What we learned from Week 1

We learned several things week one, first being that maybe now Lagarrette Blount should turn his focus toward Boxing or MMA, since his football career is looking more unlikely. Florida, USC and Texas went to town on their cupcake opponents, while Iowa, Penn State and Ohio State proved why the Big 11 is so over-rated when they each squeaked by in their openers. Oklahoma and their Heisman winner as well as a Darren Evans-less Virginia Tech team proved why they need to stick with opening up against Eastern Oklahoma Christian and James Madison respectively. A few Big East teams that were should be in the mix for the title struggled a bit. West Virginia got a surprisingly tough game from Liberty and Rutgers got pounded by Cincinnati. Notre Dame lived up to their #23 ranking and won easily. One thing that seems very clear this year, is that Syracuse may be the most talked about four win team in NCAA history. Greg Paulus reverted back to his glory days at Duke and threw the ball to the other team with the game on the line. 'Cuse fell to Big 11 middle of the pack team, Minnesota. Keep up the good work Greg, we'll see you in November, you field pounding, flopping bitch.

What did we learn about Pitt? Dion Lewis is for real and he's as good as advertised, if not better. Bill Stull is still a work in progress and stalls our offense at the most inopportune times. Although it was Youngstown St, our defensive line led by Gus Mustakas and Greg Romeus will be our strongest unit. One major problem we encounter was not being able to get the ball to our best weapon, Sophmore WR Johnathan Baldwin, especially with Stull at the helm. However, the first series Tino Sunseri came in, he hit Baldwin with a long, slightly underthrown ball. So can we possibly have Stull in there when we are going to run the ball and throw screen (our entire offense) and then insert Sunseri when were going deep? I guess this remains to be seen, but if this offense is going to be successful, we need to have some semblance of a passing game if Dion Lewis is going to be effective. No one is going to replace Shady, but Lewis had about as good a debut as possible. Next week on the road, against MAC champ Buffalo, a team that gave us a hard time last year, should be a great measuring stick as to where we're at. I think we did not see in week 1 from our Panthers; the wildcat. I was interested to see if we would use either Lewis or Baldwin in the wildcat as we've done the last two years to mask our quarterback problems. The opener may have been the best game to test it out considering it will probably be out easiest game. Hail to Pitt.