Pat Narduzzi had this quote when talking about AJ Woods on Wednesday:
"I probably screwed that up. I should have offered him immediately. But I believe he ran the fastest 40 time in camp, and I'll just give it to you, because he may not be the fastest, but he ran a legit 4.4 on our turf indoors -- 4.3, I'm getting corrected back there. It was a 4.3. Sorry, A.J."
And he added this about the delay in offering Woods:
"But A.J., again, fast, cover guy, didn't have many balls thrown at him this year because he was locked down. He's a guy that likes to press. He was a guy that, like I said, took me a couple weeks to offer him. I was kind of waiting on somebody else. Finally I just said hey, this guy's too good of a football player, we're going. And, you know, I appreciate him having patience and trust in who we were."
I added the bold there, because ever since Narduzzi said that, I wondered who he might have been talking about. I didn't think he meant MJ Devonshire, since that recruitment was really just starting to get rolling. It might have been Dequanteous Watts, because he had been on campus for a camp, but I didn't think they were that far along with him either.
Tonight, I think I figured it out:
Mullen was on the June official visit weekend that produced 9 commitments, so it would stand to reason that Narduzzi was looking for a verbal from Mullen as well. I'm thinking that Mullen was the one Narduzzi was referencing and given that Pitt seems to be content with one cornerback in the class - aside from Devonshire - I'm wondering if Woods took the spot Mullen could have had.
That's not to say Pitt turned Mullen away; I don't know if it got to that point. But adding things up, it looks like Mullen was the CB in question, and he might have lost a potential spot when Woods committed.
Just something I was thinking about tonight.
"I probably screwed that up. I should have offered him immediately. But I believe he ran the fastest 40 time in camp, and I'll just give it to you, because he may not be the fastest, but he ran a legit 4.4 on our turf indoors -- 4.3, I'm getting corrected back there. It was a 4.3. Sorry, A.J."
And he added this about the delay in offering Woods:
"But A.J., again, fast, cover guy, didn't have many balls thrown at him this year because he was locked down. He's a guy that likes to press. He was a guy that, like I said, took me a couple weeks to offer him. I was kind of waiting on somebody else. Finally I just said hey, this guy's too good of a football player, we're going. And, you know, I appreciate him having patience and trust in who we were."
I added the bold there, because ever since Narduzzi said that, I wondered who he might have been talking about. I didn't think he meant MJ Devonshire, since that recruitment was really just starting to get rolling. It might have been Dequanteous Watts, because he had been on campus for a camp, but I didn't think they were that far along with him either.
Tonight, I think I figured it out:
Mullen was on the June official visit weekend that produced 9 commitments, so it would stand to reason that Narduzzi was looking for a verbal from Mullen as well. I'm thinking that Mullen was the one Narduzzi was referencing and given that Pitt seems to be content with one cornerback in the class - aside from Devonshire - I'm wondering if Woods took the spot Mullen could have had.
That's not to say Pitt turned Mullen away; I don't know if it got to that point. But adding things up, it looks like Mullen was the CB in question, and he might have lost a potential spot when Woods committed.
Just something I was thinking about tonight.
