Sure it’s not quite Weasel Stomping Day, but it is one of the big days. The days where Rivals.com and Scout.com find out if all those stress tests on their servers were correct.
Here’s where we already stand with signed NLIs, courtesy of the charts from PantherLair.com and PantherDigest.com.
Listed as signed NLI by both sites:
- Saheed Imoru (JUCO already enrolled)
- Brendan Carozzoni
- Mark Myers
- Dan Schneider
- Mark Rotheram
- Arthur Doakes
- Brandon Ifill
- Aaron Donald
- Eric Williams
- Salath Williams
- Bryan Murphy
- Brandon Sacco
9:24 update:
- Andrew Carswell
- K’Wuan Willams
9:30 Update:
- Kevin Weatherspoon
9:37 Update:
- K.K. (or Khaynin Mosely-) Smith
9:47 Update:
- T.J. Clemmings
9:52 Update:
- Derrick Burns
- Todd Thomas (take 2)
10:14 Update:
- Anthony Gonzalez
- Andre Givens
I’ll be updating most of the morning.
UPDATE 10: 53: 21 of 24 commits are listed as signed.
I’m not sure if T.J. Peeler will be actually signing. It isn’t that he is not committed to Pitt, it is that he has an ACL tear in his left knee. It will take nearly a year to rehab. If he doesn’t sign and goes to prep school, he preserves his full scholarship and redshirt options. If he does sign it may be purely symbolic. Of course, he might still opt to attend Pitt and take it as a medical redshirt in 2010.
As for Jeff Knox and Shane Johnson, both attend DeMatha which is closed today. That may delay the signing or at least news of them.
UPDATE 11:25: While still waiting to see if the snow-bound recruits can reach a fax machine, there is one minor, potential addition. Pitt apparently has tried to get in late on Taj Alexander out of Exton, PA. He’s a Rutgers verbal but has yet to send in his LOI.
UPDATE 11:52: Okay, courtesy of Zeise at P-G, Johnson and Knox will probably have their LOI’s in around noon. Peeler is also trying to make arrangements to send his in.
I’m just unclear on one thing. Why a fax? Wouldn’t a signed, scanned NLI, attached to an e-mail in do the job?
UPDATE 1:20: Looks like a 2 of the 3 made their way to a Kinkos or something. This is Rivals.com only right now but listed as signed are:
- T.J. Peeler
- Jeff Knox
That just leaves Shane Johnson and the 2010 class is signed and the angst can begin for 2011.
UPDATE 1:40: Okay, Rivals.com took Knox off the signed list and moved him back to unsigned with Johnson. That kind of makes sense since they are DeMatha teammates and might do this together. Maybe they should call their other teammate, Arie Kouandijo to find where he went to fax his LOI to Alabama.
UPDATE 1:50: According to Zeise, everyone is now signed. 24-24.
- Jeff Knox
- Shane Johnson
Now it’s time to turn attention to that little ole’ basketball game tonight…
FYI– Dejuan and the Spurs will be in Cleveland on Monday, March 8th @ 7PM if anyone wants to make the treck to see the Big Fella in action. Hopefully, he won’t be injured!
Congrats to all new Pitt recruits!
Not that I’m a recruiting geek or anything… err…
did we end up getting Shane Johnson, Jeff Knox Jr. and T.J. Peeler?
Rivals has our recruiting class ranked 33rd (2nd in Big East behind WVU).
I don’t know where ESPN has us ranked because they only have their top 25 up.
Scout, God love ’em, has our class ranked 16th.
Jason Pinkston Pitt to the big ten in 2012… Sorry Psu can’t run forever!!
He has solid coaches who seem to like working for him and kids with talent, brains and good character. That’s a sign of a winning program.
As far as this class’ ranking versus PSU, WVU and others, I have two words for that – Dion Lewis.
Hail to PITT!
Namaste! (For all you Lost fans)