FIRST OFF – HAPPY NEW YEAR!!
As most teams do every year now is the time to sit down with some of the roster players and discuss their and the staff’s plans for the team and the program. This season’s NCAA’s Letter of Intent (LOI) Day calendar is as follows:
Football (Midyear JC Transfer)
December 16, 2015 – January 15, 2016
Football (Regular Period)
February 3, 2016 – April 1, 2016
What that actually means to Pitt is that there are a pile of pinks slips on one side of Pat Narduzzi’s desk and a few thank you notes on the other. Because this is Narduzzi’s first recruiting class and now that he’s had a full season of play under his belt he and his staff most probably have a firm idea of who they want to make sure stays on the roster and who is expendable.
All this has to happen, for the most part, before LOI Day so that Pitt can get the maximum number of recruits. In a normal year, that is when there hasn’t been a coaching change, we don’t usually see a bunch of players being asked to “move on with there life’s work” but who really knows what this staff sees happening before the start of Spring Drills first and then before the start of Fall Camp second.
