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Pitt football always has been and always will be second fiddle to the Steelers. I honestly wish we were still a basketball school because that’s where we have the most potential. They were pretty much the city’s NBA team when we were in the Big East; you’d have a lot of casual Yinzers follow along. They’ll never get that level of support in football.
Ideally, us, Boston College, and Syracuse should return to the Big East once the ACC blows up. I’d love that, but I’m also a Pitt hoops fans first.
Another great Saturday. A big Penn State blowout win and the Fighting Narduzzi's suffer a humiliating loss. A great day!
The university as an academic institution... yes. Football team not so much.
Yeah, he’s not good, but Nard Dog will continue to play him because all their dreams for the season are still ahead of them. 7-5 and the Hairstylist Bowl are still within their grasp.
We will always monitor Pitt so that we can appreciate a truly sophisticated and professional offensive philosophy. Perhaps, one day, PSU can get rid of its High School level schemes and adopt Narduzzi’s brilliant systems.
Then, we too, can aspire to be 1-4 in an inferior conference.
On a fourth and 20, Pitt ran a screen pass to the tight end who was standing in the middle of quadruple coverage. That pretty much sums it up.
I really wonder why the posters still here have to act like impudent little pricks to any opposing fan that shows up. Love Penn state - hate our message boards.
There’s a great deal of truth in your statement. Conversely, if you went somewhere, and people beat the piss out of you (fairly or unfairly) why would you ever go there repeatedly after the beating? Sometimes it’s hard to distinguish the victim from the assailant.
To this day I wish we had an eastern all-sports conference. A conference of PSU, Pitt, Temple, Maryland, Rutgers, Syracuse, Boston College, West Virginia and maybe a few others like Navy, Miami, East Carolina, UCONN, etc., would have maintained historical rivalries, been exciting for east coast sports fans and easier on traveling athletes. Wouldn’t have been the strongest football conference (and especially not wrestling), and it wouldn’t have been the money maker we now see in the Big Ten, but I much rather be playing old eastern rivals than Illinois and Indiana, etc.
But when Joe tried to put it together, no other eastern school would go along with it.
Agreed, although I think the best chance would’ve been if the Big East (more specifically the Catholic schools) accepted Penn State. IMO, Paterno’s idea would’ve never worked because of the disagreements over revenue sharing in basketball but not in football.
It’s sad because had the Big East gotten on board with football a decade earlier, they would’ve gotten Florida State and South Carolina in addition to PSU. The ACC would likely have been the conference that got poached in the 2000s and not the other way around.
This is a fair response. You’ve been on here a long time. I appreciate you. You’re a good guy.
I believe Pitt, BC and Syracuse were those teams. They were the three teams that were in the Big East at the time. They got to enjoy Big East basketball in its hey day in the 1980's while other eastern schools like Temple, Rutgers, West Virginia (who were for Paterno's all sports conference idea, I think) spent the early 80's with Penn State playing basketball (and all sports except football) in the Atlantic-10.
With all due respect, this is not accurate. Pitt wasn’t even in the Big East yet when Penn State was up for an invitation so we couldn’t have voted against PSU. It was Georgetown, St. John’s, and Villanova, the aforementioned Catholic schools.
Correct--it was those 3 programs and that's well documented.
Also, we owe those that voted against us joining the Big Ten a lot. We're in a much better situation because of that.
They were so short-sighted. They were correct in placing a priority on media markets, but they put all their “eggs” in the “basketball basket.” That caused them to ignore the value that PSU and others brought with football, unfortunately.
Hail, there were two separate occasions. First, Penn State tried to join the Big East sometime in the mid-late 70's. You are right that this was before Pitt was in the Big East. The "no" votes came from the small schools who didn't want a school like PSU, so different from theirs and so much larger, in their conference.
Paterno then responded to this rebuke by trying to form an eastern all sports conference that included football. This is the case I was referring to.
Thanks for clarification, that makes more sense. I know Pitt was against Paterno’s proposal (the details, not the idea) because of revenue sharing in football versus basketball. Like I said before, it’s a shame it couldn’t work out.
PiT is a dreadful place, one of the worst on earth. May even be worse than the Taliban with their lies.
and in a Big10 East division that consistently has 2-3 teams ( Michigan , OSU and PSU) all ranked in the top 10...no other division in College football is as tough..
And we would have to ask what Pitt’s record would have been over the last few years playing in the Big East?
The Eastern All-sports conference would have pulled in Miami and VT for sure (since they joined the big east), probably Florida State before they joined the ACC, possibly South Carolina before they joined the SEC, and would be the frontrunner for ND. If I could only turn back time and let those Eastern independents see what the future unfolded.......
You might want to find the tape of the 2021 PSU/Rutgers game. I believe Veilleux played the majority of that game and should be credited for that win. And if Veilleux plays for Pitt as he did that day he will be the winning QB for some games for Pitt.......
