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February 5, 2007

We are less than 48 hours from Wednesday, National Letter of Intent Day. Chas averaged the class rankings from Scout.com, Rivals.com, and Scouts, Inc./ESPN.com and came up with this ranking of the Big East teams:

  1. Pitt
  2. West Virginia
  3. Rutgers
  4. Louisville
  5. Syracuse
  6. South Florida
  7. UConn
  8. Cinci

Along with that was this small breakdown of Pitt’s ranking.

Pitt: Ranked #10 by Scout.com, #23 by Rivals.com and #28 by ESPN.com/Scouts, Inc. They’ve had the best recruiting class in the conference last year as well. They’ve yet to do anything with it.

As we knew coming in and have seen from the verbal commitments over the past few months, Dave Wannstedt knows what he’s doing when he goes into the homes and school of these player’s. We can only hope he starts finding out the right way to make the players work on the field as well.

Maybe sometime soon we’ll be ahead of Georgia Tech, WVU, and Nebraska on the field instead of just in recruiting polls.





yeah, but what are the avergae scores for these rankings? in other words, is Pitt’s averaga #11 nationally and WVU’s is #12 or #23 etc..

Your ranking don’t indicate differential between schools.

Comment by scoocher 02.05.07 @ 4:14 pm

Here the average average of national rankings (in parentheses) after the schools name. Whats weird is that there is no apparent reason the ESPN ranking is the lowest for most of the schools, but not all.

Pitt: (20) Ranked #10 by Scout.com, #23 by Rivals.com and #28 by ESPN.com/Scouts, Inc. They’ve had the best recruiting class in the conference last year as well. They’ve yet to do anything with it.

WVU: (30) Ranked #22 by Scout.com, #38 by Rivals.com and #30 by ESPN.com/Scouts, Inc. Still waiting on a couple other kids to decide, could push them higher come Wednesday.

Rutgers: (39) Ranked #25 by Scout.com, #32 by Rivals.com and #62 by ESPN.com/Scouts, Inc. Keeps improving in the kids who come aboard every year.

Louisville: (41) Ranked #44 by Scout.com, #41 by Rivals.com and #39 by ESPN.com/Scouts, Inc. Hurt by Coach Petrino leaving, as they were working on some bigger names that were waiting to decide. Quality, but not quantity.

Syracuse: (51) Ranked #42 by Scout.com, #46 by Rivals.com and #65 by ESPN.com/Scouts, Inc. Pretty good considering how bad they have been.

USF: (52) Ranked #54 by Scout.com, #60 by Rivals.com and #43 by ESPN.com/Scouts, Inc. It’s not a question about some of the talent, but an issue of qualifying academically.

UConn: (65) Ranked #55 by Scout.com, #63 by Rivals.com and #77 by ESPN.com/Scouts, Inc. Actually doing pretty well this year.

Cinci: (81) Ranked #74 by Scout.com, #82 by Rivals.com and #87 by ESPN.com/Scouts, Inc. It’s tough enough to recruit against Ohio State and other Big 10 schools, but the coaching change didn’t help for this year.

Comment by Reed 02.05.07 @ 4:51 pm

I don’t know if anyone else has seen this or cared since LeSean McCoy committed, but we lost RB recruit Xavier Stinson to FAU. I don’t know what to make of this, but my guess is the FAU coaches pounced when they saw Shady commit to Pitt. I really hope we don’t have to compete with these Sun Belt schools for talent…

Comment by mjb 02.05.07 @ 4:52 pm

He didn’t qualify academically according to Chris Dokish at pantherrants.

Comment by Omar 02.05.07 @ 5:13 pm

Yeah, I wouldn’t say he was “lost” to FAU. Plus, if we are going to lose a player, its good it was a RB since that is the one position we are all of a sudden stacked at.

Comment by Jon C 02.05.07 @ 5:33 pm

So, am I right about what I said a few months back?

That is, in order for USF to compete in the crowded FL recruiting market do they have to run a “thug program” of guys other schools won’t take due to off the field issues? (see the blurb about them in the thing Reed posted)

Will the Bulls take the ‘canes place in the Big East, not only by being from Florida, but by being the BE’s resident “thug” program?

Comment by Jimbo Covert's my dad 02.05.07 @ 7:34 pm

FAU (where Stinson verballed) and USF are different schools. FAU was the one that got into the well publicized brawl with Miami this last season – so maybe they are getting a reputation. But, I haven’t seen anything that would indicate USF is not a good clean program – quite the opposite with a lot of articles praising their Head Coach. The way I read that blurb is that some recruits might not qualify, not that USF would take them anyway.

Comment by Reed 02.05.07 @ 8:23 pm

Keep in mind that the entire Big East passed rules about not playing ‘partial qualifiers’.
I’m pretty sure SAT and GPA have to be satisfactory in order to play.

Comment by Chris 02.05.07 @ 8:34 pm

thanks reed..great post..obvisouly we are higher than wvu by a healthy margin and rutgers by even more..that is the essence of my point.

Comment by scoocher 02.05.07 @ 10:40 pm

Schoocher – can’t take credit for the post, I just did the (averages) – the rest was Chas’ work on his AOL Sports Blog. It’s a great site to read more in-depth Chas work about BE BB and FB, and he includes a lot of honey shots of cheerleaders. If you haven’t seen it yet here is the link…

link to aolsportsblog.com

Comment by Reed 02.06.07 @ 5:54 am

Dennis, I assume you are the one previously doing “Pitt Hoops” blog.
I really like the photos, writing style etc that you did over there. Why not carry it over here?

Comment by PantherHaven 02.06.07 @ 9:40 am

There are possible copyright issues with using some photos (especially ones from sporting events) so I’ve moved away from doing that.

Comment by Dennis 02.06.07 @ 10:02 am

Scoocher:

All of the additional info you needed was found in the link in the original post.

Comment by Dennis 02.06.07 @ 10:05 am

good stuff..sometimes I see cheerleaders like that gator girl (or obvisouly the usc girls) and question why I went ot pitt.

Comment by scoocher 02.06.07 @ 10:07 am

PantherHaven,

The decision on photos with Dennis was at my request. I realize it is very widespread on blogs to use photos, but it is risky to do so on your own site (as opposed to a wordpress or blogspot blog) because a particularly aggressive copyright holder can shut down your blog and go after you for damages.

Never say, never, but the usage is trying to be limiteded so there is no way that there can be claims of widespread, consistent or ongoing misappropriation.

Comment by Chas 02.06.07 @ 11:34 am

“We can only hope [Wannstedt] starts finding out the right way to make the players work on the field as well.

Maybe sometime soon we’ll be ahead of Georgia Tech, WVU, and Nebraska on the field instead of just in recruiting polls. ”

The way to achieve both of these, is to fire Paul Rhoa_s, but until next season, that ship has sailed.

Comment by Chris 02.06.07 @ 6:20 pm

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