When you are looking at Butch Jones and this team there are question marks that would lead others to downgrade UC a bit going into the regular season. Most in the UC fan base thought that Butch Jones could come right in with the personnel on hand and post 10 wins for a 4th straight year. There is a chance of that happening, but looking at everything objectively the chances of that happening aren't great, they are still good, but not good enough to be at a point where I would expect 10 wins from a new staff and a new system. Looking at Pitt and WVU they are in pretty similar places. Both lost some very good and very productive pieces Pitt loses Stull, Dickerson, and Mick Williams. WVU loses Reed Williams, Brown, and Selvish Cappers. Pitt brings back Baldwin, Lewis, Pinkston, Sheard and Romeus. WVU brings back Sanders, Devine, JT Thomas and Chris Neild. Both teams have similarly skilled core players, UC is in the same boat. The main difference between Pitt, WVU and UC is in the coaching staffs. Pitt and WVU bring back staffs and systems that are for the most part in tact. I really like the staff that Butch Jones has brought in, but it remains to be seen how they will perform. When the three best teams are equal except for one area, and that area is the coaching staff outside observers will discount the newer staff. The statistics dictate that they must, especially 7 months out from the first game
