Pitt football has adopted a new program to start recycling points that the team regularly throws away, head coach Pat Narduzzi and AD Heather Lyke announced today.
“It’s incredible how many points our team casually throws away in a single game or practice, let alone a whole season,” said Narduzzi. “Missed field goals, dropped punts, inexplicable running calls on fourth down — you name it.”
“In fact, I was thinking about it last night after [quarterback] Kenny [Pickett] had just chucked some points in the trash with that interception. Those were perfectly good points we wasted there, and some team elsewhere would have been happy to have those points. Yet we were just content throwing them away, so we hope this step will help initiate some change.”
Pitt AD Heather Lyke believes the new program is necessary for the team to yield a more positive influence on the community.
“Points are at a premium more than ever, and we are lucky to be at a school with the resources to get them,” said Lyke, who described the number of points wasted by the football team in her tenure as “staggering.” “But think about all those teams out there who have to make do with what little points they have — even at the high-school and peewee level. It was time to look in the mirror and think about not only our wasteful impact on the world around us, but also the kind of message we were sending to young people everywhere.”
“We want people to know that Pitt cares about how it disposes of its points.”
The new program will operate in close tandem with the charitable campaign spearheaded by Pitt’s defense where it gives away free points each week to anybody willing to take them.
