Obviously, these are subject to lots of alterations, especially once Terrelle Pryor makes his decision. There are still kids out there who haven’t signed and might still make moves up and down the rankings. Even for Pitt as players like DeVoe Torrence and Dominick Britt are still out there.
Brief aside. Pryor is not going to Pitt. I wish otherwise, but I’m not going to rip on a high school kid simply because he won’t go to my school (until it becomes time for my kids to pick a college). I also think there is no reason for any kid to sign his NLI on the very first day. With a talent like Pryor, why should he sign at all? Think any school would stand on some principle if he told them, “Yes I’m coming but I won’t sign the NLI.” Hell, no. They’d hold the scholarship regardless.
It sounded good when Pryor told everyone at his high school and ESPN-U that he was waiting to take more time. Saying that he just hasn’t had the time to digest everything from all the schools with his HS work, the football and now basketball season. Sounded very mature, and everyone praised the maturity. Dismissing out of hand any thought that he was doing this to keep the attention on him. That said, isn’t it a little remarkable that he didn’t have time for really considering all of the schools, but has had no problem with every interview. Every publicity moment? Every extra appearance? Showing up on TV to say he hadn’t made up his mind? I mean, don’t you have to wonder a little if it isn’t a bit about milking extra attention?
Moving on.
The defections of A.J. Alexander and Zack Stoudt knocked Pitt out of the top-20 recruiting class in the major recruiting rankings.
Rivals.com has Pitt the lowest at #29
Scout.com puts Pitt at #25
ESPN/Scouts, Inc. the highest with #21
Good for Pitt, and bad for the Big East as a whole, though, that Pitt is the highest ranked Big East team in all of the national rankings:
Team —— Scout.com —– Rivals.com
WVU ——— 37 —————- 44
Rutgers ——– 44 ————– 46USF ———- 46 ————— 56
Louisville —— 54 ————— 55
Syracuse —— 49 ————- 48
Cinci ———- 55 ————– 68
UConn ——– 70 ————– 72
ESPN.com only goes top-25.
USF and Cinci have the widest disparity in the rankings. Louisville is clearly the most disappointing. Arguably, UConn could be considered more disappointing, but recruiting for football in their geographic base is much like Pitt recruiting basketball in Western PA.
Syracuse, all things considered, didn’t do too badly. WVU could be considered a disappointment, given their season, but all the crap that happened after the Backyard Brawl makes it somewhat stunning how well they recovered.
Duke destroying Carolina tonight @ Carolina has to be a big help to PITT. I dunno if our win over DUKE is the “best” win. But it’s certainly at least honorable mention! Must win game tomorrow vs the hoopies in the hardcourt addition of the BYB. Ill be doing my best to contribute to the home court advantage in the ZOO!! Hail to PITT!
We favored by 3 tomorrow…
‘”This actually gives me a really good opportunity to do some bonding with these young guys, because I have a lot of free time,” Brown said. “So if guys want to get into the gym at 8 o’clock at night, they can say, ‘Hey coach, let’s go shoot.’
“Or if they want to hit the weight room at 4 in the afternoon or maybe go get some dinner or grab a movie, it’s an opportune time for me to do some real good bonding with these guys and try to instill some different work habits for them.”
Will it help?
Well, in Monday’s 118-108 victory over Seattle, Gray tied his season-high with 14 points and the Bulls outrebounded the Sonics 50-35. So no one can say Brown has done a bad job after three days with the team.
“If he’s paying, I’ll go to dinner with him every night,” Gray said. “It’s great to have him around. Our post play has progressively gotten better this year, but I think it’s going to improve even more.”‘
The reason I felt it appropriate to question the kid’s sexuality yesterday was that a) these schools have been recruiting him for the last year and a half, maybe two years. What good’s a couple more weeks going to do him now? And b)his finalists are PSU, OSU, and Michigan. Is there really a dime’s worth of difference between any of these three schools, other than maybe that OSU is located in a mid-sized city while PSU is in in the middle of nowhere?
Seriously, you’re picking a college, not a religion. It’s not that difficult a choice, and anyway, it’s not entirely that important, anyway.
The kid needs to make up his mind already so we don’t have to hear about him anymore.
It is his life and he can take as long as he wants. It is not his fault you have no life and nothing better to do than worry about where he is going to school. You give people a reason to call Pitt fans classless. Also, I would question the sexuality of someone so concerned about an 18 year old kid.
I’m so glad that recruiting is over – it’s 1 day of fun stretched 260 days thin.
I don’t know about anybody else, but i come to this site exclusively for the sexuality comments.
I’m not “worried” about where the kid is going to school. On the contrary, I don’t really care at this point and I just want him to shut up and go away.
On the other hand, one might wonder why you’re so concerned about sticking up for an 18 year old kid? Gay much?
I kid, I kid.
Also, if you disagree with me you’re gay.
All right, I’ll stop.
Soon.
