If You Didn't Root for Pitt...
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Yeah, so if you ever read anything I ever said about PedSt; you will know that I could care less about anything they do and would rather not play them again. It's a gross culture.
That said, this board is full of trolls. They even admit it when it's pointed out. You have a guy who pays for a VPN to create new fake accounts to litter this board with his insanity.
But ok, cool story.
That said, this board is full of trolls. They even admit it when it's pointed out. You have a guy who pays for a VPN to create new fake accounts to litter this board with his insanity.
But ok, cool story.
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Air Force since I was an officer or Clemson because my lady went there.
Tennessee. My brother relocated to Knoxville and he took me to a couple of Vols games at Neyland stadium. Great game day atmosphere. It also helps that there are a lot of Pittsburgh transplants there as well. Another point is both Pitt and Tennessee were coached by Johnny Majors...
OK, I cannot tell a lie, very top of my list is USMC followed by Navy, Army, Air Force and Coast Guard. Pitt will always be #1 in college sports.
I love the Army Navy game. It a throw back to a different time. Different style with the bone. You know these kids are the cream if the crop willing to put themselves in the line for a higher cause than just the game. The last game if the season and usually in the snow. Awesome atmosphere.
I moved from munhall to Somerset at 12 in 1970. Already a Pitt fan that was hard to be pre Majors. Talk about a different place. Over the next couple years I tried to become a PSU fan like everyone else here and in the end could not do it. So now I have a 30 YO son and we’ve been coming to Pitt games since he was five. With all the frustration that comes with being a Pitt fan we often discuss who we would cheer for if Pitt dropped football (something I’ve suggested during especially trying times). I’m not sure what power 5 team is cheer for if not Pitt. I think I’d drop down to Div II maybe watch IUP and definitely my alma mater Westminster who won two NAIA championships when I went there in mid 70’s. I would still watch P 5 with interest but not really cheer.
It’s kind of like a marriage you got to make it work.Since 1988 it’s been Pitt for me,and if it’s my choice it will stay that way forever.
SC resident calling out Parkview on this one. No self respecting Palmetto State fan would every root for USC and Clemson. And your statement about real Pitt fans able to root for PSU except for 1 day a year? I demand to see your birth certificate, you fraud!!
Are you over 50? Are you educated?
Are you from western PA?
If you are under 50 and educated I would say that your paradigm would be quite different than mine. Surely if you are from western PA you know of families that are big Notre Dame fans and Pitt fans?
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Army, ever since I saw the film “The Long Grey Line” when I was a kid. Plus, attending a Pitt game at Michie Stadium and seeing West Point was awesome. Started rooting for Navy instead after I was discharged from the Army in 1971, probably as a reaction to having spent two years in the Army coupled with the fact that back then they were dominating the series so it was natural to root for the underdog. I have attended a few games in Annapolis. It’s a much better college weekend there, but it doesn’t send the same chills down my spine that West Point did.
Went back to rooting for Army a few years ago and have stayed a fan.
Went back to rooting for Army a few years ago and have stayed a fan.
Clemson. First Dabo was the first coach to reach out to James Conner when he heard about his cancer and was sincere about his situation and in fact had him meet before the Pitt game there a player who also had cancer. Also when we beat them their fans actually bought us drinks and were as classy as you could be in defeat. Their facilities btw r no where as nice as Pitt but somehow they make it work. We should be killing it in recruiting.
My cousin played for Westminster in the late '80s and they won 2-3 more NAIA titles while he was there. I remember going to a few games in that time to watch him play. They wore Penn State uniforms, except with a "W" on the side of the helmet, Go Titans! LOL. But later they tried to jump to D2 NCAA and that was a big fail. Not sure how that program is now, but in the '70s and '80s they where at the top of NAIA.
Great question. I started watching football in the mid-late 1960s when Pitt stunk. You got 1-2 TV games on a Saturday then. I remember liking USC and Notre Dame and Colorado. So it's probably have been one of those three..... now, if Pitt folded up the program TODAY, dummy me would pick some other perennially bereft shoot-itself-in-the-cleats school like Colorado or Cal.
Growing up in NY, most of my childhood friends are Syracuse fans, so I would probably join them. I'm just doomed for a lifetime of mediocre college football, I guess.
