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August 27, 2015

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Filed under: Football — Chas @ 7:08 am

I don’t know how I had myself convinced that college football began this evening, but I did. Way too much wishful thinking. I am very sad. No, wait. I blame it on some medication mixed with alcohol. Yeah, that’s the ticket.

Justin asked a very good question regarding negative recruiting.

Probably not, though, there is the whole issue of context.

If you missed the hilariously brief twitter firestorm last night it started with this:

…and further information from Virginia Tech DC Bud Foster

There was the usual outrage, jokes and WTFs that followed.

Then came reality. In this case, reality is that the very notion is prohibited.

Which was followed by the VT AD, Whit Babcock, slamming the door on the whole thing.

And if you want an idea of how condensed the news cycle can be. This whole thing lasted maybe 2 hours.

But don’t think this isn’t going to come back and haunt VT on recruiting. Even if the issue should be dead and is a non-starter. Revelations of taking away bowl benefits and tickets as penalties are now openly known and on-the-record, courtesy of the second-most powerful member of the VT football coaching staff.

I’d make lots of jokes about Auburn University and their athletic department lobbying to save a favorite major from the academic axe… but then I’d have to start counting the number of Pitt football players majoring in Administration of Justice.

I’m still trying to understand why the ACC did not support some sort of transparency with explaining how cost of attendance figures are calculated to explain the wide variances from school to school. Here’s what the numbers — without any context look like in the ACC.

Pittsburgh: $3,296 for undergraduates, $5,922 for graduates, divided into twice-a-semester payments.

If you paid any attention to the Minnesota AD scandal — quick recap: AD resigns and claims problem with alcohol. Turns out he was a serial sexual harasser including the college basketball beat writer. It dated back to his time at VCU.

This raised more than a few questions about the “search firm” that did his background check. Parker Executive Search. You may remember Parker from such previous hits as the Rutgers hiring of Julie Hermann as AD and Mike Haywood, head coach at the University of Pittsburgh. Needless to say they are a touch defensive.

The reality is, that these search firms don’t get paid for “due diligence” on candidates. They are used as the middlemen to keep all candidates and clients from having to admit there were talks. The schools don’t want it known how many or who turned them down. The candidates don’t want to have it known they were willing to leave. The search firms that exist for college athletics are there for plausible deniability.

Bo. Bo. Bo. Bo. You learned nothing from your dad. You are supposed to have an affair with a co-worker at a school, not a student.





An unrelated item to Chas’ article…

I really like that our new coaches think that all running backs need to pass protect and catch passes. Never liked the concept of third down specialists employed by Chryst and thought it was mostly ineffective and particularly stupid to take your best player off the field on third downs.

Comment by gc 08.27.15 @ 7:36 am

Felt the same way about taking Todd Thomas off the field on third downs.

Comment by gc 08.27.15 @ 7:37 am

link to triblive.com
Loved the top item on the Duzzer’s bucket list.

Comment by Dr. Tom 08.27.15 @ 8:00 am

I guess Pitt compares favorably to most other ACC schools; of course FSU is the highest .. what a crock!

What I’d like to know is why the COA for PSU is so high … state school in the middle of nowhere. I don’t pretend to understand what factors into these figures but it doesn’t surprise me that the so-called FB factories seem to have the highest COAs.

Comment by wbb 08.27.15 @ 8:03 am

That is curious wbb. Right off the top of my head Allegheny County has 7% sales tax vs 6% for the rest of the state, except maybe Philly. Housing costs more, gas costs more, food costs more, no emissions inspections on cars. I could go on & on.

Comment by Nick 08.27.15 @ 8:27 am

I was reading the comments on the article about Bo Graham leaving ASU & someone asked if he resigned via text. Gotta love it.

Comment by Nick 08.27.15 @ 8:33 am

Nick, how apropos! LOL

Comment by wbb 08.27.15 @ 9:10 am

breathe easier … Athlon rated our OL 21st nationally, 2nd in ACC behind GT and one above Wisc.

link to sports.yahoo.com

Comment by wbb 08.27.15 @ 9:22 am

Pitt’s NEWLY AMENDED Offensive Line rated one of the BEST in the Country and the ACC… Hmmm, that is interesting.

Considering how the Line has struggled opening holes for Backs during Camp… that must mean Pitt’s DEFENSIVE FRONT has got to be one of the best too… if not THE BEST.

Wait a minute, Athlon does NOT have the Pitt Defensive Front rated at all.

If it’s OK with you, I’ll just stick with my No. 1 Rated Concern.

Comment by PittofDreams 08.27.15 @ 11:10 am

link to twitter.com

The Pittsburgh Steelers, training side-by-side with (*THE*) Pitt Panthers…scroll to the awesome shot of Mike Tomlin sharing an Amazing Moment with “Freeze”, Nicholas Grigsby —-

What I imagine:

Mike Tomlin: “Dang, Boy, You got HUGE!!! What have been eating?! You better Tear-it-Up this Year!”

lol 🙂

Comment by Pat "Dark Knight" Narduzzi 08.27.15 @ 11:18 am

Thanks for the post Doc. Narduzzi and I have at least two things in common. We both have a Pitt national championship on our bucket list, and we both saw the Scorpions for our first concert. Children of 80’s metal…

Comment by Iron Duke 08.27.15 @ 11:21 am

I doubt that list was updated to include the loss of JJS, let alone to consider Rowell and Booksers injuries.

Comment by PittHW 08.27.15 @ 12:12 pm

I missed the injury to Booker – what happened?

Comment by markp 08.27.15 @ 12:52 pm

POD, the OL has had a lot of injuries in camp.

Comment by Jackagain 08.27.15 @ 12:55 pm

Chas, there is a college FB game this weekend. Saturday at 3:30 on ESPN, North Dakota State playa Montana. The NDSU Bisons are once again ranked #1 in their classification.

Comment by wbb 08.27.15 @ 2:54 pm

more chance of a pie at serafinos than a nc ,he will be fine but get ready for 5-7 or 6-6 this yr we are still going to lose some close ones

Comment by paul shannon 08.28.15 @ 6:29 am

Paul, I’m not sure I see the 5-7 thing happening. The key pieces are back this year on offense, and the defense has to show at least a little improvement over last year’s prevent defense.

Comment by VAPITTALUM 08.28.15 @ 6:50 am

@NIck -LOL but I think Bo Graham resigned by sexting. 🙂

Comment by rkb 08.28.15 @ 8:30 am

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