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[TAPS MIC] Hello, Twitter World. I’ve started a Substack newsletter, The Front Porch, in which I’ll write about issues large and small in the world of college sports.
My first post dropped today: a look at the state of ACC men’s basketball
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Coastal Carolina vs. Liberty is really just a matchup of Danny McBride HBO characters
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I don't know how anyone can watch this without being made profoundly sad
She's a 21 year old whose unforgivable offense was talking some well-earned trash while realizing a lifelong dream. She's a fantastic player who's ridiculously fun to watch
What the hell are we doing here?
Emotional Angel Reese on being criticized, receiving death threats since winning national championship “I just want everyone to know I’m still human”
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Dan D'Antoni is a national treasure that must be preserved at all costs. "I haven't finished my damn analytics story yet."
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In all seriousness, what a rough week for Cowboys fans. Alabama football blew the title game, Duke basketball's struggling and now this.
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Syracuse in the regular season vs. Syracuse in the NCAA tournament as a double-digit seed
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The Raptors make their first NBA Finals, marking the second-biggest moment in franchise history, behind only this beautiful slice of immortality
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There's a dude in the middle of the crowd at Penn State-Indiana rocking a James Conner Pitt jersey
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Most important thing to remember about Jeff Capel: Tupac once rocked his jersey.
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Pitt announces that the families of Pat Narduzzi, Jeff Capel, Lance White and Heather Lyke have made a combined $500,000 donation to the university's Center for Vaccine Research. The Steelers, Pirates and Penguins each pitched in $100,000, as well
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We too often forget that back in 2002, Dan Dakich took the West Virginia job and was there for a week before quitting. WVU then turned around and hired John Beilein. One of the more fortuitous breaks in college basketball in the past 20 years
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A second, and different, person in as many months has told me Pitt should take a long, hard look at Rick Majerus to be its next coach.
Rick Majerus died five years ago.
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I've lived in Pittsburgh about 7 years and don't think I've ever seen as many people in a visiting team's apparel as I have today with Bills fans. Don't know how many of them made the trip down here and how many are Western NY transplants, but there are a sea of them around town
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I'm assuming that was a personal decision from Cole Beasley not to hold on to that pass
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I've really enjoyed RGIII as an analyst. It seems like he genuinely loves watching football, which comes through on the broadcasts. Not nearly enough color commentators come off that way. It's supposed to be fun!
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Any Pittsburgh TV station that isn't hitting the streets and getting Yinzers to pronounce 'Acrisure' is failing in its sacred duty as a public service
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The Petersen Events Center is largely empty, but Xavier Johnson is still here, getting up some free throws after going two of five from the line in the 71-70 loss to Niagara
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I always thought of the ACC as fractured. Longtime members who viewed newcomers as interlopers that ruined the conference's identity. New additions that wished they were back in the Big East for most non-football sports
And then came a Jon Rothstein tweet about a two-bid league
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Bob Huggins on if Pitt-West Virginia should be an annual game
"Why not? The way we travel in our league, it's refreshing to jump on a bus and ride an hour. It's been such a great game for so many years and it's been such a great rivalry for so many years."
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Jimmy Morrissey said before Pitt's winning TD, a referee came by to Mark Whipple to remind him it wasn't a fourth and goal. Pitt could get to the one for a first down.
“Don’t worry about it," Whipple responded. "We’re going to score on this play.”
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If you don't want the last-place team in the ACC celebrating on your home floor, don't let the last-place team in the ACC beat you on your home floor
"It was really disrespectful what they did so you know we're going to have to take that with a grain of salt and remember that for next time whenever anyone steps in the building again."
Kyle Filipowski shares his thoughts on the way Pitt celebrated their win at
#Duke
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Dave Wannstedt appears to be excited about tonight's developments
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I know how spirited Steelers tailgates can get, but Pitt hosting West Virginia and Tennessee on back-to-back weekends might be the end of the North Shore as we know it
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Whenever I hear someone say 'Well, he'll surely be back here soon' after a talented young quarterback loses in the Super Bowl
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Jeff Capel after Pitt's win against No. 11 Florida State
"I loved the energy that's in the building. That's the way I remember this program and it's one of the reasons why I wanted to come here. I remember what it has been and I know therefore what it can become again."
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This Big Ben actually looks more mobile than the one who plays quarterback for the Steelers
A man named Lukas Bates ran today’s London Marathon in a Big Ben costume. He somehow finished in 3 hours & 54 minutes (faster than a nine minute per mile average for 26.2 miles)
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Blake Hinson vs. the energy of a thousand "Do you know who my father is?"s
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Jeff Capel on Pitt's loss to No. 14 Iowa:
“I see a lot of signs of encouragement, but I’m not happy that we lost. But I am proud of my team for how we played. I am one of those coaches that doesn’t believe in moral victories. You either win or you lose. Period."
