Er, move the last word to the front. Yeah, that’s better.

Still another commit to a frentic 2 week period of recruiting for Pitt football and Coach Wannstedt.

Woodland Hills defensive tackle Khaynin “K.K.” Mosley-Smith has made a verbal commitment to Pitt, becoming the fourth WPIAL prospect and 13th recruit for the Panthers from the Class of 2010.

The 6-foot-1, 287-pound defensive tackle drew a scholarship offer after impressing Panthers coaches at their individual skills camp last month by running the 40-yard dash in 4.9 seconds. He also bench-presses 340 pounds and squats 615.

I’m not up on the nicknames. I really hoping the “K.K. is partially derived from the first name. If not you risk making it K.K.K.

Mosley-Smith is not a highly starred recruit. Rivals.com has him unranked and Scout.com has him at 2-star. According to Mosley-Smith, that’s because others are only starting to get acquainted with him and his talents.

“I would have gotten more offers, there were a lot of teams just starting to get involved and get interested, like Michigan,” Mosley-Smith said. “But Pitt was the first one to really come after me hard and like I said, they let me know that they really wanted me to be there.”

His offers right now are from WVU, Syracuse, UConn, EMU, Ohio and Scout.com does say Michigan also offered.

ESPN.com/Scouts, Inc. seems inclined to agree with Mosley-Smith’s own opinion of himself (Insider subs).

Flashes the ability to be tough at the point of attack. He can be explosive and shoot his hands and knock a blocker on his heels. Does a solid job of being able to come across the line and stay square and make a play on the ball. Pursues to the ball and gives good effort. For his size closes well on the ball carrier and is a good tackler. As a pass rusher he will flash the ability to work a quick move. He can be active with his hands, but needs to protect his legs and have a plan. He works to get to the quarterback, but needs to at times channel some of that energy into better technique.

And suddenly the Pitt recruiting class is looking better.

Even without Clemmings’ official pledge,Pittsburgh’s Dave Wannstedt has still done a very nice job of reeling in 2010 recruits early on and paving the way for an impressive 2011 haul.

The Panthers already have verbal commitments from the Don Bosco Prep (N.J.) tandem of offensive lineman Brandon Sacco and defensive lineman Bryan Murphy, as well as St. Joseph Regional receiver K’Waun Williams.

DeMatha (Md.) athlete Jeff Knox and Bishop McDevitt (Pa.) receiver Salath Williams are also on board.

Williams may be able to help lure teammate Jameel Poteat to Pittsburgh. Poteat is a talented running back drawing interest from schools up and down the east coast. Wannstedt was the first coach to verbally offer Poteat, and Pittsburgh appears to be in good shape.

The Panthers also lead for fellow 2011 in-state star Terrell Chestnut. Chestnut plays quarterback and defensive back for Pottsgrove, but he projects to the defensive side of the ball at the next level. His teammate, Maika Polamalu, is another that Wannstedt will keep an eye on, though Penn State will also be in the hunt.

It is not a star swinging behemoth, but there are players that can help the team. And apparently help set things up for 2011 as well.

A pair of commits to start and finish the July 4th weekend.

Pitt just keeps piling up the WRs. Another tall, strong WR in Andrew Carswell out of McKees Rocks.

Carswell, 6-foot-4, 210 pounds, was one of the first juniors to get an offer from Pitt last season. He also had offers from West Virginia, Syracuse, Virginia, Duke, North Carolina State, Maryland, Boston College, Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan, Michigan State, Northwestern, Vanderbilt and Stanford.

“I felt like I had a connection with Pitt,” he said, “and I wanted to stay close to home.”

He’s listed as a WR, but he also played defensive back.

But Ruscitto said Carswell had a number of programs looking at him as a defensive player as well.

Carswell made 56 tackles and had three interceptions as a defensive back, and Ruscitto said this versatility indicates Carswell’s ability to play at the next level.

That seems enticing to have the possibility of a big DB again. Yet Carswell is 3- to 4-star recruit as a WR, and gets good reviews especially with his potential (Insider subs.).

Carswell is a big, physical wide receiver who has a very nice combination of size, speed and athleticism. He is productive both as a deep threat and also on underneath throws because he possesses very good quickness for a player his size. He shows very good change-of-direction after the catch. He is tall, well-built and has an impressive frame to grow into. It is tough for secondary players to judge his deep speed because he lulls them to sleep off the ball and then shows a sneaky second gear to go past them.

