5AF's Premier College Football Thread: 2017-18 Pittsburgh Super Panthers Football Thread (and Basketball)

Postby **Stoosh** » Sun Jan 14, 2018 9:38 am

I'm intrigued by the Bates hiring. From a coaching standpoint, Northwestern always struck me as a team that was fairly well-coached under Fitzgerald, even if the results don't always show it on the field. It's not easy to recruit there and it's not easy to win there because of the admission standards.

I wonder if there was some familiarity there with Bates and Narduzzi. Bates would have been at Northwestern through Narduzzi's tenure at MSU.

I hope the recruiting reputation is accurate because getting a foot in the door in Texas would be huge. Partridge has great connections in Florida and those have already started to pay off. If Bates can be to Texas what Partridge is to Florida, I'm on board with this. Florida, Texas and Georgia seem to have become the three most fertile recruiting areas for this generation, and it's nice to see this coaching staff ramping up their efforts to target those areas.

Postby **Stoosh** » Sun Jan 14, 2018 9:42 am

For those interested in following this sort of thing, courtesy of PL...

Kaezon Pugh transferred to Howard Univ. Sounds like he may get a shot at RB. Best of luck to him. Howard is a terrific school and a solid FCS program.

Kam Carter transferred to Duquesne.

Thomas MacVittie transferred to Mesa CC.

Postby **columbia** » Sun Jan 14, 2018 9:51 am

*chuckle*

Pitt fans always hope to find a horse in a room full of ****.

Postby **Dickie Dunn** » Sun Jan 14, 2018 10:26 am

- Good for Pugh. I would have moved him from LB to RB/FB before I moved him to defensive end.

- Weird transfer for Carter. If he was going to transfer that far down I would have expected him to transfer somewhere closer to home.

- I guess TMac wants to play a year of JUCO and then transfer somewhere of note instead of immediately transferring down. Mesa doesn’t produce a ton of D1 players, but there’s always a chance.

Postby **MrKennethTKangaroo** » Sun Jan 14, 2018 4:12 pm

The worst part about this stillers Jacksonville game is that pitt’s Offensive brain trust is going to see all these screen passes on 3rd and long that work for the jags and think “see! It works for them it can work for us!”

Postby **Dickie Dunn** » Sun Jan 14, 2018 4:55 pm

Rori Blair is transferring to Valdosta State or whatever and will have one year left.

Postby **Dickie Dunn** » Wed Jan 17, 2018 11:21 am

Maddox and Weah have apparently been impressive during practice for the East/West Shrine Game.

Postby **columbia** » Wed Jan 17, 2018 11:23 am

ETA of September 8, 2018 thread?

Postby **slappybrown** » Wed Jan 17, 2018 11:33 am

Sept 1 ish

Postby **Silentom** » Wed Jan 17, 2018 11:33 am

Postby **Freddy Rumsen** » Wed Jan 17, 2018 2:07 pm

Pitt's 2018 Football Schedule Released

Sept. 1 ALBANY
Sept. 8 PENN STATE
Sept. 15 GEORGIA TECH
Sept. 22 at North Carolina
Sept. 29 at UCF
Oct. 6 SYRACUSE
Oct. 13 at Notre Dame
Oct. 27 DUKE
Nov. 2 at Virginia (Fri.)
Nov. 10 VIRGINIA TECH
Nov. 17 at Wake Forest
Nov. 24 at Miami

Will try and go to Wake Forest

http://theacc.com/documents/2018/1/16/2 ... hedule.pdf

Postby **columbia** » Wed Jan 17, 2018 2:10 pm

10-2

Losses to ND and UNC

Postby **slappybrown** » Wed Jan 17, 2018 2:16 pm

No weekday home games is a thumbs up from me

Postby **Dickie Dunn** » Wed Jan 17, 2018 2:17 pm

Postby **MrKennethTKangaroo** » Wed Jan 17, 2018 2:19 pm

Friday UVA? #macction

Postby **columbia** » Wed Jan 17, 2018 2:22 pm

The UPS game not being on 11/24 makes my blood boil.

Postby **slappybrown** » Wed Jan 17, 2018 4:09 pm

This is going to drive DD nuts, but that schedule is brutal. 7-5 would good, 8-4 very good with that schedule. 6-6 would not surprise me. I dont think they will have the breakthrough we're looking for until 2019, which should further infuriate DD since I am giving the Nard Dog kind a pass for 18 before any games have been played.

Postby **dodint** » Wed Jan 17, 2018 4:11 pm

Might try to attend either the Syracuse or Duke game. After living in NC for so long I really hate Duke so that might be the ticket.

Postby **columbia** » Wed Jan 17, 2018 4:12 pm

Duke is the worst.

Postby **skullman80** » Wed Jan 17, 2018 4:15 pm

That is a tough schedule. 7-5 I'd be happy. 8-4 I'd be really happy. Kenny Pickett is the savior though.. so 12-0 H2P!

Postby **willeyeam** » Wed Jan 17, 2018 4:18 pm

10-2 at worst

H2P

Postby **Freddy Rumsen** » Wed Jan 17, 2018 4:23 pm

8-4 is best bet, 6-6 more like it.

9 bowl teams

Postby **slappybrown** » Wed Jan 17, 2018 4:25 pm

One set of SOS Rankings:

From Michigan’s gauntlet to Oregon’s cakewalk, my 2018 Strength of Schedule Rankings:

https://twitter.com/MattSmithCFB/status ... 8788547585

Postby **columbia** » Wed Jan 17, 2018 4:28 pm

Get rid of ND and BYU and you've got the lineup for the 4 super conferences.
At this point, I don't care how they get parsed out....Just make it happen.

Postby **willeyeam** » Wed Jan 17, 2018 4:33 pm

the only thing more useless than preseason rankings - preseason strength of schedule.