I’m getting to this so late in the day, that I’ll start with the item that you might not have noticed in the papers. Pitt added another coach to its staff. David Walker has been named the running backs coach. Walker comes to Pitt from Syracuse where he has been developing top RBs since 1995. This was a great hire to me. The one thing Syracuse has had in the last decade has been stellar RBs. Walker has been the guy in charge.

You have to imagine the Walker hiring had to have helped Pitt land WPIAL running back (no, not Eugene Jarvis) Shane Brooks. According to the recruiting sites, Brooks is around the 30th best RB in the country, and a top-10 player in Pennsylvania. He still has to qualify academically, though.

It would also appear that Shane Murray, the QB at Central Catholic will commit to Pitt. It’s unclear whether he will remain at QB in college. It does appear that this is Pitt’s first recruiting class in its history with 2 “Shane”s. Our research staff is on that.

Pitt also got an outside linebacker from Syracuse. Doug Fulmer, who appears to be something of an athlete/diamond-in-the-rough type recruit was getting some interest from Iowa.

It will likely be in the papers tomorrow, but Bryan Williams out of Akron, Ohio appears to have re-committed to Pitt after saying he had changed his mind and was going to Minnesota. So far, it would appear Wannstedt is as enthusiastic as he said. Yay.