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March 20, 2009

Opening Spring Practice ’09

Filed under: Football,Practice — Chas @ 9:12 am

For lots of good stuff, make sure you pop over to the Cat Basket. They are actually paying attention to the football team and have some breakdowns by unit.

Sunseri is in a really bad position for a young quarterback in that he is perceived as a solution to our QB problems because he isn’t Bostick or Stull.

Sadly true.

A couple stories on Adam Gunn and his 6th year.

Kevin Gorman has a notebook dump of Pitt’s first practice — no pads, so Wannstedt is complaining. Of note, as expected Greg Cross is playing WR (sigh).

New OC Frank Cignetti is more animated than Matt Cavanaugh.

Nate Byham is on the preliminary watch list for the 2009 Rotary Lombardi Award.

Eligibility for the Rotary Lombardi Award is limited to down linemen, end-to-end, either on offense or defense, who set up no farther than 10 yards to the left or right of the ball. Linebackers who set up no farther than five yards deep from the line of scrimmage are also eligible.

The candidates earned a place on the preliminary watch list by earning All-American honors or by being named to their respective all-conference first team as selected by the conference’s head coaches. The Rotary Lombardi Award Watch List will be updated prior to the start of the 2009 season in order to identify those players who have been selected as preseason honors candidates.

Forty-seven players were named to the Rotary Lombardi list. Byham was one of only two tight ends selected, reinforcing his status as one of the country’s best at his position.

Byham is presently sitting out spring practice as he recovers from offseason surgery.





One of the things that I like the most about the spring practice arcticles is that they tend to reveal things about player performance from the previous year that would never have been printed during that year. Gorman’s comments about Baldwin are telling. Now we know exactly why Baldwin did not play more and did not see the ball thrown his way more when he did. It’s not a knock on Baldwin. The leap to Div 1 WR from HS is second only to the leap made by a QB. Baldwin will be a superstar, even in this offense, but many of our expectations for this kid were far too high for last season.

Comment by HbgFrank 03.20.09 @ 11:43 am

On the QB’s…With regard to Bostick, a true Freshman QB played badly on a bad team (when he was the 3rd string QB going into the season) and many here have declared him a bust and his career over. I will admit, the fist time I saw him live, I thought he spent his entire summer in a doughnut shop! Since then, he has worked hard to improve his physical skills and get into shape. Watching him play, as still only a Soph, last season, the one thing that I noticed was that he had twice the field presence that Stull displays. I would not count him out as being the starter at some point this season. The worst thing that happened to this kid was losing his redshirt during his Freshman year. If that does not happen, all of us would think of him now exactly what he is, a guy with a lot of potential. Time will tell if he can reach that potential.

Comment by HbgFrank 03.20.09 @ 11:56 am

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