OL and DL Recruiting

[Gunga_Galunga]

I know several folks have said we aren't recruiting enough OL. So I took a look at both lines and going into next season Pitt will have:

OL - 11 on scholarship & 2 incoming recruits for 13 total
DL - 17 on scholarship & 3 incoming (maybe 4 pending Tim Brown) for 20 or 21 total. Don't know if anyone is leaving for draft yet.

That's a significant disparity in numbers. So, a few questions:

1) Does anyone know if any of the DL are candidates to flip over to OL?
2) Is Collier being moved from TE to OL like we all assumed?
3) What are the right numbers for OL and DL scholarships with 85 scholarships?

 

[gary2]

I know several folks have said we aren't recruiting enough OL. So I took a look at both lines and going into next season Pitt will have:

OL - 11 on scholarship & 2 incoming recruits for 13 total
DL - 17 on scholarship & 3 incoming (maybe 4 pending Tim Brown) for 20 or 21 total. Don't know if anyone is leaving for draft yet.

That's a significant disparity in numbers. So, a few questions:

1) Does anyone know if any of the DL are candidates to flip over to OL?
2) Is Collier being moved from TE to OL like we all assumed?
3) What are the right numbers for OL and DL scholarships with 85 scholarships?

15 OL. 12 DL - DL numbers are blurred a bit - No one at 225 Lbs is a DL

 

[sonofabit]

I believe I heard in the podcast that the year five OL fall off Pitt will only have two in the replacement class coming up. More Ulizio's coming our way. It's fine for other programs to fatten them up but only if they're decent transfers.

 

[Gunga_Galunga]

15 OL. 12 DL - DL numbers are blurred a bit - No one at 225 Lbs is a DL

They have 17 underclassmen listed as DL. The lightest were Nate Temple (6'4" and 225) and Bam Brima (6'5" and 235), both redshirted. Baldonado was 230 last year when he redshirted and was listed at 250 this year.

Williams is going to be a DE and I think they are going to beef up Belgrave and make him a DT.

 

[thebadby2]

I know several folks have said we aren't recruiting enough OL. So I took a look at both lines and going into next season Pitt will have:

OL - 11 on scholarship & 2 incoming recruits for 13 total
DL - 17 on scholarship & 3 incoming (maybe 4 pending Tim Brown) for 20 or 21 total. Don't know if anyone is leaving for draft yet.

That's a significant disparity in numbers. So, a few questions:

1) Does anyone know if any of the DL are candidates to flip over to OL?
2) Is Collier being moved from TE to OL like we all assumed?
3) What are the right numbers for OL and DL scholarships with 85 scholarships?

I posted the OL numbers in a different thread. Ideally you have 15-18 scholarship OLs. That’s 3 deep at the 5 positions. You need 4-5 in every recruiting class. You play 5 at a time, It’s a slow developing position, a lot of guys never work out, and there is always a lot of attrition. So the bottom line is to have 17 DLs to play 4 spots and 12 OLs to play 5 is not a good equation and is a major recruiting failure that we saw play out this year.