As with the last game, no TV. Given radio rules, there is no guarantee you can get a free stream on the Pitt flagship, 93.7 The Fan. The best bet is to go with the broadcast from Pitt radio, WPTS.
The competition improves a bit with Princeton. They, were capable of beating Rutgers.
Hopefully, Coach Dixon does give the younger kids more minutes as he said he should. Everyone needs the work.
Spring practices are reaching the pads stage. No more of the helmets and shorts look.
We could try and break down what the O-line will look like. Whether the linebackers will be better. Who will be stepping up to the D-line. We could. Or we can obsess over the status of the QB position. Give the people what they want.
Here’s the extent to which Coach Paul Chryst has spoken about QBs over the past two practices.
On whether he loses patience over fumbled center-quarterback exchanges:
“No, but they were ugly though, weren’t they? You’ve got no chance. You’ve got to prevent beating yourself first. It’s hard enough to beat the opponent. If that was a game we would say you beat yourself and those are things that need cleaned up and we can’t tolerate it.
“As coaches, negative things happen. We’re going on the assumption that no one wants to have a bad quarterback-center exchange, the receiver doesn’t want to drop the ball, the defender doesn’t want to lose contain. If they’re in there and they want to do that then that’s on us. You can’t tolerate it but making a big stink doesn’t necessarily fix it either.”
And before that:
On whether the quarterbacks and receivers improved today:
“Yeah, I think there were some moments where they did. They better, right? They better keep improving. Tomorrow we’ll be going full pads. You’ll always have some good and you can build on that. And then there are a lot of things you still have got to clean up.”
Gotta lot to go on, huh?
Didn’t see a Q&A with Princeton coming, did you?
The CBI resumes tonight. Pitt remains TV free for this as HDNet has opted to air the Penn-Butler game tonight. Princeton and Pitt square off at 7pm. If you are looking for free radio feed on the net, check out Pitt’s radio station, WPTS.
Jon Solomon, the editor of PrincetonBasketball.com, and I exchanged some questions. Unfortunately my responses are behind a paywall. So what I said remains a mystery. Not that I said anything you haven’t really read from me before, so you aren’t missing much.
After the jump, you can read the responses from PrincetonBasketball.com
Or something like that. I swear, the reactions to Pitt and Coach Paul Chryst getting the first verbal for 2013 — at least on Twitter — made it seem like a guy in his 20s finally losing his virginity. There was a sense of relief, along with the repeated surprise that it took him that long to close the deal. Especially since everyone knew it would happen. Plus it was over so quickly.
Tight end, Scott Orndoff had initially committed to Wisconsin in his junior year. Naturally when the entire offensive staff left — mostly for Pitt — he reoponed his recruitment. Add in the fact that Orndoff attends high school in Western PA at Seton-LaSalle, and this was a long-expected verbal.
Orndoff had scholarship offers from Pitt, Wisconsin, Boston College, Michigan, Michigan State and Virginia.
“I’m definitely glad it’s over,” he said. “All the phone calls and visits had taken a toll on me already. I’m glad to be able to focus on my senior year.”
He had returned from a recruiting trip to Michigan before giving his verbal.
Everyone is talking about the Ohio impact on the NCAA Tournament. Well, except for Northeastern Ohio, where the focus remains on what the Browns do with the 4th pick in the NFL Draft.
Ratings should be interesting. There are still blue-blood programs in the Sweet 16 with Kentucky, UNC, Kansas and Indiana. Plus huge alumni groups/band wagon fans for Ohio St., Michigan State and Florida. At the same time, there is no west coast presence. Baylor? Four states — Ohio, North Carolina, Kentucky and Wisconsin contain 10 of the Sweet 16.
As much as people want to talk about the Ohio thing, the bigger story is UNC point guard Kendall Marshall breaking his left wrist. The fact that there is speculation that since it was to his left wrist, leaving open the speculation that maybe he could play, tells you how dire the situation is for UNC at that spot. A nasty reminder that even the best, biggest name schools can’t just stockpile talent at all spots. It doesn’t matter how good or bad the starting point guard is for a team. If he’s starting, then he is almost certainly the best you have.
John Thompson III is lucky to have made that Final Four early. Otherwise, he would have the worst reputation in the Big East for coaching flops in the NCAA Tournament. He hasn’t gotten the Hoyas past the first weekend in the last 5 tries.
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