You kind of opened up yourself to the abuse. Your criticism of a bonfire/pep rally is pretty off base, given this is college football.
However, most retorts are from the usual board characters that see fire (pun intended) when there's any criticism, implied or othewise, of the Pitt brass. They're sycophants, odd in their own way as the Paterno cultists or Scientologists.
However, I'm decidedly not in their camp, so I can look beyond the (frankly absurd) original rant at the deeper issue. I think I do get your general point, which you made in one of the above posts:
"Pitt needs to focus on winning and improving the product on the field."
And you are right about that. Pitt definitely DOES need to do that. A trillion times over. That should be pasted to the top of the board.
I think your point is something many share and have expressed (or many have actually NOT, given the paucity of actual football threads and posts on the board) ... that we're literally on the eve of the season starting, and while there are a few nice players to watch for and the coach is passionate, there really isn't much to be excited about. Around a 6-6 ceiling give or take, and if lucky, a bottom of the barrel bowl. Again.
But this kind of thing you blasted, I'll call the rah-rah stuff, is ALSO needed. It's one of the great things about college football. This event for example, looked like a great time for the students, and I wish they had done such a thing when I was an undergrad. I still managed to remain a great Panther fan, but most of my generation have not (and the teams of my era were actually pretty good, the mid 80s). Perhaps more of this stuff would have helped make more fans from my era (although championships most certainly would have done so...then as now).
You picked an unfortunate way to make your bigger point. Don't worry though, some were able to see it.
