Who’s class recruiting ranking do you want to choose to believe for Pitt?

Rivals.com says Pitt is the 47th best class. Behind other Big East teams like Rutgers (23), Louisville (38) and WVU (45).

247Sports.com has Pitt at 40th (they were very low on Voytik).  Rutgers (21) and WVU (36) in front of Pitt.

Scout.com at 39th. With WVU (26), Cinci (32) and Rutgers (33) ahead of Pitt.

ESPN.com says 30th. Rutgers (25) and Louisville (27) are the only ones ahead.

I don’t pretend to understand it, except that the further you get from the top 15-20 recruiting classes the wider the variance between various rankings. The formulas are a mix of player rankings and volume. Which is how Cinci with 30 commits with an average star ranking of 2.73 on Scout.com is up so high. Scout.com only takes the top-25 players from a signing class in their rankings. What’s funny is Pitt will likely fall a little further in their rankings because Scout.com lists Pitt with 18 kids — still including Pitts and Jarrett in there it seems. So Pitt will lose points based on overall volume.

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Last minute decommits happen. But rarely is the moment captured.

Jawand Blue is a 3-star recruit out of Boca Raton, Florida. He had a lot of offers, though, from everyone from Pitt, to Michigan St., Wisconsin, WVU. He chose Virginia Tech.

At the last minute, he got an offer he really wanted: Miami.

Well on signing day, he decided to go with Miami. He gave VT Coach Frank Beamer a phone call to break the news to him.

The moment was captured via Twitter by a local reporter.

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It’s signing day. The annual event. A culmination of predominantly male adults obsessing about the decisions of athletic young men in the age category of 17-18 years. It never stops being creepy.

As usual, this will be something of an open thread as we clock-in who officially signs with Pitt, and any info on any surprises. This being a serious and solemn event, it will be treated with the utmost reverence on this site.

Usually the process for marking whether a kid has signed or not is done by noting whether Rivals.com and Scout.com are listing them as signed or not. But things are a-changin’.

Pitt’s athletic department will be keeping things up to date — so the claim goes. It’s the first time they are giving it a shot so I guess we’ll see how they do.

There will be a webcam on the fax machine. Analysis of the signees between 9am and noon by Bill Hillgrove, Pat Bostick and Don Rebel (spolier alert: they are all awesome), and tweets of the signees faxed Letter of Intent with some alacrity.

Around 3pm there will be a live webcast of Coach Paul Chryst waxing rhapsodic over all the fine gentlemen who will be Panthers.

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