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[QUOTE="SWC75, post: 1973617, member: 289"]
As of the date of this post, these are the standings:

On the football board, 6 of 8 respondents wanted to win the football game more and there was no uncertainty about it. 
On the basketball board, 9 respondents wanted to win the basketball game more. Five wanted the football game and 5 were no committal, (and a certain amount of interpretation was needed in a couple of cases).

That's 11 for football, 11 for basketball and 5 undecided.

I look at it this way: Winning at Pitt could mean a bowl game and 15 more practices but it wouldn't gain us that much prestige and we' are a shell of the team we started with due to injuries anyway. there's no guarantee that would change after a few weeks for the bowl game. We'll have a losing record in any case. It might be better to end things now and get the coaches out on the recruiting trail. A loss, unless it was a terrible blow out wouldn't hurt very much because it's expected, (and I don't even think even a blow-out would matter that much at this point: we've already absorbed several of them). And a bowl game is far from guaranteed.

In basketball we think we have one of the best teams in the country but haven't been able to prove it against quality opposition.  A win would allow us to maintain our opinion of the team. A loss would be a punch to the stomach - a temporary one we would survive and a learnin experience for the team for sure. But it would hurt a lot more than a loss to Pitt.

I just think I'd feel better if we beat South Carolina but lost to Pitt than than the other way around. Hopefully we can beat both and it can be a grand Saturday all the way around.
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