Thank goodness Tyler Boyd verballed to Pitt on Saturday. Otherwise I don’t want to think about how angst-ridden we Pitt fans would have been Saturday night. As it was, it wasn’t pretty.
Starting with some football. Because, at least it means the season is officially finished.
Let’s face it, the signs and portents were there from the start. Doakes being suspended to make an already weak link spot on a weak O-line that much worse. With Ray Graham and a couple others unable to go, it was even less promising. I know Graham would never have done it, but if I were Graham and watching the O-line during the week. I might have been grabbing my hamstring and gimping up to avoid any stupid chances in this game.
And on the fifth play, the interception-free streak of Sunseri came to an end to at least try and snuff out hope early.
It was almost a distillation of everything we’ve seen bad from this team in 2012. The O-line was horrid -as feared/expected. Sunseri held the ball too long. The defense slept-walked through the first quarter. Then had their end-of-the-half-does-not-mean-halftime moment to allow Ole Miss one more score. Not to mention being unable to get off the field on 3d and 4th down plays (Ole Miss converted on those downs 12 out of 23 tries). Questionable special teams play.
Then to see Hubie Graham go down once again, because he hasn’t had anything but bad luck this year.
Any (very, very, very faint) hope there was that Pitt might make a game of it in the second half was excruciatingly snuffed out by Ole Miss never getting off the field. Pitt had two 3-and-outs, but Ole Miss had two drives that ate up over 11 minutes of the quarter. Yes, they only managed one TD out of it. But up 21 with one quarter left. Versus this Pitt team. That was more than enough.
As so often this year, the game was lost on the lines. Pitt’s undermanned O-line was overmatched, and only exacerbated the known issues on offense. On defense, the D-line couldn’t get any real pressure on Ole Miss QB Bo Wallace — who has shoulder and hamstring issues — but rarely had to worry about getting hit.
Pitt‘s defense, forced to retool after the pre-bowl departure of defensive coordinator Dave Huxtable to North Carolina State, allowed Ole Miss to rush for 224 yards while sacking Wallace (22 for 32, 151 yards) only once.
“They beat us in almost every phase,” coach Paul Chryst said. “They were clearly the better team today. I thought the guys prepared well, but they outexecuted us.”
Flashing back to the first couple games of the season where Pitt was not ready to play. That’s what it felt like when watching this one. Just not ready. Slow to react.
“We knew they were going to go up-tempo all game,” Pitt safety Jarred Holley said. “Ole Miss did a great job getting ready to play.”
Couldn’t do anything about it, but they knew what they were going to do.
This had be the last time Pitt makes a trip to Birmingham in January. So, there’s that.
OK lets move on…
Thank goodness ACC has no ties to BBVA.
Chryst viewed the bowl experience as a reward for the season, a party, not something to work hard to win. With a 6 & 6, no ranking to fight for, knowing his team has lots of holes, why bother? Basically rest the seniors and use this an an extra practice before spring.
Under the circumstances, I can sort of understand, but I hope in the future this won’t be standard operating practice or we won’t win another bowl game.
I hope Pitt finishes strong on the recruiting front and actually hires a big time D coordinator who not only knows how to coach aggressive D but is also a dynamic recruiter with ties to the south.
But, Chryst will probably chose someone who he knows and is comfortable with and given that Pitt is cheap, we’ll get someone less qualified.
Having checks that are 3 to 4 times higher in revenue I hope will change that policy.
Yes this season over.
switch all the Logos to ACC.
Great stuff on Chapman and Soto, who seem like really high-character guys and good students to go with being solid football players. Always great to see guys like this find their way into the program…just as refreshing to hear Tyler Boyd and the other Clairton kids talk about building something here.
It’s nice to see this is the type of character that Chryst is bringing into this program.
Go Pitt!! Lets finish recruiting strong…
Closing your eyes and hoping things will get better because they can’t any worse is the business model this athletic department has adopted.
Here is a question for the board. Assume for the moment that our recruiting class is ranked # 30, do you expect the team, in the Jr and sr years to reach the same ranking, lower or higher?
I love Pitt, but before the Dodgers were the “Dodgers”, they were “Them Bums”. We are still in the loveable loser category and I, for one, am sick of losing.
Is Chryst a good coach? I think so.
Will Pitt keep him if and when others come calling? 50/50 IMO.
Is Pitt, as the atheltic department is comprised right now, capable of surviving another direct hit whether it be delivered from the outside or the typical self-imposed disaster? 100% No.
