Pitt received 3 votes in coaches poll
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It just shows you how meaningless these polls are, especially the coaches.
Many of these are filled out by some kid in the office anyway.
50 teams got votes in the coaches poll alone. A lot of parity this year. Heck we even played one of the top three basically even. I have no problem with us going 7-5 and losing by 35 to Clemson in the ACC title game. I'd even buy a dumb ACC championship game t shirt.
It shows you what scheduling properly can do. We would be in the Top 25 as well if we had their schedule.
That's exactly the point. This flawed Pitt team playing a typical schedule is 6-2 and in the top 25 this week. Same as 2015 and 2016.
Or we would have lost to a Western Michigan team that won six in a row. Or lost to Purdue and beat Holy Cross and still would be who we are.
Win the division. I am not convinced Syracuse or Boston College is out recruiting us by having one easier game per year. Recruiting is mostly either about location (is what it is), infrastructure (stadium, facilities, fan base/prestige), and coach. I am not sure a few extra weeks in the AP poll is what is stopping Narduzzi from being a closer.
Compared to some other P5 teams, Pitt is playing 3 more difficult games than others. There's no way to minimize the negative impact that would have a 90% of the P5 teams..
Stop saying this nonsense
Nonsense is thinking the Notre Dame game was fair
I though Pitt was the beneficiary of more than their share of the calls yesterday.
Like???
Please tell me how the refs gave us the win? By taking back a TD we scored? I'll remind you we had 50 yards in penalties, and Duke only had 36.
It is absolutely pointless discussing this with you, you will forever be unable to look at it impartially.
My bad for even responding.
Me? I simply asked to give examples. I am completely partial. I know the game yesterday was fairly officialled... there was no point for it not to be. It was Duke/Pitt. I really cant think of any calls not made other than late hits on Pitt guys out of bounds, which I wouldnt have called either.
that seems to be the theme this year. I thought we caught a break Saturday on Watt's sack on Duke's last drive. Sure looked like he went high on that tackle and was going to get flagged.
Here you go again with the bad call line of thinking?
It's mathamatically impossible for bad calls to influence one team, every season, all the time.
"it's five o'clock somewhere"
Signed: Mr Buffett
Go PITT & CSU Rams!
It was pretty funny when the ref signaled for a touchback on the final play
It's more likely that one of them voted us 23rd. Maybe even Mendenhall, if he has a vote.
I do think the three votes (or one vote or whatever) shows we might have gotten a fairly good amount of votes if we had beaten UNC because losses to UCF, Notre Dame, and Penn State aren't held in low regard.
6-3 Washington and 5-3 Mississippi State are both in the top 25 of the coaches poll because of tough schedules.
Along the same lines, UCF isn't going to be able to move into the top 5 because their schedule is simply too easy. That's something the AP, Coaches, and Playoff committee will probably agree on.
6-3 Washington and 5-3 Mississippi State are both in the top 25 of the coaches poll because of tough schedules.
Along the same lines, UCF isn't going to be able to move into the top 5 because their schedule is simply too easy. That's something the AP, Coaches, and Playoff committee will probably agree on.
Were they Pre Season early absentee write-in votes?
It probably was sent express mail USPS in August and just showed up.
USPS has great service?
"it's five o'clock somewhere"
Signed: Mr Buffett & CSU Rams
Go PITT & CSU Rams!
It probably was sent express mail USPS in August and just showed up.
USPS has great service?
"it's five o'clock somewhere"
Signed: Mr Buffett & CSU Rams
Go PITT & CSU Rams!
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That would be because they aren’t out recruiting us at all. Other than BC looking like they’ll have a pretty good incoming class in ‘19, those two schools have been horrendous in recruiting. Pitt has been smoking them if you look at the recent class rankings here on rivals. If Narduzzi was bringing in the classes BC or Syracuse did the past 3 years there would be daily riots to have him fired.
I watch college football like NPR watches Trump and I have never seen as much blatant holding as I have seen this year.
It's as if all college coaches agreed to hold on every play and force the refs to either throw a flag on every play or turn a blind eye.
We’d be in the top 25 if we beat UNC(who we are supposed to beat) and don’t get blown out badly by UCF and Penn State. 5-3 with the hardest SOS in the country minus blowouts = top 25. See Texas a&m and miss st.
Impossible to predict strength of schedule as far in advance as the AD has to schedule these games.
Interesting articles regarding “consistency” and “laser focus” by Narduzzi today. Asked his players to see him about whether they were consistent or not. None of them approached him so he assumed they all felt they were consistent? When he says this stuff in the press it doesn’t inspire confidence in the season ticket holder.
The inconsistency, without much change to the depth chart, also screams a lack of talent on the roster to bench the inconsistent player.
And lastly, why haven’t we seen or heard of V’Lique Carter before this past weekend? Does it have something to do with the new redshirt rule?
People bitch about Pitt scheduling UCF but they were coming off a 6-7 season where they were blown out in a bowl game by Arkansas State. They were 0-6 against top 80 opponents, and 6-1 against teams ranked 81+. The previous season UCF was 0-12. They were 0-7 in their previous 3 seasons against P5 programs.
Pitt wanted more of a presence in Florida and UCF seemed like a beatable opponent.
Pitt wanted more of a presence in Florida and UCF seemed like a beatable opponent.
People dont want to hear this . They think Pitt makes the schedule 10 minutes before the season starts
Way to cherry-pick stats.
UCF # wins this decade, by season: 11, 5, 10, 12, 9, ZERO, 6 (then scheduled). From 0 to 6 wins is definitely a sign of a program on the rise (which resulted in an undefeated season last year, obviously).
Not saying we should be afraid to play UCF, but obviously not the type of program to schedule with PSU and ND already on the non-conference schedule.
If a team wins a single game after a winless season they can technically be "on the rise." Obviously they were destined to be undefeated after winning 6 games the previous season, that's why every pre-season prediction had their over-under between 6.4 and 7.5 for 2017. There is literally not a single person I could find that had them picked to win their division, let alone 10+ games.
I'm not going to pretend to know what other teams were available to schedule at the time, but I'm certainly not going to fault Pitt for scheduling a rebuilding G5 opponent in one of our recruiting hotbeds. Especially when UCF's 5 recruiting classes prior to scheduling the game averaged 71st in the country. Or that they had not beaten a P5 team in 3 years.
Everyone better start emailing the administration demanding that Pitt doesn't schedule Charlotte for 2020. They only won a single game last year but have already won 4 this year, so obviously they are going to be undefeated next year.
They averaged 10 wins a year the 3 years before they bottomed out at 0-12. Looking back the 0-12 is the outlier. They consistently are pretty good to very good football team.
Pitt scheduling USF would be just as dumb, imo.
There were some very "untimely" calls against us and blatant non-calls in the UNC game that kept drives alive for them.
