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Brice pollack

What was the obstacle to beating a horrific Georgia Tech team or a bad Louisville team? What's the obstacle to not recruiting at a G5 level?
There is nothing about Pitt that appeals to high level recruits when compared to the schools that get those recruits.
 
LOL. 12 All-conference players this year. Our recruiting sucks. :rolleyes:

Exactly..

Either our recruiting sucks or the coaching does but if one admits one it doesn't favor their bias.

During the season - Duzz sucks, Cigs sucks, Bates doesn't make any adjustments, why can't we coach these 3 star athletes up???

End of season - PITT loses a few recruits - "recruiting sucks!"

Which one is the scapegoat - recruiting or coaching?

LOL...
 
And how did we get there?

2016 - 31
2017 - 37
2018 - 48
2019 - 58
2020 - 42
2021 - 33

Basically, we've recruited in the middle of the pack in the ACC or slightly above it, and we've had a decent quarterback more often than not.

Right now, we are third to last in the ACC in recruiting. Last year, we were dead last. And our quarterback sucks, and supposedly it took a pretty decent NIL deal to even get him here. So yeah... we've held our own in the ACC. But we're not exactly laying the framework to continue that. It might not show up next year. But it will eventually.

Obviously, recruiting is about a few years down the line. It's why I'm in shock when people say things like, "This new coach just brought in a top 10 class, and they went 5-7! He must suck." As if you're recruiting for the imminent season only.
Obviously, with 12 all-conference players, the coaches' abilities to judge and develop talent is better than the rating services.
 
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Obviously, with 12 all-conference players, the coaches' abilities to judge and develop talent is better than the rating services.

Yeah, you don't get what I'm saying. My point was that classes in the 30s and low 40s aren't that bad. We're nowhere near that now.
 
These kids aren’t bailing on Pitt because of NIL. They’re getting offers from programs that are more desirable to them for whatever their own reasons are that they didn’t have when they first committed.

This has been Pitt’s place for the last 35 years. Blaming it on the new NIL is laughable. Nobody, with the arguable exception of a couple of Wanny cycles, has been able to meaningfully elevate recruiting to the point where it consistently makes a noticeable difference on Saturdays. Having the annual future NFL stud or two doesn’t overcome mediocre overall team
talent and depth.
Pollack is cousins with Barden, who just entered the portal.
 
Or he might just be getting offers from teams/schools he’d rather play for/attend. Or maybe he followed Pitt closely all season and wasn’t impressed.

Since we’re speculating rampantly that is.

This was the same BS excuse for lackluster recruiting we’ve been reading on this board for decades, long before NIL. “They’re getting paid! Pitt doesn’t play that game.”
I agree we're speculating rampantly because that's all we really can do. From what he told PSN, it's an SEC school and closer to home.

On another note, any info on the MSU QB who decommitted? Wonder if Pitt is kicking the tires since he went to the same HS as Yarnell.
 
Losing 5 or 6 guys is hardly falling apart. Just about every staff has contingency plans and are braced to lose up to half their early commits. It's an accepted part of the process and every staff over plans for it.

LSU just recently had a kid flip to a school without a coach. Has nothing to do with how your program is perceived.
It’s a third of the class, and our big qb commitment….
 
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