The sad thing about this game is that it is on national tv. I can’t stand the fat drunk who coaches the Hoopies, but I have to give him credit for his excellent defensive schemes.
A national TV audience will see no yellow seats
Will see a packed student section
and the students wont leave in mass exodus after a stupid song called Sweet Caroline
Stop. Pitt had an announced crowd of 2333 on Tuesday.
There’s a decent crowd because it’s WVU. The students came because it’s WVU. A third of the crowd is probably WVU fans. When Pitt plays WVU at Heinz in 2022 it will be full for all the same reasons and it will have nothing to do with an OCS.
This is like a WVCC centric broadcast…..west virginia that west virginia this….wvcc in the big 12…..Pitt doesn’t belong to a conference….per these broadcaster a-holes.
I thought PITT played better than expected. Lot’s of missed easy shots. I thought the coaching was there and lots of young talent to grow on. Again, I thought the team was fun to watch tonite.
This years PITT basketball team is like a brand new comical sitcom. You have to get to know the characters before you enjoy the show…
Draw you own conclusions but I enjoy the crap out of these kids.. << That’s a team through and through!… of course I’m a PITT fan through and through…. ike
I’ll be hearing “Eat S**t Pitt” in my sleep tonight. Heard it in Hemingways about 20 times and at the game on numerous occasions…even from young kids sitting behind us. Way too many missed easy shots in the first half or we take that game. Really proud of the kids. Lots of football recruits there…hopefully a Pat signal or 2 coming soon.
Credit is due. Down 18 they could have folded but didn’t. Whether you credit the players, the coaches, or both, it is encouraging. There really is some talent. With a little better shooting from both the charity stripe and the three point arc, we might have won.
I know the skeptics don’t believe in moral victories, but come on! This team fought hard and has no fear. They will get better and they’re exciting to watch. Give this team some support! UPitt, I’m looking at you, man.
Great fun watching this. I was with neighbor, WVU grad and expected what EVERYONE else did. It was great to see him squirm.
Basketball will always remain my favorite because of opportunities like this one…similar to when I was at Pitt from 80′ to 84′ watching at Fiztgerald against the likes of G-town and Syracuse and St Johns after a year in the A-10. No expectations for anything big, but every game was great and enough upsets to make it all worth the climb up the hill. Pretty sure I only missed ONE game in the 4 years there.
These kids might be worth the season ticket, dare I say THIS YEAR.
Rockports sucks. This team has 1 D1 player. WVU is without it’s Best Player and won by 9 while it’s 2nd best player was on bench for 7 mins. Kids played up some and fought back but was more related to atmosphere and WVU shooting bad shots. Stallings is who we know him to be. Wait for ACC hoops it will be ugly. Over / Under was 13. We will be lucky to get 10 wins.
“If I am wrong on this, I will forever praise KS and this cobbled together team, THAT DOES PLAY WITH HEART! Imagine if somehow we had beaten Montana and OK St and were sitting at 7-2. So close but really SO FAR. I do think, if we had a good big man, this team could compete but not sure KS would really do much with one.”
@iek, I think I got off to a good start on this by saying they might be worth season tickets THIS YEAR.
What the hell anyway, I come here to get away from the wife and crap like this(being called out on over-the-top statements). I used to Lyke you Iek. LOL!!!
I give the guys a ton of credit for making a game of it. I can’t stand Stallings but the team played amazing in the second half. He deserves credit for that.
Who is Wvcc “Best” player who missed last night game. Checked last nights Wvcc roster box score vs. big time games against Va. & Tx A&M & then against total team roster. No one missing but walk ons. So who is name of “Best” player.
good effort
just not enough experience, and talent
team could be really good in 2 years
as long as coaching doesnt screw it up
needs a few more pieces
team was fun to watch
again no yellow seats seen on TV
no Fanta giveaways
nobody sleeping in seats
You see all those things at football games
Better atmosphere always in a smaller and packed venue in any sport
Morning After Observations:
1. The Pete was rocking again and it was great
2. These kids played their hearts, lungs, and livers out last night.
3. The team appears to play up to or down to the competition.
4. Credit KS for going out and bringing these kids in.
5.KS had the kids ready to play but his in – game coaching seems poor (which is odd with how long he’s been a HC).
