The nice thing for Pitt fans is that it's easy to meet low expectations....
- Thread starter Judge Smails
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Their Super Bowl. That game is their entire identity. They don't care that they upset #2 Clemson.
Everytime you think they can't go lower, that they are worthy of respect, that they don't care far more about us than their own team, that they don't just know and feel and live everyday like our little brother....
I never think any of that. They just continue to confirm all I already know about them.
Everytime I see 42-39 I think of the great turnaround season PSU had in winning the B10 Title and Rose Bowl berth against all odds. Great times!
Think we need to have some thicker skin here. PSU has made up t-shirts after big wins before.....no big deal with this stuff.
The fact that Pitt would rather have this win over PSU and their Pinstripe Bowl game vs. 6-6 Northwestern says a lot. Back before this game was played there was more or less a uniform opinion among the PSU faithful that losing to Pitt was no big deal if we rebounded against the meat of the schedule and got to 9 or 10 wins. Fast forward and we're at 11 wins, champs of the best conference, ranked 5th in the nation and playing a top 10 team in the Rose Bowl.
Meanwhile, the one area Pitt needed the PSU win to impact most was recruiting the head to head battles with PSU. That hope was smashed with a sledgehammer....but at least they have a cheap t-shirt to show for it.
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Every time I see it, I think the of multiple opportunities that PSU had to win that game in the final 2 minutes, and how truly lucky Pitt was to steal that win from PSU.
Let them have it, it's truly all they have in life, and have 3 beat downs on the way.
What losers. That would be like us wanting a shirt regarding our win over say Ohio State or Wisconsin. It is one game. I would be embarrassed to wear that. That kind of shirt should be reserved for something like a FCS team beating a team...say like when Appy State beat UM....oh wait...maybe that shirt is appropriate after all.
Will they have a shirt next year that says 0-44? They are the masters of self-humiliation, and they don't even realize it.
Judge, can you put your head-to-head recruiting summary on a t-shirt?
Haha, really small font?
PSU verbals with Pitt offers
*According to the Rivals Database*
2014 Class
1 Saeed Blacknall
2 Antoine White
3 Noah Beh
4 Marcus Allen
5 Daquan Worley
6 Troy Apke
7 Troy Reeder
2015 Class
8 Kevin Givens
9 John Petrishen
10 Nick Bowers
11 Shareef Miller
12 Daquan Kelly
13 John Reid
14 Irvin Charles
15 Jonathan Holland
16 Brandon Polk
17 Juwan Johnson
18 Andre Robinson
19 Jake Cooper
20 Ryan Buchholz
21 Saquon Barkley
22 Kamonte Carter
23 Ryan Bates
2016 Class
24 Shaka Toney
25 Cameron Brown
26 Ellison Jordan
27 Will Fries
28 Michal Menet
29 Alex Gellerstadt
30 Danny Dalton
31 Zechariah McPhearson
32 Connor McGovern
33 Miles Sanders
2017 Class
34 Desmond Holmes
35 Jonathan Sutherland
36 Michael Miranda
37 Robert Martin
38 CJ Thorpe
39 Yetur Matos
40 Damion Barber
41 Dylan Rivers
42 Sean Clifford
43 Fred Hansard
44 KJ Hamler
45 Donovan Johnson
46 Lamont Wade
2018 Class
47 Justin Shorter
48 Zack Kuntz
49 Chris Bleich
Pitt verbals with Penn State Offers
2014 Class
1 Alex Bookser
2015 Class
2 Jordan Whitehead
2016 Class
3 Rashad Weaver
4 Damar Hamlin
5 Aaron Mathews
6 Amir Watts
2017 Class
7 Paris Ford
8 Charles Reeves
Final Tally
James Franklin vs. Pitt since hired as PSU coach
49 of 57 commonly offered recruits between PSU and Pitt verbaled to PSU
James Franklin vs. Pat Narduzzi since they have been at PSU and Pitt respectively
42 of 49 commonly offered recruits between PSU and Pitt verbaled to PSU
This recruiting disparity will continue as long as PSU has years like this. Even the year PSU received NCAA sanctions, we didn't clean up in recruiting. We got Johnson, Boyd, Holtz and maybe a few others. What really is happening is Narduzzi is going
outside of PA for our top recruits...we will still get a few top PA players like Ford this year, but PSU will get most of em. Whereas you are bringing in 4star players with a few 3starplayers, Pitt is getting mostly 3star players with a few 4star players. At this point, that's not all so bad given Pitt's recent "turnstile" coaching scenario.
Two years of 8-4 ain't so bad. If you want to call it low expectations...that's ok by me.
Contrary to what you think, our 'lower" rated players can play, and play pretty well.
One example, Henderson a CONCENSUS All American as a soph. He had decent
offers out of h.s. (not from PSU of course). I'm not saying all of our recruits are a "Henderson."As long as we continue to get our recruits to play as they've done the past few years we'll continue to do well. You guys act like Pitt is a "dumpster" of a program and are getting terrible players. As far as next year...I never make predictions. I didn't
this past year when we were favored by 3.5 pts. You guys are expecting a 30,40 pt win...let's see what happens. Pitt will come to play and be competitive, and your more rational posters know it.
We did not give them the game and the stats show that. We do we talk about them all the time?
Are you guys going to have any kind of presence in NYC? If you think there is a lot to do in Pittsburgh....
I can guarantee if we had of won we would NEVER have a shirt printed especially when it was a close win and came down to the end - this is the poster child for little brother syndrome. What a group of losers. I hope they fun in the Pinstripe Bowl - it was a good Bowl for us when we were still recovering from sanctions - whats their excuse?, the best they could do I guess.
GREAT JOB on the comparison of recruits! Thanks, Judge!!
Since our game is obviously the only one that matters to them, you wonder why they bother playing the rest of them.
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A new member with Joe and knew in his handle and supporting Pitt but using "we"....hmm, wonder what we have here.
But none of those Pitt Stop offers to PSU verbals were "committable" offers.
The guys who committed to Penn State are not pitt material.
Hey, pitter. Instead of posting fraudulent messages on our board, why don't you get a brush, a bucket of soapy water, and go spend some time cleaning the soot off the Cathedral of Learning.
Yea, a few years ago they bilked the Pa. Taxpayers to pay a company to clean the soot off their albatross of a building. I drove by there a few days ago and it is already disgustingly dirty again. Oakland is a pigpen. I don't understand how any college student could stand to live there.
The PSU win and the Clemson win both counted for National Championships, correct? How many are you up to now?
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