On a special Thursday edition of the Morning Pitt Mailbag, we're taking questions from Pitt fans about the Panthers' reworked offensive line, Pat Narduzzi's best defensive backs, running back comparisons and more.

Where is everyone staying for the SMU game. Haven't booked a hotel yet, so wasn't sure if there was a pitt friendly hotel.

I'm also assuming that they can't wait for the results of our game on Thursday.

I assume the coaches will all be at high school games this weekend.

Dotson is now just outside of the top 100 and Fowles is a 4 Star WR. A bunch of smile upgrades across the board shot Pitts overall ranking up.

Join Jim and me for this week's LIVE Panther-Lair Show tonight at 8:30 pm to talk about the 6-0 start, the coming hoops season and a lot more with your comments and questions.

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Enough .. This guy is not an NFL starting Qb ..

??? Who's got the scoop. When? Where? Against?

George Pickens told Adam Schefter he believes the Steelers have the coaches and talent to win back to back Super Bowls: “Kind of like what people can relate to now is the modern-day Chiefs I guess you could say, I mean they are just winning Super Bowls back to back. I feel like we have the same talent and the same coaches and the same organization to do the same thing as the Chiefs.” #Steelers #NFL

... last year it was on October 13.

With Pitt Football 6-0, Olympic sports doing well and Pitt Basketball being top 20-30 over past two seasons, and anticipating a good 2024-25 season, what period looking back over the past 20 years (or longer for some posters/subscribers) would you rate as the best for Pitt Sports in general?

"6. Miami
The Hurricanes are the ACC's lone remaining unbeaten, but have managed to escape multiple hiccups in recent weeks after fourth-quarter comebacks against Virginia Tech and Cal. Can Miami keep surviving late-game situations like this?"

Ive always liked this addition for the obvious reasons...

...but selfishly, I like it most because one of my good friends played at SMU and now we can talk trash.

And it's already started 😈

Hard to beat a good rivalry between friends

Good article on EH. I dont recall KP ever deferring to his teamates or shouldering the blame like EH.

Really looking forward to seeing how he responds against the Cuse. I'll be shocked if he doesnt have a huge game.

Records in last 13 games:

• Mack Brown: 5-8
• Sonny Dykes: 5-8
• Hugh Freeze: 5-8
• Lance Leipold: 5-8
• Billy Napier: 5-8
• Lincoln Riley: 5-8
• Deion Sanders: 5-8
• Scott Satterfield: 5-8
• Mark Stoops: 5-8
  
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• Pat Narduzzi 8-5
  And that’s with 7 of those 13 games from a 3-9 season with Cignetti, Jurkovec, & Co.

Other Notable Coaches in the ACC:

• Dabo Swinney 10-3
• Mike Norvell 7-6
• Dave Doeren 8-5
• Mario Cristobal 9-4
• Jeff Brohm 8-5

We’ve all had (and some may still have) our criticisms of Pat—about recruiting, coaching decisions, in-game management, preparation, or underperforming as favorites...
But is this 6-0 start with a "rookie" OC and a Freshman QB, cementing himself as one of the best coaches in the country (top 20%), and in the ACC (top 3)?

-1 ACC Championship
-2 ACC Coastal
-71 Wins & 50 Losses --> 58.7% winrate, roughly equal to Mike Norvell, Mack Brown, and Dave Doeren. Better than anyone else but Dabo.
-2 Bowl Wins
-1 NY6 Bowl

It's time for questions, so if you have something on your mind about Pitt football, basketball, recruiting or anything else, post it in this thread and we'll answer as many as we can in this week's Mailbag.

Thanks, as always, for participating.

Kenny "Transfer Portal" Minchey not pleased. Enjoy playing at App St, kid.

14 voters. Reid ended up with a vote. That was good for 11th place, with only 11 players receiving any votes. It’s a start to see him acknowledged here

Seeing how dead the board is with the team 6-0, while the rest of the city complains about a 4-2 Steelers team "not having a top passing attack" shows just how much Pittsburgh sports fans dont know what to do with themselves when they dont have something to bitch about.

Maybe its all fanbases, but it seems worse with this city

not sure how reid or holstein aren't newcomers of the year.

SIAP.. did anything ever get cleared up on that call?

I thik it was Battle who made that tackle which I thought was a great play in space.

Had never heard of that call on the defense let alone the way it played out because it didn’t look like that and never saw anything close to that?