That's the sheer beauty of it. By pretending to be us, and them believing him, he's actually trolling them. And both parties are too stupid to realize it.
The Golden Panthers were going away, either way. Didn't you wonder why all of a sudden all-state football players from Louisiana and Mississippi were coming up to Pitt to play football?
If the Golden Panthers hadn't been shut down, the NCAA was going to take the program behind the woodshed. It wasn't a decision that the administration made on their own.
We're about to find out. From your seats way up yonder, you won't get quite the same experience as your guys will down at the student end of the field, but it will be pretty clear as to how well they deal with it. We already know how the Big Ten deals with it. Not well.
I guess we will all see for ourselves in a little over 48 hours. It will become immediately evident if true.
However, our stadium is bigger. Our stadium is documented by all as louder. Our student section is documented as being the best or near the very top. We'll see if it makes a difference.
Those guys make it so easy on us. Easy on us to enjoy beating them, easy on us to detest them, and easy on us to hope we never play them again.
Let them get their appearance money from some other team. We've done out bit to help them out.
They won't. They are tough guys that know that they'll be told by the powers-that-be not to do it, giving them cover to wimp out. I'd love for no one to stop them, and see if they have the guts to do this. We all know that they don't.