Reed has the nice rundown, and as usual on this site for Signing Day Wednesday, there will be an open thread for when recruits are “confirmed” by recruiting sites as signed.
Just a couple other things.
Demetrius Cox will be making his announcement tonight on KDKA-TV around 6:40 tonight. Unlikely that he chooses Pitt at this point, but who knows.
Rutgers seems to be doing a good job of keeping their class together. It also looks like Mario Cristobal could be the next coach there. Would hate to see that simply because the storyline would be so beaten into the ground about how close he may have come to being the next Pitt head coach. To say nothing of the comparisons to Chryst for however long it goes. That would be tiresome.
Bam Bradley will make his decision at a 9am signing day ceremony at his high school. Arizona, Pitt or Stanford seem to be the choices.
I highly recommend this recruiting guide installment dealing with how you, as a fan, deal with signing day.
Still haven’t heard anything from Dave Durham, the Ohio State fullback looking to transfer. Seems to be a choice of Pitt — and sitting a year — or somewhere like Richmond in 1-AA to play immediately. Duke might also be a possibility since Durham is from North Carolina.
A couple local high school juniors got offers from Pitt. Who knows.
The pulling of Marzett Geter’s scholarship is a shame for the kid. It will be treated as a cautionary example. He said something stupid, and emotional on twitter — and was called out on it. It wasn’t profane. It wasn’t misogynistic. It wasn’t much more than a selfish moment. He’s still a 17-year old kid. The immediacy of technology and impulsiveness of youth are a toxic brew. As I’ve said before, there are plenty of mature, grown-ups that can’t get it right. I think everyone is entitled to at least one relatively benign twitter screw-up.
To be honest, it strikes me more as pretense for pulling the offer — and yes, I know the rumors about his academic issues. If he was a more highly touted recruit at a bigger position of need, this would have been a non-issue.
THEN he tweets that Pitt is wasting scholarships when Ryan Lewis verballed? And he has bad grades?
You can’t have that kid in the locker room. Cut ties, and move on.
This was not a one-time mistake.
Hid dad is the Steeler OL coach so I’m wondering if that will or won’t be to our advantage.
Robert Foster, Central Valley WR/DB, is the other area blue chip.
I saw that. Some people just don’t understand history lasts longer than 10 years.
Maybe I’m missing something, but why would he choose to make his announcement on Pittsburgh TV if he was going some place else?
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shambo January 30, 2012 at 4:41PM
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i have a feeling that the getting his salary approved by the governing bodies was the problem. Go get wannstadt, flood looks like we are settling for our third choice what. it looks bad.
some of the outhers you can say pitt was pruneing
the tree but now i wonder if that was true what the hell is going on.
I totally agree. I have seen nothing from this new crew to suggest that they can recruit. I will wait and see but I have my doubts. As for getting Roberts Wisc. only has 12 recruits and they wanted him as a preferred walk-on.
We will know by this time (or soooner) next year, in any event.
Could and would this kid be allowed to announce his choice of another school outside of his hometown anywhere else but Pittsburgh, I am tired of the negative publicity in this city of the local university which they seem to enjoy putting down.
Would this occur in Happy Valley? How about Birmingham, Ala. or maybe Columbus?
Never! KDKA you suck.
We fans tend to look at the PITT football program with rose colored glasses and forget that just 14 months ago we were being ridiculed on the national stage for more than one issue…
A string of violent arrests, the SI article, The DW firing and Haywood debacle and finally our brand spanking new coach who we built a massive national advertising campaign around abruptly up and leaves.
Any one of those issues would be bad for a program. What it did for PITT is make it into a national laughingstock and something for recruits and their parents to be wary of.
In addition we have a Head Coach and an Offensive Coordinator who are rookies at their jobs. It will take a solid year of no negative news with good effort and production on the field to overcome that.
Put it this way. If Shell wasn’t a soon-to-be father of twins he’d be at Alabama and if PITT didn’t have a great pre-med and medical school Voytik most probably would be playing elsewhere also.
That’s what this recent string of negative factors does to even a decent football program and we have a lot of work ahead to overcome that.
Frank – in another thread you asked who picks Toledo over PITT. Answer: a recruit who isn’t going to academically qualify at PITT does. The MAC academic standards are a good bit lowwer than the BE’s. When we move to the ACC the standards at PITT will be higher then also.
QB – 1 – A stud
RB – 1 – Also a stud
WR – 3 – The Davis Twins, who are both good and the 6’3″ Trent Coles who apparently runs a 4.4
TE – 1 – stud
OT – 1 – Bisnowaty – stud, plus another probable sleeper (Guy from NH), so lets say 2
OG – 1 – sleeper…but at least adds depth
DT – 1 – Well he’s big
DE – 1 – 3 star, decent size
OLB – 2 – smaller, faster guys with potential
MLB – 1 – Caprara – probaby too small, so really 0
S – 1 – Scout shows 2, but Jevonte Pitts probably won’t qualify
CB – 1 – Sleeper from WA. (I thought Pitt had too many cornerbacks…)
Okay, so the next thing I’d do if I had time would be to look at the all the freshman coming off of redshirt and match up the holes in the lineup. But I have to work.
Bottom line is – what everybody has been saying. We need a couple more big bodies and an MLB (Sorry but Rippy is an OLB who apparently only excels at edge rushing so he doesn’t count) A couple more cornerbacks wouldn’t hurt either. But until you look at the redshirts, it’s kind of pointless. Maybe I’ll get to it this afternoon.
system we would be looking for different kinds of players that would help us a little.