Plans change. Things go awry, but a handful of the players who have already verbaled to Pitt are making plans to enroll early.
DT Tyrique Jarrett, TE Scott Orndoff, DE Shakir Soto, RB Corey Clement and now QB Tra’von Chapman have all indicated that they will be enrolled and taking classes at Pitt come January 2013.
Jarrett was actually a 2012 signee, but grades have him doing prep school — and apparently doing well.
The other four are presently the top ranked players in Chryst’s first recruiting class.
Orndoff, Clement, Jarrett and Soto all have excellent chances of seeing early playing time as freshmen. Jarrett and Soto because the D-line will be a bit thin. Orndoff and Clement because Chryst favors using multiple players at both running back and tight end.
As for Chapman, it can’t hurt. The competition for starting the 2013 season will be fierce. Voytik, Savage and Myers all will be going hard. All three will have had six months to a year head start. Myers and Savage will be in their final chances, to give them a whiff of desperation. Voytik has been anticipated. Not sure how Chapman breaks through that, but if he does it means he really blew everyone else away. (Or if you’re a half-empty glass person, that the others weren’t that good.)
I have a question on the OL and the DL do you think we should wait to see if we can sign 2 or 3 of the good line men that are left there are not meany left un signed.
or do you think we should sign the 2 stars who have the hight and weight we need before they are signed and coach them up.
If we wait some one might sign the 2 stars then we would have none.
there is a 2 star named taylor who is 6 foot 6 and 330 pounds who looks mean has hell.
what do you think
you tell me if he looks like he could eat nails he looks mean to me.
he has the hight and weight coach him up.
This Taylor kid is a bigin from Louisiana however. My question would be, does he wrestle gators as a pastime down in the swamps during the off season. Now that acquired skill CAN be applied to OL. Holding off nasty defensive linemen from causing harm to our fragile quarterbacks would be an easy task after duelin with gators.
htp
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Have a happy 4th, guys and gals!
yet i checked the ones we offered and we have offered very few and most that we have are MLB
so may be the staff thinks we dont need LB that bad this year.
“Now the elder Lane wants to see his son make his own name in football, a sport he nudged him toward when he started high school.
“I told him he had a much better chance to be special as a 6-foot-3 linebacker than he does as a 6-foot-3 power forward,” Lane said. “I was 6-foot-6 and 230 pounds, and it was tough because I was considered too short by many people. There are only so many Charles Barkleys out there who can have a special career without that height. So I told him football was his ticket.”
Let’s hope it’s “Blewit Made It” more than “Blewit… well you know… Blew It.”
Hope that’s not an omen.
He may look at playing time and turn us down.
I realize, we may not be on his short list at all, but losing a player, because of this problem, is actually a good thing.
A problem I hope we have many times in the future, at many positions.
Physical Speciman. Looks like a really good back.
Not the perfect back though.
Does not get away from tacklers like you would expect if he’s really 4.3 or whatever in the forty.
Also goes down easier than what he should given his size and speed in high school.
Positive, surprisingly quick feet.
Do not see him as a guaranteed super back on the next level.
Certainly worth recruiting. Would like to see how well he could do running between the tackles out of the I for Chryst.