So that was a nice way to start things, but the ending was more important as — HOLY GOD, AN OFFENSIVE LINEMAN!!! OMG! SOMEONE TO PLAY O-LINE!!!!

Er, sorry. It’s just that the lack of any commits for the O-line and some glaring misses has made this a source of anxiety. But Pitt got a good one.

Pitt’s recruiting momentum did not slow down for the holidays as the Panthers received a verbal commitment yesterday from North Olmstead, Ohio, offensive lineman Matt Rotheram.

Rotheram is the 12th player from the class of 2010 to commit to the Panthers. He is the highest-rated recruit of any in the class thus far.

Rotheram (6 feet 6, 310 pounds) is a four-star prospect, according to Rivals.com, and the recruiting service also ranks him as the ninth-best guard prospect in the country.

He had numerous scholarship offers, including from Wisconsin, Illinois, Purdue, Indiana, LSU, Arizona, Michigan State, Iowa and Cincinnati. He said his three finalists were Purdue, Indiana and Pitt, and once he compared them it was really no contest.

Well, yeah. Playing somewhere in Indiana or, well, anywhere else.

He mades his decision on his birthday to obligingly give Pitt coaches the present. What makes his verbal such a happy thing is what type of O-lineman he is.

He said playing in the Panthers’ pro-style offense was appealing to his type of game.

“I’m a run blocker,” Rotheram said. “Finishing the block is my best trait. I never give up on a block. People call it a mean streak.”

Rivals.com does have him as a 4-star, while Scout.com gives him 3. ESPN.com/Scouts, Inc. likes him enough to have him in their national 150-player watchlist, and agrees that he is best as a run-blocker (Insider subs.).

Rotheram is exactly what a coach looks for in a run blocking tackle but will need to work on foot quickness at the next level. He has the strength, power and technical skills to be a very productive offensive lineman at the next level.

And if you are excited by watching clips of good blocking, there’s even a YouTube of his best.

The defense is consistent. The rebounding is solid. The things Coach Dixon likes to preech.  A good thing for the USA teamwhen the shots were not falling against Greece. The US still won 85-69.

“It was a little different game for us, a kind of grind it out game. It wasn’t real pretty as far as offense, but I thought we defended some things pretty well,” USA head coach Jamie Dixon stated. “I thought Howard (Thompkins) played well, we got the ball inside like we wanted to. We figured out some things as the game went on, so it was a good win. They’re a good team, they got some guys who can score.”

This one had lots of fouls as the USA teamwas too strong inside for Greece.

Ashton Gibbs is getting plenty of minutes and playing point. He finished with 8 points and 0 assists and 0 turnovers. There were only 10 assists for the entire USA squad. An inside game, is familiar to Gibbs.

How much easier is for you as the point guard when you have it going inside like the team did tonight?

Being a good basketball team always requires a big time inside presence.  We had that last year in my college season, so I’m used to big guys dominating inside and that’s what Howard (Thompkins) did today. He dominated on the boards and in scoring. He was a dominate force and that’s  what we  need.

While the U-19 team has been taking and making a lot of 3s, according to Howard Thompkins, it isn’t like Coach Dixon radically altered his approach.

Did Coach Dixon emphasize the guys getting you the ball inside.

Well he wants us to start our offense inside out anyway. Coach wants us to start our offense inside out anyway, but we just have such great shooters it just doesn’t seem like that sometimes. Coach Dixon always emphasizes for us to play hard on the inside, go from the inside out.

Just in case anyone thinks Pitt will start mad-boimbing from outside this year. Heck, it seems like Coach Dixon has been running things as he would if this was a Pitt squad.

Teams seems to struggle against your defense in the second half, do you feel like you have a fitness edge over some of the other teams?

Well I’ll be honest with you. Coach Dixon and everyone ran us in the floor when we were in training. So we’re definitely ready for that second half of defense, and that was his most important objective, second half of defense. He wasn’t so much worried about our offense because we have a bunch of dynamic scorers, so he just banged on the second half of defense.

Next up is Puerto Rico, where Mike Rosario — Rutgers — had a Levon Kendall-esque performance with 54 points to help Puerto Rico escape with a 90-89 win over France.