Here you go, I am sure all of you have seen this.....

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It is essentially filling out the quarter century team for Pitt - meaning from 2000-2025

I have already seen a lot of these and some of them are head scratching.....

Let's go with the no brainers.....

Larry Fitzgerald
Antonio Bryant
Aaron Donald
LeSean McCoy
Darrelle Revis
Jordan Addison
Kenny Pickett
Scott McKillop
HB Blades
Dorin Dickerson
Rashard Weaver
Mick Williams
Greg Romeus
Jeff Otah
Dorian Johnson
James Conner
Dion Lewis
Jabaal Sheard
Andy Lee
Tyree Young (Yeah, he ruined his career and all that but he is one of the 25 best players of the last quarter century)
Josh Lay
Avonte Maddox
Tyler Boyd
Jordan Whitehead

That is 24 of the 25 spots that I would consider to be no brainers..... We can argue about the other one:

My choice would probably be Tyler Palko as he basically willed his teams to win and he didn't have much help. The run to the Fiesta Bowl was almost 100 percent him

Nutbag should just go for it...pitchers work concessions when not pitching...position guys sell $1 waters on Clemente bridge pregame or help grounds crew…a Cherington pre-game dunk tank certainly in play

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Pine-Richland offensive lineman John Curran has committed to the Panthers. He impressed at a camp last weekend, came on his official visit this weekend (picking up an offer during) and has now committed. Story to come.

The judge just approved it.

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Two confirmed commits: Lincoln Hoke and John Curran. Two more unannounced (one is Ike Simmons) and now a fifth commitment.

As I'm tracking down the commitments, I'm curious who the board is hoping will commit this weekend. We've got four Pat Signals already and very likely more to come. Who would make it a "successful" first weekend?

As a reminder, here's who is currently in town:

RB Damon Ferguson

RB Christian Lawrence

WR Larry Miles

WE Jeffer Jean-Noel

WR Jaydon Dunbar

TE Wyatt Villareal

TE Javonte Williams

OL Nick Howard

OL Mike Van der Oord

OL Landry Brede

OL John Curran

DE Logan Nagle

DE Reston Lehman

DT Lincoln Hoke

LB Colsen Gatten

LB Isaiah "Ike" Simmons

CB Kentrail Mcrae

CB Xavier Jackson

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The first of the four official commitments to announce. North Allegheny DT Lincoln Hoke is the newest Panther commit. Story to come.

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That's earlier than expected. I'll be working on figuring out who committed.

I am sure many of you have seen this on Twitter......

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I am not generally a fan of these kinds of "all time" team selections that are tied to a dollar amount because it means you have to make choices and leave some guys off the list that may be better than those you choose.

However, I played along and came up with....

Brandin Knight - $5 (best player at most important position)
Julius Page - $4 (best defender on the board)
Lamar Patterson - $2 (NBA guy)
Justin Champagnie - $2 (NBA guy)
Steven Adams -$2 (NBA guy)

I would be curious to know what your team would be from that chart.

Now, if we were just picking a team regardless of the salary cap of $15

Knight
Page
Ricardo Greer (or Sam Young, I can't pick)
I still say Champagnie
Blair

And my other thoughts - you can pick whatever group you want from that chart and they would still lose to the 1987-88 team. The 1987-88 team is the best Pitt team of my lifetime.

SThompson in P-G mentioned recent 2026 hoop offers and none are listed on this site...then happened to notice that Avon ('Barksdale? He weak' - Marlo (smiley thingy)) had three of them as offered on May 18 (Oumiddoch and Mgbako) and May 21 (Edelen)...other recent 2026 offers were Steven Thompson and Ratliff twins (Darius and Adonis)...Pitt is It

Let's call this the Backyard Brawl edition thanks to Beanie Bishop

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A few of the official visitors posted a sort of "I'm here" message on social media. There will be more sightseeing and photo shoots coming, so I'll add more when I see it/receive it. Should be a productive weekend.

i'm guessing some of you new him. met him at the fiesta bowl. quite the character.

I'll have a full story in the morning, but here's a final list of the recruits I'm expecting to be in town this weekend:

These guys will arrive in town today, so I'll have more then and also throughout the weekend. I'm expecting Saturday morning will be the busy one for commitments. I'll have more on the guys who aren't coming and the additions in the coming article.

And sorry for no player cards, guys. Those cards will be in the article.

QB Angelo Renda - commit
RB Damon Ferguson
RB Christian Lawrence
WR Dylan Wester - commit
WR Demetrice McCray - commit
WR Larry Miles
WR Jeffar Jean-Noel
WR Jaydon Dunbar
TE Javonte Williams
TE Wyatt Villareal
OL Nicholas Howard
OL Mike Vanderoord
OL Landry Brede
DT Lincoln Hoke
DE Logan Nagle
DE Reston Lehman
LB Marcus Jennings - commit
LB Colsen Gatten
LB Isaiah Simmons - commit
S Isaac Patterson
CB Kentrail Mcrae
CB Xavier Jackson

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Mason Wilhelm - a 6-foot-4, 290-pound offensive lineman from Westlake, OH - was scheduled to take an official visit to Pitt from June 12-14. That won't happen now that he's committed to North Carolina following an official visit. He's the latest recruit to commit elsewhere - before a Pitt OV.

Adam Shaw (Rutgers), Davis Kinney (Northwestern) and Tyler Duell (Rutgers) all committed off of first visits, too. All three were slated to take official visits to Pittsburgh this month. Pitt didn't have any official visitors this weekend, with three official visit weekends on the horizon.

Let's call this the Backyard Brawl edition thanks to Beanie Bishop

It looks like you can only have 15 players on your roster this fall. This includes walkons. If this is true Pitt only has one scholarship to give for the 2025-26 season.

This is from the Athletic so no doubt maybe behind a paywall. But it is long and comprehensive.


But this was interesting and cut and pasted it from the article:

The last five drafts include players from the 2015 through the 2022 recruiting cycles. Only one of the top 15 programs in terms of producing NFL talent over the last five years ranked outside of the top 25 when it came to average recruiting class rankings: South Carolina, which still ranked in the top 30.

What’s far more impressive from a development standpoint are the Power 4 programs that ranked outside of the top 40 in recruiting rankings yet produced NFL talent at a top-40 level.

The Pitt Panthers top the list among those schools with 20 draft picks over the last five years, including two first-rounders — second most in the ACC behind Clemson (22). Of those 20 picks, only three were transfers, and among the 17 homegrown talents, only one was a blue-chip recruit coming out of high school (safety Damar Hamlin).

So much change here recently.

While there always existed the bluebloods and powers, this shows just how concentrated the power has become.

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Its now almost noon. No new articles for two days, no news on prospect camp that karl and paul were covering. This site not great

I posted this link in the OV thread, but I want to get it out there again. We've got the full list of official visitors and my thoughts on who the top commitment targets will be.