Following the decommitment of Chandler Kincade, Pitt’s 2014 football recruiting class stood at zero for the last week-and-a-half. That all changed today. It’s back to having one name on the commit list.
The long-term reconstruction of the Pitt offensive line continued Monday when Connor Hayes of Traverse City, Mich., said he will enroll next year.
Hayes, a 6-foot-4, 300-pound guard, is the only recruit in Pitt’s Class of 2014 after Blackhawk quarterback Chandler Kincaide decommitted last month.
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“He’s the most physical player I have ever coached,” Traverse City West coach Tim Wooer said of Hayes. “He will fit in perfectly into everything Pittsburgh wants to do.“If you look up the definition of the word mauler in the dictionary, you would probably find a picture of Connor. He is a physical, nasty kid. He is going to try to embarrass you.”
Hayes is a consensus 3-star recruit per Rivals.com, Scout.com and 247 (ESPN.com has no evaluation at this time).
According to the timeline on 247, Pitt offered Hayes last October. At this time his offer list included Duke, Syracuse, Indiana and four MAC schools.
Anytime Pitt adds an offensive lineman to its commit list, it is a good thing. Needless to say, a big bodied kid. Each site lists him at 6-4. Not sure about the actual weight. The recruiting sites say anywhere from 270 – 285, while the Trib article says 300 pounds.
Guess this answers my question as to whether Chryst would get a recruit for 2014 before Dixon added another to the 2013 class.
When I played, I wasn’t always a fan when a guy who was constantly at 110% was opposite of me. It meant there was no slacking no matter how tired I was. I was too competitive to let someone beat me easily. Sometimes you want a breather and that’s exactly how you get an underachieving team: taking a few plays off.
H2P!!
Class of 2014
Transfer 2016
link to rivals.yahoo.com
glad we got him he will be great.
OT NR Justin Pugh
(Council Rock HS South)
Holland, PA 6-5/285 Committed to Syracuse
A 2 star lineman. Another accurate evaluation fromthe so-called experts.
Pederson: “Not nearly enough warm bodies. What, me worry?”
It’s April. Do you really think that he’s not going to receive any other offers? If last year showed anything in recruiting, it should be that this staff knows how to identify and offer o-linemen before their offer sheets blow up. See Jones-Smith, Samuelsson, Officer as examples
Kent State prolly as well and probably Toledo (just because) and Ohio U (as you know we always lose to schools in Ohio, see D2 YSU for latest example).
This kid will be red-shirted hopefully and grow even larger.
Still need to recruit some speed at the skill positions to compete in a Southern league, imo.
Unless PC plans to go to a ‘Full House’ backfield.
In a place where Woody coached, ‘3 yards & a Cloud of Dust’.
Obviously that was done not because Ohio Fake couldn’t win the Big 10 with a traditional pro set offense (cause they could & did). He was brought in to get Ohio Fake’s offense up to speed to compete with the SEC & the Big 12 for a National Title and BCS Bowls. So Ohio Fake doesn’t get embarrassed again.
And I would imagine Suburban Urban is bringing in speed from Florida to transform that offense.
Traverse City’s most famous person.
Bay City Rollers, one hit wonders.
Another one before your time, lol
Think Michigan wanted to go a little Hillbilly there, they hired both Hoopie coaches.
I thought everyone was moving OUT of Michigan.
Especially Detroit/Flint, etc.
Unless I am mistaken {and I’m not}, the first selection in the NFL draft {a draft in which zero Pitt players were taken} was an offensive lineman from the MAC.
Having said that, I don’t think Pitt’s overall roster talent level is all that awful that a complete, or nearly complete, roster turnover is necessary to get to a team that could/should finish between 8-5 and 10-3 after a bowl game. Its not like we have a team that is so small, slow and unatheletic that it has only been winning 1-2-3 or 4 games a season and requiring a 4-5 year rebuild.
Hold on just a gosh darn minute there! Look at your logic for a minute. If a MAC school offers a player, does that mean he can’t play? The SEC gets its players mostly from its footprint. MAC schools share a footprint with the Big ten, the Big 12 and now the ACC.
So if Michigan offers as does Western Michigan, is the player a stiff?
I doubt the ONLY offers he has are from the MAC!
True story: I was in Traverse City this past August, and looked at a local newspaper which had a story on the local football players to look out for in the season that was to start the following week. There was a picture of Hayes and I (as a Pitt fan) thought just how good he would look in a Panther uni, and thought he would probably get a good look by Chryst and staff.