New blog feature announcement: The Mailbag

There’s been a bit of a delay in getting this going, but, better late than never, it’s time to unveil the idea of the Pitt basketball mailbag.

My editors and I wanted some kind of Q&A feature to accompany our Pitt basketball coverage (we’ll probably end up doing the same in that spot with the oblong ball at some point with our new Pitt football writer, Brian Batko, in place). A few weeks ago, an informal and unscientific Twitter poll revealed you guys, by a two-to-one margin, would rather have a mailbag than a live chat. As someone who (barely) would have preferred a live chat, it’s a voting process I believe was rigged and infiltrated with dozens of people voting illegally, but I’ll be magnanimous and accept the results of the election, a decision that upholds the integrity and validity of our Twitter democracy.

Anyhow, we’ll plan on having a mailbag a week. You all can send me your questions via Twitter (@CraigMeyerPG) or email (cmeyer@post-gazette.com). It will obviously be Pitt-focused, but if there’s other stuff you guys want to ask me -- from the world of sports or outside of it -- that’s also totally cool. If we can’t have a little fun with this, that kind of defeats the purpose of a mailbag.

With the Maryland win last night and the City Game Friday, I figured this would be a good week to debut it. The inaugural mailbag will run this Friday, but we’re working on getting a permanent day of the week set. It may end up being Friday, but I’ll keep you all posted.

In the meantime, send any and all questions you may have.

Craig Meyer: cmeyer@post-gazette.com and Twitter @CraigMeyerPG