Tomorrow is Junior Day at Pitt for the football program. As part of it, the high schoolers in attendance will get to see Pitt take on Providence.

This is the rough list of expected participants with a little more detail on some of the kids.

It should be interesting for the kids as Pitt will be in retro unis and honoring the basketball greats during the game.

Game notes for Providence and Pitt (PDF).

I’m not sure if Pitt has any more openings for the class of 2006, but there is one kid who is still hoping for an offer. Tyrone Lewis who plays football and basketball out in the Philly suburbs. He prefers basketball, but…

While his first love is basketball, the willowy Lewis is garnering attention from several major-college football programs.

The main suitors currently are Pittsburgh, West Virginia and Minnesota.

Lewis made a dearth of breathtaking plays as a cornerback and wide receiver. A few weeks ago, Lewis talked to Truman football coach Van Smith, who had recently been in contact with an independent college scout.

After watching film, the scout called Lewis “the best-kept secret.”

Lewis prefers basketball But if BCS schools are waving a scholarship in his face, he would jump at the opportunity. His dream is to play in either a BCS bowl or the NCAA tournament.

“In my four years here, I’ve never focused on just one sport,” Lewis said. “If a school like Pitt offered me a football scholarship, I wouldn’t play basketball, and I wouldn’t regret it.”

[Brief editing critique: “Lewis made a dearth of breathtaking plays…”??? Huh? In the immortal words of Inigo Montoya, “You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”]

In basketball, the 5′ 11″ Lewis has offers from Drexel, Duquesne, Central Conn. St., Rider and Niagara. The article does claim that there is some mild interest from Ohio St. and Texas Tech.

Neither recruiting site has any football info on Lewis. There isn’t much regarding basketball either. I’m not sure how real Pitt’s interest in him is. Strange.