Some of Pitt’s new verbal commits get nice pieces.

Greg Webster talks about his hopes to make the NFL and pursue his degree in education at Pitt.

Albeit they played for former Pitt coach Walt Harris and not Dave Wannstedt, who now coaches the Panthers, Webster is drawing inspiration from a few guys who know exactly what it’s like to wear the Woodland Hills Wolverines jersey in high school and then switch into a Pitt uniform for college football.

Dallas Cowboys running back Lousaka Polite and San Francisco 49ers defensive back Shawntae Spencer — both Woodland Hills products who went to Pitt — were concrete examples of where Webster has been, will go and hopes to be, all in one fell swoop.

“You look at Lousaka and Shawntae and they’re living a dream of playing pro ball right now,” Webster said. “They are from the same place I am from and they came from here and went to Pitt. I want to be a guy from Woodland Hills to continue that tradition [of playing in the NFL] and choosing Pitt and playing for coach Wannstedt gives me the best chance to do that.”
Then Jason Pinkston and Justin Hargrove started an impromptu Pitt rally when they announced.

Last week at the South Hills Country Club in Whitehall, a banquet room full of Baldwin football boosters who had just walked off the course after participating in the Dave Wannstedt Golf Outing settled into their seats for dinner, drinks and the customary prize-awarding sessions.

But soon after, a pep rally broke out, complete with chants of “Let’s Go Pitt,” which resonated through the normally serene club situated between Route 51 and Brownsville Road.

The response was the result of a pair of Baldwin seniors-to-be, Jason Pinkston and Justin Hargrove, stepping to the podium, ripping off their Highlanders jerseys and announcing, both audibly and with Pitt shirts now visible, that they’d selected the University of Pittsburgh.

Under 60 days to the first game.