I've been trying to talk about Aaron Donald but nobody would listen all year, the guy put up numbers better than Suh's at DT and threatened the TFL record which is almost unheard of for a DT.

Swept every Defensive award and was unanimous All American.

In case you want a reason to watch this game, there is one.

Connor is running all over the D and Boyd has a few spectacular catches already.

Both trues freshmen who give me some hope going forward.

That diving td non-catch was almost fucking ridiculous

That punt return for a TD

Yep. He's phenomenal. Gonna really love watching him for 2 more years or so

Voytik coming in for the 2nd half at QB

how's he still playin?

sad thing is as many as he threw, i dunno for sure that he landed any.

this game is a fucking disaster by both teams really.

But yea he should have been ejected, some how it was called offsetting penalties and the TD stood despite happening during the return.

either...

definitely wasn't.

somehow not ejected and a TD? i'd be pissed if i was you.

http://twitpic.com/dq442d

He is eating BG alive

at times he's basically shadowing him and just like "fuck it, hope somebody else gets him"

Although, it's kind of a fitting ending for the year for him since dude has taken an absolute beating all season behind this line. Still, sucks to go out on an injury.

Also, pretty bummed Street didn't get to suit up once more for Pitt. He's been a solid receiver at Pitt.

I stood up off the couch when Voytik unloaded that one. My god, that was great.

And now he runs for a score! VOYTIK!

Boyd already most receiving yards in a bowl game, Conner not far from most rushing yards, all with a redshirt Freshman QB leading the 2nd half.

This is a nice end to the season and look ahead for Pitt even if we don't wind up winning this game.

>Boyd already most receiving yards in a bowl game, Conner not
>far from most rushing yards, all with a redshirt Freshman QB
>leading the 2nd half.
>
>This is a nice end to the season and look ahead for Pitt even
>if we don't wind up winning this game.

Yeah, it's been really fun to watch. It's almost the exact opposite feeling I had while watching every fucking snap of that 3-0 Sun Bowl loss.

Ugh let's not even talk about that Sun Bowl and the 60 yard field goal for the tie

Conner's running like he's trying to hurt the air or something tonight. He's angry and it's awesome.

And Conner was right there with him. This is fun.

And it's definitely been years since Pitt has done something on the field to have me this excited for the future.

That was a lot more exciting than I was expecting. Kudos to Bowling Green for a fun one.

I don't know the last time I was this excited about the future of Pitt football, but they've got some really good young talent.

Was a 2 star DE
Future looks bright for Pitt

The big goal was to get him and Robert Foster and have 2 of the best WR recruits in the country. Hell we had Bobby Engram recruiting him

I followed his recruiting very close being local and don't ever remember a day that he was not a WR target.

Connor yea, Chryst has still flirted with the idea of putting him at DE. Also have to remember we expected to have Shell and there wasn't really a need for Connor at RB when he was first being recruited.

He's there

Connor is a fucking monster

Suh played in a better league and put forth dominant games when the pressure was highest on the biggest stage

that NU offense was 112th in the nation that year

Furthermore, I don't see a huge difference even discounting games played

http://www.cfbstats.com/2009/player/463/83162/

http://www.cfbstats.com/2013/player/545/1033607/index.html

2.21 to 1.46 TFL per game

.83 to .86 sacks per game (virtually even)

More fumbles caused in 2 less games, and identical QB hurries per game

Suh was a top 5 pick, Donald will probably be a 2nd round pick, I'm not saying Donald is better, but the numbers are almost identical, only difference is Pitt vs Nebraska. Donald deserved more Heisman love (not to win it, but to be talked about more) a DT can't be held responsible for a team being 6-6.

If you don't think Donald also captained a bad defense otherwise and is on a team with a bad offense then you just didn't watch Pitt. As far as competition or whatever else, the ACC may not be the best conference of all time this year, but they are still good enough competition that the numbers are very impressive.

*Edit- Even though it wasn't a big game nationally, he blocked an extra point in a 1 point low scoring win at Syracuse that we had to win to make a bowl. That is the stuff great players do no matter how giant the stage.

I think Donald is a great player but I could cherry pick and say Suh had way more tackles 3 blocked kicks and an INT

Donald doesn't have the once a decade domination that Suh foisted up on #2 Texas in a national benchmark game

Again, I think he is outstanding, I just read the numbers comparison and saying Donald had "better numbers" as Pitt couching him in at Suh's level

I don't see it.

Furthermore 2009 Nebraska's schedule is better than 2013 Pittsburgh IMO and plays a role.

Not necessarily a beating. Ohio, BGSU were competitive. N. Illinois kept it close (I didn't watch that one) but Buffalo got smoked.

Connor is a beast. That cat ran all over the Falcons, all night long. BG had nothing going on the ground. I would have liked to see Matt Johnson run it a few times. I think he's gonna be a pretty good QB at BG for a couple of years.

My girl is a BG alum so I had an interest in this one too. She was all decked out and hyped for the game. She was salty as hell last night when we left BW3s.