The worst kind of players, that’s who. Ensuring continued awful seasons. And continued death spiral
It’s always terrible to lose like we’re losing this season in major college sports, but in this incredibly shallow and cynical new age, it’s worse than ever to do so. You almost have no prayer of crawling out. Pitt could barely afford even an average 5-7 type of season, let alone this disaster.
And honestly, Pitt normally wouldn’t care; it’s gone through long agonizing self-imposed (as this season totally is) stretches of football crappiness, many many many times. Basically it’s been about 5 great years in the 1930s, then 40 years of futility, 5 good years, then 40 more sucky waste of time seasons. Self imposed, as I said. Frankly many of the university leadership, and especially the uber-woke faculty LOVE it when fascist male-dominated capitalist football sucks (I had multiple instructors saying nearly this exact thing in classes, nearly word for word, in the mid 80s to the early 90s; they were thrilled when the program started struggling. And Pitt was relatively CONSERVATIVE then compared to the blindly progressive strain that rules the school now).
And if the ACC were going to stay the same forever and keep paying Pitt big checks no matter how bad our football, it would be no problem to continue to suck . Win-win (except for football fans of course). Volleyball and soccer still get its money, Pitt brass can go to Vail in late December instead of some bothersome football bowl game, and the faculty can pleasure themselves every time football loses (pretty much every week).
However, we all know the storm clouds we saw in this offseason will soon destroy the idyllic fantasy world that Pitt and other sucky members of the conference are now enjoying. The checks won’t be large (or exist at all) when we’re in the soon (2030) to be financially decimated Big 12, or more likely, not playing football at all and back in the Big East. But Lyke and Joanie and Duz will all be in their retirement mansions and yachts by then.