When Does Camp Begin?
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Pass rush and LBs. Plus if the staff can somehow resurrect Pitts as a competent CB. TBH I have low expectations for the D so just about any visible improvement will seem momentous.
However, I probably have more curiosity/trepidations that the offense that had gathered so much momentum by season's end could be thwarted with a new OC and scheme. Call it scars of when Wanny/Cav took over for Walt. The Jones-Smith loss adds some anxiety there, plus the crazy wildcard of what Pitt might impose on Duz as a punishment for Boyd. Shouldn't be much of anything ... missing YSU would actually be a great idea ... but we've seen Pitt's discipline nazis overreact wildly before especially in the past 2 years. As the season grows closer, hypocritical turdballs like Ron Cook and Smizik will put out their diatribes to try to shame Pitt into draconian discipline. I think Gallagher/Barnes/Duz will have a stiffer spine than Nordy but it's a wildcard until it happens.
It all adds up to the offense being a ? mark early in the season. Growing pains seem inevitable but how long will they last? It's a critical question because the offense will absolutely have to carry this team.
However, I probably have more curiosity/trepidations that the offense that had gathered so much momentum by season's end could be thwarted with a new OC and scheme. Call it scars of when Wanny/Cav took over for Walt. The Jones-Smith loss adds some anxiety there, plus the crazy wildcard of what Pitt might impose on Duz as a punishment for Boyd. Shouldn't be much of anything ... missing YSU would actually be a great idea ... but we've seen Pitt's discipline nazis overreact wildly before especially in the past 2 years. As the season grows closer, hypocritical turdballs like Ron Cook and Smizik will put out their diatribes to try to shame Pitt into draconian discipline. I think Gallagher/Barnes/Duz will have a stiffer spine than Nordy but it's a wildcard until it happens.
It all adds up to the offense being a ? mark early in the season. Growing pains seem inevitable but how long will they last? It's a critical question because the offense will absolutely have to carry this team.
Sounds fair, but I'm thinking that Coach Chaney has done this - installed his offense - several times and I hope he has learned how to make the transition a smooth one. Especially with the talent that he has - I hope he just keeps a lot of what worked last season - as a core - and then adds the stuff that he likes.
Course a bigger factor may be the change in the OLine coaching. That is what concerns me, especially with the lose of a good starting tackle.
Go Pitt.
I have to think that with S&C coach Andrews, Chaney , Peterson and Salem the OL will be fine. even with the loss of Jones ( which sucks BTW).
It's never a smooth transition from an offense players have been working in for three years to a new one. There will be hiccups. The hardest adjustments are for the OL and QB. Also keep in mind Chaney has run very different kinds of offenses at each of his stops, from a true spread at Purdue to a multiple pro-style at UT to Bielema's Stone Age, pass as a last resort power running attack at Arkansas. It's not like he's been teaching the same stuff at each of his new stops, and he won't be at Pitt either.
I'm expecting to see something very similar to MSU's fast paced, multiple pro offense.
