… our service members past present and those who will serve in the future. Thank You, stay safe and come home soon.
As to football let’s remember that while we all use words like “war“, “battle” and “campaign” to describe it and the games played, and that’s fine in my eyes, but those same words hold a world of different meaning for those in our Armed Forces uniforms.
POV Reading List for today and let’s remember only 70 more days until the ‘real’ physical parts of Pitt football starts. That is kind of depressing actually because we are all champing at the bit to see the new faces on the team wearing Pitt Script and showing us just how good they really are.
Here are some interesting bits that my friend Chris Lotz found and posted on his Facebook page. First off is Athlon magazine’s All-ACC conference pre-season picks for 2017.
On offense they placed these Pitt players in 1st to 3rd string honors (they had a 4th string but that is sort of ridiculous):
1st string: O’Neil at OL
2nd string: Henderson at All Purpose and Officer at OL
3rd string: Ollison at RB; Weah at WR and Bookser at OL.
I’m sure Pitt fans will disagree with some of these choices – or rather which lineup they are in. I’d have to Have Henderson at 1st string for sure even if no one can figure out what position he plays .
On defense Athlon placed these Panthers in the 1st-3rd string honors:
2nd string: Whitehead at Safety
That’s it for defense and as hard as I try I can’t see any other Pitt players who would break in to these lineups save perhaps Avonte’ Maddox at the 3rd string level. Now Special Teams is another matter:
1st string: Henderson as a KR
2nd string: Henderson as a PR
3rd string: Winslow as the Punter.
Still staying with Athlon’s rankings we see Pat Narduzzi listed at #9 out of 16 ACC head coaches:
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