Yes, I did fail to neglect Wake Forest or Duke passing Pitt by in the next few years. Very likely to happen.Sometimes what you fail to neglect is that literally every team in the ACC has the ability to pass Pitt by.I would say my expectation for 2019 is a 10-win season.More than TWICE as many wins as Pitt. And don’t forget 33-14! Expectations though, lol...That must be REALLY frustrating, to realize that for all that recruiting success, Penn State ultimately landed in a spot that's reeeeeeeeally not all that much more relevant than Pitt did this year, at least if we're talking about expectations going in, right?
But seriously, I'm really happy for you guys. Good job with the recruiting class. Maybe 2018 is the year that Jimmy Franks finally figures out how to translate all this Dominating The State into a road win against a top 25 team.
Best case scenario for Pitt = 9 win year, Top 25 finish?
Best case scenario for PSU = 12 win year, B1G champions, playoff contender.
On average though? We’re about a 9-10 win program. Pitt is a 6-7 win program. Overachieved last year and still lost to a mediocre B1G program that we destroyed this year.
More Top 25/road wins will come with how Franklin has recruited. They’re a top tier B1G program.
Meanwhile Pitt is a middle of the road ACC program. They pick off good teams here and there, but what good is it in otherwise disappointing years?
As for Penn State, the only real B1G concerns are OSU, Michigan, Wisconsin and MSU. And they’ve beaten all of those teams once in the past 2 years. And each of those programs has a weakness to PSU (downward trending coach or don’t recruit as well).
I certainly won't argue with you that the B10 is overstuffed with atrocious football in comparison to the ACC, but OSU has a "downward trending coach" or "doesn't recruit as well"? Same for Michigan? Upside recruiting for ups compared to msu is certainly higher, but Dantonio
has a great track record, and no one outside the cult would shocked if MSU finished ahead of ups next year or the year after (I'm not saying they will or won't, but I can't fail to neglect that they have the ability to do that, since, you know, they've done that many times in the very near past). I'm not sure how you've landed at ups being the unquestioned best program in the B10, particularly given OSU.