Yea they had big success in NAIA. They win championships in 70, 76,77,88,89 and 94. They were runner up in 71, 90 and 93. NAIA was a association of small colleges mostly west of Mississippi. Big mistake to go to Div II. They played IUP all the time in the 70’s but by the early 2000 too hard to compete. They’re in Div III now in the President Athletuc Conference now with W & J, CMU, Thiel, Grove City etc. they’ve head winning record last three years and near top of confetence but W & J has basically been cream of crop there.
I'd suppose of the two, Cuse is trending a bit higher at present. We did beat em, but they had a bit more visible success (possibly due to easier schedule, but they still won their bowl, and finished ranked); their coach is newer and thus not been beat up (or down) as much as Duz yet; Duz seems to have sentiment turning against him a bit with our fanbase and that hasn't happened yet with Babers (far as I can tell). They lost their QB; maybe we wish we had. Though, we may even have recruited a bit better than them again this time.
So who knows. Probably a bit like comparing stale Wonder bread and stale Nickles bread.
Cool, my cousin was on the 88,89,90 & 91 teams. I remember 88, pre internet days, I had been to several games that year in New Wilmington so I was a fan, I was in grad school at Pitt at that time and would go to all the Pitt home games but a few games when Pitt was away the Titans where home and I went, and they where blowing the competition away every week, my cousin and another kid I knew from my neighborhood where both starting on the O-line and I remember listening to the Championship game on the radio, they where playing somewhere up in Washington state I think?
I think the 'Cuse fans will be pleasantly surprised with new QB Tommy DeVito's ability and that team will continue to do well.
Yea a couple years the championship games were played in Washington. One year they beat Wisconsin Lacrosse in a freezing snow storm. The next season they played a home game in the the championship. They won on a last second TD driving the length of the field in just under three minutes. Joe Micchia was the QB. Your cousin would have played in those games. True story. Westminster never lost a game that Joe Micchia played QB in. He was a transfer from Youngstown St. Some teams just know how to win.
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Texas. In-laws are all Longhorns and Austin is awesome, plus I already casually liked them growing up.
Also have some casual interest in Virginia Tech and Clemson due to close friends going there and showing me a good time when I visited.
Also have some casual interest in Virginia Tech and Clemson due to close friends going there and showing me a good time when I visited.
Yes, I remember the name, Joe Micchia, saw him play, they had a great passing game for a D3 team. He did play with my cousin and the other kid I knew.
I never liked OSU growing up, but my daughter went to school there, and I slowly, grudgingly, became a fan because of her.
Watching them crush the spirits of PSU ever year has brought me around quite a bit. And since PSU fans try to pretend Pitt doesn't exist, their relationship with OSU has become very important to them. And clearly, PSU is the "little brother" in that relationship. Hard not to root for the Buckeyes now.
Growing up I was originally a Texas football fan. My Dad is a Miami (FL) fan. Then for a few months (right before I became a Pitt fan) I was brainwashed into PSU football by the cult members in SE PA.
However, that didn’t last long, a lifelong Pitt family and Western PA natives took me to a Pitt football game in 6th grade and Pitt’s been it ever since.
For Basketball I was always a North Carolina fan. Went to a game as a young kid and I was hooked. But I also cheered for Pitt (2nd favorite team). Then after UNC beat Gonzaga and won their last national championship, I decided it was time to pick one team- Pitt. Unfortunately, that was at the start of Stallings era.
To answer your question- I’d have to pick between Miami, Texas, UNC keeping in mind Id root for them in all sports and I would want to join a great, loyal fan base it have to probably be:
1)UNC (advantage slightly for their colors)
2) Texas
3)Miami
However, that didn’t last long, a lifelong Pitt family and Western PA natives took me to a Pitt football game in 6th grade and Pitt’s been it ever since.
For Basketball I was always a North Carolina fan. Went to a game as a young kid and I was hooked. But I also cheered for Pitt (2nd favorite team). Then after UNC beat Gonzaga and won their last national championship, I decided it was time to pick one team- Pitt. Unfortunately, that was at the start of Stallings era.
To answer your question- I’d have to pick between Miami, Texas, UNC keeping in mind Id root for them in all sports and I would want to join a great, loyal fan base it have to probably be:
1)UNC (advantage slightly for their colors)
2) Texas
3)Miami
If I didn't root for Pitt, I would probably be a much happier and satisfied college sports fan.
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