Justin Thompson - Baylor, Florida, UNC, South Carolina
Not sure what you expected. Did you read your thread on NIL and the take from Pitt fans?
| Name | Team | 2023 Salary | National Rank | Total Buyout |
| Dabo Swinney | Clemson | $10,884,775 | 2nd | $64,000,000 |
| Mike Norvell | Florida State | $7,300,000 | 15th | $42,209,583 |
| Pat Narduzzi | Pittsburgh | $5,875,817 | 28th | N/A |
| Jeff Brohm | Louisville | $5,550,000 | 31st | $31,416,667 |
| Dave Doeren | NC State | $5,024,390 | 35th | $10,307,926 |
| Mack Brown | North Carolina | $5,000,000 | 36th | $2,812,500 |
| Dave Clawson | Wake Forest | $4,284,656 | 42nd | N/A |
| Tony Elliott | Virginia | $4,250,000 | 43rd | $19,475,000 |
| Dino Babers | Syracuse | $4,063,138 | 46th | N/A |
| Brent Pry | Virginia Tech | $4,000,000 | 51st | $12,650,000 |
| Jeff Hafley | Boston College | $3,120,012 | 55th | N/A |
| Brent Key | Georgia Tech | $2,800,000 | 60th |
I’m pretty sure Narduzzi gets paid for his overall performance not recruiting rankings .
This.
Now compare winning percent over his tenure It likely compares favorably to his salary
Throw out last year and the return on investment has been solid. Remember, we started a QB last year that could not throw a freakin football!
"We just watched them throw a couple hundred grand at some of our linebackers who were out of position worse than Bonds in the '92 NLCS."
Especially in the NIL / transfer era where you can go pick up guys to fill a gap from the portal, and have to get into bidding wars with teams for unproven incoming recruits.
i've learned years ago to never be too high or too low on high school commits, a year before they even step on a college campus. not out of any sort of maturity or respect, just how much of a guessing game all of this really is..
Seriously ... the fact that football players are now being recruited as freshmen and sophmores and commit after only their junior year of high school I think just makes it more and more of a crapshoot.
there are offers going to to kids in class of '26 and '27 it makes me laugh, i have to do the math. some of these kids arent even playing varsity football and are still getting offers. these websites are showing their clips which are JV games lol. i wish i was kidding or exaggerating but im not.
Objectively on paper the class of 2025 looks to be something approaching a historic low point for Pitt in terms of the offer sheets and who Pitt is competing against for this class. I suppose that's the new reality of the NIL era for schools that don't have much juice. Pitt is by no means alone among P5s in this respect, there are many mid-tier P5s from across the country that are finding themselves in the same boat or worse.
you've just described 95% of our recruiting classes from 1997 to now. i think you are truly over-estimating our past classes in the last 25 years..
Not all 3 stars are the same. There are no perfect predictors, but offer sheets are generally the best way to evaluate a HS player. Big difference between a 3 star like Dotson who comes from a Div. 1 football factory and has offers from Michigan, Tennessee, and a slew of heavies, versus a Shep Turk who is a bunch of MACs and mids, and Pitt. Offers from the likes of Indiana or GT are essentially no different than offers from MAC programs.
On an offer sheet basis, so far on paper this looks as bad or worse than any class we've had since maybe Majors 2. Also not crazy about the blend of players in it so far. Where are the OLs and DLs?
Yet here you are, commenting in a recruiting thread.
im going to go out on a limb and predict that we will have filled our scholarship allotment by the time LOI day comes around, which will include a few OL and a few DL.
