According to sources closer to the program than me, CB Titus Howard has been dismissed from the team.
Apparently he didn’t learn from last year’s full-season suspension. Will add more info as it comes in.
UPDATE: From wbb @ 3:26 below:
“Trey Anderson, Devin Cook, Connor Hayes and Luke Maclean have left the #Pitt football team and Titus Howard has been dismissed.
Moved up to the “next four out” with Lunardi.
I think we win out and get ONE win in the ACC tourney OR go 3-1 and then win 2 in the ACC and we then get to lose the first weekend.
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They play at UNC tomorrow. So hopefully they lose.
Then they finish with BC, Clemson and Syracuse.
Pitt’s gonna need to win out, but at least we’re back in the conversation, because as recently as 10 days ago Pitt wasn’t even on Lunardi’s radar.
I would think Howard will one day look bcak in regret. Here is a kid who was thown into the lineup as afrosh well before he was ready, and showed some promise.
Best of luck to him; he will probably need it.
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Which one is left besides Boyd ?
Don’t believe this one played this past season, so he would have had that going for him next season. That is……not being exposed to OutHouse. Too bad we could have used the depth.
All the best to Howard. Stay in school.
I think they get to four and have their bubble burst on selection Sunday.
Haven’t seen a line yet on the BC game, guessing pitt -10.
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I have been wrong on every single one of my pitt picks. Everyone, literally 0-8.
Now he is at a VP level of a large corp.
There has been 5 Clairton players at Pitt these past few years. One was a WR who is graduating (hopefully) this spring. Trenton Coles left last summer, and now Howard is leaving. Boyd and Webb, who I thought played very well as a soph safety before being injured remain.
The reason I say this is thatthere are tow prety good prospects at Clairton for 2016 (I think). One is RB Lamont Wade and the other is 4-star WR Aaron Mathews who, among others, is being pursued by PSU and OSU.
I would hope that Clairton remains a pipeline school like a few other area schools that seem to turn out good prospects regularly.
Official: Trey Anderson, Devin Cook, Connor Hayes and Luke Maclean have left the #Pitt football team and Titus Howard has been dismissed.
Official: Trey Anderson, Devin Cook, Connor Hayes and Luke Maclean have left the #Pitt football team and Titus Howard has been dismissed.
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Thus, yes .. Maclean has indeed left. We knew about Cook and Anderson, and Hayes was an OL where we are well stocked.
This is the usual attrition that seems to happen annually.
He gets the ‘Scoop’ reward
Hayes is buried on the depth chart, by larger, more talented and athletic linemen… And whenever the new coach is bringing a juco in at your position, the writing is pretty clearly written on the wall.
I renewed my football tickets for next year – took advantage of the new, 5-payment deal. There was no penalty.
But I can’t escape this feeling that I’m Charlie Brown about to kick the ball that Lucy promises she’ll hold, this time, one more time …
So many years – Pitt has found so many ways to disappoint me.
Oh well, Hail to Pitt!
@ 17yearsatpitt – you may have the greatest user name ever. I’m changing mine to ’50shadesofmustardyellow’.
Which also negated him becoming a ‘headcase’.
BigB-Organic chem wasn’t the toughest subject for this pharmacy grad. The mandatory language requirement (which is no more) kicked my ass. I almost failed 1st year French for 2 years. I finally figured out that the requirement was satisfied by registering, not by attending class so I withdrew. I hated French so much, it took me 35 years to visit Paris.
. Conversely, I took french from 4 th grade on hating every second of it, but took it all 4 years at Pitt. Not only did it save my GPA’s ass but it helped get me a terrific job as a liaison between the USA and. Canadian divisions of my printing company. Saw all of Eastern Canada…..coldest I’ve ever been
Plus, the French teachers at Pitt were young, gorgeous and from France or French speKing countries. I was always in the front row in class as most of them wore very short skirts!!
A shame about Howard. Wish him well.
Ga Tech beating LVille by 8. L vile is done after dismissing Chris Jones today.
For me, the Syracuse attempt to be their own judge and jury and determine their fate is far worse a problem. And I’d add that I actually like/liked Boeheim. It does make me appreciate what I read from the story someone linked to recently(a thread or two ago) about a quote from JD during his hiring.
Mistreating his girlfriend ( think Ray Lewis) he had been on very good behavior to get reinstated by Pitino. Then yesterday he evidently just lost his mind with her on Twitter and threatened her. That was it for Pitino….. And Jones
If that’s the surface story .., you can imagine the real story.
The Big 12 is WAY over rated and it will show come tourney time. None of them have beaten anyone of note outside of their conference. Seriously look at their schedules. They score a lot of points so the media loves them.
While I’m ranting this:
“Jay Bilas and other ESPN college basketball analysts want to be able to tell you who should make it. To that end, they asked the ESPN Analytics Department to help them. What we created is this, the College Basketball Power Index, or BPI for short.”
BTW ESPN’s BPI index is dog sh-t. We sit @ 77 and G Tech yes the 12 & 15 G Tech is #69?? Seton Hall who lost 9 of their last 11 games is 62?? Arizona State is # 59 and Minnesota is #50
It’s so complicated that it is flat out wrong and they should be ashamed.
Winning isn’t all that important in the BPI index and that’s the only place it won’t matter.
What player/s was or wasn’t playing when you won/lost?
Scoring Margin, Pace of game, blow out??? How does any of that matter????
Survive & advance is what you hear you need to do to win the tourney. Pace of Game, blow out???
ESPN can blow it out their a–
We are on the bubble because how the team played in the middle of the season.
ESPN pundits talking about how awesome the Big 12 is and that we don’t belong on the bubble because ESPN’s low BPI score isn’t helping any.
K-State was #103 in RPI and they beat Kansas, who was #1 in RPI. So they will move up considerably, which will give Pitt another Top 100 win.
Currently Pitt sits at #36 in RPi.
On the recruiting front, Cheick Diallo has Pitt in his Final 5. Looks like we’re a darkhorse in that according to the experts, but I doubt they would tell us if we were the frontrunner. Just because.
Makes me even more proud of the Zoo.
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Pitino is a whore and a hypocrite. Period.
Plus the Ville hired well known cheat
Petrino. The Ville belongs in the
Big 12.
Reed, I think you and I were the only ones on the site the past 3-4 years who thought Anderson was any good…maybe UPittbaseball too. It seemed his size was held against him but I sure would have liked to see him get 2-3 straight games to prove himself instead of a few snaps every month or so. He looked like a player when healthy and nobody confused Tino, Savage, or Voytik for All-Americans….doubt he would have done worse than 6-6 like the others. Oh well, hope he gets a shot somewhere this season, even if at a D2 school, as he was a good soldier for Pitt.
In retrospect, Joe Flacco would have looked good flinging the pill in the blue & gold, but I always liked Palko and we can’t argue about his production on some fairly limited teams. Anderson should go to an Ivy school for grad work and get a chance to light up their schedule, or maybe a place like Central Michigan or Toledo…on second thought, he’d probably put up Gradkowski numbers vs Pitt, so maybe a place far far away.
