Some thoughts from X2:
- we play 3 more teams that are comparable to Pitt this year - Mizzou, Ole Miss, Kentucky. We need to win 2 of those.
- Milton missed too many throws. The one Hyatt couldn’t hang on to was perfect though.
- why did we run a play with 20 seconds left in the first half instead of taking a knee? We handed off to Jabari Small, and he got up holding his collar bone area — if he broke it, we may not see him again this season. How incredibly wasteful and stupid. If you aren’t going to try to score, take a knee. We got our starting RB hurt on a meaningless play. I feel so bad for Small.
- Tyler Baron is already the best player on our D. Maybe the best player on our team. He is going to make some money playing this game.
- Kenny Pickett played really well - the kind of consistent and smart quarterbacking we’ve been missing since Dobbs graduated. There are a few reasons we lost — turnovers and penalties especially - but Pickett is why Pitt was able to win.
- Where are Beckwith and Whitehead? What does 4th and inches look like if either one of them had gotten an opportunity? How can both of them not be ready to play?
- Hooker looked okay but gave the ball away 2x. We can’t win that way. We can’t win with Milton missing wide open receivers and putting the ball on the ground either. We don’t have a competent QB right now. We have guys that have tools and show flashes, but not a full QB right now. We need a Kenny Pickett.
- The Pride of the Southland barely exists now during the game. We see them in pregame and at halftime, but during the game they are basically relegated to just being fans sitting in uniforms holding instruments. We play awful music over the loudspeakers the whole game. Most of the pomp and pageantry that make the live game experience so fun have been put on the back burner, and in their stead, we get DJs and blurry sounding hip hop music over a sound system that isn’t capable of playing it in a clean sounding way.
- concessions and beer stand lines were awful. They need more and they need to merge beer sales into the regular concessions lines. It shouldn’t take 20 minutes in the beer line and then 15 minutes in the vol dog line. You want more people in the stadium? Make it easier to get beer and food in them. You are competing with their 70 inch tv, stocked refrigerator and air conditioning. Make the in game experience more convenient and comfortable for your fans, and you’ll get more butts in seats.
Keepers: getting the TEs involved, our team speed, Tyler Baron, our D’s grittiness, our Special Teams play, stadium fan support/energy,
Trash: the officiating!, the 4th and inches play call, getting Small injured on a meaningless play, Milton’s deep ball accuracy, Jaylen Wright up the gut, QB shovel passes, the stadium sound system, the stadium music selections, the beer lines.
