The football team has workouts at 5:30 am. In a nice publicity move, the media was invited to attend today’s workout.
Oh, no. I wasn’t invited. I’m up at that hour, but I wasn’t invited to attend. No, it doesn’t bother me at all, why do you ask?
I wonder about these extremely early workouts. I get the team building. And making sure they get those workouts in early before a full day. Seems the best reason for it is to cut down on the risk of bad things happening with the kids. Especially on a Thursday night.
Sure, they are college kids, young and strong, who can occasionally pull the full partying and show up for a solid workout without flinching. But even the kids can’t keep that up for long. Instead, in the back of their minds they know about that coming workout. Having to be ready to go. An easy way to minimize the chances they put themselves in bad situations.
Offensive Line Coach John Peterson posted this photo yesterday.
Good Morning. #H2P pic.twitter.com/jZxPmLrYOV
— john peterson (@coachjpete) February 26, 2015
Please let this happen.
Possible transfer of note. Dewayne Hendrix, a 2014 4-star DE who played at Tennessee last year is transferring.
After starring at O’Fallon High School, Hendrix signed with Tennessee last February, picking the Vols over Missouri and scholarship offers from Florida, Michigan State, Ole Miss, Ohio State, Penn State and Southern California, among others.
Hendrix told the Belleville News Democrat his options for potential transfer destinations are wide open.
Note the Michigan State offer. He’s visiting Pitt this weekend, per PantherLair. He would have to sit a year, but that would be a huge pick-up.
I’m sure you heard about ESPN.com ranking all 65 Power 5 football jobs. In ranking them, Pitt was down at #43 (insider subs).
Paul Chryst, who has since left for Wisconsin, talked last summer about how well it worked to share the Heinz Field facility and stadium with the NFL’s Steelers. “They treat us just like we’re part of the same company, the same team,” he said. “They’ve really been great.” It didn’t come across as spin when Chryst said it. An off-campus share is less-than-ideal, in a sense, but putting college players in proximity to a successful NFL franchise isn’t the worst thing. The recent churn of head coaches at Pitt — seven since 2010, including interims — is due in part to woeful administrative support, some coaches say. But the school’s decision in December to fire AD Steve Pederson, coinciding with the most recent coaching search, indicates things are changing. The subsequent hire of Pat Narduzzi, long overdue to be a head coach, was particularly inspired. With Narduzzi and the recent move to stay in an AQ league, it wouldn’t be at all surprising if this program trends up the next few years.
Look, the potential of Pitt’s football job is higher. Even the second half of the blurb admits as much. It is also true that Pitt has been mired in mediocrity for a while to drag it down. I suppose you could argue that it should be higher right now than some of the other programs, but it is a very mushy middle. I can’t take too much offense when you look at Pitt’s on-the-field results for the past five years.
And why are they 1 point favorites?
Like to know how many sets are turned off like mine when Dicky V is announcing?
Good question. Wake is 10-7 at home
Pitt is 2-7 on Road
Wake beat teams in Pitt’s caliber at home, NC State & Miami. So that might be it.
Our offense didn’t peter out in the second half. We were predictable for the entire game, but lost leads because it was run, run, run, punt. We couldn’t get first downs in crunch time, not because we were tired, but rather because everyone knew what we were going to do…and we did it. We didn’t achieve balance and the threat of trickeration.
How many 4th and ones and two’s did we have in crunch time? Too many!
I think fl gulf coast was majorly upset today which is a shame. They were hovering at 102 RPI and with a win or two, would have helped our top 100 record! Drats! We better not come out flat tomorrow!
Paulie was not the trickster at all.
3 yards and a cloud of…cheese.
….and sometimes the cheese was Limburger!
Do you think Devin might be a good fit with the team we currently have at Pitt? Does anyone know if Jamie was recruiting Devin?
We must stay hot and win if we even have a shot at the big dance.
HTP!
They don’t need to know what the outside world thinks of them – bubble team or not. Losing is NOT an option.
If you look at who the 3 though 7 seeds are projected to be – Pitt can beat them all. We just need to get to the dance – no flat tires, please…
They biggest difference between now and last year for them isn’t any player it’s the coach in Danny Manning and for us it is the players no Zanna or Patterson.
We don’t miss Patterson as much as Zanna … because we had people like Artis and to a lesser extent Jeter and Jones step up but have been extremely undersized. And even Zanna was overwhelmed in our final game by UF’s frontline.
It’s all about focus and matchups now.
If NCSt can get beat badly by BC, we certainly could lose to Wake.
Hopefully we are better than the team that lost to VATech.
WF on the hand – I believe this should be a statement game. It’s the most winnable game left on the schedule and Pitt needs confidence that they can play well on the road to prep for the FSU game. My gut tells me Pitt blows the roof off the joint and wins by 15-20 going against their MO. I think MY and JA go off.
If Pitt wins out, then splits in ACC Tourney, I think they have a legit shot.
Better yet, even if they lose one of the remaining games, then pull a 2nd round ACC Tourney upset, their chances may be even better as that would be a quality win.
But, all they need to be thinking about right now is winning today in a toss up road game. Regardless of the quality of the opponent, they need another road win right now for the optics. 2 road wins won’t be enough.
I think they come out determined, and win by 7-10.
Did 4* Tennessee DE Dewayne Hendrix visit the Burg this weekend? He would have to sit out for a year, but he is a stud.
In Game 2 in the ACC tourney he got into early foul trouble which helped us get a 14 pt halftime lead.
This year Thomas is avg’g almost a Double/Double
12.5 ppg & 9.3 rpg.
Wake Forest likes an uptempo game. At home they are avg’g 73 ppg.
Prior to their last 3 games, 2 against #2 Virginia and 1 against #9 Notre Dame, they were playing pretty good. Had a little 3 game winning streak at home. Beating:
Miami 72-70
NC St. 88-84
VT 73-70
This is going to be a tough game I believe, as are any on the road for this group.
Playing against our Matador defense might seem like Biscuits & Gravy for the Deacs. (to use a Southern colloquialism in honor of our first trip to Winston-Salem)
No where in my post did I mention Pitt switching to a spread.
Do you have a reading comprehension problem ?