facilitated decades of dozens of child rapes, and then hired both a president and coach irrefutably proven to enable an environment where football players are free to rape women? And should no longer exist as a program?

 

[recruitsreadtheseboards]

Gee, perhaps it's because they (collective, not "one guy") purposefully facilitated decades of dozens of child rapes, and then hired both a president and coach irrefutably proven to enable an environment where football players are free to rape women? And should no longer exist as a program?

Regardless......it seems like only Pitt fans are hung up on this. it is over. Kaput. As a football program, they were too big to fail. And the rape scandal was the best thing that could happen to the program as it allowed them to purge themselves of all the dead wood running it, and holding them back. Again, unfortunately.

 

[geeman2001]

Regardless......it seems like only Pitt fans are hung up on this. it is over. Kaput. As a football program, they were too big to fail. And the rape scandal was the best thing that could happen to the program as it allowed them to purge themselves of all the dead wood running it, and holding them back. Again, unfortunately.

Agree with all that. Just pointing out what is censored and whitewashed elsewhere. Like the Holocaust, there will be attempts to spin that it never happened.

That and only that is the reason for my "hatred". Before that I was openly cheerfully envious of their big program, bigger popularity. Actually, it was always more Ohio State than psu (since OSU is actually successful). But certainly had to respect PSU's heft. Like with Ohio State, big football benefits the rep of the school mightily (both regularly poll as better schools than Pitt), and Pitt blows a grand opportunity in sports-winner-mad WPA by not committing to better football. Nor am i a prude or idealist, a little tattoo gate or booster supplied car leases don't bother me. Suspending and kicking out guys for a little cannabis as Pitt does is the height of absurdity.

But there are clear, definite lines in the sand and rape is the biggest. When it's one single case by a player, one thing. For it to be conducted institutionally like PSU did (and still encourages), quite another.

When their fanboys come to troll, they are going to have this thrown in their face. Their blind allegiance directly contributes (present as well as past tense) to a grotesque rape culture that is real and stronger than ever. These are irrfutable facts, not opinion.

Anybody with rape in their families should be totally sickened by their program's existence. That said, i realize the Machine you mention has labored to hide it, and a msg board depending on ads feels it needs huge programs to feed the beast. It doesn't...plenty of huge programs that DON'T have rape in their business plan exist and should be enough. But greed is greed. Still, the truth exists and i will constantly remind of it. Chris doesnt like it, ban me. (Probably would be for my own good). The fanboys don't like it, troll on the Post Gazette blog, where they'll be among cronies.