And it already feels dated. Things happening fast.

A couple more commits yesterday and probably one more today.

Seneca Valley quarterback Kevan Smith and offensive lineman Eric Rodemoyer, a Sharon native who attends Kennedy Catholic, made pledges to attend Pitt.
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The decisions by Smith and Rodemoyer raised Pitt’s class of 2006 commitment list to 10, with seven players from WPIAL schools and five prospects deciding since Sunday.

The stranglehold on local prospects is expected to continue today, as Woodland Hills linebacker Greg Webster is believed to have settled on the Panthers and has a news conference scheduled for 9 a.m. at Woodland Hills High School.

Greg Webster is a top-20 player in Pennsylvania. Rivals.com lists him at #18 for the state, and PantherLair puts him at #16.

The recruiting profiles for Kevan Smith are limited because of his injury last year. Still Rivals.com and PantherLair have him in their top-50 for Pennsylvania, at #46 and #45 respectively.

Eric Rodemoyer is having, by today’s recruiting and evaluating standards, a late surge.

The latest commitment is from 6’2″, 305 offensive lineman Eric Rodemoyer from Kennedy Christian High School in Sharon, PA. Rodemoyer, who combines great technique with great feet, is looked at as either an offensive guard or a center. He camped at West Virginia last week, and according to BlueGoldNews.com, Rodemoyer “perhaps had the best camp of all the offensive linemen.”

Basically for both these kids, Pitt was the first BCS school to offer and they decided not to wait as Pitt has now (in all likelihood) hit around the 50%-full level for verbally accepted scholarships. Pressure starts to mount on how long you want to wait for what might be a better one and risk losing the offer on the table. This, of course, does not apply to the blue-chip recruits.

Kevin Gorman makes this sort of point with respect to Kevan Smith

Smith addresses a primary need for the Panthers, who are expected to take two quarterbacks in this class. They also are recruiting Downingtown East’s Pat Devlin, Harrisburg Bishop McDevitt’s Jeremy Ricker and Dexter Davidson of North Broward Prep in Coconut Creek, Fla.

If that’s the case (though I doubt Pitt would pull their offer to Devlin even if Davidson or Ricker accepted tomorrow), then Smith’s acceptance put some more pressure on those guys to not wait as long. More dominoes.

Pitt is now focusing its attention on landing Gateway receiver Aaron Smith and Woodland Hills cornerback Darrin Walls to complete its WPIAL recruiting.

Walls counts Notre Dame, Michigan, Florida, Pitt and Penn State among his top five, but also is receiving strong interest from Oklahoma and Southern Cal. Smith is considering Pitt, Penn State and Maryland.

Aaron Smith is also taking a trip to UVA this week. As for Walls, has it been mentioned in the last 5 minutes that Greg Webster is his teammate?

We can hope.