6. It was an exciting game to watch and I hope it leads to a few ACC victories.
That certainly wasn’t the mantra in basketball from 2001-16. Fifteen years of stability will do that for you. The reset button was hit in basketball, which is why we have to wait two years to see if this team is legit. I really don’t remember that mantra used at all in my years watching Pitt basketball since 1986.
Of course it has been used in football due to firing coaches because of crazy reasons like an affair or an uninformed SI article, then hiring morons to replace them. You reap what you sow in those instances and Pitt deservingly did so.
Hell – maybe I should drive up and watch a Pitt BB for the first time in 40 years. If I do does anyone want to make an evening out of it? Here are the games I could drive up for… and I’ll buy the pre-game drinks. Never been to the Pederson Events Center (named after SP)
Dec 22 (Fri) 7:00 PM
vs Towson
Pittsburgh, Pa. Petersen Events Center
University of Miami
Dec 30 (Sat) 4:00 PM
ACC vs Miami [Fla.]
Pittsburgh, Pa. Petersen Events Center
Duke University
Jan 10 (Wed) 7:00 PM
ACC vs Duke
Pittsburgh, Pa. Petersen Events Center
Georgia Tech
Jan 13 (Sat) 2:00 PM
ACC vs Georgia Tech
Pittsburgh, Pa. Petersen Events Center
If there was ever a time when I would like to drop a few F-bombs it would be right now. I do not post on the Panther Lair and I have much respect for Chris Peak. I gave up my spot and screen name on there to my son who is a big PITT fan as well as me. (bobfree) << that screen name was a declaration of getting away from a certain writer that I couldn’t see eye to eye with on 24/7.
This cupcake JO is relentless towards Reed in the thread spoken about last article of so. On top of everything else he’s a liar. I have zero patience for people who make their lives into their own personal agenda’s forced on social media.
Why am I making an issue out of something so stoopid? Because of what we all have with the POV. Yeah I get on people’s nerves an vice versa but it’s always with a kinder hand and always with the truth. I’m frustrated that someone would take an untruthful shot at one of my brothers and can’t do anything about it. So now I feel a little better… ike
Reed: Richman, Fran, Pittpt (Mark) and Annie and maybe Bernie for the Miami game on the 30th, << he maybe still home, were planning on a game together.
this is a link from the all but forgotten PantherDigest. Not sure we will get any of these but it pretty much shows where much of the priority lies with current staff
Hey Fran, about last nights game? If a couple of the shots go down last night you could have been at a big upset? I thought Stallings made some good in game adjustments? No?
The best adjustment was getting Carter & Miles in foul trouble 🙂
Let’s not kid ourselves, if he plays more minutes in the 2nd half that game wouldn’t have been a 9 point game. Pitt shot 31 FT’s to the Hoopies 9. Hoopies had 27 baskets to Pitt’s 16.
Pitt did win the Rebounding battle (for a change) 38-32. Which is a huge turn-a-round from previous games.
Maybe we need to clarify this again, Petersen Events Center is not named after Cornhole.
The arena is named for philanthropists John Petersen and his wife Gertrude, who donated $10 million ($13.9 million in 2016 dollars) for its construction.[5] John Petersen, a Pitt alumnus, is a native of nearby Erie, Pennsylvania and is the retired President and CEO of Erie Insurance Group. The Petersen Events Center was winner of the 2003 Innovative Architecture & Design Honor Award from Recreation Management magazine.[6]
Anyway i just read the Trib article on the last nite’s game and less than 8,000 attended. It looked like a full house on TV, but it was about 5,000 short of capacity,
I guess that’s pretty good…….in the Otis Era. And could be the biggest attended game of the year.
Here’s what I watched on my TV last night… A very young PITT basketball team with a somewhat suspect head basketball coach who somehow coached his team into a respectful finish to a very tough game. .
Stallings coached Vanderbilt to a 332-220 record during his head coaching there. Now, I’m not a big fan of his just yet but I really don’t get the vitriol directed toward him? I thought his young team played hard and as the best they could. I also watch a well coached team second half. The coach doesn’t actually shoot the ball.
Ike, that is not even 2-1 win to loss ratio in a non basketball conference! It does not make for a very good coach in my book. Plus Stallings was disliked at PITT before he arrived. How many players left the team? Lesson should be learned by all AD’s. Find out what players think of a potential coach before he is hired. Unless you want to loose a whole team
and… a couple more things just when you thought I was done.
