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February 18, 2007

Tommie Campbell — the only returning starting linebacker for Pitt — has been suspended indefinitely. According to Dokish, he could be done for good. The obvious cliche, is that this is a developing situation. Speculation can continue to run rampant.
I don’t have any knowledge as to why or what. The reasonable deduction with the suspension coming in the off-season is either relating to academics or to the off-season conditioning program. These days, that’s the good news — since there are no police blotter reports at this time.
I’m leaning towards the off-season conditioning  issue at the moment — just on gut. Not that Coach Wannstedt would slack on the academic side, but I’m not sure he would suspend him like this for that sort of issue. An indefinite suspension this vague suggests more that Campbell took less than an eager approach to workouts and conditioning. As much as Wannstedt is a postive, “players” coach who won’t publicly speak ill of any of the players; he does expect it to go both ways and know they are willing to give as much back to the team.





Too bad really – whichever the reason is. He was the only experience at LB. Some rumblings about whether Fields would be moved to LB – which would surprise me as he was rumored to have had a hard time grasping our defensive schemes as a DB, and I would think it would be that much harder as a LB. Guess we’ll see at Spring practice.

Comment by Reed 02.19.07 @ 8:02 am

To his (Fields’) credit, “allow the opposing team to gain 20 yards per carry” is a tough defensive scheme to grasp. It probably goes against what he learned in high school.

Comment by Jon C 02.19.07 @ 8:49 am

don’t we play seton hall tonight?

Comment by scoocher 02.19.07 @ 8:50 am

[…] Imagine if he ever said that about Wannstedt. Looking at some recent discipline for a perspective on this, I think it’s safe to say that it doesn’t matter if Barlow was across the world — Wanny would find him and punish him with an iron brass knuckled fist. […]


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