We remain a highly fragile program because we lack the correct foundation. 1 good season does not a program make.
There are fundamental changes required at Pitt for success to take root. It can be done, but not by the people who run it now. We’ve seen what they are capable of and it ain’t pretty.
So 98 yards, the almost 100 yards accumulated by said QB in the 4rth quarter were totally meaningless. Why he was even playing in a game down 38-10 at that point is beyond me. Unless this was all just to accumulate stats for the knighted one. No other reason is rational or logical since Ole Miss was playing it’s backups by then, why not us. Game was finito !
Speaking of meaningless 4rth quarter stats in a blowout, so were most of said QB stats during the course of the year and his career. If you go back and look more closely at the games.
While he might only trail a couple Pitt QB’s in yardage, he’ll be remembered as Pitt’s worst 3 year starting QB ever.
In most rational scenarios someone with his talent level would have NEVER started one whole season, let alone 3. But this was not a rational situation. Some say, that his play was effected by having 3 different coaches, but I would suggest this WAS the ONLY reason he was able to play 3 seasons. For no one coach would have kept such a low talent QB and no talent QB, when any game was on the line or even the slightest degree of pressure was applied by the opposing team, in the lineup as starting Qb for 3 years of what amounted to as 3 years of missed opportunities, missed plays, missed wide-open touchdowns and most importantly MISSED WINS !
Truly the worst 3 year starting QB I have ever seen in Division 1 football. For nobody that bad would have EVER gotten a chance to play 39 straight games, with the same results, failings, bad decisions and inability to perform under pressure. In most normal, logical, rational situations after losing to a D-2 team (Pitt’s 1rst EVER such loss) and getting blown out in game 2, said QB would have been given a nice seat on the pines. Clearly something was amiss here.
Well it’s over now and we did survive it, albeit the liver and our lives have certainly been shortened by the whole sordid mess.
Good Bye and Good Riddance !!
Veritas et Virtus
I’m just so sick of the attitude we can’t do better or we get what we deserve or we are cursed. All these pathetic excuses when we lose or don’t get that 4 star kid, etc. We have allowed Pitt to be the same old Pitt. It’s up to us to demand change. But money talks so be prepared to open up your pocket books if you want that change to come.
Who are the big time boosters that can lead this change? Little guys like myself can only do so much but if a bunch of little guys threw support around some prominent booster(s) willing to take charge and make things unpleasant, we could be on to something.
I’m prepared to paint myself as an Indian and throw Stevie over USS Nordy but I need booster help and some other Indians to join me.
http://sports.yahoo.com/video/army-combine-mike-grimm-164800139.html
That is something some writer will put in a ‘fluff piece’ next fall, when some unsuspecting and unknowing city will read that garbage as to why he made and NFL roster.
We witnessed this crap for 3 years, and we’re not in say Seattle and would just accept at face value and say. “Wow this kid had 20 TD’s and only 3 picks he must be pretty good.” The poor schmuck having never even seen at Pitt game on TV.
And very few will know how truly misleading those stats are. Upon closer scrutiny, of those 20 TD passes, 50% of them were against two (2), yes two D-2 teams (Youngstown State and something called Gardiner Webb) and the other were against among the worst D1 teams on the planet (USF, Uconn & Temple). Also 1,441 meangingless yardage were accumulated against this pathetic group of opponents of whom we EVEN LOST TO TWO OF THEM. lmao
So please don’t quote stats to those of us that have witnessed firsthand just how truly meaningless stats can be.
stats dont matter…
No more players who just show up because it is fun, but players with desires to be the best they can be.
PITT had it’s easiest schedule in decades. Not only one D-2 team on the schedule, but two. And the second is among one of the worst D-2 teams over the last decade. If you will the:
The Quintessential Rent-A-Win.
@everyone
Over the last 3 years in this horrid BigLeast, we went 20-19 overall and a very ugly 17-18, below .500, against legit competition. If you can say teams like USF, Temple, Uconn, SMU are legit that is.
PITT was trending upward in 2009, coming off our best 3 year run since the early 1980′s. We finished 2009 ranked #15 in the polls, our highest end of season ranking since 1983. Big things were expected, CBS Sports had PITT as one of the Top 5 Football/Basketball combo programs in ALL of College Sports.
All that momentum was doused in 2010 by two torpedoes to Pitt football. One being Stevie Cornhole and the other being, Tino the Terrible.
And that my friends is quite a lot to try and overcome.
