Watched the end of their game at Syracuse. Not sure how good/bad Syracuse is but L'ville is playing some really good ball right now. It made me feel better about Saturday's results. Didn't realize they had reeled off that many ACC wins in a row.

Combined 0-11 to finish the season.

Pitt dropped from No. 22 to No. 27 in the NET rankings after yesterday's loss to Louisville.

The Panthers are now 1-3 in Quad 1 games, 2-1 in Quad 2 (yesterday was their first Q2 loss) and 9-0 in Quad 3/4 games.

Quarterback (3)

1. Eli Holstein Soph.
2. Julian Dugger R-FR
3. Mason Heintschel FR

Running Back (7)

1. Derrick Davis SR
2. Demond Reid SR
3. Che Nwabuko JR
4. Juelz Goff R-FR
5. Synkwan Smith FR
6. Jaylin Brown FR
7. Jykyrian Turner FR

Wide Receiver (12)

1. Raphael Williams SR
2. Censere Lee SR
3. Deuce Spann SR (Transfer)
4. Kenny Johnson JR
5. Zion Fowler-El Soph.
6. Blue Hicks Soph. (Transfer)
7. Andy Jean Soph. (Transfer)
8. Cameron Monteiro R-FR
9. Tyreek Robinson R-FR
10. Tony Kinsler FR
11. Bryce Yates FR
12. Cameron Sapp FR

Tight End (4)

1. Jake Overman SR
2. Jake Renda Jr.
3. Malachi Thomas SO
4. Max Hunt FR

Offensive Line (19)

1. Lyndon Cooper SR
2. Terrence Enos SR
3. Keith Gouveia SR (Transfer)
4. Kendall Stanley JR (Transfer)
5. Ryan Baer JR
6. Jackson Brown JR
7. Isaiah Montgomery JR
8. BJ Williams JR
9. Ryan Carretta SO
10. Tai Ray SO
11. Adham Abouraya R-FR
12. Jiavani Cooley R-FR
13. Caleb Holmes R-FR
14. Mason Lindsay R-FR
15. Moritz Schmoranzer R-FR
16. Shep Turk FR
17. Akram Elnagmi FR
18. Torian Chester FR
19. Jordan Fields FR

Defensive Tackle (7)

1. Nick James JR
2. Sean FitzSimmons JR
3. Isaiah Neal SO
4. Francis Brewu SO
5. Jahsear Whittington R-FR
6. Ty Yuhas R-FR
7. Trevor Sommers FR

Defensive End (9)

1. Nate Temple SR (Assuming he gets waiver)
2. Blaine Spires SR (Transfer)
3. Joey Zelinsky SR (Transfer)
4. Jimmy Scott JR
5. Jaeden Moore Soph. (Transfer)
6. Maverick Gracio Soph.
7. Zach Crothers R-FR
8. Denim Cook FR
9. Julian Anderson FR

Linebacker (9)

1. Nick Lapi SR
2. Kyle Louis JR
3. Braylan Lovelace JR
4. Rasheem Biles JR
5. Davin Brewton R-FR
6. Cameron Lindsey R-FR
7. Jeremiah Marcelin R-FR
8. Justin Thompson FR
9. Emmanuel Taylor FR

Cornerback (8)

1. Tamon Lynun SR
2. Rashad Battle SR
3. Rashan Murray SR (Transfer)
4. Shadarian Harrison SO
5. Nigel Maynard R-FR
6. Davion Pritchard R-FR
7. Mason Alexander FR
8. Shawn Lee FR

Safety (8)

1. Javon McIntyre SR
2. Kavir Bains SR (Transfer)
3. Jesse Anderson SO
4. Jayden Bonsu SO (Transfer)
5. Cruce Brookins SO
6. Allen Bryant R-FR
7. Joshua Guerrier FR
8. Cole Woodson FR

Specialist (3)

1. Caleb Junko SR
2. Nilay Upadhyayula SR
3. James London JR (Transfer)

Just hilarious how soft kids are, this kid has been enrolled for less than a month and is already transferring because he realizes that he might not start as a true freshman.

QB Transferring

Not even interested in going through spring practices or training camp lol.

