McKeesport Players
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Psu has a branch campus over there so seems to be pro psu. Also I think the coach advises to leave the area or the kids want to leave the area. I guess Pittsburgh isn't far enough away. Regardless it sucks
Is McKeesport any rougher than Clairton or Aliquippa, to name a few other places? I don't know the backgrounds of any of the kids from McKeesport, but every struggling community has some areas that are good and some that are not, and all of them can't be from bad situations. There has to be something else going on.
Bingo! Other post above non factor for the 5-8 players that have actually received an offer from Pitt. Actually a brand new narrative that is irrelavent to these players.
Yeah the coach just wants players out of Mckeesport street and I guess Pitt pays the price for being close. But if ya think about it how many kids have come out of Mckeesport and really went on to big big things. I remember B Short. Anyone else went big time then pro in the last 20 years?
Mike Logan & Russell Stuvaints went pro. Several have gone D1. The only that I remember going to Pitt were Jason Chavis and John Marzock, but they were both in the early - mid 90's.
I went to elementary school with Jason Chavis in Mckeesport. Played Mustang baseball together too.
The one kid from a couple of years ago starts for USC and is a beast of a defensive tackle. The other kid in the same class started since his freshman year at Texas Tech. He is their rush end. I think his last name is Jackson.
They're obviously legit. Remind me about the kid at USC!!!? For some reason I forget the kid! What's that kids deal? I figured there were probably 5 over the years but forgot about the USC kid!
Greg i forgot his name. Remember he signed with UNC then backed out the last minute. Then went to USC. He's been starting for them since his Soph year. I watched him in the bowl game against Wisconsin this year. He was very good. I want to say he will be a senior this upcoming year? I think his last name is Henderson? I could be wrong
Yep! Now I remember. He would have made a difference for us! Smith's assistant is making an effort for the job so hopefully he's not an anti Pitt guy
To those parents wicking a well rounded
education for their children remember this:
The world looks a heluva lot more like Pitt than the gated KKK community to the east.
education for their children remember this:
The world looks a heluva lot more like Pitt than the gated KKK community to the east.
McKeesport produces a consistent number of players. Anthony Leonard went pro for a few years and is an assistant down in morgantown. People were talking about TJ Neal possibly transferring back to pitt.
Delvon Simmons is a Texas Tech transfer and a definite NFL player. I believe there were 2 local players who went to Texas Tech at the same time, not sure what happened to the other.
Yes. It's big so there are some ok areas but parts of it are right up there with homewood, central wilkensburg, and middle hills as the absolute worst in the county.
2 reasons: the old coach is rumored to hate Pitt
The other is that there is a Penn State branch campus in McKeesport making McKeesport kinda like PSU territory which makes kids naturally not like Pitt.
Pitt has done well recruiting areas demographically like McKeesport (Clairton, WH, Aliquippa) so those are the only differences. The branch campus thing makes a difference I think.
Mike Logan dreamed of coming to Pitt. Hackett did not offer him. That and then Pitt being so down in the '90s may have been a big part of why McKeesport kids pass on Pitt a lot. I think Chavis was actually a teammate of Logan, yet when they recruited him they still paid not attention to Logan. IMO Mike Logan would've been a great Panther.
