Comments on: Gone in 90 seconds! Pittsburgh Panthers wet themselves

By: Bill S

Bill S — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 05:35:17 +0000

You obviously missed the point (and you brought NC State up to begin with). I don't know what a loss to NC State has to do with beating Penn State because if I ask you for your quality win this year, your answer is Temple. Are you proud of that? You can't be any more proud of saying that than Pitt saying they lost to NC State. Make sense now? You beat the teams you should beat AND THAT'S IT. Nothing better. So PSU goes 10-2 and at the end of the year you tell me your best win was Temple. Seriously?!? And you are worried about Pitt's schedule and them losing to NC State? LOL. That argument sounds much crazier to me. That's my point. Hopefully you understand it now.
I don't listen to arguments from Penn State fans that Pitt's schedule is weak because several SOS ratings have yours currently being worse than ours. Pitt's schedule for the remainder of the year is much harder too, so I certainly don't expect you to leapfrog us or remain ahead of us in SOS either. You can throw the weak schedule thing away unless you are going to use it for your own team as well.

By: psudevon

psudevon — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 23:01:31 +0000

“I don't see much difference between your best win being Temple and Pitt losing to a team they shouldn't like NC State.”

Um…what? We beat the teams that we should beat, and, this year, have lost to those better than us. You haven't played a team better than yourselves–because your schedule is painfully weak–and have lost, once thusfar, to a flat out bad team. We routed Temple, dude. Do you understand how asinine that argument was?

By: Bill S

Bill S — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 22:35:17 +0000

By: psudevon

psudevon — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 16:01:31 +0000

“I don't see much difference between your best win being Temple and Pitt losing to a team they shouldn't like NC State.”

By: Bill S

Bill S — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 23:51:07 +0000

I don't think you have to have 10 win seasons to beat Penn State. I don't even think you have to prove you can out recruit your opponent to renew a rivalry (you have to play the game on the field anyways even if someone is getting slightly better athletes). Pitt's knock might be that they lose a game or two each year that they shouldn't (NC State). Penn State's problem is that they generally don't beat anyone good. If you check out computer rankings that rank all Division I-A teams (Sagarin or Billingsley), your best win this year is currently Temple. I don't see much difference between your best win being Temple and Pitt losing to a team they shouldn't like NC State. We'll be ranked ahead of Penn State come tomorrow. The gap between the schools is gone.

By: psudevon

psudevon — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:34:14 +0000

I don't mean to belittle Pitt, because you guys seem to be a program on the rise, but let's be honest here. You guys haven't had a 10-win season since 1981. This year, you'll probably have one, so kudos on that. But you also lost to a pretty crappy NC State team, and you've got to admit that most Pitt-PSU recruiting battles go our way. I'd like to see this series restarted, but only if you can prove that this year isn't a fluke amongst 7 or 8 win years.

By: Bill S

Bill S — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:47:36 +0000

“1981″ was the PSU rebuttal above. I don't really get why we need to look back to 1981 (like the comment mentions). We'd respond with “2000″. If you looked at the trend near the end of the Pitt/PSU rivalry, Pitt had closed the gap on PSU. I think it would be good to restart the rivalry too. As a Pitt fan, I think we'd beat you more often that not (just my opinion) and probably more than most PSU people think.

By: psudevon

psudevon — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:12:14 +0000

Nothing against Pitt, and I mean that, you probably have the best team in the last 20 years right now. But let's be honest, you're a program that has not done much lately, and your attendance has been notoriously poor. I'd love to restart this rivalry, because I think we'd beat you more often than not. If your only rebuttal is to go “1981!” well, what can I say? That was 28 years ago! I wasn't going to be born for almost another decade!

By: Bill S

Bill S — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:11:35 +0000

It's funny how you are blind to your own situation. Let's try to stay with facts here, not sarcasm. Who is PSU's impressive win this year? And since when do you judge a team based on their “rich and storied history”? Let's talk about a team's current level of play. That's like saying a win over Michigan last year was a big deal even though the Wolverines went 3-9 (because they have a “rich and storied history”). PSU certainly has no more impressive wins than Pitt does.

By: psudevon

psudevon — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:20:33 +0000

For a shitty team in a shitty conference, Pitt fans sure are full of themselves. Seriously, congratulations on beating Rutgers. That's an impressive win. They've got such a rich and storied history of actually being worse than you. Impressive.