6&34, job well done sir……
Is it too early for the early predictions for next year?. 🙂
The POV needs an early “Know The Enemy” for the coming season. Anyone up for that? It seems to me that Erie Express would be a great author for something like that. or… Pitt-cocks. Boom! << this guy is mr research or anyone else just to get talk started…
The POV needs a podcast soon and or a round-table on Sunday mornings every once in awhile? I have a new idea for a different format where you sign in blood to appear and have a predetermined list of questions. or we just wing it… or a combo?
Where’s Richman? I know he’s smiling somewhere.
Where’s Matt from Louisville? Check in brother Matt! << hope all is well
rkb, come back and join this fractured group of POVer’s. You’re insight is missed
DK, you’ve been gone for too long. 😦
The POV is indeed in a healing process, let’s forgive and forget but remember… We All We Got!
Ike…you are correct about last nights game. A shot / layup or 2 drops and maybe we pull it off. I thought we would get toasted. There was a dj on a Pittsburgh R&B station named Brother Matt. WAMO-am. Back in the sixties. That’s all I listened to back then. Healing is a process.
WVU played two seniors in Carter and Miles last night. Everybody else that played more than 2 minutes are freshmen and sophomores. Pitt was down 13 when Carter sat with 4 fouls. Pitt cut it to 4 just before Carter returned.
The future hopefuls:
Carr was 2-6 from the field (2-4 from 3) with 2 rebounds, 4 assists and 5 turnovers.
Wilson-Frame was 3-10 from the field (0-6 from 3) with 5 rebounds, 2 assists and 2 turnovers.
Stephenson was 3-7 (1-1 from 3) with 3 rebounds, 1 assist and 3 turnovers.
Davis was 2-6 (1-4 from 3) with 5 rebounds, 1 assist and 1 turnover.
Parker was 1-5 (1-5 from 3) with 2 rebounds, 1 assist and 0 turnovers.
So the new talent was 11-34 (5-20 from 3) with 17 rebounds, 9 assists and 11 turnovers.
Luther was 5-9 (1-3 from 3) with 12 rebounds, 2 assists and 1 turnover. I don’t consider it much of a stretch to say that without Luther’s consistent production (16 boards in his only poor shooting game against MSM), Pitt is likely staring at a 1-9 start this season.
WVU pressed very little last night. As Emel noted, Pitt shot more than 3 times as many FTs as WVU. If Pitt hadn’t enjoyed that huge advantage it’s a a 20 point WVU win.
Now feel free to return to mocking UPitt and be sure to buy some season tickets THIS SEASON.
Here is an excerpt from PSN … so we may not know who the commit is until signing day. Note that that is December 20th ….. the first of two LOI signing days this season
The logical guess is that it’s one of the four big names that we’ve heard a lot about in the last couple of weeks: Shocky Jaques-Louis, Jatavious Harris, Jeshaun Jones or Tyler Bentley.
Here’s what we can tell you. Since the “Pat Signal” was issued, PSN contacted all 4 of these players. 3 of those players returned my message and said it wasn’t them that committed. I hope to hear back from the fourth player this morning.
Here’s two other things to consider. 1) This commitment might not be any of these four and could be one of the many secondary players that Pitt has been recruiting. 2) It could be one of the players that I contacted and they just don’t want their decision to be made public yet. Remember, 3 of these players have ceremonies set up for National Signing Day and making their decision public Now would ruin their ceremony. They could have just let Pat Narduzzi know their decision in order to help out with future recruiting.
What’s the over-under on turnovers for Pitt? 25? 30?
LikeLike
sad can’t even get the ball inbounds…
LikeLike
The sad thing about this game is that it is on national tv. I can’t stand the fat drunk who coaches the Hoopies, but I have to give him credit for his excellent defensive schemes.
LikeLike
thuggy bear should audition for the sequel of…….”Next of Kin”
LikeLike
These Pitt boyz look like boyz
such a young team
Like to see them in a year or two though
Looks like a fun Pete tonight
LikeLike
A national TV audience will see no yellow seats
Will see a packed student section
and the students wont leave in mass exodus after a stupid song called Sweet Caroline
LikeLike
we knew about Pitt’s inability in handling the ball. Tonight we will learn how undersized Pitt is … which will really come to play in ACC
LikeLike
Football could learn from basketball
OCS anyone?
LikeLike
Stop. Pitt had an announced crowd of 2333 on Tuesday.
