Pitt Football- Making strides

[frostlion]

Who said Akron was going to be top ten? They are the defending MAC champion and have a solid QB that obviously Pitt thought was good enough to play for them.

Why is Michigan State due for a backslide?

The Big Ten has been so weak and ridiculed in recent years by nearly everyone. Nearly every day there has been a call for their automatic BCS bid to be revoked and given to the MAC or C-USA.

Oh, wait a minute. That's the Big East.

You Pitt fans, and the rest of the Big East, should all send Rich Rodriguez a great big fruit basket for that Sugar Bowl win and taking some of the pressure off your conference. Imagine had WVU lost to Georgia? Two humiliating BCS losses in a row for the Big East would have been interesting.

[The Ancient Enemy]

Virginia and Michigan State are mid-level programs in repected conferences. UVA's recruiting is down, and they lost both coordinators, which have both made Al Groh's worth look better than it really was. They are in a lot of trouble right now in the conference they are in. I said all along that thge teams who would suffer from Tech and Miami joining that conference were WHO? Maryland and UVA. Did they?

It is very known that John L. Smith has to win the Big Ten this seaosn or he's out. They don't have the tools to do it.

Nobody said that between 00-04 that Penn State was a national powerhouse ON THE FIELD. As a program they certainly still were. I'm sure UVA had a better record than them, Tech and Miami and BC weren't there. I guess you coincidentally forgot FSU's "tough" schedules when they were winning the ACC all the time. They were the most criticized conference in the country because those teams were so bad.

Dispute this fact: Akron won their conference.

How'd The Citadel do?

[vman]

Happy Hour Send Off In The Lonestar State

Boy we really are on Akron's jock aren't we. It is sad when you play nobody outside of your conference; a conference which you admittedly judge to be filled with more teams (6) that are mid-level majors, @ best, than not!

And the Citadel: "If you actually watched college football and read up on it, you'd know that Citadel's coach is doing a very good job down there in the short time he has been there. Recruiting is up, and MORALE is up. They are a program on the verge of becoming an annual contender."
By the way, The 'del, as some of their hard core fans call em, won their last 2 games of '05; including a big yr ending victory over traditional rival VMI... @ least I'll give them credit for one thing: their OOC schedule; in the past 2 yrs I know they have played Auburn, Duke, Ole Miss and Fla St.
and this yr they play Pitt and Texas A&M...But I guess they need to since they don't play mid majors in conf...

SAD STATEMENT

Citadel schedules: Auburn, Duke, Ole Miss, Fla St., Pitt and A&M

PSU schedules: Temple, Temple, Cent Mich, Eastern Mich, Kent, Fla Int, Akron, Temple, Temple, Shade and Turkeyfoot

Happy weekend trails to you!

[fleaflicker]

No, it's not Citadel scheduling those teams, it's those teams scheduling Citadel for (what they hope to be) an easy win. Citadel is I-AA, and maybe they are close to being a national contender there, I don't know, I don't follow I-AA football. I follow I-A football, sorry.

[The Ancient Enemy]

VMI! VMI is one of the worst I-AA teams in the country, let alone the Big South.

Let's take a look at The Sh*tadel's 2005 statistics.

Batten down the hatches, this will blow you out of your seat.

PASSING ATT COMP YDS TD
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Duran Lawson 94 55 434 5

RUSHING CAR YDS AVG TD
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Nuru Goodrum 177 800 4.5 7
Montrell Lee 59 221 3.7 1

RECEIVING REC YDS AVG TD
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Ta'Mar Jernigan 40 359 9.0 5
Kinta Palmer 31 332 10.7 4

TEAM RUSH PASS TOTAL
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Offense 119.6 125.2 244.8

TEAM PF PA MARGIN
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Scoring 17.6 28.7 -11.1

Now that right there is serious football. 434 yards and 5 touchdowns. Mel Kiper just called and told me that Duran Lawson was selected #1 overall by the Punxatawney Phils of the IUP Branch Campus Football League (IUPBCFL) you can visit that league's website right here: IUPBCFL Homepage

That's right, ladies and mongoloids, The Sh*tadel put up 244 yards of offense against I-AA powerhouses like Elon and UT-Chattanooga.

You might have gotten away with Furman, but even YOU know scheduling this team is a total joke. Notice how Pitt wanted nothing to do with a I-AA team who even made the tournament (16 teams) after that scare against Furman last year.

Those mid-level majors in the MAC sure have some nice wins under the belt.

Hey, v-man, did Akron win their conference? How about Virginia?

[El-Moldo]

If Windber wins THEIR conference (the WestPac), does that mean they are better than Bishop McCort, or BC, or FH or whoever doesn't finish first in the LHAC????

[The Ancient Enemy]

Once again, we see that Pitt fans are not happy unless PSU's OOC schedule has USC, Texas, and LSU. I'd of included Michigan and Ohio State in there BUT WE ALREADY PLAY THEM.

Akron: MAC champs, bowl team
Michigan: bowl team
Northwestern: bowl team
Wisconsin: bowl team
Ohio State: co-Champs of Big Ten, BCS winner
Notre Dame: BCS bowl team
Minnesota: bowl team

Hey, it's like Meatloaf said: "7 out of 12 ain't bad."

[El-Moldo]

What about the Windber question? Is Akron better than Michigan just because they won their conference?

[The Ancient Enemy]

Obviously not, but they still won their conference. Akron is a team on the rise, unlike Michigan State and UVA, who are both moving in the wrong direction right now.

Funny how UVA lost both coordinators and Pitt immediately jumped at the chance to get them on the schedule. VMI must have been booked that weekend.

[El-Moldo]

Are you sure you're in journalism? You know that UVA was on Pitt's schedule before their coordinators left..... I do know, though, that PSU scheduled Akron when they found out that the ZIPS were losing their starting RB and both WR's.