New Commit
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He announced a commitment date in April after several visits so it would be a surprise.
Hope that he follows his brother here. H2P!!!
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Zach Zollers (46) DL - 2023: Joined team as a training camp walk-on…did not play in any games and redshirted. HIGH SCHOOL: Two-way standout for Spring-Ford…compiling
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Georgia is one of his final four and they just got a commitment from a top five QB yesterday.
Pitt Lands Commitment from Fast-Rising 2025 3-Star Quarterback
Pitt has landed its quarterback in the class of 2025 — way ahead of pace compared to either of the past two seasons. Mason Heintschel — a 6-foot-2, 200-pound three-star quarterback from Clay High in Oregon, Ohio — officially committed to Pitt Sunday, confirming the Pat Signal by Pat Narduzzi...
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Not to trash a recruit, but really need to step things up. Narduzzi showed promise when he was first hired, now the recruiting is just kind of meh. Portal/transfer recruiting has been decent, but still can't totally ignore high school. Or maybe you can in today's game, who knows.
Pitt Lands Commitment from Fast-Rising 2025 3-Star Quarterback
Pitt has landed its quarterback in the class of 2025 — way ahead of pace compared to either of the past two seasons. Mason Heintschel — a 6-foot-2, 200-pound three-star quarterback from Clay High in Oregon, Ohio — officially committed to Pitt Sunday, confirming the Pat Signal by Pat Narduzzi...
Found quite a few plays like this. Seems like he likes to make plays out of structure.
In the last six recruiting classes, our high school quarterbacks have a COMBINED total of one other power conference offer. That almost feels difficult to pull off.
That’s how you end up rolling the dice on Boston College rejects that graded out as one of the 10 worst pocket passing QBs even before you took him, and a project from Alabama whose early feedback from Bama was so bad he went from an elite ranked recruit to a 3* that people were saying should switch to H-Back.
You can’t miss this badly at HS recruiting, because portal just isn’t going to make up for it.
But it’s only March. His ranking by the fall could skyrocket. Somebody always has to be the first P5 to offer.
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3 star recruiting equals 7-8 win programs.
10 years with Narduzzi, we are the 3 star school of the decade.
10 years with Narduzzi, we are the 3 star school of the decade.
It could, but quarterback is usually a position that is on a much earlier recruiting timeline than the others.
I don't even hate this dude's tape or anything; it just seems amazingly par for the course as of late to not at least beat out *a few* P4 schools for a QB's services.
Did he have anything to do with the QBs we landed/didn't land in the 2020 recruiting class? 2021? 2022? 2023? 2024?
The rest of his offer sheet… yikes.Pitt Lands Commitment from Fast-Rising 2025 3-Star Quarterback
Pitt has landed its quarterback in the class of 2025 — way ahead of pace compared to either of the past two seasons. Mason Heintschel — a 6-foot-2, 200-pound three-star quarterback from Clay High in Oregon, Ohio — officially committed to Pitt Sunday, confirming the Pat Signal by Pat Narduzzi...
They actually already signed, in case you missed it. We're in '25.
A decent amount.
It’s an uptempo, heavy RPO system. That’s not the most novel concept in 2024.
In today’s transfer and NIL environment it’s unrealistic to expect Pitt to sign highly rated QBs. Especially since they have a five star kid on the bench and a true frosh
You completely miss the point. Not unusual.
Last time I looked at a calendar, it was still March 2024.
How many? If it is so common, why is Tennessee always talked about as an outlier?
Not sure how good he is but they do have quite a few guys in the qb room and Pitt isn’t going to be shelling out big bucks for a qb
He was a 5 star the summer of his Sr. year on Rivals but ended up as a high 4 star. If we’re being literal here.
Then I have no idea what your point is?
Tenn is talked about as a veer and shoot outlier because it’s a veer and shoot outlier.
still Waiting for that bump in qb recruiting from Kenny’s big year.
Tenn is talked about due to its uptempo play. Kade will have uptempo as well.
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No. Tenn is talked about because it runs a Veer and Shoot. Part of that is their tempo. So of course that will be part of the discussion. But that’s not the only thing talked about. Their unique splits are talked about just as much, and actually are unseen in almost all of college football.
But tempo isn’t unique. At least Duke, SMU, UNC, and Wake just in the ACC will run some form of tempo. Either get plays snapped as fast as possible (SMU being the extreme of that) or at least get lined up as fast as possible, and then either snap it or look to the coach to call a play based on what alignment the quick tempo forced the defense to get in.
But I’m still not sure what your point was? Assuming tempo is unique in P4 football, it require a unique QB trait that other P4 coaches aren’t looking for because they don’t run tempo? If that was what you were getting at, what is the trait?
Don't know anything about him, but they took his commitment in March. It's not like it was a late reach trying to fill a ship.
They apparently like the kid, no matter what his rating is.
They apparently like the kid, no matter what his rating is.
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You can get solid depth in the portal. The portal is a good place to get college ready bodies. So guys that, weight and muscle wise, at least belong on the field.
It’s a horrible place to land high end talent though, unless you’re going to spend a ton of money. Pitt isn’t landing Jordan Addison in the portal because by the time he’s available in the portal, he’s already become Jordan Addison.
And there isn’t a ton of high end talent anyway. 247 rated only 38 players with even a 93+ college ranking. Which is another reason why what talent there is, is so expensive.
High school recruiting is even more important to Pitt compared to an Ole Miss, because special seasons require Kenny Pickett type talents. And Pitt can’t just buy 5* college rated Walter Nolan in the portal.
