Wannstedt Can’t Lose
Or at least he best not do so to Syracuse. Coach Dave Wannstedt — in only a slight oversimplification — takes a general view towards football that you line your 11 best against the other team’s 11...
View ArticleThis Bad Taste Will Linger
Four hours of sleep, a lot of coffee, back at work. Yeah, I’m still feeling very bitter. Actually I think the bitterness is keeping me more awake than the coffee. As was pointed out in the comments...
View ArticleNow What With Football
Looks like we are all still working through a fair amount of angst, frustration, disappointment, and plenty of other feelings. I really don’t have a good answer right now. Anson of Cardiac Hill lists...
View ArticleAs Usual, “Correctable Mistakes”
After this many years following Coach Wannstedt at Pitt, I probably am not the only one to know what he says in most situations. From last week: The thing that probably has me most pissed is that...
View ArticleFinding The Words
Traveled home today. Lots of traveling around the last few days has kept me from having time to post (kind of obvious, huh?). I’ve had time to think about all of what I saw. Both yesterday and all...
View ArticleCoaching Changes Or Lack Thereof
I don’t see any way to avoid continuing the Dave Wannstedt pile-on. For all the talk of wanting/hoping Wannstedt is fired/resigns/politely bumped upstairs to a fake position; I don’t see it. I expect...
View ArticleSome Acknowledgment of Pressure
As much as there might be concern about how there will be any fans in the stands next year, there is still at least one more game for 2010. Contrary to Coach Wannstedt’s protestations that he has no...
View ArticleWannstedt’s End?
I don’t know. It’s either prelude to a shake-up or Paul Zeise has the nice scoop. Pitt athletic director Steve Pederson will meet with football coach Dave Wannstedt over the next few days to discuss...
View ArticleWannstedt Resigns/Reassigned/Fired
Shows how much I know about the timing of these things, huh? I pushed that post out, and then had to spend the afternoon at my daughter’s dance performance. It was out in poor reception, so I didn’t...
View ArticleWannstedt Sulking, Life in Limbo
I’m rather cynical about most things. Especially when it comes to sports. Yet, I have to admit to being taken aback by the way Coach Wannstedt is acting. Then Pitt’s administration tried to do the...
View ArticleWannstedt Won’t Do Birmingham
Not that anyone seems to have remembered or cared, but Pitt still has a bowl game in less than a week. We will find out officially sometime around noon, but it now appears that Dave Wannstedt won’t...
View ArticleWannstedt’s Presser Semi-Parsed
The Pitt News sports blog had a fine liveblog of Dave Wannstedt’s press conference to announce “The Decision.” Er, no, that’s been done. Here are some of the highlights: “I am a Pitt guy. I am a...
View ArticleSo Wannstedt in Final Presser
I was going to leave it alone, but the more I thought about it the more annoyed I got. Dave Wannstedt held what should have been his final press conference as a direct representative of Pitt. My...
View ArticleTraining Camp Starts Today
In anticipation of the Panther’s summer training camp Paul Zeise of the Post Gazette has written a long article about the team and its expectations for the season. No real earthshaking news here but...
View ArticlePlease Dave, No More Talking
Well Pitt is heading to Birmingham and the big discussion point is Dave Wannstedt. Wait. Is this 2011 or 2010? Now let’s get this out of the way. I like Dave Wannstedt. I know he cares deeply about...
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