After Pitt's debacle against Penn State shade will be thrown at Pitt for some time to come. The only solution is for Pitt to go on a multiple game win streak to take the bad taste out of the mouths of many commentators.
Just that they were underdogs at all, ever, to anyone, is bad enough for what they spend.
Herbie is a Cincinnati fan going to his childhood...he can't rip the Pirates because the Reds blow. He can't rip the Steelers because the Bengals swallow (at least historically) he can't rip the Penguins because Cincinnati doesn't have 3 pro teams.
Herbie is easily the most knowledgeable and credible color man in the college football broadcast business, and he isn’t a shill for anyone, not even his alma mater, the fans of which ran him out of the state of Ohio due to his criticisms of the OSU program. But I wouldn’t expect many posters on this board to understand any of that.
Criticizing Ohio State football is a lesson in futility. What is there to complain about? I'd love to read an analysis. Herbstreet never dives into off the field stuff for more than a sentence or two. He knows cfb, but that doesn't mean he isn't full of himself or doesn't love the sound of his own voice.
Better question is why does he elect Pitt as his barometer on a weekend where Nebraska lost to Toy, Purdung to Mizwho, Northwestern to Acorn, Wisconsin to YBU, Rutgers to Synagogue, Maryland to who the f knows.
He definitely should have more aptly compared them to the Michigan program that you are so constantly fluffing on a Pitt board.
Shows how well you know me and what I post. I know it’s hard for a narrow minded homer like yourself to understand and accept that there’s a great big world out there outside of Western PA and that some of us have perspectives that go beyond that region.
I beg to differ. But we can agree to disagree. My point was he is no cfb guru. The fact that we even care what he thinks is sad. We just got a decent win and are 1-0 in our conference. I choose to focus on that instead of some nimrod with a microphone who couldnt make a living coaching or playing so he sits around and insults other programs. He is probably the least accomplished cfb analyst on that panel by a wide margin.
Nessler is the best by far IMHO...his line when Owen Schmidt from WVU ran all over the Clemson Tigers (I think it was Clemson) "like a runaway beer truck" remains my all time favorite "in game" call.
Maryland has beaten Texas the last two years! LOL I love Blue Bloods losing! It's like a consolation prize that Texas probably spends all this money, cheats and still doesn't win.
I have lived in Michigan most of my life and despite strong Pittsburgh roots, I have never lived in PA. I have no doubt I'd feel exactly the same way about PSU and its fans if I had grown up in WPA. I was also raised to despise PSU by my Pitt alum dad, but I haven;t had much exposure to their fan base.
So when he diagnoses a play and points out exactly why it worked or didn't work, which he does as accurately and as well as any experienced college football coach talking to his players in a film session, you just tune those parts out? That's only about 90% of his telecast.
But Nessler is a play by play guy. Agree he's an excellent one--but he can only tell you what's happening, not why or how it happens. That;s why he's not a color man. Herbie is without peer in the analysis department.
