link to pittsburgh.scout.com

..and a collective sigh of relief from pitt fans everywhere

I am happy. And people, it is not even close to National Signing Day so you never know if we can lure back Johnson. With that said, it can always go the other way too.

Breaking it first=harassing a kid with 50 phone calls until he tells you

Now let’s go get Foster!

not a bad verbal for a staff that “can’t recruit…”

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Hopefully Foster sees that Pitt is recruiting stud QB’s to throw him the damn ball.

Also got Carson Baker, an offensive lineman that only had MAC offers today.

Apparently we just landed another OL. Had offers from MAC Schools, but hey, it’s a body.

Is it too early to start chanting “It’s Tra’Von Time”?

Well done by Coach Chryst and staff. Big time receivers like having big time quarterbacks throwing to them. Now it appears our favorite university has two in Chad and Tra’von. I suspect that young Mr Foster and Mr. Boyd will take note of that. Better days ahead fellow PITT fans!

Just checked out Chapman’s highlight videos over on Pitt Script. Throws a nice deep ball.

Wait we actually recruited a QB that can throw the ball more than 20 yards….I’m truly amazed!

Is everyone forgetting Voytik already? With the transfer and this kid. Chances that Myers transfers before/after season starts or is released?

Kudos to coaches. Keep it up.

Marco, two in a row, in fact!

Hail to Pitt!

tedsptman, I think Myers is content, he’ll stay, go through the motions, graduate, and move on. I just get a feeling he genuinely likes the University.

Myself I am intrigued by Savage despite having only 1 year. I knew nothing about him or his transfer. Even though he will have sat out a year he has the size, a big time arm, and the heart of a qb (something Myer’s has not shown).

We may have two quality young QB’s and other’s on the way. For 2013 Savage could be perhaps be for Pitt what Wilson was for Wisconsin.

Stillers just cut Brandon Lindsey. Why are they such haters of Pitt players? I really thought Brandon had at least a decent shot of making the practice squad.

Good news. I haven’t been on the blog for a while and it was really nice to hear of Tra’Von Chapman signing. There are good players in the area and Pitt needs to bring in as many as they can get. Not bad get, for a coach with a “laid back” recruiting style.

Good news on Chapman…I also think it’s funny that everyone has seemed to glance over Savage and Voytik already, but it should at least make for some interesting competitions in the coming years.

I am sad to hear about Brandon Lindsey but he is just too small to play the DE spot and just to slow to play the OLB spot at the NFL level. That awkard tweener size that is okay in the Big East but not in the AFC North.

BTW that Baker kid is RIGHT up Chryst’s alley. 6-5 315 on Rivals. He only has offers from Buffalo and Toledo, but he is huge! Look at Wiscy OL commits from the past 4 years and the classes are riddled with 2-3 star OL that at 6-5 or taller 300+….Would you trade Wiscy’s 2012 OL for Pitt’s 2012 OL??? I think you just might…

This video is really, um, real:

link to espn.go.com

Every single team passed on Brandon Lindsey and every other Pitt player. How does that make the Steelers Pitt haters?

I jest with you yinzers. But you would think that more Pitt players would have gotten drafted by the Stillers over the years or at least signed on as free agents.

I love how Pitt beats out Cincinnati and Northwestern for a QB and now people are saying “see Chryst is out there recruiting hard”. They are still ranked in the 40s in recruiting and most of the prospects don’t have major offers. Those are facts!!!

I just watched Mr. Chapman’s video and was impressed with the little bit he was asked to do. The lad has quick feet, moves quite well and throws a good spiral. Can’t go wrong when skills such as rhese will be seen in Heinz Field. Good job, Chryst and co. and welcome to Tra. Rev. George in Columbus.

I love how Mike can’t read. People aren’t sayin that Chryst is out there recruiting hard. If you want to be accurate. People are typing. The problem is that your reading skills rival that of a fourth grader.

Rankings in June do not matter. Nor do they matter in February. It’s all about wins and losses, unless you are from Penn State where sins trump wins for the last 25 years.

why are all the fans freaking out about recruiting; seems to me like coach chryst is doing a fine job already without even showing what he will put on the field as a head coach role. i think once he does that, he is even going to be able to land bigger recruits. pitt fan base just needs to chill the f out and let things play out. it took a while but i think we got our man. so a little patience is needed in the meantime; heck we tolerated last year and the fiasco with the hiring, this is nothing now. we got a guy who wants to be here, wants to stay, and called it a destination job. im happy and content. and as a bonus, this is titos last year.

