Comments on: So Yeah, Meaningless Way Too Early Poll Predictions

By: Reed

Reed — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 12:24:49 +0000

Stuart - I can almost guarentee that none of these highly recruited players picked PITT because of a position coach. No, there is two overwhelming reasons we have heard time and again from these kids…

1. They want to be a part of PITT’s future, and

2. They felt great in the recruiting process with DW and want to play football for him.

I’ll be shocked if any of these recruits decommit over the next four weeks.

By: Stuart

Stuart — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 20:37:58 +0000

None of them were recruited by him, we won’t be losing any of them. No worrys about that…i just don’t like changing half teh staff when things were finally looking up…i don’t mind rhoads and dunn going, but the rest i wish would stay.

By: Kurt

Kurt — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 19:56:57 +0000

I wonder about Hill leaving since 4/5 of our current recruits are wrs this could kill our class, if he takes some of them to the u w/ him.

By: Stuart

Stuart — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 18:55:15 +0000

We just lost our WR coach to Miami…

By: Stuart

Stuart — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 17:59:16 +0000

I’m going to die of laughter if WVU runs all over them…i can’t wait…

By: Fcuk Paterno

Fcuk Paterno — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 17:52:14 +0000

WVU plays Auburn this fall so it’ll be interesting if Rhoads can stop them.

By: Adam

Adam — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 15:33:48 +0000

The polls do mean alot. This is a way for dave wannstedt to sell pitt to recruits. Last year he had little to sell guys on at this time. Right now wanny can go into a kids house and say look we are turning it around. We are ranked. people respect Pitt.
I agree that rankings dont mean anything else, but a five star or four star player is going to look at that ranking favorably.

By: matt'shouse

matt'shouse — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 15:29:59 +0000

My point is, I agree that the pre-season polls don’t mean anything just that unfortunately they do mean something in the BCS-thus those that are out of the pre-season top 25 have no chance to win.

College football is not alone, as there are inherent competitive disadvantages in other sports too:

Baseball-the salaries put any small market teams with no chance at winning starting in spring training (pirates, royals, etc.)

Basketball-the guranteed contracts coupled with team salary caps makes it impossible to improve from one year to the next-even if you get a high draft pick-it usually takes 4 years (sixers) or a magical trade (celtics) with a dumb trade partner (Mchale).

By: Greg in Columbia

Greg in Columbia — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 15:01:31 +0000

Good list ironhead. All this is making me want to move back to the ‘Burgh!

By: colt_convert

colt_convert — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 14:59:59 +0000

That’s a great point, Matt. The poll numbers are factored into the BCS ranking. It’s a lot harder to jump up the rankings when you’re outside looking in, than if you’re there to start.

Let’s hope the Panthers do soemthing with this!