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I wondered for a second why West Virginia fans were so excited when it was announced that the Sweet Caroline sing-along was about to take place. Then it all became clear
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In 2009, Pitt came closer than it ever has to making its first Final Four since 1941, falling excruciatingly short of that dream in the Elite Eight. Ten years later, I caught up with players, coaches & staff members from that team
These are their stories
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The Kentucky AD chairing the selection committee that left Louisville as the first team out is the wildest moment in that rivalry since the two guys got in the fight at the dialysis clinic back in 2012
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Pitt’s Xavier Johnson has been named to the ACC’s all-freshman team. He’s the first Pitt player since Steven Adams in 2013 to earn conference all-freshman honors
Johnson was the only non-Duke/UNC player on the team, joining Zion Williamson, R.J. Barrett, Tre Jones & Coby White
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I appreciate how John Hugley makes Aaron Donald seem somewhat normal-sized
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In the nearly 112 years of Pitt basketball, no freshman had scored 30 points or more in a game. Trey McGowens has done so twice in the past 120 hours.
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Jared Wilson-Frame on Pitt coach Jeff Capel
“I really wish I could have played for him all four years. He’s a great guy. I’ve developed as a man under him. That’s more important to me than anything else. It has made me a better basketball player and a better leader."
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Rhys Beckham Meyer, welcome to this crazy world, my little guy. And get ready to watch a lot of basketball these next few weeks
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It was evident this week why the NCAA tournament keeps coming back to Pittsburgh so regularly. All of the games were at capacity or close to it. Incredible atmospheres
A true joy for this city to get a look at big-time college basketball given how the past six years have gone
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Jeff Capel was asked about Mike Krzyzewski's comment the other day about playing during the pandemic and some people claiming Coach K is only saying it because Duke is struggling
Here's his answer. Thought the highlighted part was especially interesting
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Jeff Capel said Jay-Z's people reached out to him a few weeks ago about wanting to come to the Duke game.
"Obviously, it's great to have the greatest rapper ever in your arena."
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Aaron Donald:
"This is the school I watched on TV as a kid and I dreamed about playing for. For it to be here in my hometown at a university I grew up cheering for and wanting to play for, for it to come full circle like it did, you can’t write that story better than that.”
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Steelers fans who are also Pitt fans after seeing the defensive player of the year results
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Tell me you’ve never met a Pitt fan without telling me you’ve never met a Pitt fan
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I hope too many people don't take Bill Raftery for granted. The man is in his late 70s, is consistently insightful and is entertaining without becoming a caricature. A remarkable feat
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@KevinMKruse
Some serious "I didn't do the reading, but the teacher just called on me" energy from Pawlenty there
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I've written about the subject enough to know I'll get a few "Who cares?!" responses to this, but Jeff Capel is the first minority coach in Pitt program history. That means something.
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People forget it too easily, but Derrick Rose, in his first seasons, looked like someone who would define the point guard position in the NBA and be one of the league's five best players for the next 10 years.
Even if for just a night, it's cool to see him look like that again.
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For me, Sean McDonough is the best play-by-play broadcaster in college football. Informative, engaging and has a wonderfully dry sense of humor
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I feel like a lot of people sleep on this fact, but Pittsburgh has a lot of great Thai restaurants
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Pitt AD Heather Lyke said the court at the Petersen Events Center is going to be flipped so that the Oakland Zoo, not the courtside suites, is in the background on game broadcasts.
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Let's just say Pitt didn't bypass the chance to make this reference to Penn State in its Pinstripe Bowl announcement release
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Sure, the Steelers are 7-0, but not nearly enough people are talking about how Mike Tomlin, in his 14th season as coach, is still winning with Bill Cowher's players. Truly astonishing stuff
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Every time I hear one of these national networks say Allegheny County
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My wife turned the game on about 10 seconds before the Pens' game-winning goal. She says 'You're welcome, Pittsburgh'
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My grandfather played at Duke and was on their '42 Rose Bowl team. When he died two years ago, my family notified the school since he was the team's last living player
Two weeks later, there's a handwritten note in my mailbox, signed by Cutcliffe. Can't express how much it meant
Duke has reached a mutual separation agreement w/David Cutcliffe
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Which college's pairing of football and men's basketball coaches would make for the best buddy cop movie or True Detective-style series?
My submission: Bob Huggins and Dana Holgorsen.
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Pitt linebacker John Petrishen was asked after the Peach Bowl what this season -- the final one of his seven-year college career -- meant to him
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Kenny Pickett's off to New York as a Heisman Trophy finalist
The other Pitt players to finish in the top five of Heisman voting
Tony Dorsett
Larry Fitzgerald
Craig Heyward
Dan Marino
Hugh Green
Marshall Goldberg
Pretty good company. Pretty, pretty, pretty good
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I'm 30 and still struggle at times with a stutter. Even asking a question in a press conference can feel like a monumental task. I can't possibly begin to describe the kind of courage it took for that young man to do what he just did on that kind of platform
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With TCU at WVU tomorrow, Jamie Dixon will be returning to the area. He shared this story with me this week as it relates to WVU & its fans.