As for recruiting, with Boyd accepting (when he was considered “unlikely” by most gurus) and Foster declining (a “likely” Panther) it goes to show how silly it is to try to predict the decision of 18-year olds.
He does get a pass because of Tino. But just one.
Going forward, it’s all on him. It starts with his choice of DC. He better pick well for his sake.
Keep in mind that I have been one of the most ardent Chryst supporters going back to when he was chosen, through the early debacles, and right up to Virginia Tech which I predicted last spring would serve as his signature win in his first year.
There are some things I’ve seen that are concerning… but for now he gets the pass.
The Ole Miss fans were great, too bad we flopped, this team was beaten soundly in all phases of the game.
I went to the pregame alumni festivities, Steve was smiling and Nordy, well he was the politician as he is.
There were a lot of pissed off alumni who drop a lot of cash on the football program after the game, I mean really pissed off.
Underachieved is an Understatement, 
I’m not sold on PC either. Team came out flat way too often. EVEN IN THE VERY FIRST GAME OF HIS COACHING ERA. What does that say.
If a team isn’t going to be excited to play for a coach in his very first game, when are they ????
Any team gets excited to play Notre Dame at South Bend.
For all this senior rah rah business, the team played with no edge at all Saturday, in some of these players last game EVER. Since 95% will never play organized football again.
The only guy on the sidelines with any Fire in his belly at all was Huxtable, with him gone, it seemed like the team took a holiday. Like if they’re parents weren’t home or the teacher left the room. Nobody around to scold them.
Very disappointing end to another disappointing season. And the beat goes on…….
I forget who it was, but someone said he was at the game and there were 7k to 10K Pitt fans there.
Maybe it was Stevie Cornhole posting under a fake name. lol
is he good or some one they got on the cheap
can he recruit the south does he have ties to the ACC or is he from the north and no use to us.
we should hear some names soon.
i wait this is a important hire dont fuck it up.
To me the football season was a failure, not only did the team play worse than the previous year, which some on here said was the worst football they have ever seen, the team also failed to show up on multiple occasions. Also was Tino really that much better? His completion percentage was not even 1% better than the previous year, about 5 of his TDs came either against Gardener Web or in junk time when the game was over and he wasn’t better at closing out games. Not sure how PC doesn’t at least try Anderson during the season. Even if Anderson doesn’t figure to be the starting QB doesn’t hurt to throw him in there and see what he can do.
Comment by Wardapalooza 01.07.13 @ 2:33 pm
Is this a trick question, lol
Even though 2012 had changed out two scrub teams on the schedule for WVU & TCU. Those being Gardner Webby and Temple. So I would imagine given that…. plus the other lame teams on the schedule ANYBODY’S STATS WOULD HAVE IMPROVED.
This team could have gone 6-7 or 5-7, who cares which one, with Anderson or Voytik being the starter as well.
And at least one of those would be ready for next season if called on or if Savage gets hurt or is a flop.
So if next season is a flop because of this, that’s all on PC. So he better hope Savage is up to the task.
in 2010 he was voted one of the 10 most underrated assistant coachs in the usa.
he was the DC of troy in alabama for 8 years
from the south good experince well thought of
was at the school for at least 13 years did a good job in the past i could live with a pick like that if i cant have a big name.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324391104578225802183417888.html
More LBs like Todd Thomas. Pitt needs to find two more LBs that are fast and physical out of Grigsby, Bradley, Price, Caprara, Rippy, Porchia, Gordan, Williams. There seems to be enough to pick from.
Safties like Jason Hendricks. He is fast enough and a ball hawk. Stop trying to play slow DBs like Ryan Vinopal and Taglianetti.
Top rated DLs or switch to a 3-4. I recently heard Greg Guttuso interviewed and he was questioned about the 4-3 vs the 3-4. He said if you don’t have dominate DLs in the 4-3 you are screwed. I don’t see Pitt having that in years to come. Recruiting that kind of DL was Wannstedts strength. That strength is gone.
Offensive needs for next year.
Please please please….a mobile QB.
Depth at RB.
Speed speed speed at receiver.
Tons of OL for depth and more talent.
Yes, when the Oline and QB both suck, yes, you only have 4 plays to run.
Any ideas on priorities?
what means something now is are we to get a good DC or are we to get one that is cheap.
are we to get one who knows the ACC or not that is were we are at now that is what is important
now.
not that old shit were are we heading this hire will tell us alot abought next year.
this is what you should be focused on.