There’s a decent crowd because it’s WVU. The students came because it’s WVU. A third of the crowd is probably WVU fans. When Pitt plays WVU at Heinz in 2022 it will be full for all the same reasons and it will have nothing to do with an OCS.
LikeLike
The Zoo actually looks alive tonight….nice to see.
LikeLike
I think the 15-10 score is the closest we’ll get tonight.
LikeLike
thuggy bear’s shirt looks like a giant bib…to be used on thanksgiving……or BINGE DRINKING 🙂
LikeLike
There are fraternity teams that can play with this Pitt team. Why are you watching?
LikeLike
And a few sorority teams…
LikeLike
I predict Stallings is run tonight.
LikeLike
Otis wants to get tossed…so he doesn’t have to sit and bear witness…..ala L-Ville last year
LikeLike
I just can’t stand Stallings. Down 18 and I feel like it’s a moral victory
LikeLike
This is like a WVCC centric broadcast…..west virginia that west virginia this….wvcc in the big 12…..Pitt doesn’t belong to a conference….per these broadcaster a-holes.
LikeLike
Every shot’s a brick….at home too.
LikeLike
Hanging in……..sort of. It’s not a 20 point lead….yeah !!!
LikeLike
Well the announcers did spew the customary Kevin Stallings is a great coach and put his players in great position bologna. He stinks.
LikeLike
Somebody from espn probably texts these clowns the same script message concerning Otis,.,,every game.
LikeLike
Stallings didn’t order his players to shoot like crap. The players did it on their own.
LikeLike
16 years of coaching HS basketball I can share w you my favorite phrase.
“You can coach up talent…. you can’t create it!”
LikeLike
Shocked…
LikeLike
I understand and I also understand wvu is supposed to have have top 20 talent? You know how coaching goes dan
LikeLike
Holy Moly!
The panthers are down 56-53!
LikeLike
Carter must be their whole team….
LikeLike
Since the 30 year old guy went out for the Hoopies…we made a nice comeback !
LikeLike
One thing for sure this game is a confidence builder for our kids.
LikeLiked by 1 person
“Huggy Beer” looks like he’s storing a quarter keg in the front of his shirt (which is actually a 3 man tent).
LikeLiked by 1 person
hahahaha
LikeLike
Now 61-59. Pitt down by 2
LikeLike
Stallings can’t be too bad if we’re this close with 1 Div. 1 player 😉
LikeLike
Jackagain,
Which one is the D1 player??????
LikeLike
Someone said it’s Luther.
LikeLike
We ran out of gas and should have fouled the Hoopies, but this was a great game from such a young team.
LikeLiked by 2 people
Best 30 minutes of play by the kids so far this year….
LikeLiked by 3 people
And against a top 10 team at that.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Check again
LikeLike
I thought PITT played better than expected. Lot’s of missed easy shots. I thought the coaching was there and lots of young talent to grow on. Again, I thought the team was fun to watch tonite.
LikeLiked by 1 person
This years PITT basketball team is like a brand new comical sitcom. You have to get to know the characters before you enjoy the show…
Draw you own conclusions but I enjoy the crap out of these kids.. << That’s a team through and through!… of course I’m a PITT fan through and through…. ike
H2P!
LikeLiked by 1 person
I like the sitcom analogy, Ike!
LikeLike
We need a name for the sitcom…..
3’s Company?
Stallings & Son?
The Hoopie Mooners?
LikeLiked by 1 person
^^ Baldy and the Newbies.
LikeLike
Truly amazing we stayed in that game…shooting 34% FG……the 31 Free Throws to 9 for the Hillbilly’s came into play.
LikeLike
Nice to see The Pete have an atmosphere again that didn’t resemble a morgue.
I really miss the BigEast for basketball….even though i live in ACC land.
LikeLiked by 1 person
I’ll be hearing “Eat S**t Pitt” in my sleep tonight. Heard it in Hemingways about 20 times and at the game on numerous occasions…even from young kids sitting behind us. Way too many missed easy shots in the first half or we take that game. Really proud of the kids. Lots of football recruits there…hopefully a Pat signal or 2 coming soon.
LikeLiked by 2 people
That would have never happened back in the day….or some hoopies would have left town with Fat lips.
LikeLike
Someone would have knocked his tooth out…
LikeLike
Classless couch burning hicks.
