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December 23, 2008

No Trips For You

Filed under: Football,General Stupidity,Players — Chas @ 2:53 pm

Figures, it’s always in the notes where the most interesting nuggets are found.

Freshman defensive back Ronald Hobby is the only player who is out for the Sun Bowl. Wannstedt said Hobby’s career is likely over due to his academic issues. … Redshirt freshman walk-on lineman Josh Marks has been dismissed from the team for disciplinary reasons. … One player who could still be left behind if he doesn’t continue to toe a fine line is redshirt junior defensive tackle Tommie Duhart. Duhart has been suspended most of the second half of the season with various off-field issues. “As long as Tommie continues to do everything he’s supposed to do, he’ll get an opportunity to play,” Wannstedt said.

Hobby was a 3-star recruit from Maryland. I can’t even conceive of how little effort he must have put into the school portion to be permanently done after one semester. What makes it so poor, is that you just hope it was pure laziness that led to this outcome. Not some sort of personal problem or family issues. No matter what, I hope he can figure things out somewhere else. Hobby even enrolled at Pitt back in January to get an early start on things. Hmm. There might be a clue in that story.

“Half the time, I want to sleep,” Hobby said, “but I can’t sleep because I have so much work to do.”

Uh-huh.

Then there’s Josh Marks. Well, here’s what I wrote back when he first came aboard in August.

The controversy at Penn State was over his conditioning. There is little dispute he was overweight. With a year of only practicing and Buddy Morris working with him, we’ll find out whether it was the something more that was bothering him at Penn State.

I’m cautiously optimistic about this. At the very least, this is a low-risk gamble. Marks was a top OL recruit, that Pitt really wanted. His work ethic had never been questioned before. Again, the reports – even before his departure – were that he had struggled with conditioning from the spring onward.

If it was a short term slump on his part he will get over it and Pitt greatly benefits. If it really is his attitude, then the team will probably figure it out before the end of this year.

Looks like it was his attitude, and Pitt did figure it out before the end of 2008. The only minor concern is worrying if he poisoned the atmosphere with his old HS teammate. Henry Hynoski. Hyno will likely be fine. His work ethic and attitude have never been questioned. Plus the bloodlines are solid.





Hyno reported a 4.0 this summer and from what I recall he graduated like 3rd in his high school class. I’m not worried about him at all.

Comment by Orange Julius Page 12.23.08 @ 4:06 pm

Sounds like Hobby could have a mild case of depression or possible anxiety with his comment of wanting to sleep all of the time.

Comment by Dr. Jimmy 12.23.08 @ 4:53 pm

Does anyone know if Pitt tried at all to move the football game until later in the day? I just noticed it’s opposite the basketball game. Not sure why they’d schedule it opposite the bball game that has been scheduled for months. I’m guessing a lot of us will miss the first couple hours of the Sun Bowl.

Comment by fred 12.23.08 @ 7:53 pm

Don’t think they attempted to move the football game as they have no leverage to do so. It is a nationally televised game that has been set for weeks. I do believe there was talk that they tried to move the hoops game, however, but they had no luck.

Comment by TJ 12.23.08 @ 8:12 pm

Watching the Bulls play the Pistons. Aaron Gray actually has a bucket and had a nice dish and the announcer says “Nice assist from the Bulls best-passing big man.”

Guess that’s what he’ll always be known for.

Comment by KeyboardKev 12.23.08 @ 9:07 pm

Has everyone seen that Pitt has climbed to #1 in the RPI!!!

link to realtimerpi.com

Comment by Josh Winschel 12.23.08 @ 11:08 pm

Reschedule the Sun Bowl?
You are a dunce.

Comment by ChrisA 12.23.08 @ 11:21 pm

Fred – that was one of the strangest comments I’ve read on here.

Comment by Reed 12.24.08 @ 5:42 am

Actually, I thought it was funnier that he would miss watching the bowl game to watch a regular season hoops game on the road against Rutgers. It’s not like they are playing UConn or Duke at the Pete.

Comment by ej 12.24.08 @ 8:45 am

the funniest part is that he states that the bb game had been scheduled for months

Fred, Sun Bowl 2009 is scheduled for 12/31/09 at 2 est

Comment by w bill 12.24.08 @ 9:26 am

the culprit here is the Big East. Conference has a handful of bowl tie-ins yet the BE had the foresight of scheduling two of its fb schools playing each other opposite its 2nd biggest bowl … shows you what inbreeding among the conference leadership will do

Comment by w bill 12.24.08 @ 9:49 am

Does anyone know what happened to Elroy Vargas once he went th Florida Basketball? Curious to see if he lived up to the hype, or did he bomb?

Comment by Kurt 12.24.08 @ 11:40 am

Eloy Vargas has yet to suit up for the Gators. Not sure why.

Comment by maz. 12.24.08 @ 11:50 am

Regarding the RPI rating – I assume that:

1. SOS is strength of schedule
2. You want the strength of schedule to be a high number rather than a low number. If so, that should easily shut up the people who constantly complain (without merit) that our non-con is weak. Thus far by my count, Pitt ranks FOURTH in strength of schedule in Division I.

Even though I know our SOS has been underrated in my opinion, is that correct?

Comment by Maile Man 12.24.08 @ 12:45 pm

My mistake – it looks like we’re 7th, not 4th in SOS.

Comment by Maile Man 12.24.08 @ 12:47 pm

If you missed Wannstedt’s news conference Monday, it is worth viewing on the Pantherlair or wherever it may be seen. Some may question his coaching philosophy at times, but noone should doubt his sincerity and love of his players and the Pitt program. This video shows what’s good in college football and why more quality players should want to attend Pitt. I love the way Wannstedt honestly evaluates himself and his players.

Comment by ltl 12.24.08 @ 1:07 pm

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