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Topic: BBT's Penn State Preview

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Re: BBT's Penn State Preview
« Reply #126 on: January 02, 2020, 05:59:13 PM »
Quote from: CWSooner on September 03, 2019, 08:02:48 PM

I've read glowing descriptions of the modern, revived city of Pittsburgh.
I interviewed there in 1980, a long time ago, and everyone told me how much the city had improved.  To me, it was a dump, outside a bit of downtown, so I wondered what it was like "before".  I was back briefly around 2002 and it seemed about the same to me, old, kind of dirty, a bit run down, but I know every city has nice and bad places.
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Re: BBT's Penn State Preview
« Reply #127 on: January 02, 2020, 07:09:57 PM »
Quote from: CatsbyAZ on September 05, 2019, 11:23:40 AM
Wannstedt was 26-12 in his last three seasons. Pitt was establishing higher footing than their usual 7-6 equilibrium. Not to mention yielding top 25 rankings in both the polls and recruiting. And Wannstedt, a local boy, was a good face for Pitt who’d somewhat cut into Ohio State and Penn State taking their first pick of Western Pennsylvania’s high school talent.

The AD couldn’t see it that way at the time, instead opting for risky hires that didn’t amount to anything. I guess it’s like what Anonymous Coward pointed out - Pitt’s internally reinforced mediocrity is what happens when a non-helmet acts like a helmet.

FWIW I think Pitt did well in hiring Chryst and Narduzzi in the sense those are safe and responsible hires, but Narduzzi’s contract extension is almost as senseless as what Auburn gave to Gus.
I think the big thing with Wannstedt was he was there for 6 years and never won the conference and the administration just didn’t see any reason why that couldn’t or shouldn’t have happened in 6 years.  Especially considering when he took over Pitt seemed to be in pretty good shape following Harris.

In that time their fans saw WVU, Louisville, and Cincinnati all go to BCS bowls and finish top 10. The straw that broke his back (and Bill Stewart’s back) was UConn winning the conference in 2010. It was so understood that shouldn’t have happened him and Stew got ran out of town and Edsall got the Maryland job because if it.
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Re: BBT's Penn State Preview
« Reply #128 on: January 02, 2020, 08:05:47 PM »
I saw some bands in Pittsburgh, and the show was on the 6th floor of a building with no elevator. The line to get in went all the way down to the ground floor. So you had to climb six flights of stairs at the snail's pace of standing in line.
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Re: BBT's Penn State Preview
« Reply #129 on: January 02, 2020, 08:44:26 PM »
not on my short list
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Re: BBT's Penn State Preview
« Reply #130 on: January 03, 2020, 08:37:41 AM »
Quote from: CWSooner on September 03, 2019, 08:02:48 PM
Is the campus itself the problem?

I've read glowing descriptions of the modern, revived city of Pittsburgh.
I've been here since 2006, and I'm shocked at the transformation even since then.  My wife and I always say we had kids at the just wrong time to really enjoy all it has, compared to 20 years ago.  It certainly still has the old steel town "feel" though, so you have to be ok with that.  I was speaking to my cousing who works in the hospitality business in Boston, after going to school in Connecticut, and she was saying when she got out of college in 2007, everyone was flocking to Boston as the up and coming town, but in the last couple years, it's becoming Pittsburgh, because of how cheap housing and entertainment are, so you have a lot of younger professionals moving there, because they can afford more that a shared studio apartment.
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Re: BBT's Penn State Preview
« Reply #131 on: January 03, 2020, 08:53:41 AM »
Quote from: Brutus Buckeye on January 02, 2020, 08:05:47 PM
I saw some bands in Pittsburgh, and the show was on the 6th floor of a building with no elevator. The line to get in went all the way down to the ground floor. So you had to climb six flights of stairs at the snail's pace of standing in line.
Hope it was more than just a local Polka Gig
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Re: BBT's Penn State Preview
« Reply #132 on: January 03, 2020, 08:54:39 AM »
Quote from: MrNubbz on January 03, 2020, 08:53:41 AM
Hope it was more than just a local Polka Gig
Just barely.
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Re: BBT's Penn State Preview
« Reply #133 on: January 03, 2020, 09:07:02 AM »
Quote from: ELA on January 03, 2020, 08:37:41 AM
I've been here since 2006.........
Is Blue Lou's/Mario's still there?We use to drink yards of Beer served in those long hand blown glass beakers set in a wood rack.How about the Gandy Dancer?They use to have good Food
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Re: BBT's Penn State Preview
« Reply #134 on: January 03, 2020, 09:24:04 AM »
Quote from: MrNubbz on January 03, 2020, 09:07:02 AM
Is Blue Lou's/Mario's still there?We use to drink yards of Beer served in those long hand blown glass beakers set in a wood rack.How about the Gandy Dancer?They use to have good Food
There are multiple Mario's now, I haven't been to one in probably 8 years.

The weird thing about Gandy Dancer is that it is the casual dining attached to Grand Concourse, but growing up in Ann Arbor, Gandy Dancer was THE fancy establishment for dining in Ann Arbor until the more recent restaurant explosion, and the two are owned by the same company, which operates only 5.  Those two, plus seafood places in Grand Rapids, St. Clair, and Southfield.
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