Believe me, Boyd is solid with Pitt.
not a wisconsin buddy from the big ten he needs
to be a good recruiter with some fire in his belly.
like you say if we get some old buddy from denver or ohio i think i will be pissed off
he needs to know the south the ACC
not some one who is cheap and is a yes man.
we want this program to be on the up swing not on a flat line we need some life some get and go.
I would equate him to a government employee but I don’t want to demean Government employee’s!
I do want some competent coaches, dynamic personalities and established pipelines to southern high schools. Hello new fire in the belly DC. I do want Pitt to stop being cheap. I do want Pitt to emphasize the pursuit of a championship in the ACC and will do what it takes to reach that next level. I do want more booster involvement. And above all, I do want a new AD. Santa didn’t give me any of those things in my stocking this year. I got the same ole Pitt shit as last year.
During Edzel years UCONN’s defense kept them in every game.
Orlando seems like a good fit at Pitt.
Not just an upset, but pummeling the Crimson Tide to the point that Robert Foster starts to have second thoughts.
head coach of delaware K C Keeler was fired to day never thought i would see that hell he won a div 2 national title and abought 5 div title
who knew.
Otherwise, Bama would be playing who? Oregon?
I know most of you will scoff at some of the positive things written here …. but so be it
This championship game shows how soiled the nd schedule was this year. It was a joke. ND over-rated and always have been. Kelly goes pro because he now realizes how far away they are from actually competing.
Pederson has to go. Look at top 20 programs and compare our guy to theirs. What a joke the Board of Trustees are right now. The more you all support my longstanding position that Pederson must go, the more angst I feel. I like the Orlando call and because I like it, we will surely go a different direction!
How could anyone get excited about this hire, if it were to happen, after seeing Notre Dame’s defense get completely exposed… the worst of which was the secondary which is Cook’s responsibility?
PC, say it ain’t so.
ND actually had a tougher schedule than Alabama according to some. It’s just that it is nearly impossible to beat Saban when he has a month to prepare. He’s the best coach in college football.
Kerry Cooks was good at getting 2 and 3 stars at Wiscy. Sounds like a perfect choice for PC. Pitt needs to act like a modern college footballl team and not like Wisconsin light. Never going to compete in the ACC with the subpar offense we saw all year.
ND got much help thruout the year in games against BYU, Stanford and your beloved Panthers.
ND’s best weapon in that game was Sir Tino in the 4rth quarter, who couldn’t even take a clean snap
when it counted. Those are the stats that don’t show up, you stat tools.
Oregon, Texas A&M, Kansas State, Stanford and several other teams would have given Bama a better game. ND’s offense was pathetic. Only phantom interference calls and Sir Tino saved ND from losing to us.
It was hard to choose between Little Nicky Saban and a-hole Brian Kelly. It was kinda fun to see Kelly handed his ass after the Pitt-Cincy fix because they wanted to hire him, as an undefeated coach in 2009. Which is why he didn’t coach them in the bowl game.
No doubt he had to be fuming. lol
As for me I’m being beckoned. 
You can scheme all you want: ND was in way over their head.
I think bama will be fine as long as saban stays. I think foster will find it difficult to play and contribute early in his career at bama. That may retard his growth. I think momma still wants him closer to home. I think the competition in the ACC will be close enough to the SEC
I think Pitt has a very good chance to get into those playoffs with foster and boyd.
Foster why don’t you reconsider and be the hometown hero and make your momma happy. Your mom, not your father, cooks the meals. Everyones got to eat and that fried food down south will make you sick.
After last night, that is not a hire that anyone should get excited about.
Alabama put a beat down on Notre Dame and contrary to how it looked, it had little to do with size and far more to do with scheme and execution… and Notre Dame’s cornerbacks who Cooks oversees found themselves totally exposed.
If you look at the size comparisons between Notre Dame and Alabama, you’ll find them pretty comparable. In fact, when Alabama had the ball, Notre Dame had the slight advantage.
Alabama OL (6’5, 314.2) vs. Notre Dame OL (6’4, 304.4)
Alabama DL (6’4, 299.3) vs. Notre Dame DL (6’4, 311.7
Alabama LB (6’3, 246.4) vs. Notre Dame LB (6’2, 247.5)
Rather than size, the difference was really scheme and execution which of course reflects talent.
Passing… McCarron 9.4 YPA… Golson 7.5
Rushing… Alabama 5.9 YPA… Notre Dame 1.7
Yes, Bama runningbacks Lacy and Yeldon were factors. But Alabama also threw the ball to eight different receivers. And specific to Cooks, Bama’s top three receivers averaged 19.8 yards a catch with Cooper catching 6 for 105.