LikeLike
Credit is due. Down 18 they could have folded but didn’t. Whether you credit the players, the coaches, or both, it is encouraging. There really is some talent. With a little better shooting from both the charity stripe and the three point arc, we might have won.
LikeLiked by 3 people
I know the skeptics don’t believe in moral victories, but come on! This team fought hard and has no fear. They will get better and they’re exciting to watch. Give this team some support! UPitt, I’m looking at you, man.
H2P
LikeLiked by 3 people
Great fun watching this. I was with neighbor, WVU grad and expected what EVERYONE else did. It was great to see him squirm.
Basketball will always remain my favorite because of opportunities like this one…similar to when I was at Pitt from 80′ to 84′ watching at Fiztgerald against the likes of G-town and Syracuse and St Johns after a year in the A-10. No expectations for anything big, but every game was great and enough upsets to make it all worth the climb up the hill. Pretty sure I only missed ONE game in the 4 years there.
These kids might be worth the season ticket, dare I say THIS YEAR.
LikeLike
All we needed was Tiger Paul running up and down the sidelines of the court. With his windmill arms….
LikeLiked by 2 people
UPitt may need another source for his Rockports…
LikeLike
Hey and BTW Tvax, didn’t you have some sort of a bet or promise involving tonight’s game? I don’t forget things buddy.
LikeLike
I thought that the press would eat them alive and we would lose by 40. Glad I didn’t call in the bet. Wonder how BigB did Bernie???
LikeLike
Rockports sucks. This team has 1 D1 player. WVU is without it’s Best Player and won by 9 while it’s 2nd best player was on bench for 7 mins. Kids played up some and fought back but was more related to atmosphere and WVU shooting bad shots. Stallings is who we know him to be. Wait for ACC hoops it will be ugly. Over / Under was 13. We will be lucky to get 10 wins.
LikeLike
I think I could have written your response for you. Let’s see. Make sure there’s no credit given to Pitt at all, throw in some Rockports…done.
LikeLike
That’s the point….1 Div. 1 player and they hung with the hoopies.
LikeLike
“If I am wrong on this, I will forever praise KS and this cobbled together team, THAT DOES PLAY WITH HEART! Imagine if somehow we had beaten Montana and OK St and were sitting at 7-2. So close but really SO FAR. I do think, if we had a good big man, this team could compete but not sure KS would really do much with one.”
@iek, I think I got off to a good start on this by saying they might be worth season tickets THIS YEAR.
What the hell anyway, I come here to get away from the wife and crap like this(being called out on over-the-top statements). I used to Lyke you Iek. LOL!!!
H2P!!!
H2KS!!!!
LikeLike
this game may have have 2 positive effects
1) give they young players some confidence … maybe they will play with more purpose
2) give the Pitt fans some confidence … maybe they will show up more
LikeLike
I give the guys a ton of credit for making a game of it. I can’t stand Stallings but the team played amazing in the second half. He deserves credit for that.
LikeLike
Who is Wvcc “Best” player who missed last night game. Checked last nights Wvcc roster box score vs. big time games against Va. & Tx A&M & then against total team roster. No one missing but walk ons. So who is name of “Best” player.
LikeLike
http://collegefootballnews.com/2017/09/wvus-esa-ahmad-suspended-for-first-half-of-season-bluegoldsports
Esa is missing first half of season.
LikeLike
Carter is their best player….by far.
LikeLike
Imagine when we get two, or even three, D1 players!!
Sure is easy to root for Ryan Luther.
Go Pitt.
LikeLike
@iek, ^^^^Good enough beotch?
Urban Dictionary: Beotch
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Beotch
Another word for b#%*h. Can be used to call a friend
Reed, I am kidding with Ike, I would LOVE to be called out on anything negative I ever post here about Pitt.
H2P!!!
H2KS!!!! LOL, now go get a big man so you can prove me wrong about not knowing what to do with him.
LikeLike
I think Carr and Stevenson are really good for frosh … Stewart and Davis show promise. The other frosh show glimpses but are very raw.
LikeLike
good effort
just not enough experience, and talent
team could be really good in 2 years
as long as coaching doesnt screw it up
needs a few more pieces
team was fun to watch
again no yellow seats seen on TV
no Fanta giveaways
nobody sleeping in seats
You see all those things at football games
Better atmosphere always in a smaller and packed venue in any sport
And the Pete is enclosed so its rockin and loud
LikeLike
Morning After Observations:
1. The Pete was rocking again and it was great
2. These kids played their hearts, lungs, and livers out last night.
3. The team appears to play up to or down to the competition.
4. Credit KS for going out and bringing these kids in.
5.KS had the kids ready to play but his in – game coaching seems poor (which is odd with how long he’s been a HC).
