How hard it is to be a Pitt fan. We got our hopes up with great starts to both the football and hoop seasons only to see the bottom fall out during the last half of both seasons. A 7-0 start in football followed by six straight losses, including a loss to Toledo in the bowl game, to finish 7-6. And a 12-2 start to the hoop season followed by losing 6 out of the last eight games, including a very bad loss to a very bad Virginia team, to sink to a 14-8 and seemingly on a downward spiral for the rest of the year. How hard it is to be a Pitt fan.