If the recruiting season finished right now, the three year average for Pitt would be 40 and falling. Based on recent commits and the crystal ball predictions, that's going to get worse. So far as the Costal is concerned, VT, UNC, and Miami are all doing much better in recruiting. The three year average (including this year) for those schools is 23 and rising. Yes, you have to win on the field but you're at a severe disadvantage in talent right out of the gate going forward.
What Dokish and other apologists fail to understand is that Pitt has been recruiting at a similar level since they joined the ACC so showing what looks like a respectable average (including the one year Pitt finished 4th in the conference) is meaningless in the context of performance on the field and performance versus the rest of the conference in recruiting.
There simply isn't enough talent at Pitt to consistently compete for the Coastal and the talent that is there is being squandered.
But hey, Tim Salem sleeps in his office and makes his wife change light bulbs! WOW!!!
I am not buying that Pitt has better players than App St. I didn't watch App St/PSU but App St will win the Sun Belt, a league Pitt would not win (sorry). Perhaps Pitt is deeper but if you look at who Pitt starts (ie their best 22), very few of those players had offers that were far and away better than App St-level. Someone mentioned only Bookser had more than 1 P5 offer of our starting offensive linemen....and these are our best 5. I would highly doubt they are better players than App St's OL.
We have nothing at TE and very little at WR (mostly G5 recruits). On D, we have 3 5th year senior MLBs who were all G5 level recruits, as was one of our safeties.
The difference between a low 3 star (which we get a lot of) and a 2 star (what schools like App St gets) is minimal. They have had a better "hit rate" on their 2 stars and low 4 stars than we have had.
Go on.