6. It was an exciting game to watch and I hope it leads to a few ACC victories.
LikeLike
This may well be the Pitt Panthers Mantra from 1983 until forever…in both FB and BB.
Good effort but just not enough experience and talent. The team could be really good in two years as long as coaching doesn’t screw it up.”
Thanks TX Panther
LikeLike
I think many of us agree. In calendar year 2009, we came 1 point short of BCS berth, and 2 points short of Final 4.
LikeLike
That certainly wasn’t the mantra in basketball from 2001-16. Fifteen years of stability will do that for you. The reset button was hit in basketball, which is why we have to wait two years to see if this team is legit. I really don’t remember that mantra used at all in my years watching Pitt basketball since 1986.
Of course it has been used in football due to firing coaches because of crazy reasons like an affair or an uninformed SI article, then hiring morons to replace them. You reap what you sow in those instances and Pitt deservingly did so.
LikeLike
You’re welcome 🙂
LikeLike
Hell – maybe I should drive up and watch a Pitt BB for the first time in 40 years. If I do does anyone want to make an evening out of it? Here are the games I could drive up for… and I’ll buy the pre-game drinks. Never been to the Pederson Events Center (named after SP)
Dec 22 (Fri) 7:00 PM
vs Towson
Pittsburgh, Pa. Petersen Events Center
University of Miami
Dec 30 (Sat) 4:00 PM
ACC vs Miami [Fla.]
Pittsburgh, Pa. Petersen Events Center
Duke University
Jan 10 (Wed) 7:00 PM
ACC vs Duke
Pittsburgh, Pa. Petersen Events Center
Georgia Tech
Jan 13 (Sat) 2:00 PM
ACC vs Georgia Tech
Pittsburgh, Pa. Petersen Events Center
LikeLike
I had season tickets for first 4 years and it is a first class venue. It’s worth a trip up. Both Miami and Duke are current Top 10 teams
LikeLike
If there was ever a time when I would like to drop a few F-bombs it would be right now. I do not post on the Panther Lair and I have much respect for Chris Peak. I gave up my spot and screen name on there to my son who is a big PITT fan as well as me. (bobfree) << that screen name was a declaration of getting away from a certain writer that I couldn’t see eye to eye with on 24/7.
This cupcake JO is relentless towards Reed in the thread spoken about last article of so. On top of everything else he’s a liar. I have zero patience for people who make their lives into their own personal agenda’s forced on social media.
Why am I making an issue out of something so stoopid? Because of what we all have with the POV. Yeah I get on people’s nerves an vice versa but it’s always with a kinder hand and always with the truth. I’m frustrated that someone would take an untruthful shot at one of my brothers and can’t do anything about it. So now I feel a little better… ike
We All We Got
We All We Need
H2P!
LikeLike
What is the thread titled, or how would I find it?
LikeLike
This might be it:
https://pittsburgh.forums.rivals.com/threads/reeds-blog.122914/
This is the jerk:
https://pittsburgh.forums.rivals.com/members/cupkafan.53357/
LikeLike
found it
LikeLike
Ike – Let me at this ahole. Do I have to pay to post or just post?
LikeLike
just post, you need an email and mine is already in use. I’m too dumb to get around it.
LikeLike
Pick me a username so we can laugh
LikeLiked by 1 person
blowhardfaithfulfollower
LikeLike
another one suits you. “GrimReaper”
LikeLike
GrimReaperPOVPeeper
LikeLike
Reed: Richman, Fran, Pittpt (Mark) and Annie and maybe Bernie for the Miami game on the 30th, << he maybe still home, were planning on a game together.
LikeLike
That may be the one then… Our family doesn’t really celebrate New Years eve.
LikeLike
Hi Reed. Go to the Duke game. They just lost to BC. You never know.
We have given up on BB. Kids play hard but …
LikeLike
this is a link from the all but forgotten PantherDigest. Not sure we will get any of these but it pretty much shows where much of the priority lies with current staff
https://247sports.com/college/pittsburgh/Article/Pitt-Panthers-Football-Recruiting-Several-More-Offers-Go-Out-In-The-Sunshine-State-111875163
LikeLike
my bad — 247
LikeLike
Reed…I can do any of the above but I think the Jan 13 Georgia Tech game was the one we were targeting. I think that’s the one Annie can make?
