Pick the kids with the right stuff, smart, motivated, coachable and not full of themselves at the ripe old age of 16-17. Then get them under your wing, help them grow up, develop their full potential and watch them bloom into good football players.

Recruiting star ratings are just an early opinion.

BTW, welcome JoeD, last ime I checked its a free country, go do your thing. Just remember that if the concensus determines that you’re an a$$hole, then you probably are. Why don’t you prove them wrong?

Ready for some college football. Two weeks from last night I think, S.Carolina and Vandy!!! An extra large pepperoni, olives and tomatoes pizza will be ordered 1 hour before kickoff!!!

Hail to another year of watching a below average, inadequate qb take bad sacks and never rise to the occasion when a game is on the line.

They want each individual player to be responsible in their assignments in respect to said position play and unit wise. The result is the team does not beat itself on game day.

Being responsible for constantly striving to get better is the nucleus from which success will come for Pitt football according the gospel of Saint Chryst. My hope is the Pitt Football Program becomes a field of dreams under HCPC because as everyone knows…..IF YOU BUILD IT THEY WILL COME!!!!

They never consider that their remarks are only their “opinion” just as yours is except that it is contrary to theirs and they have no compunction to use personally demeaning, foul, and condemming language.

I have decided to let them cast as many stones at me as they want because I realize what I wrote abvove is more than an opinion it is fact.

Top 50 players – 5 stars
Next 50 – 4 stars
Next 100 – 3 stars

In actuality:
– Couldn’t some years actually have only 35 true blue-chippers? So 15 others will still be rated 5 stars even though they truly might be 4 stars.
– Some years may have 80 ‘almost’ blue-chippers after the first 50, but only 50 would be rated at 4 stars and the other 30 be rated at 3?
– In the above example, the 30 that should have been 4s would be 3s thereby pushing the bottom 30 of the 3 stars to 2 stars.

My point is there is no specific criteria (40 time, bench press, size, etc) to the ratings. Whatever stars a player may have received in one recruiting class, doesn’t directly correlate to another class.

Stars do help some when looking at recruiting rankings, but the only true way to quantify is by looking at their production when their career ends.

Our only hope is that this coaching staff and their pro set system will instill that intangable confidence factor into Tino, which could transform him into a servicable QB in the clutch. He really needs to step up his game when put under pressure. So much of that is just having the game slow down for you in those situations. Some of that comes with maturity and playing time. Often it is directly tied to confidence and previous winning results that comes when you play with it. Neither of which Sunseri currently has on his resume.

The wildcard here however is PC and staff. Is it just lip service or will they REALLY “play to their players strengths”? If they can identify what Sunseri’s strengths are, in the first place, and then magnify them by putting him in situations that breed confidence and keep him out of those bad schemes that find him soiling himself then we have a chance to develop a servicable offense.

I’m going to give everybody concerned the benefit of the doubt until they show their hand because there are just so many variables that are so different from last season. If it turns out to be the same old, same old as last year, then I’ll be jumping on your bandwagon too, but lets at least give this year a chance to get going before we throw in the towel.

As I aways say, that why the play the games. I’m just hoping for a transformation of Tino’s play this year if the above coaching actually occurs and breeds success, then God Bless Paul Chryst.

I have bought into Coach Chyrst, and with what he has done at Wisconsin, especially with the Q.B.s, I have to believe he will have some positive influence on Tino’s techniques, and his overall performance.

A top 10 qb, no, of course not. But if you were grading, I’m hoping going from a D or C+, to a B or B+.

Also, I think Chyrst is smart enough, to also be watching for Tino’s strengths and weaknesses.

Then, being able to put him in situations and calling plays that are comfortable for Tino and hopefully will help him improve.

I’m worried about Tino as well. I do think PCs offense will help him succeed this season. A good running game will also help.

But I believe having solid TEs will help him too. They are always a great outlet for a QB when things break down. After reading articles about Pitt’s TEs the past week, Tino has weapons there.

I’ve always looked at TEs with rookie QBs when playing Fantasy Football because I know they are going to get a lot of balls while the QB gets up to speed. Tino may never get ‘up to speed’, so I think the TEs will be his best friends this year and will be a key to Pitt’s success.

Tino’s main strength;

handing the ball off to Ray Ray, Isaac or Rush !
As many times as possible !!

But this isn’t journalism and we don’t have to do anything but post items for people to comment on.

Go back over my articles if you wish and see how many times I write “In my opinion”, “I think”, “I believe”, “Apparently”, “It seems” and on and on.

I understand exactly what your ticked about and it is the Mark Myers issue. But you must realize that the things I wrote about him and discussed on here were not state secrets. At no point did I ever say “I heard through a super secret channel that his arm sucks” No, I said “I think he isn’t the passer everyone thinks he is”. As a matter of fact the only conversation I quoted at all on here was the one I had with his own Father who talked about him transferring last season.

But really, everything I said about Myers and all the points I made weren’t original thoughts on here. If you follow PITT football as closely as I, and others, do you’d have seen that the same sentiments were echoed by numerous beat writers and radio interviews.

You can disagree with me, and I’ll say Chas also, as much as you want. But once I post up an article I have as much right to keep discussing the content as any other poster.

Finally, if you are referencing me with your comment about “personally demeaning, foul, and condemming language” then obviously I somehow offended you personally and for that I apologize. I also don’t remember doing it because that would be out of character for me, but still. Rest assured if I did then it was out of frustration regarding our Myers discussion rather than any animosity I have toward you, because there is none.