Wide Receiver Aundre Wright formerly from Perry Academy of the Pittsburgh City League, and this year at Milford Academy re-commits to Pitt.
Wright, 5’10” 183 pounds, played his high school ball at Perry Academy in the Pittsburgh City League and was offered a scholarship last year, but he was not qualified academically and is spending this season at Milford in New Berlin, NY.
Wright possesses blazing speed, running a sub 4.4 forty-yard dash, and should compete for playing time immediately at Pitt. He is Milford’s leading receiver this year and is coming off a big performance in the Falcons 28-14 win over the Dartmouth JV team last week. Wright caught four passes—two for touchdowns—and totaled 106 yards receiving.
Both Scout.com and Rivals.com have him as a 3-star recruit. Rivals.com lists him as #36 on their list of top prep school players.
Wright, very much wanted to play for Pitt, even last year but his grades were too low. He also had interest from WVU and Syracuse.
Don’t worry, you will get all the excitement you want for the rest of the season. With the exception of UCONN, there are no more sure games on the schedule. The Big East will be much more competitive next year with Cuse on the mend.
As Pitt gets bettter, it has to upgrade its schedule. We need to begin by replacing the 1-AA games, such as the Citadel, with a long term deal with Army and Navy. Upgrade Toledo with Maryland, as WVU has done. Put teams on the schedule to get the fans into the seats with multiple year contracts (ND long term contract is an excellent start). The size of the Big East can be a real marketing asset. With five open games you can really bring in some interesting teams that fans would want to see year after year that will develop into interconference rivalries such as ND and (after joe pa goes), PSU. Ask the fans of the 12 team conferences such as the SEC how they like the conference meat grinder that ensures everyone loses one or two games in conference. With ND and PSU on the schedule Pitt would have at least 4 or 5 sell outs a year. With the kind of talent Wanny is getting this would be the fix that is needed for a perennial power house. In a perfect world ND, PSU, NAVY (DC Recruiting) should be on the schedule every year with Maryland and Virginia Tech making frequent appearances.
Speaking of DW’s recruiting, I was wondering last night if the edge DW seems to have down south – based on his coaching the Dolphins – will wear off as the years go on and his time there becomes a distant memory. My thoughts are that once we start pumping PITT players into the NFL draft, and that could pick up based on DW’s NFL experience and his recommendations to scouts, then that will become a recruiting draw also.
I’ll take the blow out wins, although I have to disagree that the games are not exciting. Maybe because I’m still gun shy about PITT being able to sustain a lead and win going away. In each of the games (save the Citadel) I have been wary that somehow the momentum would shift and PITT could lose. We’ll see some close games in the second half of the season I bet (hope) and if we lose to WVU and/or Louisville in close matches I’ll at least feel that we have met the competitive level we are trying to get to.
As for coaching, I’m impressed across the board that PITT’s staff has done so well with the personnel & injury situations – all the kids seem ready to suit up and play when called on.
bottom line, the beast needs to add at least 1 more team and navy would be solid. that would leave 4 OOC games, 3 good ones (sec, acc, b10) and 1 patsy (citadel, furman, delaware)
With McGee and Turner emerging (credit solid play by Pestano, too), it would seem — as it is has been reported in print; PG — that we’ve adequate depth at WR. IMO we’re not near deep enough. (For all the Lowell Robinsons’ and Dorin Dickerson’s out there, history is the guarantor that not every player will reach their designated *star rating potential or remain healthy.)
I don’t think we’re quite as talented as we need to be, either. Even if exception is made for Kinder in all this, and no. 2 and 3 on the chart cont. to step-up their level of play, there is nevertheless a significant deficiency in speed at wide-out. So if this kid runs the 40 in sub 4.4 territory, I think Wright’s verbal is more exciting than it presents at face value — it is to me, at least.
Additional bonus that …At the tune of $18k… Milford Prep will deliver the goods at the top of the new-year … Just in time to enroll and join Bostic for spring training and drill.
As a practical matter, the only non-con games that will put extra people in seats consistently are PSU, ND, maybe Ohio State, and mostly due to away fans of those teams. A school like Miami might bring out more Pitt fans as long as they stay good and obnoxious.
But look at how many empty seats there were against Michigan State, Texas A&M and even Nebraska!
“One guy who seems to be wearing out his 15 minutes of fame is Toney Clemons. Does the way this guy is handling his recruitment remind anyone else of a certain pink suit-wearing, running back who is now about sixth string at Miami?”
Referring to the defector Andrew Johnson. Still would like us to land Clemons though.