LikeLike
Hey Fran, about last nights game? If a couple of the shots go down last night you could have been at a big upset? I thought Stallings made some good in game adjustments? No?
LikeLike
The best adjustment was getting Carter & Miles in foul trouble 🙂
Let’s not kid ourselves, if he plays more minutes in the 2nd half that game wouldn’t have been a 9 point game. Pitt shot 31 FT’s to the Hoopies 9. Hoopies had 27 baskets to Pitt’s 16.
Pitt did win the Rebounding battle (for a change) 38-32. Which is a huge turn-a-round from previous games.
LikeLike
well it looks like Pitt got its requisite transfer QB
Ryan Donnelly@RivalsRyan
Pitt adds a preferred walk-on from the JUCO ranks in Erie CC quarterback Tyler Zelinski. Zelinski will enroll in January.
LikeLike
everything you wanted to know
http://athletics.ecc.edu/sports/fball/2017-18/bios/zelinski_tyler_3vp9?view=career&pos=qb
LikeLike
I looked up his college offers. Ashland, Baldwin-Wallace, Kenyon and Notre Dame.
But it’s not that one.
LikeLike
He’s not superstitious though (or something), cause he always wears #13. Even in HS. Could it be….a second coming of Danny ! 🙂
LikeLike
Maybe we need to clarify this again, Petersen Events Center is not named after Cornhole.
The arena is named for philanthropists John Petersen and his wife Gertrude, who donated $10 million ($13.9 million in 2016 dollars) for its construction.[5] John Petersen, a Pitt alumnus, is a native of nearby Erie, Pennsylvania and is the retired President and CEO of Erie Insurance Group. The Petersen Events Center was winner of the 2003 Innovative Architecture & Design Honor Award from Recreation Management magazine.[6]
LikeLike
It’s just too bad it’s very close to Cornhole’s last name. Pederson.
LikeLike
Anyway i just read the Trib article on the last nite’s game and less than 8,000 attended. It looked like a full house on TV, but it was about 5,000 short of capacity,
I guess that’s pretty good…….in the Otis Era. And could be the biggest attended game of the year.
LikeLike
How about Carrickart? I will follow that, would love a little humor.
LikeLike
Omg…..The Stains might win a game. Surely this signals the End is near.
LikeLike
But then this occurred…a 65 yard Punt Return. lol
video/1
LikeLike
Here’s what I watched on my TV last night… A very young PITT basketball team with a somewhat suspect head basketball coach who somehow coached his team into a respectful finish to a very tough game. .
Stallings coached Vanderbilt to a 332-220 record during his head coaching there. Now, I’m not a big fan of his just yet but I really don’t get the vitriol directed toward him? I thought his young team played hard and as the best they could. I also watch a well coached team second half. The coach doesn’t actually shoot the ball.
LikeLike
Ike, that is not even 2-1 win to loss ratio in a non basketball conference! It does not make for a very good coach in my book. Plus Stallings was disliked at PITT before he arrived. How many players left the team? Lesson should be learned by all AD’s. Find out what players think of a potential coach before he is hired. Unless you want to loose a whole team
LikeLike
And the Brownies drop to 0 and 13.
LikeLike
Shady wins it for Buffalo
LikeLike
lol Shady was like a snow plow in that game. 156 yards and the game winning 25 yarder in OT
LikeLike
If Pitt was in Ohio, we’d be much more popular. Since Ohio’s NFL teams are so bad.
No wonder everyone is an Ohio Fake Suckeye fan.
LikeLike
that’s pretty much too. Ohio St (in season) gets as much pub in Cleveland as the Browns
LikeLike
too = true
LikeLike
and… a couple more things just when you thought I was done.
6&34, job well done sir……
Is it too early for the early predictions for next year?. 🙂
The POV needs an early “Know The Enemy” for the coming season. Anyone up for that? It seems to me that Erie Express would be a great author for something like that. or… Pitt-cocks. Boom! << this guy is mr research or anyone else just to get talk started…
The POV needs a podcast soon and or a round-table on Sunday mornings every once in awhile? I have a new idea for a different format where you sign in blood to appear and have a predetermined list of questions. or we just wing it… or a combo?
Where’s Richman? I know he’s smiling somewhere.
