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Gone in 90 seconds! Pittsburgh Panthers wet themselves

Submitted by on June 18, 200813 Comments

There is a reason why Penn State should not play Pittsburgh. it has nothing to do with an old man’s grudge, or any historical animosity between the two programs. No. Because Pittsburgh is demanding a home and home series with one of the most sought after programs in the nation when they are not even close to a position to be doing so. Outrageous? I think not.

Last year’s record of 45 minutes for 21,000 student tickets was smashed today as the Junior allotment of season tickets sold out in an amazing 90 seconds. That’s right boys and girls. 1 minute and 30 seconds. If you ran to the bathroom when the clock hit 7:00 am this morning, odds are you never even had a chance.

And 136 miles to the west of Happy Valley, we have the Pittsburgh Panthers where this picture speaks for itself. (Image courtesy of Kevin HD of Black Shoe Diaries)

Until you can actually sell seats to your games, you are in no position to demand a home and home with anybody, let alone Penn State.

Who are we kidding here Pittsburgh? Temple knows its place in the football hierarchy. We awarded them a home game at the Linc mainly as a favor to Temple head coach, Al Golden, a man who was once part of the Penn State football family. Only a concussion would lead those in the Panther program to believe they can demand anything from the Nittany Lions. If anything Pitt athletic director, Steve Pederson should send fruit baskets and hand written love notes to Tim Curley and Joe Paterno for even answering their phone calls.

But according to Greg Myford, Athletic Director of Marketing and Communication at Penn State, both the Senior and Junior ticket sales went smoothly.

About 8,200 juniors had pre-registered to vie for about 5,880 tickets this morning beginning at 7 a.m., Myford said. By 7:20 a.m., all the tickets had been purchased, he said. About 72 percent of the pre-registered juniors received tickets.

They did things a little differently this year with Seniors, Juniors, Sophomores, Freshmen and Graduate students allocated a portion of the 21,500 student tickets and each class a different day to purchase the tickets available in each allotment.

The Senior sale went smoothly as 89 percent of Seniors that pre-registered in the system actually received tickets. 5,700 Seniors pre-registered for the sale meaning that 5073 tickets were sold to seniors. According to Athletic Director of Marketing and Communication Greg Myford, Seniors were alloted 26% of the overall student section.

Then came the Junior class today. And boy did it break all sort of records set last year. Last year all 21,250 season tickets sold out in 45 minutes. 8,200 Juniors pre-registered for the allotment of 5,880 season tickets this year. And 72% of them successfully purchased tickets this morning all within the first 2 minutes. That would give Juniors 28% of the entire student section ticket allotment.

Class Standing
 # pre-registered
 Tickets alloted
 % received tickets
Seniors 5,700 5,073 89%
Juniors 8,200 5,880 72%
Sophomores -
 - -
Freshmen - - -
Graduate Student - - -

Take notes Pittsburgh. THIS is how you run a program.

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    Sep 16, 2000
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    PENN ST 0 0 0 0 0
    PITTSBURGH 0 3 6 3 12 FINAL

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  • Bill S.

    Hahahaha. Post a box score of the last game played between Pitt and Penn St. and a Nittany Lion fan comes back with a game from 1981. Hilarious. If only selling alot of tickets meant you could actually beat us on the field……LOL.

  • psudevon

    For a shitty team in a shitty conference, Pitt fans sure are full of themselves. Seriously, congratulations on beating Rutgers. That's an impressive win. They've got such a rich and storied history of actually being worse than you. Impressive.

  • Bill S

    It's funny how you are blind to your own situation. Let's try to stay with facts here, not sarcasm. Who is PSU's impressive win this year? And since when do you judge a team based on their “rich and storied history”? Let's talk about a team's current level of play. That's like saying a win over Michigan last year was a big deal even though the Wolverines went 3-9 (because they have a “rich and storied history”). PSU certainly has no more impressive wins than Pitt does.

  • psudevon

    Nothing against Pitt, and I mean that, you probably have the best team in the last 20 years right now. But let's be honest, you're a program that has not done much lately, and your attendance has been notoriously poor. I'd love to restart this rivalry, because I think we'd beat you more often than not. If your only rebuttal is to go “1981!” well, what can I say? That was 28 years ago! I wasn't going to be born for almost another decade!

