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[QUOTE="MikeSU02, post: 364506, member: 60"]
Last week I asked, "[URL='http://syracusefan.com/threads/how-important-is-the-minnesota-game.32194/']How important is the Minnesota game[/URL]" and there were some mixed reactions. Some thought it was of enormous import, some thought it was just one game and some felt somewhere in between.
 
Now I'm asking, how important is the Pitt game?
 
Last week in my post, I said this, [I]"I can't help but feel that if we lose this game it will be the start of an unraveling of the team."[/I]
 
Here are my thoughts for the Pitt game:
 
[ ] The team is being held together by the smallest of stitches, imo. Losing breeds discontent and losing to 8 straight FBS teams has to be taking a toll on everyone.
 
[ ] A conference loss at home would be brutal. It would continue the death spiral we have been on, make us one game further from the bowl game we all want and it would put is in a hole to start conference play.
 
[ ] A loss at Pitt would also tee us up to get buried by Rutgers the following week which would make sense, since the world is ending in December per the Mayans.
 
[ ] If we lose at Pitt and Doug loses the team's confidence, we can be looking at a 2 or 3 win season.
 
[ ] I don't want to even think of the crowd for the Pitt game, let alone the rest of the season if we lose to Pitt.
 
[ ] Finally, right now I can convince myself that there are numerous reasons why we lose. This happened or that happened. But if we lose at Pitt, I think I'll have to admit that we are just a bad team. And I don't want to have to do that.
 
We need this win. This is a conference home game. If there is anything left in the playbook, we need to use it. We need to throw the kitchen sink at them.
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