Quiet day in the media. Puff pieces and non-news. This forces me to remind readers of Pitt Sports Blather not to go here. As I said last night this is just wrong and inappropriate. Again, do not go to this site.

Defensive Tackle Dan Stephens gets the puff piece for his academic achievement — nothing to sneeze at by the way — and dealing with Type I diabetes. Expand it further and you will have 3 “CoSida Academic All-Americans” on the field at one time. Dan Stephens and Vince Crochunis of Pitt and Center Ray Filch of Rutgers.

Freshman corners Darrelle Revis and Mike Phillips get a nice piece, that seems oddly timed as a notebook hit mentions that Josh Lay could end up starting over Phillips this week.

Finally, now it looks like Fullback Tim Murphy may not be playing again this week. He has missed 4 games.

Just as quiet in New Jersey. Their notebook leads with the observation that the back-up QB has never taken a snap in his 2-year career at Rutgers. Coach Schiano might want to give Coach Harris a call about how well not letting the back-up get any snaps works out. The story also noted that a Rutgers win would give them their first 2-1 start in Big East play ever. Their previous best start had been 1-2 in ’94. Until this year they had been 0-3 to start the following 9 times. As always, the key was to have Temple on the schedule early.