This Dixon extension became all consuming last week. I’m now very backed up with posts on football. I probably have posts that I can churn out for a couple days to clear the backlog.

Pitt has seen the back-up QB transfer each of the past two years. Luke Getsy is now thriving in Akron.

Then there’s Joe Flacco, who is now playing for the leader of the Fulmer Cup, Delaware. Pitt is still making him pay his own way, despite now playing at the Div. 1-AA level.

Blue Hen coach K.C. Keeler said this week that, despite several written requests, Pitt refuses to release Flacco from his scholarship.

While the situation won’t effect the two seasons of eligibility that Flacco has remaining, it does mean that his family will have to continue paying his tuition for the rest of the school year.

“It’s punitive now – in my mind it’s punitive,” said Keeler. “Why would you do this to a student-athlete? It would have been different if they had recruited him.

Well, the message is to more than Flacco that you don’t just transfer out and expect things to be that easy.

If I had a hunch, Pitt’s policy is the kid has to pay his own way for one semester before he is released. That’s how Pitt handled Luke Getsy. He transferred to Akron, right away and for that first semester he paid, then come winter semester he was released and Akron could put him on scholarship.

Flacco didn’t immediately transfer anywhere. He only showed up at Delaware this past semester. I wouldn’t be surprised/hope that he’ll be released by Pitt after the end of the semester. It really serves no purpose for Pitt to punish beyond one semester.