Pitt Dave Wannstedt has the official press release of the 2007 Recruiting Class.
Wannstedt officially welcomed Pitt’s 2007 class today by receiving National Letters of Intent from 25 players. The Panthers are enjoying their strongest back-to-back recruiting years since the late 1980s. Last year’s class ranked among the country’s top 15 and the 2007 edition figures to gain similar recognition.
“Today was a very satisfying conclusion to our recruiting efforts of the past 12 months,” Wannstedt said. “Our staff worked very diligently during the past year to sign a class that not only met our needs as a team, but also met our high standards as a program and university. We believe we have signed an exceptional group of young men who will help this program be successful both on and off the field.”
There are brief bios on the 25 listed players. I don’t see Brytus, the punter who transferred from Purdue listed. Justin Hargrove did make the list and is the only one already enrolled at Pitt.
This is one kid that’s kind of flying under the radar – he was an excellent punter at Purdue – deep punts and very accurate getting the ball out of bounds inside the 20 yard line. I think he might have been a national Top Ten punter in his last season there. With the added speed of our last two recruiting classes – some of which will end up on special teams, we could see a marked improvement in that aspect of the game. This is something that our shaky defense really needs to do – give the opponents at least an eighty yard field to drive for a TD. Of course, that could also mean we’ll see more 80 yard breakaway runs, but I hope not.
We also need to have a big leg for kickoffs, but I don’t know if Brytus does double duty with that as some punters do – I thought our kicker was leaving them pretty short last season.