  • Bill S

    “1981″ was the PSU rebuttal above. I don't really get why we need to look back to 1981 (like the comment mentions). We'd respond with “2000″. If you looked at the trend near the end of the Pitt/PSU rivalry, Pitt had closed the gap on PSU. I think it would be good to restart the rivalry too. As a Pitt fan, I think we'd beat you more often that not (just my opinion) and probably more than most PSU people think.

  • psudevon

    I don't mean to belittle Pitt, because you guys seem to be a program on the rise, but let's be honest here. You guys haven't had a 10-win season since 1981. This year, you'll probably have one, so kudos on that. But you also lost to a pretty crappy NC State team, and you've got to admit that most Pitt-PSU recruiting battles go our way. I'd like to see this series restarted, but only if you can prove that this year isn't a fluke amongst 7 or 8 win years.

  • Bill S

    I don't think you have to have 10 win seasons to beat Penn State. I don't even think you have to prove you can out recruit your opponent to renew a rivalry (you have to play the game on the field anyways even if someone is getting slightly better athletes). Pitt's knock might be that they lose a game or two each year that they shouldn't (NC State). Penn State's problem is that they generally don't beat anyone good. If you check out computer rankings that rank all Division I-A teams (Sagarin or Billingsley), your best win this year is currently Temple. I don't see much difference between your best win being Temple and Pitt losing to a team they shouldn't like NC State. We'll be ranked ahead of Penn State come tomorrow. The gap between the schools is gone.

  • psudevon

    “I don't see much difference between your best win being Temple and Pitt losing to a team they shouldn't like NC State.”

    Um…what? We beat the teams that we should beat, and, this year, have lost to those better than us. You haven't played a team better than yourselves–because your schedule is painfully weak–and have lost, once thusfar, to a flat out bad team. We routed Temple, dude. Do you understand how asinine that argument was?

  • Bill S

    You obviously missed the point (and you brought NC State up to begin with). I don't know what a loss to NC State has to do with beating Penn State because if I ask you for your quality win this year, your answer is Temple. Are you proud of that? You can't be any more proud of saying that than Pitt saying they lost to NC State. Make sense now? You beat the teams you should beat AND THAT'S IT. Nothing better. So PSU goes 10-2 and at the end of the year you tell me your best win was Temple. Seriously?!? And you are worried about Pitt's schedule and them losing to NC State? LOL. That argument sounds much crazier to me. That's my point. Hopefully you understand it now.
    I don't listen to arguments from Penn State fans that Pitt's schedule is weak because several SOS ratings have yours currently being worse than ours. Pitt's schedule for the remainder of the year is much harder too, so I certainly don't expect you to leapfrog us or remain ahead of us in SOS either. You can throw the weak schedule thing away unless you are going to use it for your own team as well.

  • psudevon

    “I don't see much difference between your best win being Temple and Pitt losing to a team they shouldn't like NC State.”

    Um…what? We beat the teams that we should beat, and, this year, have lost to those better than us. You haven't played a team better than yourselves–because your schedule is painfully weak–and have lost, once thusfar, to a flat out bad team. We routed Temple, dude. Do you understand how asinine that argument was?

  • Bill S

    You obviously missed the point (and you brought NC State up to begin with). I don't know what a loss to NC State has to do with beating Penn State because if I ask you for your quality win this year, your answer is Temple. Are you proud of that? You can't be any more proud of saying that than Pitt saying they lost to NC State. Make sense now? You beat the teams you should beat AND THAT'S IT. Nothing better. So PSU goes 10-2 and at the end of the year you tell me your best win was Temple. Seriously?!? And you are worried about Pitt's schedule and them losing to NC State? LOL. That argument sounds much crazier to me. That's my point. Hopefully you understand it now.
    I don't listen to arguments from Penn State fans that Pitt's schedule is weak because several SOS ratings have yours currently being worse than ours. Pitt's schedule for the remainder of the year is much harder too, so I certainly don't expect you to leapfrog us or remain ahead of us in SOS either. You can throw the weak schedule thing away unless you are going to use it for your own team as well.