True. But we haven’t been exactly silent about it.
We definitely care, but I’ll second what the posters above me said. Also, although we may be bitter rivals, I respect WVU’s willingness to keep the Brawl alive (unlike some schools). It’s great to have a rivalry game to look forward to each year. Hopefully this can become an annual game and we can get it played either at the beginning of the season or on Thanksgiving weekend like in the Big East days.
Pitt fans have some odd birds in our contingent in that they don’t seem to recognize a program is not absolved of expectations to win, maybe even, gasp, win MORE, after it has one nice season. Some Pitt fans (who believe they are the “realistic” ones) think it was perfectly good enough to win something tangible in one season and there should be no expectations for awhile.
Some Pitt fans recognize where Pitt is in the echelon of college football. I've been a fan since 1974 and you can count me in the contingent of "realistic" fans who don't expect repeats of '21 on a regular basis. Its a simple thing - Pitt doesn't have the local talent that many schools have and Pitt doesn't have the national cred to draw 4-5 star talent from schools that do.
I've been that dude a dozen times. Not exaggerating. I wanted Duz fired the year he won the friggin' conference championship. Look it up. I was every bit as deranged as anyone on here tonight. When Wanny lost to Navy, I was a lunatic on the Scout board for a month. When Walt lost "the Slide" game to UConn, I was calling for Pitt to leave the Big East and join the Duquesne Conference so we could experience a conference championship. We're all nuts. You can't be a Pitt fan and be mentally stable.
I think my definition of realistic may be different than others. But, I didn’t feel at any point that Cincy was going to lose that game. Not when the QB couldn’t hit water if he fell out of a boat.
I’m not buying “garbage time”… If PITT goes up to score it doesn’t matter what the time is… it happens every week in college football. It’s just a come from behind win. It still would have felt like a crappy win. But it’s a win and a win is a win.
Wasn’t the scout board run by “Brian”… the guy who wanted people in their seats 3 hours before kickoff? Ha… good times
When one team has the ball with 5 minutes left in the game, with a chance to take the lead, how in the world do you call that "garbage time?" That scenario happens in many games, pro and college, every week. And the team that is behind is often able to score and win the game.
I'll add one more point. Pitt fans (at least some), talk about 2021 like it was a religious experience. It was a very good year (by Pitt standards) but it wasn't the 2nd coming. We still lost 3 games (one to a directional michigan team). We won the watered down ACC (OK good) and went to another semi-irrelevant bowl game. Some of us have seen a truly great year and we know what that looks like (and feels like) and 11-3 ain't it. So maybe folks can at least understand why a certain level of ambivalence is present. It's hard to accept average once you've seen greatness.
At some point in time the chatter is meaningless.
The only realistic shot that Pitt had to win last week was ruined because we don't enough "grown ass men" on the team.
But a lot of us have come to realize that times have changed . It's not the 70s or 80s anymore. Pitt, as a program, doesn't have the potential for greatness like it once did. A conference championship in a year where there are no national title contenders in the league is pretty much the ceiling.
Welcome to the new world of college football. 8-12 teams that see the playoff every year and the rest 7-5 types.
Eventually, Heather will have to decide if 7-5 is good enough. That decision will be fueled by donors who will also have their feelings about 7-5. It’s a slippery slope going toward. Also, everyone talks about how much we lost. Narduzzi alone is responsible for the roster makeup. If the roster isn’t talented enough, that’s 100% on him.
Heather has decisions to make every day. Narduzzi's status is not even a blip on her radar, even at 7-5 or worse this year.
Just nonsense….can’t think of a more negative and cynical attitude toward Pitt FB. Spare me the retort about being realistic. Right HC and right level of commitment by the Pitt admin. And Pitt can be a top 25 program every year.
I have to disagree. It ‘s a viewpoint which gives rise to excuse making EVERY time Pitt suffers a bad loss or suffers some adversity. It’s a convenient mental mechanism for avoiding having to identify the root cause of problems with the program. It’s a justification for settling for a half loaf every year. Do I believe Pitt could or should be able to compete for a position in the college FB playoffs every year…no. But there’s absolutely no reason, except for what I say below, that Pitt can’t be a consistent top 25 program.
I agreed with the 1st paragraph. But the second one? We’re lucky we didn’t lose by 20 points. That’s what upsets so many of us. We were completely overmatched at home by Cincinnati.
