The Misery Continues For Pitt

The 2011 football season continues to spiral out of control for the Pitt Panthers, and there doesn't seem to be any sign of them slowing down their descent.

If the recap of losses is starting to sound like a broken record, I apologize.  The string of awful quarterback play continued for Pitt.  Starter Tino Sunseri completed 4 of 11 passes for 38 yards.  No TD's, no picks, no production whatsoever. 

He was benched in favor of Trey Anderson who completed 5 of 19 passes for 12 yards and two picks.  Let me just pause for a second and repeat that number.  12 yards and two picks.  With the yardage on his pick-six, he actually went backwards on the day. 

You would think the Panther coaching staff might have picked up on the fact that trying to throw the ball on a gusty fall day in Pittsburgh was an awful idea, especially with inaccurate quarterbacks.  I mean you only have the nation's leading runner on your team, yet you only give him the rock 12 times in the game.

People always are quick to yell at us armchair quarterbacks who don't play the game.  I mean what do we really know about football right?  It doesn't take much common sense to realize if your quarterbacks have sucked all season long in good passing conditions, they probably aren't going to magically improve in harder passing conditions.

Go with your strengths, go with Ray Graham.  Pitt didn't, because I guess Todd Graham wants to prove he's a genius or something.  He isn't.

I can't wait to hear him throw more of his players under the bus this week.  This has gone far beyond a talent issue.  We all know Pitt is weak at the crucial quarterback position.  The wide receivers aren't exactly noteworthy either.  Even more reason to ride your prized horse to victory, which Pitt didn't do.

This is now a coaching problem.  If Todd Graham had swallowed his pride and ran out the clock against Iowa, Pitt wouldn't have blown a 21 point lead.  Maybe the season takes on a whole different tone. 

The offense was supposed to carry this team.  If the offense was even "average" at this point Pitt would probably be 6-1.  It's a disgrace.

Pitt fans deserve better than this.  They've patiently waited through disappointing season after disappointing season.  Many of them, as well as outsiders like me, bought into the hype that this coach was something special, and would electrify the city.  We invested our hard earned time in fool's gold.

There will be people that still hold out hope that Pitt will somehow turn this around and win the Big East title.  Mark it down now, it's not happening.

Not only is this team a losing team, they are unwatchable.  If they at least lived up to the preseason hype and were losing some high scoring shootouts, then at least you'd be getting your money's worth.

I wondered at the beginning of the year why no local affiliates picked up the coverage of these games.  Maybe it's now all too obvious why Pitt is relegated to ESPN-3 and ESPN-U with women calling their games and mispronouncing their names.  No one is watching anyways.

It's sad to see how far this once proud football program has fallen.  Good programs don't lose homecoming games to the Utah Utes.  Worst of all, there's no end in sight. 

Anyone wishing Dave Wannstadt was back?