I don’t know where else he’s going to look, and I don’t know if he simply decided the numbers weren’t favorable for getting out on the field. Still A.J. Alexander has decided to keep looking some more.
The Panthers didn’t expect their coaching staff changes to have an adverse effect on recruiting, but Alexander had second thoughts after wide receivers coach Aubrey Hill left Friday for the same job at Miami.
Hill wasn’t the primary recruiter for the 5-foot-10, 180-pound Alexander, but he was expected to be his position coach. When Alexander told Pitt coaches he was considering visiting other schools, they warned him that his scholarship offer would be withdrawn if he did.
Pitt already has three receiver recruits in Aliquippa U.S. Army All-American Jonathan Baldwin, Gateway’s Cameron Saddler and Norwin’s Mike Shanahan, and the Panthers also are recruiting Muhlenberg’s Vaughn Carraway.
Keep in mind, that the offer was withdrawn, to Mike Cruz as well. They continued to recruit him and he eventually verballed.
I take the withdrawal to mean Pitt isn’t promising to hold his offer — not that they won’t be willing to accept him unless they get other verbals before he makes up his mind.
How do you know? Do you have any sources? Do you know Alexander personally.
He said he is unsure about Pitt now because Hill left. Apparently he told the coaches that he wanted to take some visits so he could have a backup plan in case he didn’t like Hill’s replacement or Pitt didn’t fill the slot before NLI day.
The Pitt coaches said fine but we aren’t going to hold your scholarship open if you take visits to other schools.
I don’t think Pitt is dead yet but it isn’t looking to good. Especially if Pitt doesn’t have Hill’s replacement by Feb. 6th.
I would bet PSU starts recruiting Alexander again. They cant let somebody in their own backyard get stolen.
Also, is there any indication whether the Robinson kid who visited last week would be academically eligible for next season? If not, he seems like he would be a nice Aundre Wright kind of catch after a year at prep school.
It won’t break us.
