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November 9, 2007

All-Time Pitt Football

Filed under: Alumni, Football, Good — Chas @ 12:06 am

The bye week got Paul Zeise to bite on picking an all-time Pitt squad.

OFFENSE

Quarterback: Dan Marino
Running Backs: Tony Dorsett, Marshall Goldberg
Wide Receivers: Larry Fitzgerald, Antonio Bryant
Offensive Lineman: Mark May, Jimbo Covert, Bill Fralic, Rueben Brown, Mark Stepnoski
Tight End: Mike Ditka
Kicker: Josh Cummings

DEFENSE

Defensive Lineman: Hugh Green, Rickey Jackson, Bill Maas, Randy Holloway
Linebackers: Joe Schmidt, Jerry Olsavsky, Tony Woods
Defensive Backs: Darrelle Revis, Tim Lewis, Tom Flynn, Ramon Walker
Punter: Andy Lee

Plenty of feedback and other suggestions followed, as you would expect.

On a related note, Ruben Brown is out for the rest of the season with the Bears due to a shoulder injury. It is very likely that Brown’s career could be over. He’s been in the NFL for 13 years.





I don’t have a whole lot of argument with the all-time team, but I’d make Carson Long the kicker.

Comment by Mitch 11.09.07 @ 11:39 am

Carson Long! Also known as “Carson Short” and Carson Wide” I recall when he missed several kicks to beat PSUcks. The joke going around campus was that “Carson tried to commit suicide. except he couldn’t kick the chair out from under himself!!” Don’t get me wrong, I have no idea what his stats were and he may merit the selection. I’m just providin anecdotal information on him.

Comment by TMGPanther 11.09.07 @ 2:53 pm

Also, I’m aging myself with that last post!

Comment by TMGPanther 11.09.07 @ 2:54 pm

Yeah.. Cummings was very inconsistent the year Pitt went to the fiesta bowl. He missed extra points commonly that year.

Comment by Adam 11.09.07 @ 2:54 pm

If I remember corrctly, Carson Long’s girlfriend had his baby the day of the PSU game, and the coaches wouldn’t let him see it, so he was distracted and blew a bunch of kicks that cost us the game.

Comment by Ann 11.09.07 @ 11:20 pm

I am a little older but there was a linebacker named Cindrich who probably should be on this team. He played hurt his whole PITT career and was still dominant on some really bad (Dave Hart) teams.

Comment by Jim 11.10.07 @ 12:02 am

Jim - that was Ralph Cindrich and yes he was good - but I think it was more like he was the only ray of sunshine on some awful teams.

Interesting to note that after his active playing days he became one of the more successful sports agents during the beginning of NFL free Agency.

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