Well, this is something of a surprise to learn just as it nears the point when he will be passed.
Receiver Harry Douglas can break the Big East career receiving record with 466 more yards this season. Dietrich Jells of Pittsburgh set the mark with 3,003 yards in 1995.
And Douglas even missed a couple games this season with an injury. Of course, Douglas has had Brohm throwing to him. Jells had Alex Van Pelt and John Ryan. I’m just saying.
For all the stuff you want on Louisville, be sure to read the Card Chronicle. Mike R. is a daily read for me, even when Pitt isn’t playing Louisville.
In his Big East Notebook for ESPN.com (Insider subs.) Joe Starkey is a little hesitant to say that Pitt turned a corner with the win last weekend.
Or, it might have been an aberration. We’ll know more based on how the Panthers fare in their visit to Louisville on Saturday.
That is also the theme of this AP article.
Before dealing Cincinnati its second loss in a row, Pitt had been outscored 215-132 in Big East games since beating Syracuse 21-11 on Oct. 7, 2006.
“Coming in here on Sunday nights, before this week, it was tough to watch film and sit through meetings,” center Chris Vangas said. “This week, I think everyone was looking forward to coming in and watching film and getting ready to practice.”
At least the Panthers were until they saw game tape of Louisville (4-4, 1-2), which has outscored them 90-44 during a pair of one-sided games since 2005. Louisville, which plays host to Pitt on Saturday afternoon, won 48-24 last season in Pittsburgh and 42-20 the season before.
I don’t know if Mario Urrutia is playing but Douglas scares me more in their receiving corps. The secondary hasn’t had a major challenge to this point, so this is going to unknown territory. They haven’t looked good in limited spells.
There’s a connection between Colorado Rockies Outfielder Matt Holliday and Dave Wannstedt.
Holliday was a star quarterback at Stillwater (Okla.) High School. How good? His father, Tom Holliday, then the head baseball coach at Oklahoma State and now the associate head coach at North Carolina State, sent a tape of his son to then-Chicago Bears coach Dave Wannstedt. Matt was being recruited for both sports.
Wannstedt saw a young John Elway or Dan Marino. But Holliday said no thanks to football and college, and signed with the Rockies.
I assume the elder Holliday knew Wannstedt when he was coaching in college.
I was a freshman at Erie Cathedral Prep when he was a senior at Erie Tech Memorial. I played football and ran track that year, and during one of our Metro League meets, I got to run the 100m against him. Track wasn’t exactly a strong program at our school – it was something most football players did to help stay in shape (we didn’t have a “mandatory” lifting program at the time), which probably explains why I was able to get into a 100m heat.
Nevertheless, Jells was two lanes to my right in this heatr. We got off our start. I knew I didn’t stand a chance, but I just wanted to see how long I could run with him. I kept watching out of the corner of my eye for him to go past me, but at first he never did. It seemed like I was about halfway down the track (in truth, it was only the first 20-30 meters) before I saw him. For a split-second, I thought maybe he got hurt coming off his start or something…all of a sudden, this white, green and gold streak goes flying past me. By the time the race was done, we were the field and he was Secretariat. I don’t remember exactly what he ran, but I think it was in the 10.9 or 11.0 neighborhood.
We beat Jells’s Tech team 81-12 in football that year, though (some of the older Pitt fans on the board may remember Tim Colicchio…he was our tailback on that Prep team my freshman year).