** Good Evening my fellow Pitt fans.
** I took some time getting to this task tonight. I've dreaded it in fact. I'm wondering why I'm even writing this.
** I suspect I however, that I'm meeting a pledge I made long ago to stick in good times and in bad.
** Unfortunately, much like our last loss to Georgia Tech, no attempts at being clever will make this any more tolerable.
** We are now what our record says we are. Once again we are a below average ACC team.
** We are now what our losing streak says we are. A team that falters poorly down the stretch.
** I hate to view everything as evidence, or lack thereof, that Coach Capel can turn this program around. So instead, I will state the obvious. In three years, it's clear we aren't close to the level of talent needed to compete at the top half of the ACC.
** But that's not what really bothers me. What really bothers me is that all of the most accurate descriptions of our performance fall under a category that can be described only as "poorly coached." This includes unfocused, undisciplined, unorganized and perhaps even unmotivated.
** I hark back all the way to Ben Howland's first year when we often witnessed some excellent basketball played by guys who lacked enough firepower.
** Maybe more troubling is the basic concept that for whatever reason, all of Capel's teams at Pitt have seemed to deteriorate.
** I wish I could offer something more hopeful. And the possibility of a strong finish, something like 3-1 certainly still exists. But it's hard to believe that will actually happen, and something like 1-3 seems a better bet.
** Regardless, I know I will watch them all. And as hard as is it to do ... I'll throw my comments after the game into the fray for whatever, or how little, that may be worth.