Bottom Line… I have my fingers crossed that Chryst has a better name than Cooks to name as DC.
Too much riding to entrust Pitt’s defensive future to someone who was part of a Notre Dame coaching staff that failed to put their players in a position to compete in the biggest game of their careers.
Get over Foster already. He is one kid out of thousands and we all know PIAL isn’t what it use to be.
No use whining over SP, not something in our control unless someone wants to take up a campaign to get him fired. Like a web site.
firestevie.com
I understand we all want to cheer for a national championship football team, but let’s not get ridiculous.
If it is Kerry Cooks, let’s realize that ND’s defense was above avergae all year. And let’s face the facts. We are not, nor will we be anytime soon, anywhere CLOSE to ALABAMA’s level.
A good QB vs. non-existent pass-rush, with 5* receivers all over the field BETTER be able to humiliate a defense. A lot more goes into this than just what Kerry Cooks did with his defensive secondary. As a group, they had an excellent season, and while they were dismantled in 1 game, they also had some other big games where they performed quite well (see Oklahoma).
I don’t know that this is who we are going to hire, nor do I know much about him. But I cant believe, we as Pitt fans, have the audacity to suggest he isn’t good enough for us. Especially after the product we’ve put on the field the last 30 years.
If it is Kerry Cooks, maybe Chryst knows a little more about him than we do. Not every coach succeeds in the very first big opportunity they have. Bill Belichek coached the Cleveland Browns for chryst sake (sorry I had to)… Though that didn’t work out, I think New England is glad they made that hire…
All I’m trying to get across is my point that we need to keep our expectations in check…
Saban has been proven to be awesome when you give him a month to prep. Look at last year, LSU wins at Alabama and then when it comes to a neutral site game after a month off Alabama blows them out. That’s scheming and coaching.
Pittofdreams, I don’t think you can just throw out the entire regular season when you talk about Cooks. Even though I hate ND, I have to admit their D was really good this year. But go onto rivals and look up Cooks and see who he has recruited in the past. That will get you plenty worried.
Saban is
What?
….and a cornerbacks coach does not call the defensive plays for God’s sake.
Pittofdreams… Pitt is not a ‘market maker’… unfortunately we are a low-level consumer these days…
hopefully that changes, but those are the facts right now. We dont have guys beating out door down, waiting for the opportunity to be Pitt’s DC…
Last time I checked… that mean you are a part of the gameplanning.
there is a site i go to it will tell you what
coach is talking to who abought what job and
how many he has talked to etc.
i called this site becuse for 2 weeks it has
had nothing abought the pitt DC coach search
and this site will even list a div 3 hire
they dont miss any thing.
i was told in that if pitt chryst had talked
to any one abought the DC job they would have listed it.
so does that mean he is not looking for one yet
is he going to wait till next xmas
i know the man moves slow but really.
About the Pitt opening at defensive coordinator, I imagine it someone who is either in a state of flus over coaching changes or someone who’s team was still in a bowl or playoffs. Not that it should matter, as long as he coach and recruit.
Wanny and his staff, and Walt before him did a pretty acceptable job of pulling in talent at skill positions, but neither excelled at recruiting offensive linemen (Wanny did do well with d-line). If Chryst knows anything, he should know how to build and offensive line. Talk all you want about Boyd and Foster, Johnson was the most important get thus far in the 2013 class. We need about 4 more of him. Our O line play was absolutely brutal the last 2 years, and the Ole Miss game was a good summary of that. We get better linemen, we’ll win more games.
It can’t be assumed Chryst knows how to build an offensive line. Bob Bostad knows how to build an offensive line and he’s not here, he’s in the NFL.
Offensively.. we will finally be without Tino, but who will be the next QB behind swiss cheese offensive line. Granted hopefully this new QB doesn’t overthrow wide open receivers.
Adam B and Dorian J.. are big helps on that line.. but can we have a few more studs ? (TJ clemmings?)
Also we get Ejuan Price back at LB, along with Todd Thomas, and Dan Mason. So that should help a lot.
Pitt currently has more skill players on NFL rosters (8) than Alabama (7). Nice to have RBs and WRs but not the key to success in college.
http://panthersprey.blogspot.com/2013/01/why-pitt-football-is-better-off-now.html
As for DC I will be fired up about whoever Chryst hires.. .why?
Because Chryst picked him and hired who he wanted!
