Big shock, Pitt is still not a particularly good free throw shooting team. Both beat writers had stories on it. There’s no new ground broken. The same rhetoric. We’ll curse, mutter, sigh. Not much else to say.

I got a kick out of this.

When Blair walked into one class early last week, the other students gave him a standing ovation.

“They got up and started clapping,” Blair said. “I was like, ‘C’mon’. It was weird to me. But it’s cool.”

The story noted that Coach Dixon was doing interviews all week long with Pitt’s ascension to the #1 spot. It seems that Bill Plaschke wasn’t the only one doing the look-back with Maggie Dixon. This USA Today piece has some of the same details from the interview right down to the rocking chair and cutting his kids waffles.

The only comparisons for this sort of thing are in basketball. And those tended to be long drawn out things. Odd that this is really not even a week since it started leaking that McCoy was going pro. It feels like it’s been at least two weeks of angst. Of course, two weeks roughly corresponds to the Sun Bowl, so that might explain things.

Here’s the one thing that is absolute. No decision has been made.

Pitt athletics spokesman E.J. Borghetti released this statement last night: “LeSean McCoy spoke to (Pitt coach) Dave Wannstedt (Monday) afternoon and said he is not ready to make a final decision on the NFL Draft. Coach Wannstedt encouraged LeSean to take the time he needs to make such an important decision.”

After that it is rumors, speculation and leaks.

Lots of sources saying all sorts of things.

Still, a source close to the situation said that Pitt’s chances of keeping McCoy are “very slim” at best — if they are even that good — and that he is not likely to change his mind and return to school.

And those around the program don’t expect McCoy to change his mind, either, and have begun to prepare as if he is not going to return.

He has not been on campus since before the Christmas break and he has not been in classes even though Pitt’s spring semester began last Monday. He also missed a postseason team meeting on Thursday and that fueled speculation about his departure.

This report from his local tv station put McCoy down in Florida preparing for the draft, then sort of backtracking, with his HS coach indicating it is very undecided.

“He’s torn,” Weachter said then. “He loves Pitt. He loves playing for Coach Wannstedt.”

Then there is the juicy stuff.

Very close sources to this story are 100% confident that Shady McCoy wants to return to Pitt. He does not want to turn professional and leave Pitt. He loves being “Shady” McCoy and the big man on campus at Pitt. That is not meant as a criticism. He loves the fans at Pitt and loves college life. However, he is being pressured to turn pro. LeSean doesn’t want to cause friction within his family. On the other hand, he doesn’t want to leave Pitt and be unhappy “going to work” in the NFL. From what I’m told, McCoy is “an emotional wreck” and my source told me that “he really feels sorry for McCoy.”

What is reality? What are the ulterior motives of those being a source? Those are the questions that do have to be asked. Information isn’t just “leaked” without a reason. Sure there are natural gossips, and those that like to show off how connected they are. Still, take everything with a healthy dose of skepticism.

Everyone has an agenda. Any “soruce” always risks discovery and a loss of those connections. There generally has to be another reason to give things away like this.

All I’m doing is keeping a jaundiced eye on this and will not go much further in speculation. There’s still two more days before the clock runs out and the decision is made for him.