It's now been a week since the NCAA semis...
In retrospect, I believe all 4 teams were capable of beating one another. 'Though Penn State certainly wouldn't have been my odds-on favorite to win the title.
I'm sure that Nebraska, Penn State, Louisville + the 5 and 6 teams, Stanford and Creighton are all looking to reload/upgrade their teams. Regretfully, I don't think Pitt's 2025 front-line players (i.e., starters) will be an upgrade from 2024. The good news is that the return of the core group of Babcock and Safford + the 2 MBs. Assuming no health challenges, they should only get better.
-Fairbanks - I think the best we can hope for from the Haiti/Mosher combination is to APPROACH Fairbanks' level of play. No way will it be an upgrade. Both on and off the floor, her leadership presence will be missed.
-Klicka - With all of the "uneven" feedback on the volleyball thread about her performance vis-a-via other top liberos, Fisher was always very supportive and complimentary of her play (at least in public). Again, at best, unless Meyer/Dupes are real surprises, I think the best to hope for is flat year-to-year performance.
-VVG - I would have hoped to see a 6 rotation player come in through the portal. So it appears that for now, Bayliss will move into this slot. However, despite some of VVG's occasional back row errors, Bayliss will be a downgrade defensively. She certainly didn't step up when Pitt could have really used a jump start in the 4th vs. Louisville - if I recall, two receiving errors and a 000 hitting %. While she has a bigger arm that VVG, she'll have to become far less predictable than going full tilt cross-court.
*In addition to these personnel changes, I think the team, collectively (with the exception of Babcock and Meyer), needs to be more aggressive serving. Especially against elite teams. In the semis (and vs. OK or Oregon for that matter), I think Pitt was out of system far more than Louisville. In a match where sets 2 and 3 were even, as Fisher said in his post-game interview, they didn't win a few big points. They won those points all season.

Lol. Any decent offensive tackles at Geneva we can complement this addition with?

Surprised he didn’t go pro. He’s 23 years old to boot.

Run an offense

Any tennis fans here? I never liked it all my life. Then I got into gambling a few years ago. Suddenly tennis was a lot of fun.

The 4 majors are the most fun, as the best of 5 matches bring out the best in everyone, and they can have insane momentum swings. The women do still play best of 3 in the majors.

The men are so ridiculously good. I have a lot of respect for them. Had I actually watched them play years ago, I probably would have noticed this, but I thought tennis wasn't for football and basketball fans.

The women are very good too, but there's a giant difference in ground covered and ball speed in men vs women. And women have a lot more trouble holding serve, making them the more difficult side to wager on.

Australian native Nick Kyrgios lost last night. Not unexpected. He was hurt last year. He's one of the most entertaining players out there.

I'm a big fan of Ben Shelton, who won the singles national championship at Florida a few years ago. He's still probably too inexperienced to win this, but he could make a 1/4 final for sure.

Jannik Sinner is the men's favorite at +110. Carlos "the kid" Alcaraz is next at +320, and Joker is +700. Sinner was probably the best player in the world in 2024. If you made me pick, I'd take Sinner or Carlos to win it all, but I could also see Zverev, Medvedev, Rune, and maybe Fritz winning.

Aryna Sabalenka is the women's favorite at +160, followed by "queen" Iga Swiatek of Poland at +430, and then Coco Gauff, an American fan favorite, at +500. I would pick Iga to win, and also throw in there Qinwen Zheng and Elena Rybakina as having a chance.

But in either the men or women, there could be someone coming out of the cut to make noise.

Probably any of the top 20 favorites on either side could win it. There's more parity than in college football.

Tennis basically operates on a calendar year, so this is the first big event of the new season. I do like to wait a few months into the new year to see who has the best form before I really wager on anyone. The unknown of the new year leads to a lot of excitement and upsets.

It's the ACC, so it shouldn't be THAT tough but our next 10 games all happen to be against NCAAT teams or teams that still have a chance. Except Syracuse but that's on the road and I dont think Capel has won there when there wasnt an insurrection going on.

@ Duke
Lou
@ FSU
Clem
@ Syr
UNC
@ Wake
UVa
@ UNC
@ SMU

6-4 would be good. 5-5 acceptable. 4-6 and its back to the bubble.

To add to the list Chris posted about yesterday....

Joey Zelinski, a 6-4 250-pound DE from Eastern Michigan tells me he is also visiting right now. Zelinsky would have one year to play and is a Pennsylvania native, and attended Blue Mountain HS, the same HS as Gavin Bartholomoew. Zelinsky was a senior when Gavin was a junior in HS, so they were former teammates...

He had 67 tackles, 11.5 TFLs, and 3.5 sacks the past two seasons for EMU.

In another thread, it basically implied that Holstein was not playing in the bowl game. We need him to win and avoid an embarrassing loss to a MAC team. We cant win with a third string walk on.
I cant imagine after 5-6 weeks or more off, Holstein is not healed and ready to play? Why the heck would he not play? He is a redshirt freshman QB, you dont opt out of a teams bowl game. I cant imagine that being true. If you are a team player, you play. This has me both perplexed and pissed. Thoughts?

Torrey Stafford has announced that she's transferring to Texas.