PAT WHITE ROARS
Ever watched a marathon on television? It usually ends with two runners, one of whom is almost certainly Kenyan, ripping off five minute paces at the 24 mile mark. (Watch it sometime–it makes your lungs sear a little just watching it.) Then, at one unspoken moment, the one who has more gas in the tank just looks back, makes a decision, and then suddenly goes faster despite having just run those 24 miles. The other person doesn’t exactly give up, but a visible spirit-crushing shudder goes through them as the recede into the distance.
In the third quarter of a potential shootout last night, that’s precisely what West Virginia did to Pitt: Catch me, motherfucker. Pitt had one half of disciplined run D in them, and once White started reading and running, the outcome played out like twisted math for Pitt. He looked like Woody Dantzler on crank last night, running for 200 and passing for 200 on a defense reduced to near tears by the last dregs of the fourth quarter.
If that wasn’t bad enough, Pat White also mocked Pitt’s lame, piped-in roar on camera. You deserve it, Pitt, for using the lamest tricks of a.m. drive-time radio to pump up your crowd. Unless you play that clip of Don King saying “Testicles are acceptable” that they use all the time on 790 here in Atlanta. That shit is always funny.












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Rutgers had a nice showing against the bearcats. I do however love the air guitar their fans do, it is extremely intimidating!!!!
Comment by Bryan — November 20, 2006 @ 11:31 am
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Ole Miss was gonna get skull F*cked by LSU huh? What happened?
LSU is terribly overrated. Not worthy of a top 10 ranking. Beat someone that is worth somthing….please.
Comment by Chris — November 19, 2006 @ 5:12 pm
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AUalum why bash Rutgers b/c Kentucky sucks. RU is 6th in the BCS. Common opponent for RU/KU is Louisville. RU won 28-25. KU lost 28-59. I see where they are similar.
Comment by letsplaytummysticks — November 17, 2006 @ 9:08 pm
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How did this thread devolve into Conference Schedule nonsense. Back to the funniest clip in months.
Notice the mewling keeps going during the Pitt sideline diagram play?
In the production truck:
Exec Producer: Audio to Shelley, over audio and second camera on WVU sidelines.
Engineer: Check.
…
Exec Producer: Did someone let a cat in the truck?
Spotter: That’s Pat White.
Exec Producer: Huh. So it is.
Engineer2: READY FOR CAMERA 3 ON Pitt sideline. In 5,4
Exec Producer: LEAVE THE GODDAMN AUDIO ON CAMERA 2.
Engineer2: 1, Camera 3, video only go!
Comment by dogtown gator — November 17, 2006 @ 7:41 pm
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No one noticed the absolute hilarity of an OM Rebel fan talking trash to a fan of LSU? Ole Miss, who is about to be skullraped by LSU tomorrow night. Ole Miss, who fired Cutcliffe so they could hire that clown Orgeron and have a terrifically worse record. Rebel fans running smack on their Daddy, LSU, is one of the most preposterously funny things I have ever seen.
Comment by Joshua — November 17, 2006 @ 6:42 pm
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Yea i’m a pitt fan and our d sucks i know (luckily its hoops season). With all of that out of the way, did anyone see that punt return? Herbstriet was calling it the play of the year, and im probably biased but watching derek kinder level 2 mountaineers in one pure slobber knocking hit even made me smile watching it after the game was over.
Comment by John — November 17, 2006 @ 6:16 pm
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#60 - Finally a campaign issue I can support. A Jessica Alba + my fiance in bed platform can’t lose. Get me Carville and Rove on the phone stat.
Comment by Hokie Andrew - Crosses Ocean, Lives to tell the tale... — November 17, 2006 @ 5:20 pm
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#59
Even the SEC, where Kentucky is apparently (am I reading this right?) second in the SEC-East.
Then according to this statement Big East sucks the most because Rutgers is at the top as we speak.
But I do agree that conference rankings should be based on the current season and not the history of the conference. Atleast that will shut up the Bama-fans.
Comment by AUgrad — November 17, 2006 @ 5:09 pm
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Can’t we all just agree that we want Okhrana to succeed on his mission to get his fiance and Alba in bed together? godspeed, brother.
Comment by Ltrain — November 17, 2006 @ 3:51 pm
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Let’s just compromise. All conferences suck. Even the SEC, where Kentucky is apparently (am I reading this right?) second in the SEC-East.
