Now that Paul Chryst has made the decision as to who is nominal starting QB is going to be in this season and I say nominal only because we still have Voytik coming in, lets look at one major thing that needs to happen for Sunseri to be able to play better football this year than last.

 
Bottom line: Sunseri has to take three less sacks per game for PITT to be successful this season.

 
On the face of that remark it looks pretty ridiculous; “three less sacks per game”, hell most teams didn’t give up three sacks per game. The bold truth is that we gave up five (4.92) per game and 64 total sacks, which turns my stomach just to type that.

 
But I think we’ll be better in that area this season for sure. Graham’s “One, two, three, Go!” passing offense had our OL trying to aggressively attack the DL they were going to block in pass protection and it didn’t work out.

 
Look, in 2010 Sunseri was sacked 23 times total for less than two per game. Guys, that is 43 less sacks on the year. It almost literally can be any worse this year.

 
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Something amazing has happened in the last week. Whether it is part of a fundamental change in college athletics, or a response driven by self-interest I am stunned and thrilled. No, I’m not talking about the playoff plans for college football. I’m talking about the discussion of the revised ACC contract.

Since the new contract has been announced last week, it has been subject to debate, argument and especially the frustrations of Florida State fans with the ACC. There was the typical denial from the FSU athletic department that really didn’t say anything. What followed was where it got interesting. FSU fan anger exploded, and the chairman of the FSU Board of Trustees spouted off without really knowing the facts to further fan the flames..

The usual way these things are done are through anonymous sources explaining details of the contract to provide more context. You would have the backtracking and damage control by and for the name person spouting off. And at first that happened — see the part about explaining that all the conference media contracts are backloaded.

Yet that did little to quell things. In fact, it seemed that nothing was making a difference. Cue the change in tactics to direct dealings.

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