Isaiah Denis will be on campus for his official visit starting tomorrow and is there until the 31st.

Omari Witherspoon will then be on campus from the 1st-2nd

Although I do contribute, I'm not a big dog. However, I thought HL was doing a good job, especially as related to facilities and contributions.

Not sure in what direction Pitt goes. Hopefully this isn't another Jackie Sherrill fiasco. Because of the Posvar's and Bosick's stupidity and lack of vision, Pitt athletics has suffered for many years. If fact, they haven't recovered as yet.

4-14 including bowl games? Do I have that correct? Holy shit that is bad.

6 Missouri
13 OK St
14 K St
15 OU
21 Iowa State
23 Nebraska

And then Kansas has been good and Colorado is one of the most interesting teams in the nation.

@Chris Peak @JimHammett, I know PN doesn’t go much into injuries unless someone out for the year…

but from your inside knowledge will:

Fitz be back this week? A. Johnson timeline to return?

Is Keye Thompson expected to play. Him & George have made a nice combo at MLB. If he’s not back who will spot George at MLB?

Any chance Goff is due back?

1. 4 million.
That tells you all you need to know about blue blood cash.

Again, as my post last week saying 10 wins was on the table, solely based on schedule, Reid, if he stays healthy, also can rack up massive stats. Did you know, he has never lost a fumble in college? That will likely change, however, thru 2 games:

Rushing
33 carries
293 yards
1 td

Receiving
9 receptions
117 yards
1 td

Returns
1 return
78 yards
1 td

ACC Volleyball looking strong!

Pretty clear you have to get someone who knows money and fundraising and NIL. Maybe take a look at top twenty NIL fund raisers and offer a current associate AD or someone within a surprising school the job. I do not know who is in top twenty but you probably steer away from anyone from Texas or Ohio State or any other school that simply will get funds just because. But say there is someone like Boise State on that list (doubtful but…) go after them like hell.

I know that Darelle Revis posted about Chris LaSala but if he had ideas different than Lyke he wasn’t able to convince her of them.

I have seen names like Pat Bostick, Fitz, Reddick and Wanny thrown out there but this is a time to go after an out of the box brilliant mind and perhaps set a future that works and would work even if the person left in years to come.

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Build a Brand New, State of the Art, on Campus Football Stadium…and I’ll Get West Virginia to pay for the entire project!

Here's what the Browns gave up:

Watson trade terms​

Cleveland sent six draft picks, including three first-rounders, Houston's way in exchange for Watson:

• A 2022 first-round pick (13th)
• A 2022 fourth-round pick (104)
• A 2023 first-round pick (12)
• A 2023 third-round pick (73)
• A 2024 first-round pick (23)
• A 2024 fourth-round pick (123)

And signed him to a GUARANTEED $230 million. His Cap hit over the next 2 years will be 25% of the Browns total cap value.

This is a franchise killing trade.

Interesting timing for sure..congrats to them

Too bad we couldn't rent Corleone for a weekend, #H2P

I don't know how realistic this is, but I think we can all agree AD's focus has changed considerably with football NIL. Why not just explore creating a new position for someone who becomes more of a business manager for Athletic financials, including a heavy presence in fundraising, maybe even with co-direct reporting to the Chancellor and the AD. Leave the rest of the day-to-day of other Athletic responsibilities to the AD, which are numerous.

This feels like something "significant" must have occurred between ADHD and the Chancellor. I just hope this wasn't cutting off your nose to spite your face.

Took exactly one snap to fumble the ball, and then one more to throw wildly inaccurately, and then had to take a timeout because he couldn't get a play off.

So off to a great start!

2 Legends

Inadequacies as the Chancellor? with a few of our ex “athletes “on the board ..maybe they are pressuring her to get the university’s act together around the impending winds of change.. thereby Lyke as scapegoat?
Guess we will know soon but just a thought

For the first time in seven years, Pitt is looking for a new athletic director. What does the athletic department need in its next leader? We're talking about the key qualifications on today's Morning Pitt.

and raised our overall athletic profile considerably. She had to be trying to leverage her success to date for a raise or trying to use other University's interest as leverage and the Chancellor called bullsh*t. She was the best AD Pitt had in ages.

I think I have been the only one critical of Lyke on this board. Football has the lowest talent level since Majors 2 and men's basketball, despite it looking like Capel has turned the corner still isnt winning at a level which pleases everybody. I do like Capel and think he has the program in the right spot going forward. This season should be his best team.

I dont think football or basketball success had as much to do with this decision as the decision to build Victory Heights. I have said over and over that that was a terrible decision. TERRIBLE. And to make things worse, the university had to debt finance most of it. Imagine Gabel's surprise when she took a look at the university's financial record and she sees a large quarterly bond interest expense being paid for an arena for teams who already have an arena. And yea, I know, the Field House is a dump at this point but the 3 sports dont make money. Money matters and Pitt never has enough. Volleyball has shown they dont need a new arena to compete. Maybe they would have lost Fisher if they didnt build the arena, but really, so what. Its nice to have a great volleyball program but most Pitt fans dont go to their games or watch them on TV. Its nice that they are good but its not needed.

Pitt has 2 pro sports. I am sorry but this is what it is. And these arent even "minor league" as some people say. These are major revenue producers....almost NHL-level in terms of revenue. College football is the #2 sport in America. College basketball is #5 ahead of NHL and MLS. Pitt needs these programs to keep most if its money instead of redistributing to pay for Olympic Sports. There's just not enough to go around or to be wasted on a volleyball arena. I also wonder if the fact it was built in really the only place a football stadium could go futher irked her. The Pete is 22 years old. College arenas have a long shelf life but if we had the money, we could have knocked it down and wedged in a 45K seat football stadium and new 9K seat basketball arena there.

I think being late to the NIL game and Pitt's lack of emphasis on fundraising played a part but I think she deserved to be cut some slack here. I dont think a lot of people envisioned NIL to just be pay for play. All of the schools, Pitt included are committing major NCAA violations but the NCAA isnt enforcing anything.

All this said, I wouldn't have fired her. I was hoping she got the NW job or another job. But maybe the financials on the volleyball arena are just that bad. Also, the timing of this is terrible. You dont do it right after the best comeback in years. And not during Brawl Week. It could have waited.

Per Starkey.