Comment by j.j. — November 17, 2006 @ 3:31 pm
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WVU Girl speaks the truth. We’ve notched up a piddling zero wins in SEC play this year, same as Miami and BC.
Comment by Hokie Andrew - Crosses Ocean, Lives to tell the tale... — November 17, 2006 @ 2:47 pm
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I went to WVU, am a Mountaineer fan, and am more than willing to admit the Big East is pretty sucky. That said, I can’t decide whether I want WVU to beat Rutgers for a BCS bid or Rutgers to beat WVU and win out, just for the ability to ask a friend when I’m sitting in a bar in my 60’s “Remember that year the Knights went undefeated? When the Mountaineer mascot blew his brains out at centerfield in Morgantown when they beat WVU?”
Comment by Lawbot — November 17, 2006 @ 2:45 pm
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Seems like teams ought to be judged on their merits season to season, instead of including the team’s history. SEC fans are frequently incapable of this, believing previous success frees them from any responsibility to critically examine their beloved conference year-to-year. I don’t think anybody here is arguing that the Big East is the best conference in America; rather, some of us are arguing that the Big East is better than most people (read: SEC fans) give it credit for. Meanwhile, SEC fans are claiming that they’ve got the best football in the country, even if the season’s biggest game isn’t likely to involve an SEC team. (And that’s assuming that a game tops the hype for this weekend’s Michigan-Ohio State game.)
Point is, SEC fans have plenty to dish out. Send it back their way however, and the intense whining, excuse making, and buck passing begins.
Comment by Sam — November 17, 2006 @ 2:42 pm
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VT, BC, and Miami are all not faring very well in the SEC
They’re in the ACC, WVU Girl, and nobody’s saying the ACC is any good.
My conference (Big XII) sucks ass, and that’s all I know so far. As far as the other ones go, I guess we’ll have to wait till bowl time to figure it out.
By the way, I root for WVa because this thing you call a ‘running offense’ (?) is strange and foreign to me. I haven’t seen it in about 6 years from either of my teams (ND and Iowa State).
Comment by j.j. — November 17, 2006 @ 2:42 pm
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I’ll take the Big East this year over the ACC and Big 12.
Comment by Jason — November 17, 2006 @ 2:41 pm
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Don’t forget one of those slow Big Ten teams, Wisconsin, throttled another top SEC team in the Capital One bowl last year.
Comment by Jason — November 17, 2006 @ 2:38 pm
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Current Standings Conferences: per the AP
Top 25 Average Ranking #Teams
Big 11 - 15 5 3
Big 12 - 51 17 3
SEC - 54 10.8 5
ACC - 117 19.5 6
PAC 10 - 21 10.5 2
Big East - 25 8.33 3
Other - 42 14 3
So overall strength? Big 11 has top quality. ACC has top quantity but lowest quality. Big east has two fewer top 25 teams but averages 2 spots ahead of the SEC. This is completely meaningless, I know, but take your heads out of your deviated rectums and look at the numbers.
It’s more fun to say my team is great and your team sucks raptor ****. I don’t think anyone in the country is going to say the SEC sucks, but as a resident of the Nations Capital I can say, I don’t see it. Sure I’ve only been back in the country since 95, but y’all ain’t done squat to earn that moniker.
Now I just did a quick websearch, so I am sure I am looking at the “wrong” data, but it lists conference strengths as follows.
Pac 10
Big East
Southeastern
Big Ten
Atlantic COast
Big 12
Independents
Mountain West
etc. Since I don’t think anyone cares about my own little Patriot League
So to the Big East? You all did stink, but it is obvious to this impartial viewer that you are making huge strides. That doesn’t mean I don’t think the Eers/ville/burgh/Rutgers would lose to many of the top 25.
To to SEC? Everyone being just as good as you doesn’t mean you’re all good, it might mean that ya’ll are just aright. I might say that my fiancee is as hot as Jessica Alba, but until I get em both in my bed, we just won’t know.
Comment by okhrana — November 17, 2006 @ 1:53 pm
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it was pretty obvious that georgia thought they were getting a cake walk, they just didn’t realize the path went over their pathetic bodies.
the SEC is by far the most overrated conference
Comment by clashmore mike — November 17, 2006 @ 1:52 pm