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Pitt's James Conner has been named the winner of the Disney Sports Spirit Award, given to college football's most inspirational figure.
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Shouts to The Righteous Gemstones for confirming that other people have the same barometers for success in life that I do
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What was set up to be Pitt's best season since the early 80s getting wiped out by a global pandemic is quintessential Pitt. I don't know how y'all do it. I guess pain just fails to register at a certain point
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Jeff Capel on Pitt's loss to UNC:
“I’m pretty sure there will be stuff written, ‘Same old Pitt.’ It could be all that stuff right now. It’s what people can think or whatever, but it’s not the same old Pitt. We’re going to continue to fight. We’re going to continue to get better”
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I’m convinced that 90% of people who clamor for an on-campus stadium at Pitt haven’t endured traffic in Oakland when there’s an event with more than like 3,000 people
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Pitt has fired Kevin Stallings, according to multiple sources.
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FINAL: Pitt 75, No. 13 Florida State 62. Panthers snap an 11-game losing streak to top-15 teams while getting the biggest win of the Jeff Capel era (replacing a win they had gotten just five days earlier)
Trey McGowens with 30 points in the dub
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Pat Narduzzi on why he opted for a field goal with a fourth and one with five minutes left, down seven
‘Because you need two scores to win the football game.’
He added that he doesn’t question that decision ‘at all’
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Clairton native and former Pitt standout Tyler Boyd with his first touchdown of the season and second of his NFL career
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Was at the Petersen Events Center earlier today and just have to say what a different vibe there is around Pitt's basketball program for those currently involved with the program and for former players. Night and day from where it was even five months ago
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Pitt tight ends coach Tim Salem -- the man who opens a Mountain Dew and leaves it in the fridge overnight to enjoy flat the next morning -- hasn't left the team's facility since arriving early Sunday morning after the Penn State loss
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Pitt volleyball, which rose to No. 6 in the rankings earlier this week, defeated No. 10 Oregon tonight, 3-1. The Panthers have won 21 of the 22 sets they've played this season.
The school's best program only seems to be getting better
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ESPN reporter Holly Rowe, a cancer survivor herself, is at tonight's Pitt women's basketball game. She was here to surprise Pitt's Kyla Nelson, who is playing her first game tonight since being diagnosed with a neuroendocrine tumor of the appendix in September
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We need a support group or something like it for NBA fans in the Pittsburgh area. We could meet once every few weeks in a church basement or VFW hall and talk about important things like Kemba Walker's impact in Boston and why Andrew Wiggins hasn't blossomed into a superstar
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FINAL: Pitt 73, North Carolina 65. Panthers get their first-ever victory in Chapel Hill
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Final: Pitt 94, VMI 55.
That's Pitt's largest margin of victory since 2015, meaning Jeff Capel has a more lopsided win in two games than Kevin Stallings did in 65
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Tonight, Pitt lost to The Citadel and Virginia lost to Navy
If anything is clear not even one full day into the college basketball season, it's that the ACC respects the troops
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Jeff Capel has signed a two-year contract extension with Pitt, the school announced this morning. His deal with the Panthers now runs through the 2026-27 season
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Jeff Capel declined to comment on the foul call on Terrell Brown in the final 30 seconds of overtime.
"I don't want to lose money."
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I’ll say this for Zach Smith: if he’s trying to do what he can to prove he’s a stable person who would never lash out at someone who upset him, he’s doing an astonishingly terrible job at it
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Guard Trey McGowens annoucnes he has committed to Pitt and will reclassify to the 2018 class. Not only do the Panthers get a top-100 player, but they get him for next season, when they will desperately need backcourt help. Huge, huge pickup for Jeff Capel.
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William Jeffress, a top-75 forward from Erie in the 2020 class, announces on Instagram that he has committed to Pitt.
Jeffress is No. 58 in his class in 247's composite rankings, making him the Panthers' highest-rated recruit since Steven Adams in 2012
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Ryan Murphy with maybe my favorite quote of this Pitt season
“I definitely play with an edge. I feel like I’m an underdog. I look like a frat boy. I have a comb over and I’m about 6-2. Every night I go out there, I feel like I have to prove everyone wrong.”
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I have a sneaking suspicion that Louisville's gonna beat Notre Dame next Saturday and sneak into the top 20 only to turn around and lose at Pitt a week later
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Jeff Capel on fellow Duke assistant Jon Scheyer's name being connected to the Pitt job:
“I thought it was hilarious. I was sitting next to him on the bus like ‘Yo, you going to Pitt?’ The whole time, I knew I was the one talking to them.”
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