I’m not sure why the papers are only now going with the verbal from RB Greg Williams out of Florida. That was noted a few days ago.

Interesting, though, that he hasn’t qualified academically at this point. May be heading to prep school?

So, it’s obvious that Coach Dixon has some personnel juggling to do.

The power forward position is becoming a big issue (to many it is already there). Kendall’s game is suffering right now. Whether it’s purely mental or something else, he is lost out there. Biggs is still a major work in progress. As the competition has dramatically increased, his results have plummeted. The foul issues and struggles in the OSU game, forced Dixon to put Young back at power forward and he responded with his best game. He may be undersized at the spot, but he played bigger than Kendall and Biggs — but even he still made the dumb fouls. It’s going to create a minutes crunch at the PF, but unless Kendall turns it around soon there seems to be little choice.

The problem is that means no back-up for Mike Cook at small forward. I think Dixon is going to have little choice but give up the redshirt on Gilbert Brown to give Cook some breathing room if he doesn’t go with Benjamin more — something that would really mean giving away size for the unit.

Consider what would be seen with Young 6′ 6″ at PF, Benjamin 6’2″ G/SF, Gray 7′ and then 2 of the 3 guards Graves 6′ 3″, Ramon 6′ 1″ and Fields 5′ 10″. Could Pitt, really go that small?

Now here’s the thing about these moves. None of them do anything to really help the defense. Brown is a freshman, he’s not going to provide greater defense than Cook, who is acceptable but much more a scorer. Young is aggressive at power forward, but always wants to do more on the offensive end. That just puts more on Gray to do inside.