Excluding Dan Marino
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Top 5 QB with at least 5000 yards based on QBR:
Peterman
Palko
Sunseri
Rutherford
Stull
My top 5 based on the eye test and their best performances:
Peterman
Palko
Rutherford
Gonzalez
Priestley
Peterman
Palko
Sunseri
Rutherford
Stull
My top 5 based on the eye test and their best performances:
Peterman
Palko
Rutherford
Gonzalez
Priestley
Cavanaugh surpasses them all. He ran a veer offense and was so highly regarded, his Sr year he was considered a Heisman Candidate until he broke his wrist in the 1st game.
Pete's senior year is more impressive than anything we've had since. If you understand his circumstances what he was working with, the scheme employed, and the competition, it's an easy choice.
Liked Trocano and Gonzales too...all good names....
Many were “gamers”....some were just good at picking up impressive stats for themselves, but never engineered a comeback of any sort....
Didn’t Gonzales beat ND in Pitt stadiums last game? 20 years ago....yikes.
Many were “gamers”....some were just good at picking up impressive stats for themselves, but never engineered a comeback of any sort....
Didn’t Gonzales beat ND in Pitt stadiums last game? 20 years ago....yikes.
Such a great and yet debatable topic. I tried to come up with a top 5 from 2000 and even that is hard.
savage only being here a year makes it tough. Give him another year at pitt and I think he had the makings of a top 5. Nate did some good things too. Give him a third year and he’d probably be in the mix with palko and Rod.
savage only being here a year makes it tough. Give him another year at pitt and I think he had the makings of a top 5. Nate did some good things too. Give him a third year and he’d probably be in the mix with palko and Rod.
Gonzalez was gone after 1997. The last game at Pitt Stadium was in 1999 so that was John Turman under center.
But the season Gonzalez had in 1997 certainly ranks among the best in school history. He was excellent.
Think he had 6 or 7 TDs against Rutgers that year. He did have a great year.
Pete Gonzales had a phenomenal senior year considering where the program was at at the time. He will always be one of my all time favorites. His presence in the pocket was outstanding. He wasn't quick or fast but he had an amazing ability to avoid a sack by shuffling a step or two to his right or left while keeping his eyes downfield.
Cavanaugh, Rutheford, Palko, and Van Pelt are no brainers using my criteria. Congemi is my pick for the fifth. That said, tough to cobble a list without due consideration to those who played prior to 1960.
Great thread.
Dont overlook Lytle. He had a cup of coffee in the NFL despite playing for probbaly the worst pitt team I ever saw. (I was still in high school for 96)
How do you judge this? Most wins? NFL futures? Just our subjective opinion?
I will go since I have followed pitt.
Pistol Pete had one great year, resulting in 6 win.
Lytle won 2 games made the NFL.
Turman/Priestly kind of blend together for me as neither really stepped up.
Rutherford benefits from Larry Fitz and that Fade pass to a boatload of TDs.
Palko without looking probbaly has the most wins as he played 3 years correct?
Who comes next?
Savage/Stull?
Tino
Voytik
Peterson was great for a 1.5 years but probbaly loses luster because of his NFL flameout.
Couple forgotten transfers then Kenny
I would say Palko, Peterman, Rutherford, Stull, Gonzalez, and Savage/Pickett honorable mention
Dont overlook Lytle. He had a cup of coffee in the NFL despite playing for probbaly the worst pitt team I ever saw. (I was still in high school for 96)
How do you judge this? Most wins? NFL futures? Just our subjective opinion?
I will go since I have followed pitt.
Pistol Pete had one great year, resulting in 6 win.
Lytle won 2 games made the NFL.
Turman/Priestly kind of blend together for me as neither really stepped up.
Rutherford benefits from Larry Fitz and that Fade pass to a boatload of TDs.
Palko without looking probbaly has the most wins as he played 3 years correct?
Who comes next?
Savage/Stull?
Tino
Voytik
Peterson was great for a 1.5 years but probbaly loses luster because of his NFL flameout.
Couple forgotten transfers then Kenny
I would say Palko, Peterman, Rutherford, Stull, Gonzalez, and Savage/Pickett honorable mention
Lytle was probably the most gifted QB we’ve had. Guy had great arm, good size and was an excellent athlete. I always wondered if we could implant Pistol Pete’s work ethic into Lytle’s body, we’d have had an All American Qb under Walt
I forgot about John Turman. His 2000 season was pretty impressive. Neither him nor Priestley were well regarded but both were quality QBs for us.
A good senior season and I think he moves ahead of Tino and still and into the groupings of players like Nate. Still below palko, Rod, AVP, congemi but definitely in that 3rd pairing.
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I’d put him ahead of the bosticks and voytiks now.
Pistol Pete languished on the bench for 4 years under Majors II. I was at Notre Dame in '93 when Majors blew his redshirt by putting him into a blowout late in the game. He redshirted later and was going to go on with his life when Walt talked him into staying a 5th year. He's been one of my all time Panthers ever since. Remember 4th and 17 to Jake Hoffart.
I've shared this before. But my freshman year at pitt was Pete's last. We had a history class together in the Cathedral. He sat in t the same desk each class. One day I happened to grab a seat next to him and noticed carved into the wooden desk was his name multiple times. I assume he did it....
IMO - Congemi is the most overrated QB.
55% - Career Completions
6467 - Career Yardage
42-TD and 32-INT
55% - Career Completions
6467 - Career Yardage
42-TD and 32-INT
Pretty sad state of affairs when we think of Congemi being #5. He had 1 good year - 1983. 2 awful years - '84 and '85 ( yeah... probably injured but still... the guy had accuracy issues circa Kenny Pickett '18 ). '86 he had a few great games but was injured (again) and didn't finish the season. I think this puts Peterman or Pete over him.
I think he was a better than you do, but point taken. I didn't consider any one year wonders and discounted transfers when compiling the list. When you apply that criteria, you're left with slim pickings.
I somehow forgot Palko. I would put him 4th and bump Priestley, but he was a very solid QB for sure.
Good memory thanks. I have a poster hanging in my man cave, and was trying to remember when it was....
Pitt ND’s finale in the stadium...I had friends who were on the field as alumni...was there with my bride and now 40 year old daughter.
Who could forget Priestley's 99 yard draw play in the first game ever at Heinz Field? I think we were playing East Tennessee State? Not the most fleet of foot QB but he had about a 10 yard gap in the line to run through.
I dont believe it was 99 yards ,but the rest is correct. I seem to think it was in the 80 yard range.
Tom Yewcic....absolutely saved our bacon during the national championship run.
I disagree. Congemi was playing pretty darn well when he broke his back at Syracuse. I don't think stats tell the whole story as to how competitive Congemi was.
I forgot about that. Don't know the exact yardage but that field opened up like the Red Sea and I kept waiting for someone to catch him but they never did.
His ineptitude is on full display on YT: '84 BYU and South Carolina. '85: NC State.
I think congemi and Dickerson fall in the over rated categories. Both surrounded by sick talent so their inefficiencies were masked but in reality, both were not really good college qbs.
I will admit, I was real young so didn’t have an expert eye for congemi. I loved Dickerson as a young lad too but the more games I watch of him, the more I wonder about why I liked him so much.
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