overall Rank: Not in Phil Steels top 51
BE Preseason Rank: #4
Most Improved Team: #15
Bowl: BBVA Compass Bowl vs Missouri

Nat. Position Rankings;
QB's NR- not surprised
RB's 12- thought we'd be a little higher than this
WR's 39- not bad
OL NR- not surprised
DL NR- kinda surprised, but after reading rc79's analysis I shouldn't
LB's NR- Not surprised
Secondary NR- Not completely surprised, I do think we have a top 40 secondary

National Individual Rankings;
Ray Graham #3 Running Back, 4th Team All Amercian(How that worked out I dunno)
Devin Street #14 WR
Mike Shanahan #26 WR
Hubie Graham #20 TE
Ryan Turley #38 C
Chris Jacobson #59 G
Kevin Harper #14 K
Aaron McDonald #24 DT
K'Waun Williams #64 CB
Jared Holley #8 FS

1st Team BE:
Ray Graham
Devin Street
Chris Jacobson
Aaron Donald
Jared Holley

2nd Team BE:
Mike Shanahan
Ryan Turley

3rd Team BE:
Hubie Graham
Matt Rotheram
Todd Thomas
K'Waun Williams
Kevin Harper
Ronald Jones(KR)

4th Team BE:
Tino Sunseri
Khayin Mosley-Smith

Projected Starting Lineup:

QB Tino
RB Ray Graham
WR Devin Street
WR Mike Shanahan
TE Hubie Graham
C Ryan Turley
RG Chris Jacobson
LG Cory King
RT Matt Rotheram
LT Juantez Hollins
K Kevin Harper

DE TJ Clemmings
NT Khaynin Mosley-Smith
DT Aaron Donald
DE Shane Hale
SLB Eric Williams
MLB Shane Gordon
WLB Todd Thomas
CB Cullen Christian
CB K'Waun Williams
SS Andrew Taglienetti
FS Jarred Holley
P Matt Yoklic

#28 National Recruiting Class
2nd Best Recruiting Class in the BE/#6 in the ACC

Top Recruits
Chad Voytik #10 QB
Rushel Shell #3 RB
Adam Bisnowaty #35 OL
Deaysean Rippy #45 DB
Bam Bradley #52 DB

I think he means Aaron Donald, not Aaron McDonald there in the 1st team Big East section and DT position.

(06-02-2012 10:12 AM)ndlutz Wrote:  I think he means Aaron Donald, not Aaron McDonald there in the 1st team Big East section and DT position.

Just fixed that. Might've been my mistake. I'm at work, busy as hell when I was putting this thread together.

Just blame Phil Steele :).

hahahaha

He predicts the Compass Bowl again? I hope God has some mercy on us this season?

(06-02-2012 08:00 AM)ClairtonPanther Wrote:  BE Preseason Rank: #4

Which 3 teams are supposed to be better than Pitt? I can see Louisville maybe (though not a lock, IMHO). Who else?

USF is probably one of them. Maybe Rutgers. USF is overrated every year out of the gate.

BE Preseason Rankings

1 USF
2 Louisville
3 Rutgers
4 Pitt
4 Cincinnati
6 UConn
7 Syracuse
8 Temple

I suppose USF is plausible (still, they need to prove it to me).
Louisville is very believable.
Rutgers just lost their coach - I could see them falling
Pitt just upgraded their coach - I could see you guys improving dramatically
If Syracuse really finishes 7th, I'll begin to wonder about Marrone.

I agree with you, Hokie Mark.

I think that Strong is doing a good job at Louisville. He's got good talent and I think he's a fine coach. They are also committed to football there.

With USF I need to see it to believe it. I think Skip Holtz is a good coach but USF really always falters once the weather turns colder. I don't think it has anything to do with cold weather, either. They just don't perform down the stretch. They really need to prove it to me.

I wouldn't sleep on Cincinnati. They're almost never the most talented team in the league but they are adept at finding coaches who get the most out of the talent that they have on hand. Wannstedt's Pitt teams were leaps and bounds above Cincinnati in terms of talent level and yet always faltered against them when it mattered. Even without Kelly they're well coached, too. Jones seems to do a good job.

Syracuse should do better than 7th this year. I like Marrone and think he's got a good thing going there.

I can't understand why Rutgers is listed so high. They're the team I pick to underperform on the list.

Pitt is in the same camp as USF - prove it. I think being 4th is about right for us. It's hard to say how Chryst will do. Hopefully he will be the upgrade that we think he should be. We're going to be starting a lot of guys this year who aren't really seasoned and I think that's going to be a bit of a problem. QB is obviously a weakness. RB is obviously a strength. Hopefully we outperform the preseason predictions but it's hard to feel confident about that right now with so much uncertainty.