Athlon released it’s annual preseason All-ACC list about a week ago, and as you might expect, Pitt did not have many names on it.

Meanwhile at the newly-minted Those Guys You Know Pitt sports blog, a couple of young whippersnappers…er budding writers have had the chutzuph to name Kenny Pickett an All-ACC candidate.  Looking back at Pitt’s QB history, thaaat could be a stretch. Yes, most of us are optimistic about Kenny’s opportunity to develop into a productive starter in 2019, but all-ACC? You’ve got to be a pretty heavy kool-aid drinks to buy into that.

 Editor’s note:  In all seriousness though, do check out this blog, these guys write with a good energy and they are entertaining.  They remind me a lot of myself when I was that age….except I didn’t have blog and I had to write for one of those old-timey newspaper things that people actually had to pick up and read.  

Nonetheless, all this all-ACC talk got me thinking.  Primarily it got me thinking about Athlon’s track record of predicting Pitt’s all-ACC performers.  Then it got me thinking about how many all-ACC guys Pitt has had ice time m.  The next thing you know I had a couple of laptops in front of me and I’d fired up Excel.  Here are the results: Continue reading “All-ACC Analysis” →