Amazing how some people are just all over him and everything he is doing, or supposedly not doing.
I have confidence in him so I have confidence in what he chooses to do, and not to do, right now.
And let’s see how the next season goes!
Let’s Go Pitt!!
Hopefully, we are now moving past those things. I’m not completely sold on PC yet, but given the mess he inherited, there’s no way to judge him or his motivational skills based on this year. I think it’s going to take a couple of more seasons to know for sure. It will be interesting to see what happens next year, when the culture and leadership of the team should change drastically.
What gives me hope is that he did great things at Wisconsin, and he’s already put together a more balanced recruiting class than we’ve had here in a long time. The thing I think is most important is not the number of 4-star guys, but the fact that he’s gotten good players to fill the needs we have. We had problems at QB, and we’ve got 3 good ones on the roster next year, not to mention all the O-lineman coming in to build depth there. Wanny could never do that – he just kind of got the players he got and never seemed to effectively fill the teams needs or fix a lack of depth anywhere. It all starts with getting the right players and having depth everywhere on the field – we haven’t had that for a very long time, and PC seems to be capable of achieving it with the next few classes.
And by the way, Sunseri stunk up the joint.
How about bringing some facts to the table when you assail somebody else’s point… or take the time to really read what they post first.
Am I telling you that exceution and schemes work a hell of a lot better when you have more speed and better athletes.
And if you think all we need is a better QB for us to play with the SEC, then you need to be assailed.
Is is possible Alabama had a slight edge in talent? Asolutely. But it looked like Alabama was playing Youngstown State and the edge in talent simply does not explain that.
The bigest difference in the game was coaching and planning. Last night, Alabama clearly trumped Notre Dame in the coaching department. One area that stood out was the playcalling by Bama’s OC which kept ND totally off balance.
Here’s an idea. Rather than hire Kerry Cooks or the other Co-Defensive Coordinator from Notre Dame, how about Chryst consider talking to one of the defensive contributors from Bama.
And it does not have to be Bama. Any team where it’s evident that good coaching and not just talent was the difference maker throughout the season.
It’s the Jimmy’s and the Joe’s … not the Xs and the Os
And what about Tino’s chances of making an NFL roster?
If I remember correctly, you have a pretty high opinion of Tino as a QB.
# 23
6 more to go to reach 29
thought they were only aloud 15 a year
state
well brothers only 6 more to give to get to 29
terris webb should committ soon only 6 more to give if you want to come to pitt come on down .
But, it does appear that this class is shaping up nicely and the WPIAL is loaded in future years so only place to go is up.
BUT we need D LINE men so this is very good day.
(1) I have said time and again that Pitt has more problems than Tino, which seems to the ony focus of quite a few on this site. The Oline is not very good much of the time, and was even worse last year, yet everyone thinks all the issues will be resolved with another QB.
(2) The other point I tried to make is to blame the other QBs and/or the coaches than blaming everything on Tino. All he has done was prepare for every game, and take a beating the last 2 years like I’ve never seen a QB take in my 40 years of watching FB.
(3) If he is not good enough, then replace him … yet 3 coaches did not except for the utah game last year when Anderson went 5 for 19 with 2 interceptions.
Moody nice get. Someone mentioned earlier I like the breadth of this class, little something for everyone, not ten 5’9″ 175lb. Receiver/athletes with speed speed speed.
and it will last till the 2018 season
there will be a only 15 per year but my take is
they dont have to be to that till 2014
but what is clear is that in 2014 they must be at 65 every one else has 85
if you sign with them now will you have a place
on the team when they must go down to 65.
I was ambushed by a couple blue and gold colored only glass wearers that told me that Pitt had just fought tough against a top 10 powerhouse.
Your info, I must object too.
I’d like to see a DC come in with some experience as a DC. I don’t want some SEC position coach who has top flight talent year in and year out. Give me someone who can coach up talent and work with schemes to get this team going.
I know ND is used to having top recruiting classes, but I think it’s clear that Bama is heads and shoulders above almost every team as far as talent, size, and speed are concerned.
Given the high rating of USC recruits, how long do you see Kiffin keeping that job?
Ask me, he is a younger, creepier version of Paul Hackett.
Haden will not sacrifice his job for Kiffin.
Point being you can can coach talent up AND down.
Plus, I think Kiffin looks like a golf caddie wearing those silly hats.
In addition I understand a top rated recruit is also coming on board, so I guess it was important to save the eligibility of Anderson and Chad as they must be good note takers and having them for an extra year is important.