First off to assuage the gnashing of teeth and pulling of hair by PITT fans regarding our ‘late’ recruiting start we need to revisit this issue just like we do every year at this time of the offseason. Because of that repetition I am going to be stealing some info from earlier Blather articles.
Here is a bit of info that will help to quell your fears. This table shows how PITT has ‘late’ starts every year since Wannstedt was hired back in 2005:
| Year | # Before 6/12 | Total Class # | Notes: |
| ‘05 | 1 | 23 | Wannstedt’s first partial class |
| ‘06 | 5 | 27 | DW’s first full class |
| ‘07 | 2 | 24 | |
| ‘08 | 2 | 19 | |
| ‘09 | 1 | 20 | |
| ‘10 | 2 | 24 | |
| ‘11 | 2 | 21 | Graham’s first partial class |
| ‘12 | 0 | 16 | Chryst’s first partial class |
| ‘13 | 5 | 27 | Chryst’s first full class (after purge) |
| ‘14 | 1 | 23 | |
| ‘15 | 3 | 15 | Narduzzi’s first partial class |
| ‘16 | 1 (3? |