My God. Every day of every waking morning the world gets smaller. I travel around and every where I go I meet someone that I know or they know someone I know.
Planes fly faster, autos go faster, and the internet and all the benefits of it make America a smaller place to live. Our military operates pilot-less aircraft all around the world in REAL TIME from the 24 miles outside of Las Vegas, now that is communication. We pay top dollar for trash internet.
Kids want to travel, and kids more than anything want stability and they want to play for a winner.
This statement tells you the whole story. It has nothing to do with the WPIAL, the SEC, the NCAA, nor Oakland. So let me repeat, "kids want stability and they want to play for a winner".
Even in our worse era in the history of PITT football, we had plenty of top four star kids visit here. But just like last year, kids see that , wow, PITT blew this game, that game, PITT could have had 4 more wins just by scoring 20 + more points. Or PITT could have won 4 more games by giving up 20 odd less points.
So what if I refer to our new coach as reminding me of the PSU coach. Like it or not, he has a lot of good going on up there at PSU as far as the football program, much like OUR new coach has done.
There is not a soul on this board that is more a PITT football and basketball fan than I. And wrestling, and woman's basketball, and every other sport there is.
But I temper my attitudes towards other programs, simply because they are irreverent in my mind. The only thing that counts is what PITT does.
The temporary AD is doing a good job. The money being saved is being spent wisely on needs associated with the athletic program. Coach Narduzzi is doing a great job. He has not gotten any recruits to visit or commit than any other coach would not been able to get here, SO FAR. In the past, they came, they visited, they liked, but they just did not like what they saw on game day.
This is a extreme example. Game day for PITT in Oakland could be a great time. Students got excited a few years ago for the opener against Miami. The place was abuzz. The students filled the stands. The Heinz Field was packed, on National TV to boot. It was not that we lost, it was the way we lost that set us apart and separated us from top recruits all over the country.
A simpler example is losing to say Youngstown State in a opener. It is unforgivable, not to us, our love is unyielding and undeniable. It is a great relationship. You know, two people when they live together long enough, can learn how to love and respect each other. But if one of the couple lies to the other, the relationship is irreparable. Trust is actually more important that love.
This is our dilemma as PITT fans. Our common law , and for season ticket holders, our contractual partner, they have never lied to us. They never really embarrassed us in public as a University. It is oh so easy to love PITT and what it stands for. PITT has a good soul and spirit to to speak.
There is the tricky part, finding common ground people to join you in endeavor when society is degrading day by day.
Many on here grasp and live and die with tweets by the coach, and other really simple instances turn some onto the program, as if any of these petty instances need to even take place.
So far, like many on here, I like what I see. I have not seen one iota of reason not to respect and trust this program so far moving forward. BUT, I also have seen little changes here and there, that reinforce my trust of the program. Is the program in good hands, yes indeed. Has it regressed in to anything less that what HC PC had it, NO. Is it in a better place that Paul Chryst had it for a few years? NO!
You all can hoop and holla and mascaraed as if some great transition is taking place in the football program all you like. I do not see it. What I do see is the same PITT. True to its word, true to their commits to student athletes and their students in general. Honorable and in a special place among colleges.
Not one sole on this board wants to win more than I.
IF this unproven head coach can just turn the corner just say by winning 9 games this year, AND HE SHOULD, given the nucleus he has inherited, we are taking a step in the right direction.
If this man repeats the present past, we are in deep crap.
Planes fly faster, autos go faster, and the internet and all the benefits of it make America a smaller place to live. Our military operates pilot-less aircraft all around the world in REAL TIME from the 24 miles outside of Las Vegas, now that is communication. We pay top dollar for trash internet.
Kids want to travel, and kids more than anything want stability and they want to play for a winner.
This statement tells you the whole story. It has nothing to do with the WPIAL, the SEC, the NCAA, nor Oakland. So let me repeat, "kids want stability and they want to play for a winner".
Even in our worse era in the history of PITT football, we had plenty of top four star kids visit here. But just like last year, kids see that , wow, PITT blew this game, that game, PITT could have had 4 more wins just by scoring 20 + more points. Or PITT could have won 4 more games by giving up 20 odd less points.
So what if I refer to our new coach as reminding me of the PSU coach. Like it or not, he has a lot of good going on up there at PSU as far as the football program, much like OUR new coach has done.
There is not a soul on this board that is more a PITT football and basketball fan than I. And wrestling, and woman's basketball, and every other sport there is.
But I temper my attitudes towards other programs, simply because they are irreverent in my mind. The only thing that counts is what PITT does.
The temporary AD is doing a good job. The money being saved is being spent wisely on needs associated with the athletic program. Coach Narduzzi is doing a great job. He has not gotten any recruits to visit or commit than any other coach would not been able to get here, SO FAR. In the past, they came, they visited, they liked, but they just did not like what they saw on game day.
This is a extreme example. Game day for PITT in Oakland could be a great time. Students got excited a few years ago for the opener against Miami. The place was abuzz. The students filled the stands. The Heinz Field was packed, on National TV to boot. It was not that we lost, it was the way we lost that set us apart and separated us from top recruits all over the country.
A simpler example is losing to say Youngstown State in a opener. It is unforgivable, not to us, our love is unyielding and undeniable. It is a great relationship. You know, two people when they live together long enough, can learn how to love and respect each other. But if one of the couple lies to the other, the relationship is irreparable. Trust is actually more important that love.
This is our dilemma as PITT fans. Our common law , and for season ticket holders, our contractual partner, they have never lied to us. They never really embarrassed us in public as a University. It is oh so easy to love PITT and what it stands for. PITT has a good soul and spirit to to speak.
There is the tricky part, finding common ground people to join you in endeavor when society is degrading day by day.
Many on here grasp and live and die with tweets by the coach, and other really simple instances turn some onto the program, as if any of these petty instances need to even take place.
So far, like many on here, I like what I see. I have not seen one iota of reason not to respect and trust this program so far moving forward. BUT, I also have seen little changes here and there, that reinforce my trust of the program. Is the program in good hands, yes indeed. Has it regressed in to anything less that what HC PC had it, NO. Is it in a better place that Paul Chryst had it for a few years? NO!
You all can hoop and holla and mascaraed as if some great transition is taking place in the football program all you like. I do not see it. What I do see is the same PITT. True to its word, true to their commits to student athletes and their students in general. Honorable and in a special place among colleges.
Not one sole on this board wants to win more than I.
IF this unproven head coach can just turn the corner just say by winning 9 games this year, AND HE SHOULD, given the nucleus he has inherited, we are taking a step in the right direction.
If this man repeats the present past, we are in deep crap.
