Kevin Gorman at the Trib reports that Terrelle Pryor will not be staying very close to home and has decided to eliminate Pitt from his list of potential colleges.
Jeannette two-sport star Terrelle Pryor, considered the nation’s top football prospect by one recruiting service, has narrowed his college choices to 11 schools and eliminated Pitt in the process.
After conferring with Jeannette coach Ray Reitz, Pryor trimmed his list of 70-plus scholarship offers to the following schools, listed alphabetically: Alabama, Florida, Georgia Tech, Michigan, Michigan State, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Penn State, Tennessee, Texas and West Virginia.
The current state of the football team could have factored into his decision as well as the the types of coaches he’s be working with here. He was asked why he decided to not pick Pitt but basically said a bunch of nothing.
“They’re just not in it,” Pryor said. “That’s my picks.”
We have other priorities though, and now can concentrate on them.
Stanton is in the NFL now so maybe that is enticing Pryor.
Granted, MSU has a new coach now with John L. Smith gone, so I don’t know what their offense is going to look like.
The kid is an IDEAL option QB, for the spread offense. Big, fast, hard to tackle. He has Vince Young written all over him.
He simply wouldn’t fit in the Wanny “run first” offense. In fact he would be horribly under-used.
Just look at the last fast, athletic QB to come out of Pittsburgh (Woodland Hill’s Steve Breaston). Breaston ended up going to Michigan, converted to WR and return specialist, and never ever capitalized on his potential if you ask me.
I wish him well even if he in fact does not end up at Pitt.
As for Pryor, he is just the next of the long line of elite national-level recruits from the WPIAL that will not be coming to Pitt. No national TV, no bowl game and a losing record means that all the real talent goes elsewhere. Pitt gets the guys that Ohio State, Michigan and Notre Dame pass on. Until we somehow get some of those blue chippers, we will NEVER be much better than we are. They are Must-Get guys. Why you ask? Because we cannot go anywhere else and sign the elite. The thought that we could go to the state of Michigan and even be considered by a top kid from there is laughable. ( FYI – Larry Fitzgerald was a fluke who came only because of Walt Harris’s committment to passing.) Here is the sad fact of life. We have no geographic base anymore. And you can only do so much with the rejects we get. Looking at last years miserable team proves my point. On defense , we had 3 NFL draftees , but we were so bad that a few decent players could not enough to make up for the rest. Unless we somehow re-establish the base, Pitt will be a permanent bottom tier Big East program
Colleges
Penn State 14
Pittsburgh 10
Undecided 7
Ohio State 4
Michigan 3
Miami 2
Notre Dame 2
N.C. State 1
Georgia Tech 1
Arizona 1
Virginia 1
Tennessee 1
Iowa 1
Florida State 1
None 1
– Factor in losing Morelli, Bryant, and Johnson when the BE imploded, and we are right there with PSU in chasing the states top talent. There is also a nice synopsis of each player,s career.
All of this and more can be found on the PSR link on the sidebar of this webpage. There is also a Top 50 for this years seniors only. Of course, we have scholorship offers to many of them.
Have you bothered to look at the recruiting rankings these last two years? Man I thought I was negative. If losing two recruits this year bothers you that much…..see previous statement from Bill
Dorin Dickerson had offers from all of the schools you mention. Many of the top football schools were heavily recruiting Lesean McCoy and Pat Bostick. TJ Porter had several high profile offers, as did Elijah Fields. You argument is baseless and is not supported by the facts.
How about Rod Rutherford, for starters? Rutherford was one of Street & Smith’s Top 50 seniors and one of the top five QBs in the country. He had offers from all over the place.
Tyler Palko? Had Virginia, Penn State and Michigan in his final four along with Pitt, according to Rivals.com.
Dustin Picciotti came from the east side of the state, but fielded offers from PSU, Miami, Michigan.
Nate Byham, considered to be the top pass-catching TE of his class, came to Pitt despite having USC, Iowa, Miami and Michigan in his final six, according to Rivals.com.
Dickerson chose Pitt over Tennessee, Iowa, Michigan and Penn State.
McCoy reneged on Miami and took Pitt over Penn State.
You wanted one name. There are six.
There’s still a good chance that they’re going to get Nix and Baldwin. They lost Sweat to Ohio State, but did you realize they were in there fighting Florida, Michigan, Penn State, LSU, and Notre Dame for him as well, and it went down to the wire? I don’t see any real shame in losing a kid when you’re in among that crowd. Are you going to try to tell me that tOSU only got him because Florida, Michigan, and LSU passed on him first? I highly doubt that’s the case. He passed on a ton of good schools to go to tOSU; that’s usually the way it works. Same thing with Alexander…Pitt made Alexander’s final cut before he settled on FSU. But they were right there along with Georgia, ND, PSU, Tennessee, VT, WVU and Florida.
Rejected Oregon is too far!
Going to Florida but feels that is too far too.
WVU was crossed off earlier but came back in after New Coach!
It comes down to WVU, Ohio State, and Michigan!
I think he is going to Michigan!