Pitt Football Recruiting: Wait, Stop, Reverse That
by CardiacHill on Jan 31, 2012 8:30 AM EST
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After losing/trimming Pitt's recruiting class by five, head coach Paul Chryst finally got some good news adding an offensive lineman in Gabe Roberts.
Since Pitt is desperately hurting for them, it was good to see Chryst land a lineman. But if you were hoping for a big-time recruit, Roberts ain't it. From the sound of things, he's more of a project with potential.
Roberts wasn't highly-regarded, but as Paul Zeise of the Post-Gazette points out, that's partially due to the fact that he suffered an injury last summer.
Roberts coming to Pitt was kind of a late surprise and he admitted this scenario hadn't really crossed his mind:
Roberts apparently was looking hard at Wisconsin, but would have had to go as a walk-on. As I said, he wasn't highly regarded, either. Scout and Rivals only rated him as a two-star recruit and he reportedly didn't have any other major offers."If you told me a month ago I was going to go to Pitt, I would have laughed pretty hard," Roberts said.
Despite all that, though, one thing to like is his frame. He's 6'4" and nearly 300 pounds, so he fits the mold of a big body ... something Pitt sorely needs on the line right now losing Lucas Nix, Jordan Gibbs, and Greg Gaskins (and maybe even Chris Jacobson, if he can't get a sixth year of eligibility).
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Pitt got a steal
You got an all conference, all region , all star offensive and defensive player that is 6’5 and 296 and by his photos extremely lean. . Kid broke his hip in May and did rehab until the week before August start missing summer camps, including Wisconsins Watched a video of him squatting 500 lbs as a junior before his injury . By the information he shared with his local paper he would not have considered playing anywhere else other than Wisconsin if it hadn’t been for Coach Chryst and Coach Bostad and how impressed he was with the University, Chancellor and players. Article suggests kid is also national honors society student so that has to be good. Don’t think it is a project—sounds more like Coach Bostad found a diamond in the rough and imported it to Pitt.
Hoping you're right
Like the fact that he might be a big under the radar due to injury, but wondering why he didn’t at least have any offers from lesser D-I schools.
Still, Chryst/Bostad clearly know what they’re doing when it comes to offensive lines, so they’re a far better judge than I. Here’s to hoping you’re right.
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