Pitt football got a verbal today.
Pitt landed its 20th verbal commitment of the 2014 high school class Saturday night when Cocoa, Fla., linebacker James Folston, Jr., gave his pledge to coach Paul Chryst and the Panthers, according to multiple reports.
Folston is rated as a two-star prospect on Rivals.com and chose Pitt over offers from Minnesota and South Florida.
Rivals.com and 247 and says 2-star. Scout.com and ESPN don’t have him ranked.
His father was also an underrated recruit. James Folston, Sr. played in the NFL after becoming a standout at Louisiana-Monroe.
Pitt will be fortunate to grab two of the remaining 5 highly rated recruits out there still interested in Pitt:
Montae Nicholson
Adonis Jennings
Alex Bookser
Shai McKenzie
Jamil Kamara
We really need either Jennings or Kamara to compliment Tyler Boyd in the WR corpes. These guys both have the height and SPEED to produce a very good 1 2 punch with Boyd. The other “must get” is Nicholson. The kid can just flat out play football at a very high level! Thank God for Chris James because when we DON’T get McKenzie, it won’t hurt so much since we have 3 incoming RBs now with James probably being the best of the bunch. Bookser also is not essential since we are stocked with OL guys from last year and a good one in this class already with Grimm + 2 others at least for the OL.
Where we need help in the depth dept is on the DL. Apparently there is a kid, Thomas Holley, out of NYC that has given Pitt some consideration even though he hasn’t done a visit to the campus. He has visited Florida, penn state and OSU. I would be all over this guy as of yesterday in light of the great fortunes of AD this past week in the award department. This kid would be a huge get for the Panthers and I would be trying my best to get him in for a visit as a first recruiting priority for this class, challenging him to follow in the footsteps of the great Aaron Donald if he thinks that he can.
My prediction is that we get ONE guy out of this list of 5, and if it is only one, I hope that it is Nicholson. If we get two, then will be making “a little progress” in the recruiting department
Frankcan mentioned that Nicholson was announcing his decision as of tomorrow. (I have no idea where he saw this report) That would be a very nice early Christmas present for the Panther Faithful to get. Let’s keep our fingers crossed.
H2P!
nicholson is rated one space better then henry he is the 13th best safety henry the 14th nicholson is also 6 foot 2 henry 5 foot 11.
so if we get him we are better off he will pick his school thursday at 2 pm
but we need 3 out of the 5 or some one rated as high as they are if we are to have a ok class of recruits
Unlike Henry, there is allegedly no clear cut favorite for either of them. However, according to the so-called experts who predcited Henry to WVU, Pitt has a decent chance of landing both, expecially Nicholsen.
One more thought, Nicholsen’s teammate at Gateway is Anthony Davis, a 3-star CB who is reportedly a Pitt lean … not sure what, if any impact, Nicholsen’s choice will have.
Nicholsen, Davis, Bookser and one of the two 4-star WRs would make me a very happy camper … until the opener next year oe if HCPC has to hire another coach in the off-season.
I’ve been a good boy all year too, so I should be on his “NICE” list. We’ll see Thursday, I guess, whether Santa has come through for us.
I can’t remember a legacy player other than Dorsett and that was years ago. I am sure there were others.
Too bad IronHeads kid didn’t come here. At least he is a Steeler.
APKE i dont get that if i was his dad i would have said ohio state ok ucla is ok but no penn state
not when dad played for pitt i dont get it.
Who knows. Kids make choices. Things happen.
I can’t wait to see us start winning with all these two-and three-star recruits. Football is a team game fellas. And the sum is greater than the parts. I like that these guys are recruiting balanced classes and filling in holes.
They are also focusing on QB’s, which is great. No one position can have a bigger outcome on the performance of a team.
A couple of four-stars never hurt though!
so tell me why they have 18 recruits this year how can they get away with this any thoughts i am pissed
i liked it better before when you hated are asst coachs and were pissed at the way things were going has the real atlanta panther been kidnaped and you have taken his place WHAT .
had switched you with a implant .
good to know you are still there hope you get well soon.
why does penn state have 18 commits when NCAA says they can only have 15 a year some one give me a why on this what is up.
They get 20 in next year’s class and are restored completely to 25 in the 2015-16 class. So much for administering punishment that is appropriate for the crimes and validating the ruined lives of the victims involved.
Article quotes, “Donald wins with anticipation at the line of scrimmage. He worked all season with defensive line coach Inoke Breckterfield to break down offenses, offensive lineman tendencies, offensive schemes. They would hole up for hours, either in defensive line meetings or one-on-one, to assess what Donald would face on Saturdays.”
Maybe all of the Pitt’s defensive coaches aren’t moronic one eyed cretines after all.
After the week that Aaron Donald has had, to send him off to the NFL with anything less than a bowl victory would be a disgrace and a dishonor to him.
This team better be playing like a team possessed against Bowling Green if ONLY to avoid blemishing Aaron Donald’s final game in a Panther uniform.
This team has the duty to lay it all out there for this one. NO FEAR, NO EXCUSES, NO POSSIBILITY OF EVEN ENTERTAINING THE CONCEPT OF DEFEAT.
Hail to Donald and Hail to Pitt! Bowling Green must be crushed!
So Fayette QB is Brett Brumbaugh who is a 6’4 junior, and broke all kind of records. I would assume HCPC is taking notice.
just a gut felling .
we should not be rated we suck when we play some one good.
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