@WPIALinsider this is a bad idea if you're a Pitt fan, don't you think? He's just going to shit on Duzz and Pitt, blaming them for his failures.

Should go over well with WPIAL recruiting efforts.

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No not football. But hockey. Now that we have NIL, the big hockey schools can go after kids who would ordinarily play in Canadian Jr's for shoe money to now 6 figure salaries.

They have already inked Jackson Smith, a surefire 1st rd pick in this year's draft. But....get this. They could also get Gavin McKenna. McKenna is the "next one" eligible for the 26 draft and the best prospect since Sid and McDavid. Also potential top 5 picks in this draft Michael Misa and Porter Martone, though seems unlikely as they are likely going to play in the NHL next week. But this approach makes sense. Expect some of the others like Michigan, ND, Mich State, BC, Harvard to go after the top Canadian kids.

Already committed:
WR Demetrice McCray – (3-Star) Commit – 7 P4 offers
LB Marcus Jennings – (3-Star) Commit – 4 P4 offers
WR Dylan Wester – (3-Star) Commit – 2 P4 offers
QB Angelo Renda – (3-Star) Commit – 1 P4 offer
S Isaac Patterson – (3-Star) Commit - 0 P4 offers

Newest Commits
OL John Curran - N/A - 0 P4 offers
DT Lincoln Hoke – (3-Star) – 1 P4 offer
WR Jaydon Dunbar - (4- Star) – 12 P4 offers
DE Reston Lehman – (3-Star) - 18 P4 offers - ESPN 300
CB Kentrail McRae – (3-Star) - 6 P4 offers
LB Isaiah Simmons – (3-Star) - 7 P4 offers
OL Nicholas Howard – N/A - 3 P4 offers
TE Wyatt Villareal – (3-Star) – 3 P4 offers
OL Mike Vanderoord – (3-Star) – 1 P4 offer
RB Damon Ferguson - (4- Star) – 21 P4 offers ESPN 300

Please add new ones on this thread

Is involved in some really cool initiatives and is doing great things in the community. He stopped by my PG podcast and we took some walks down memory lane. FFW to the :15 minute mark for where he joins me....

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Real America first conservatives who supported Trump overwhelmingly are against getting involved with the Zionists terrorism

He’s already pissed a lot of people off by backing off deporting illegals working in Ag and Hotels This will be the final straw

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No shockingly all the main stream media have dubbed it “trumps military parade” removing the army anniversary out of the title all together even though the celebration has been in the works for multiple administrations.

Expecting “mostly peaceful” to hit multiple times on my bingo card as msm will put at least half their coverage on the left wing virtue signaling instead of celebrating all the achievements the Army has accomplished since its creation including our independence.

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Welcome to my redshirt diaries. I was tied up for three days covering the damn U.S. Open so I have a lot to catch with you on with respect to the settlement. The good news is the U.S. Open only comes around every 9-10 years so I am done with that for a while. There have been so many developments since we last checked in on the settlement so I am just going to try and make sure that I get to them all. Karl did a bang up job the last few days keeping up on all the developments with respect to the huge weekend of recruiting. This has been a much bigger two weeks than anyone could have anticipated and that speaks volumes about how hard Narduzzi and company work at recruiting. And the thing is there is a lot of quality and really good recruiting wins in this class. I bet, once it is all said and done, it will be a top 30, maybe a top 25 class and considering some of the things we have talked about limiting Pitt, that would be amazing.

This will be my final installment focused on the settlement stuff and then we will go back to normal Redshirt Diaries focused on Pitt and Pitt related tea. I am still pushing for us (the media) to get an audience with Allen Greene, which would answer many questions for us.

At any rate, let's get started....

* As I said when we last met I would be monitoring the Congress's push to try and get into regulating college athletics. I am happy to report like pretty much everything else Congress touches, they pretty much screwed this up as well. They can't agree on much, they have a bunch of posers with opposing ideas and thoughts and so these hearings have been a big waste of time. And look, I will put this in all caps just in case some people have forgotten the rules about politics - THIS IS NOT A POLITICAL TOPIC - so please don't spiral into idiotic "MAGA People are to blame" "no it is the libtards" and all that mess. I am going to present the facts and hopefully if there is a discussion it is on the merits of the arguments being made. In general, Republicans are siding with the NCAA and trying to "codify" the settlement as the rule of law to offer protection from many of the legal challenges and lawsuits and whatnot. The Republicans basically want to offer some protection to the NCAA. Democrats, IN GENERAL, have been very skeptical of the move because they believe that it will basically reverse the progress made by athletes in terms of gaining their voice and their rights. That is in a nutshell - again in general - where both sides are at. It is pretty much on brand as Republicans, in general, are going to side with protecting the big guys and Democrats are, in general, going to side with protecting the little guys. The crux of it all is the SCORE act - (The Student Compensation and Opportunity through Rights and Endorsements) is - aimed at standardizing name, image and likeness opportunities for student athletes. There are many quotes out there but this probably is the most direct quote about what the opposition to this bill is:

"Rep. Lori Trahan further eviscerates the discussion draft bill: “I just want to get this straight. This committee is considering a bill that rolls back athlete rights, blocks progress and gives little in return? I think we can do a lot better.”

This is why there have been 13 hearings on this and none of them have produced any progress at all. I honestly think that this will never see the light of day.

I think this deserves its own thread, because we now have as many commits from state of Texas in the class of 2026 than we’ve had in every prior recruiting class combined under Pat Narduzzi (2015-25)… what led to this development?

We have no assistant coaches hailing from any Texas university, and the only assistant with any prior coaching experience in Texas is DL Coach Tim Daoust (Sam Houston State, 2019-20). Has SMU’s presence in the ACC really made a difference, if any? Have we suddenly decided to invest heavily in the Lonestar State seemingly out of nowhere? The only way this would make sense was if we hired Mack Leftwich instead of Kade Bell last year… any ideas?

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so i predicted absolute mayhem, a blooper reel due to rough and 300 yard par threes and a 640 yard par 5.

As most of my predictions go, completely opposite of reality. there are like 20 guys under par, these dudes are killing it. very early though and 2 more days of 85 degree weather and winds will tame these guys a bit as the greens harden but then again, some rain on saturday can help them.

Manalac getting it done.

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Nailed it

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