Great get by PC & staff. Imagine Chapman gets red shirted next year. Since we’ll have Savage & Voytik, Anderson & Myers.
I do believe the big boys up front can be coached up by good coaches, which we have. Two examples immediately come to mind. WVU under Dickrod never had high recruits on the O-Line and Wisconsin under our on PC, never had highly rated recruits either. And the Badgers have had several O-linemen drafted in the 1rst round, several years in a row.

While it would have been nice to land the kid from Belle Vernon, it’s far from the end of the world.
haha Oakland & Pittsburgh probably intimidated the small town kid.

Anyone else notice how that OL recruit just keeps driving his man well beyond the point of attack?

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Hey Mike…I like how you focus on Cinci and Northwestern and discard the fact that Chapman also had offers from Boston College, Arizona, Illinois, and Wisconsin. I guess ACC, Pac 12, and Big Ten teams aren’t major offers anymore?? Whether you want to believe it or not Pitt isn’t going to recruit with the OSU, PSU, Bama, or ND’s of the world. Pitt as it stands now is a team that will be composed of mostly middle of the road recruits with the occasional top flight recruit. Given the circus that has gone on at Pitt and the difficulties with student transfer rules, I don’t blame kids from being apprehensive. Given the circumstances and despite the reports of certain slip-ups I think Chryst is doing decent job. At this point last year Pitt had two commits in 2011 there was one, 2010 there were 10…Chryst has 10 as well including 2 4-stars.

As long as these stars shine on the field and help produce team wins, I am fine. Stars on paper mean nothing right now.

If Pitt is ranked 40th in recruiting (didn’t I read where they all start at 0 in camp?), then we are doing well in recruiting.

Look around Yinz guys n at! OSU just to the west, WVU just to the south, PSU to the east…

You criticize recruiting like we have been good or something. We haven’t! Our bowl have been bottom of the barrel, we had 4 head coaches in 13 months, we draw fans based on loyalty and not good football and certainly not winning and we haven’t been to a major bowl since the Fiesta and we were the national joke then!!

It is incumbent on you then to go out today and overpay for everything. Because that is what you ask of Chryst!

Yeah Chas…Chryst does have to coach up! Every Pitt fan out there, read this. It isn’t 1973! The world is filled with both overachievers and underachievers…more of the latter. Pitt has been the poster school for underachieving in football for 25 years.

Time to overachieve or “coach up” until we develop an attitude of winning.

It worked for VTech and WVU.

If you just consider stars and rankings Pitt now has on it’s roster in 2013 4 QB’s with 4 stars. Two Pro style QB’s, Myers and Savage, and two dual QB’s Volychk and Chapman.

If one were to consider only high school ratings Pitt is overloaded at QB with high rated QB’s.

Myers has little experience because of his limited high school experience but has the size and arm strength and time to salvage his career. Savage has shown he can more than compete at this level. He has the size and arm strength if he can stay in shape and stay focused on his dream to play at the next level.

Chapman and possibly volychik can be the QB’s of the future. I see Chapman as having greater possiblities.

Next year may bring a another or higher rated QB. At least we are in the 4’s, Tino 3, Stull 3, Gonzalez 3.

Looking ahead, this 2013 class will be seniors when we host Penn State in 2016.

If Sir Tino was a 3…then that absolutely proves, beyond any doubt at all. That these rating services and stars mean nothing at all.

That and Dion was a 2. So was Romeus.
Hale was a 4/5.

Give me a 2 star with a chip on his shoulder anytime.

Last comment on Savage he was offered scholarships at FSU, Georgia, Penn State, Miami, Florida, and Michigan. If we are in the ACC so he is eligible 2013 could be a big step up at QB. If Schell is as good as advertised 2013 could be a big year.
Way to early to tell but Kincade in 2014 has the size for a D1 QB, and already is committed to Pitt.
Perhaps Pitt could start a complete reversal regarding the QB position.

As sure as night follows day, I knew that posters on this blog would minimize a success. You guys need to either “support/demoralize” another team or STFU.