Or something like that. Okay you luddites that still want info, the Pitt football coaching staff is going to drag you kicking and screaming into 2010.
Sure you ignored getting on just because I am there. Or Justin. No, Reed is still a conscientious objector or something like that.
Unlike the previous staff that treated Twitter like MySpace, the new Pitt coaching staff is actively on the social side of things. Letting you know where they are out recruiting. Ready to drop code words to indicate if they met with recruits — and just waiting to find out the code words when they land one (quick example is Texas A&M Coach Kevin Sumlin who tweets out a “YES SIR” when he gets a verbal). A veritable Pat Signal.
Anyways, here is the Pitt Coaching Staff Twitter lineup to date:
Head Coach Pat Narduzzi: @CoachDuzzPittFB
Offensive Coordinator Jim Chaney: @CoachJimChaney
Defensive Coordinator Josh Conklin: @CoachConklin
Special Teams Coordinator/Running Backs Coach Andre Powell: @CoachAPowell
Tight Ends Coach Tim Salem: @CoachTimSalem
Offensive Line Coach John Peterson: @coachjpete
Defensive Line Coach Tom Sims: @CoachTomSims
Linebackers Coach Rob Harley: @robharley34
A lot more activity. Why is this important? Because Twitter is like e-mail or texts under NCAA rules. That means coaches can send DMs (Direct Messages) to recruits without limit. One more form of communication that builds recruiting.
Welcome to the latest New World Order.
It’s becoming pretty clear, this country is being led by sex perverts/pedophiles/child rapists or at least at lot of them are.
Which all makes sense as to why the 180 on the Pedo State sanctions. And the push on several other fronts as well.
And why there has been no trial of the Pedo State Trio as of yet.
The Ramblin Wreck is in town to take on our Panthers.
GT is winless in the ACC (0-4) Although all their losses have been close games. Lost twice to #12 Notre Dame (by 3 and in Double OT), lost by a point to Syracuse.
Best wins are against Georgia (10-5,win over K State), Vanderbilt (11-5) and Northwestern.
They avg 66 ppg and don’t particularly shoot it well, 42% fg. They do rebound pretty well, 39 rpg which ranks them #32 in nation.
Yellow Jackets top 3 scorers are their big men which could cause some problems for us since big men aren’t a Pitt strength.
> Marcus Hunt 6’5″ 13ppg 5 rpg
> **Charles Mitchell 6’8″ 270 lbs 11ppg 8 rpg
> Demarco Cox 6’8″ 276 lbs (ouch) 10 ppg & 6 rpg
Their Guards don’t score much 5-6 ppg.
Looks like it might be beneficial to press them and/or trap them, as they definitely outman us inside. And halfcourt game would appear to be in their favor with the 2 loads they have above.
Let’s Go Pitt !
Pantherlair (Rivals) is the most accurate and has been kept up to date the others have not been on top of things.
Regarding your list of players who, in theory, could be asked to leave–
Trey Anderson QB rsJR
Ronald Jones WR rsJR
Khaynin Mosley-Smith DL rsJR
Devin Cook DL rsJR
Nicholas Grigsby LB rsJR
Lafayette Pitts DB rsJR
Ejuan Price DL rsJR
Artie Rowell OL rsJR
David Murphy LS rsJR
Jameel Poteat RB SR (transferred in last year & is eligible in ’15)
Trey Anderson has already announced he is transferring to play his fifth year (grad student year) at a Texas school–probably not a big time program.
I think I read that Ronald Jones is also moving on.
As to the rest, I think it depends on whether the new staff sees them on the 2-deep. If yes, they stay. If no, they will be instructed to do what they need to do to graduate by the end of the summer.
However, I don’t think they will boot anybody in the group who is on track GPA wise to graduate if it isn’t feasible for them to quite finish by the end of August. I doubt more than a couple (if any) would fall into that category.
Going to need some good defense and aggressive rebounding against the 2 GT loads.
We’re in a good position to beat them in the upcoming series. Narduzzi has gotten more praise for his work as an assistant than Franklin’s gotten as a head coach. Franklin was very good at beating teams with losing records in the SEC.
My point is that we really have no idea at this what Narduzzi plans to do as far as opening up scholarships go for this year and the next. He could look at the roster and be fine with it or might want to open up more spots for his own recruits early on.
For example, and I’m not saying this happened, but on Jan 3rd Trey Anderson stated he was leaving PITT. Narduzzi was hired on Dec 24th and might have called the kid in and made the decision for him. That is how these things work – it isn’t advertised as a player being’cut’ from the team even though that is in essence what it is, it will be released to the press and public as ‘a player choosing to leave the program’… or we just never hear about them at all which happened with Dan Mason a few years ago. All of a sudden he was just gone…
And that thought is coming from a guy, me, who has been Trey Anderson biggest supporter on here. It’s just business when it boils down to it… or of course Trey Anderson might have just wanted to go somewhere else on his own, which I actually think is the case. I used his situation as an example only. The bottom line though is usually if a 5th year player leaves the program he’s usually been “asked” (told) to.
1618mt – if you like to discuss PITT recruiting and who and how many guys we get in a recruiting class, as everyone on here seems to want to, then the discussion starts with how many scholarships become available due to both graduation and the coach’s decisions and historically that means looking at 5th year SRs. PITT’s stance up to a point has been once a player has had an opportunity to get his degree in four years then he’s eligible to ‘be moved on’ as they say and that has happened every year.
Just because we are discussing their year and eligibility doesn’t mean we necessary want them to be gone. Quite the contrary it seems, we all have been pretty positive about wanting kids to stay if possible.. But again, if you want to follow and discuss college football then sSRs have to be a part of that discussion.
Not to sound like a jerk but does “let’s leave the ‘asking players to leave’ to the coaches” mean that we don’t want to anticipate or second guess our coaching staff in other issues? Hey my friend, that is the best thing about PITT football – when all else fails we know can always second guess everything that happens on and off the field. 🙂
As for whether he’ll be successful, who knows time will tell, but one thing is for sure, nothing in life can be accomplished without enthusiasm, using the tools available, and hard work. He and his staff are checking the box on every one of these, so at least he’s giving us fans a chance to hope.