That [Duke] game may be the first sign that this is a different kind of Pitt team.
…this [season] has a different feel.
…
I believe this is a different Pitt team, a different Pitt season and the dawn of a new era for Pitt football. I believe that Pat Narduzzi finally has the program where he wants it to be…The last two seasons, they laid the groundwork for this to be the breakout season under Narduzzi.
If that is truly the case, the Panthers will go into the Carrier Dome and leave very little doubt.
If Pitt gets off to a great start again in this game, the Orange will fold and the Panthers will roll to a big win.
It is easy to understand why Pitt fans are so nervous about this Syracuse game, but there is no need to get worked up. This is a different Panthers team than those in the past...they will continue to prove it every time they take the field the rest of the way this year. That starts Friday against the Orange, and I’ll be shocked if it isn’t a dominant performance and a relatively easy Pitt win.
Shocked
That article was the reason the Pitt-centric writers I first read today were so negative! I couldn't understand it and kept reading others and I saw it. He even pats our little heads and calms us, there-there, "there is no need to get worked up"!
I mean, dude, "the dawn of a new era"?
"The last two seasons, they laid the groundwork..."? What, with all the five star recruits the got?
The first time I read that this morning I was conscious that my jaw dropped. I just thought of it again and re-read it and I am shocked. What Paul Zeise wrote, Pitt getting off to a great start, actually happened! He predicted it! But then!
So, he's "shocked" today! I'll bet he is pissed, too.
…this [season] has a different feel.
…
I believe this is a different Pitt team, a different Pitt season and the dawn of a new era for Pitt football. I believe that Pat Narduzzi finally has the program where he wants it to be…The last two seasons, they laid the groundwork for this to be the breakout season under Narduzzi.
If that is truly the case, the Panthers will go into the Carrier Dome and leave very little doubt.
If Pitt gets off to a great start again in this game, the Orange will fold and the Panthers will roll to a big win.
It is easy to understand why Pitt fans are so nervous about this Syracuse game, but there is no need to get worked up. This is a different Panthers team than those in the past...they will continue to prove it every time they take the field the rest of the way this year. That starts Friday against the Orange, and I’ll be shocked if it isn’t a dominant performance and a relatively easy Pitt win.
Shocked
That article was the reason the Pitt-centric writers I first read today were so negative! I couldn't understand it and kept reading others and I saw it. He even pats our little heads and calms us, there-there, "there is no need to get worked up"!
I mean, dude, "the dawn of a new era"?
The first time I read that this morning I was conscious that my jaw dropped. I just thought of it again and re-read it and I am shocked. What Paul Zeise wrote, Pitt getting off to a great start, actually happened! He predicted it! But then!
So, he's "shocked" today! I'll bet he is pissed, too.
I was shocked that Paul Zeise saw that coming. That he had that "feel." I did not. My vision is 20/400 so there's that but I am not paralyzed numb, I can feel things and I didn't feel that. At all. I was mirthfully shocked that two national sports pages had by Beloveds going to the Orange Bowl. I even wrote, "What do they see?" I didn't understand at all. I put quite a bit of stock in where the Vegas gambling houses set the line on the next weekend's game and, as importantly, on what bettors subsequently do with the line. You get the considered opinion of thousands of people who are putting their money ahead of their hearts. Vegas set the line for this game at Pitt +2.5. Bettors were bullish on Pitt and bet the line up to +4. That was an impressive vote of confidence! I still wasn't convinced but the point is not that I was right or anybody else wrong, the point is that NOBODY HAD THE LINE PITT +21 OKAY? Nobody saw a blowout coming even if, as Paul Zeise turned out to be so right about, Pitt "gets off to a great start." If you're a Vegas gambling house or a bettor and you blow a line so badly often enough you're going to be out of business or lose your shirts.
It is not my intent to rub it in Paul Zeise's face, I am sure he has gotten lots of mail. I just gaped--I still gape--in wonder. I hope he writes a follow-up but you know how fourth estaters are.
