For lots of good stuff, make sure you pop over to the Cat Basket. They are actually paying attention to the football team and have some breakdowns by unit.

Sunseri is in a really bad position for a young quarterback in that he is perceived as a solution to our QB problems because he isn’t Bostick or Stull.

Sadly true.

A couple stories on Adam Gunn and his 6th year.

Kevin Gorman has a notebook dump of Pitt’s first practice — no pads, so Wannstedt is complaining. Of note, as expected Greg Cross is playing WR (sigh).

New OC Frank Cignetti is more animated than Matt Cavanaugh.

Nate Byham is on the preliminary watch list for the 2009 Rotary Lombardi Award.

Eligibility for the Rotary Lombardi Award is limited to down linemen, end-to-end, either on offense or defense, who set up no farther than 10 yards to the left or right of the ball. Linebackers who set up no farther than five yards deep from the line of scrimmage are also eligible.

The candidates earned a place on the preliminary watch list by earning All-American honors or by being named to their respective all-conference first team as selected by the conference’s head coaches. The Rotary Lombardi Award Watch List will be updated prior to the start of the 2009 season in order to identify those players who have been selected as preseason honors candidates.

Forty-seven players were named to the Rotary Lombardi list. Byham was one of only two tight ends selected, reinforcing his status as one of the country’s best at his position.

Byham is presently sitting out spring practice as he recovers from offseason surgery.