2023-2024 Pitt Super Panthers Sports Thread

[Dickie Dunn]

Definitely not making it now.

[NAN]

Pitt had a horrible night

[willeyeam]

Not great

[Dickie Dunn]

Pitt declines NIT

[NAN]

Pantherlair already wanting to fire Capel and saying Pitt will never make the tourney again.

[DigitalGypsy66]

Hmm. What's the sentiment among Pitt fans about not playing in the NIT?

[skullman80]

I'm fine with it.

[Morkle]

I don't care lol

[NAN]

I'm good with it.

Others are about to jump off a bridge and stop supporting the program.

[Morkle]

Like who cares, if you can't make the tournament, don't take the consolation loser tourney.

[Rylan]

With the transfer portal, NIL, and the devaluing of anything that isnt a Natty, I dont care that they said no. I wish i could watch this team play a few more games, but c'est la vie. Especially since I am annoyed at the shitty at larges that made the tournament from the ACC.

[willeyeam]

Blake Hinson going out in an NIT game just wouldn't have seemed right. It's a good call. Pay Bub and Lowe and run it back next year

[Rylan]

Agreed.

[NAN]

Blake Hinson going out in an NIT game just wouldn't have seemed right. It's a good call. Pay Bub and Lowe and run it back next year

Pitt fans need to donate to keep them. Many want prime steak for Wendy’s prices. I think one if not both leave.

[NAN]

Clemson suing the ACC now.

[Dickie Dunn]

Nate Temple out for the season...

[MrKennethTKangaroo]

Sucks for him. Indifferent for us

[Dickie Dunn]

Paris Ford terrorizing the South Hills while wearing a distinctive outfit, using his own gun, and leaving his prescription bottles in the getaway vehicle.

Allegheny County Police are actively searching for former Pitt football player Paris Ford for his connection to a shooting in Clairton, with a warrant out for his arrest.

Ford has been charged with two counts of aggravated assault, one count of discharging a firearm into an occupied structure and one count of recklessly endangering another person. The two counts of aggravated assault and the count of discharging a firearm into an occupied structure are both felonies and the count of recklessly endangering another person is a misdemeanor.

The two counts of aggravated assault differ, in that the first one deals with Ford attempting to cause harm and the second on the use of a deadly weapon during that assault, which police allege occurred on March 15 on the 800 block of Third Street in Clairton, Pa.

Allegheny County 911 received a report of shots fired at 11:40 a.m. on Monday, March 15. Prior to police offers arriving on the scene, they were alerted to a black Nissan Rogue picking up three Black males and departing from the area.

Whitehall police identified the vehicle at 12:05 p.m., going northbound on Route 51. The officers put on their lights and sirens to signal the car to pull over for a traffic stop, but the driver of the Rogue did not do so, departing at a high speed. The Rogue stopped on the roadway near the intersections of Route 88 and Maytide Street, with three men exiting the vehicle. Whitehall police soon arrested two of the men who fled after a short pursuit on foot.

Police identified Ford as the third man exiting the vehicle based on surveillance video from the Fairhaven United Methodist Church. The footage allegedly shows Ford fleeing from the Rogue and carrying a black semi-automatic pistol in his right hand, before discarding the the weapon beneath a flight of stairs on the south side of the church. Detectives at the site found a Sarsilmaz B6C 9mm pistol, and a check of firearm records showed Ford as the owner.

The driver of the Rogue then sped off a second time, with Bethel Park Police in pursuit, before losing control and crashing at the intersection of Route 88 and Clifton Road. In the wrecked vehicle, a police detective found a prescription bottle with Ford’s name on it.

In the security camera footage from the church, Ford is seen wearing a distinctive outfit that matches video from the scene of the shooting.

[NAN]

Paris Ford should have not sat out early the COVID year. He wouldn't be shooting people.

[Rylan]

Paris Ford's fall from grace has been sad. I thought that dude was gonna be a good player on sunday, now....yikes.

[skullman80]

Bub going pro.

https://pittsburghpanthers.com/news/202 ... draft.aspx

[Rylan]

did he get an agent and cant drop out?

[Stoosh]

Carrington's decision wasn't entirely surprising to me given the buzz he created from basically the first week of the season, and how much better he got down the stretch. Sounds like he's projecting as a mid-to-late first round pick before any pre-draft workouts.

Half of me looks at this and thinks it's more proof that Pitt fans can't have nice things, but the other half realizes this is a very nice feather in Capel's recruiting cap. Carrington is Pitt's first one-and-done player since Steven Adams. While it always seemed like Adams couldn't get away from Dixon quickly enough given how Dixon first used him, Carrington spoke glowingly of the way Capel runs the program during the press conference today. I hope that sentiment helps, especially with Pitt very much in the running for Meleek Thomas.

I guess if you're going to lose an impact player after one year, it's always better to lose them to the NBA rather than for transfer portal/NIL reasons.

[Stoosh]

did he get an agent and cant drop out?

I don't know if they said anything about an agent, but I remember hearing during the call that he was asked about the deadline to change his mind, and he said something to the effect that his mind was pretty much made up and he was going pro. He didn't say it in a demeaning or nasty way...more like someone who had been given very good information about where he's projected to go in the upcoming draft.

[Rylan]

That makes sense. Wasnt sure if it was a situation to gauge where he is going vs he's definitely going.