Where’s Matt from Louisville? Check in brother Matt! << hope all is well
rkb, come back and join this fractured group of POVer’s. You’re insight is missed
DK, you’ve been gone for too long. 😦
The POV is indeed in a healing process, let’s forgive and forget but remember… We All We Got!
H2P!
LikeLike
TossingT, where have you been?
LikeLike
Ike…you are correct about last nights game. A shot / layup or 2 drops and maybe we pull it off. I thought we would get toasted. There was a dj on a Pittsburgh R&B station named Brother Matt. WAMO-am. Back in the sixties. That’s all I listened to back then. Healing is a process.
LikeLike
Satin soul for the steel city…
LikeLike
WVU played two seniors in Carter and Miles last night. Everybody else that played more than 2 minutes are freshmen and sophomores. Pitt was down 13 when Carter sat with 4 fouls. Pitt cut it to 4 just before Carter returned.
The future hopefuls:
Carr was 2-6 from the field (2-4 from 3) with 2 rebounds, 4 assists and 5 turnovers.
Wilson-Frame was 3-10 from the field (0-6 from 3) with 5 rebounds, 2 assists and 2 turnovers.
Stephenson was 3-7 (1-1 from 3) with 3 rebounds, 1 assist and 3 turnovers.
Davis was 2-6 (1-4 from 3) with 5 rebounds, 1 assist and 1 turnover.
Parker was 1-5 (1-5 from 3) with 2 rebounds, 1 assist and 0 turnovers.
So the new talent was 11-34 (5-20 from 3) with 17 rebounds, 9 assists and 11 turnovers.
Luther was 5-9 (1-3 from 3) with 12 rebounds, 2 assists and 1 turnover. I don’t consider it much of a stretch to say that without Luther’s consistent production (16 boards in his only poor shooting game against MSM), Pitt is likely staring at a 1-9 start this season.
WVU pressed very little last night. As Emel noted, Pitt shot more than 3 times as many FTs as WVU. If Pitt hadn’t enjoyed that huge advantage it’s a a 20 point WVU win.
Now feel free to return to mocking UPitt and be sure to buy some season tickets THIS SEASON.
LikeLike
Wow. So take away the free throws? That’s part of the game. Should we change the rules to fit your agenda?
LikeLike
The pressure is why we got all the FT’s. It wasn’t hometown refs…
LikeLike
^^ No problem. thanks..
LikeLike
Pat Signal went out a half hour ago
LikeLike
New Pat signal, 10:30 tonight…speculation on Pitt Fan Fanatics is Tyler Bentley , a 3 star Defensive Tackle from Ohio and a former Kentucky commit.
LikeLiked by 1 person
He has offers from Alabama, LSU, Florida, Mch St and others
LikeLike
Can we get a 4 Star for Xmas?
LikeLike
This just in, Bentley is a very good recruit. Don’t poo poo the young man. I’m happy PITT flipped the stud!. iek
LikeLike
What happened to the POV artwork at the top of the page? Or did I break my laptop again?
LikeLike
Can HCPN once again flip a Matt House recruit?
https://scout.com/college/football/recruiting/Article/3-Star-DT-Tyler-Bentley-One-Of-Ohios-Best-106166575
LikeLike
Here is an excerpt from PSN … so we may not know who the commit is until signing day. Note that that is December 20th ….. the first of two LOI signing days this season
The logical guess is that it’s one of the four big names that we’ve heard a lot about in the last couple of weeks: Shocky Jaques-Louis, Jatavious Harris, Jeshaun Jones or Tyler Bentley.
Here’s what we can tell you. Since the “Pat Signal” was issued, PSN contacted all 4 of these players. 3 of those players returned my message and said it wasn’t them that committed. I hope to hear back from the fourth player this morning.
Here’s two other things to consider. 1) This commitment might not be any of these four and could be one of the many secondary players that Pitt has been recruiting. 2) It could be one of the players that I contacted and they just don’t want their decision to be made public yet. Remember, 3 of these players have ceremonies set up for National Signing Day and making their decision public Now would ruin their ceremony. They could have just let Pat Narduzzi know their decision in order to help out with future recruiting.
LikeLike
BTW. 3 of the 4 listed above are WRs … all of them have big time offers and have visited Pitt recently.
LikeLike
Mine own nameth is king pateth and kenneth pickett is not eft to playeth yet
LikeLike