MMM...PIG: FIU BUYS OFF FANS WITH PORK.

You know, that’s more people than showed up for Pitt’s spring game: 2,103.

Can’t wait to see Ned in Happy Valley this season.

You’re fucking kidding me—2K for Pitt? Yikes.

the best was the quote from the FIU player. sweet! FIU academics paying off:

Tight end Moses Hinton (3 catches, 49 yards) and receiver Ash Parker (3 catches, 40 yards) led the receiving corps.

’’It’s a total 360 from last year,‘’ Hinton said. ``This year, everyone has a chance to make plays. We’re just having fun and success comes from all this.’’

“Now, THAT’s what I’m talking about. You let us into our house, you should get your pork picked. You don’t come into the OB without that stuff with you. You’re across the ocean over there. You’re across the city. But when you come to our house, you’d better bring some fucking barbecue! I am about to go down the elevator to get some of that ’cue.”

Great photoshop!

What I love is that there is “retro” FIU merchandise….

From what, 2002???

retro uniforms? from all the way back in 2002, when they started playing football? they were probably leather helmets.

Adam —

That’s the polite term for “garage sale,” which a number of lower-budget D-1 programs have to squeeze out a few extra bucks. My posters at MiamiHawkTalk left our spring game with large quantities of surplus Miami game-worn jerseys and practice gear from pretty much every varsity sport.

#2, Orson — Actually, it’s not that different from their fall games. They have 10,000 empty seats in a stadium with 64,000 seats for what they consider the biggest game of the year — the Backyard Brawl against West Virginia. West Fucking Virginia is only 90 minutes away, and there are 10,000 empty seats. 20,000 empty seats for the home opener and a night game against then-undefeated Rutgers.

Of course, if you listen to Pitt fans, they’re a football powerhouse with the most passionate fans in the best football region in the country. A sleeping giant, indeed. Hooray for empty yellow seats!

The only reason Pitt fans want the PSU/Pitt rivalry is because THEY need it to sell seats. The reason PSU nixed the rivalry is b/c Pitt athletic office was FORCING anyone looking for PSU tix to buy tix to 2 other games. Who does that? Bush league stuff.

Sh$t on Pitt.

Wait, you’re telling me I could have had free pig this weekend???

I had no idea that there are Pitt fans that don’t admit that Pittsburgh is a pro sports town, and nobody up there cares about the Panthers.

I salute their denial!

Is there something in the Penn State fan by-laws that requires them to take a pot-shot at Pitt at every opportunity, while simultaneously proclaiming “there is no rivalry here”? Just curious…Penn State message boards are one part ND, two parts Penn State, and four parts Pitt. Half the comments in this section are some sort of proclamation that Pitt is irrelevant, as if repeating it enough times will make it true. I’m waiting for the “there were over 70,000 in Happy Valley, wearing maroon and orange to honor VT” line. There should be plenty of shoulder strains from all the fans patting themselves on the back.

Just over 5,000 at the Cincinnati Bearcats’ spring game this past Saturday evening.

QB Adam Grutza is said to have looked good with the new – and more complex – system. The defense looked quick. 3 – 5 years and the Bearcats are in the Big East final!

Fantastic picture of Ned going off to war!

Saban wouldn’t be the worst governor this state has seen.

Charles Barkley for Governor of Bama!

What rivalry are you referring to sheesh? Are there any fans from Pitt?

RUTS,
They do, however, sell out the stadium for games against Notre Dame. Whether they stay for the second half annihilation, however, is a different question altogether.

I don’t understand what this post had anything to do with pitt. If you’re going to sit on top of your high horse and claim there’s no rivialry and we are nothing to you, then I don’t know, maybe you shouldn’t take shots at pitt for no apparent reason? the spring game is nothing but a glorified practice. do you ever see pitt fans patting themselves on the back during basketball season exclaiming how there are 10,000 seats filled to watch pitt crush slippery rock while there there is like 6 drunk frat boys and 4 fat freshmen fiffteen girls at ups watching them lose to elon? I went to maryland for undergrad, and pitt is only my med school, and love for pitt is a distant second compared to my love for my terps but I’ve quickly learned that ups fans are second to none when it comes to being obnoxious, and this is coming from a girl that was in the ACC with UNC and duke. so in parting, I’m sorry that I couldn’t go to pitt’s spring game because I was busy for curing cancer, next time I’ll ask my professor to let me out of the lab so that I can go up to Heinz field and watch football practice. and I’m glad UPS fans are happy with their moral victory of being number 1 in attendence, good luck with that, I’m sure it will get you far.

I feel bad for Pitt. Not because they fell back into the suck pit. Only because they have to deal with the yojimbo from the NFL.

Personally, I can’t wait to see what happens to Gopher Football’s popularity when the Los Angeles Vikings begin to exist in about 5 years.

Liz, it was simply pointed out that a team without the history of Tony Dorsett, Dan Marino, or Mark May outdrew the team that does. If you want to somehow interpret that as being obnoxious or some sort of libel, by all means that’s your right. If you want to see a real rivalry however, watch the Auburn and Alabama fans fight.

Good luck curing cancer though, everyone is supporting that.

yep Liz, if only all the Pitt fans weren’t out curing cancer during Pitts spring game….DAMN.