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Pitt (0-3, 0-0 Big East) vs. Youngstown St. (3-0, 0-0 Gateway) Sept. 24, 2005 • 2 p.m., EDT Heinz Field (65,000) • Pittsburgh, Pa. Broadcast Information Game Story TELEVISION: The Pitt-Youngstown State game will not be Separated by a mere 70 miles, Pitt and Youngstown State will televised. meet for the first time. PITT RADIO: FM NewsTalk 104.7 (WPGB-FM), Fox Sports Pitt seeks its first victory of the season after getting off to a rare Radio 970 (WBGG-AM) and the Pittsburgh ISP Sports Net- 0-3 start. The Panthers have started a season 0-3 just twice in the work. Bill Hillgrove calls the action, three-time Pitt All-Ameri- last 33 years (1972 and 1984). can Bill Fralic provides color analysis and former Pitt offen- sive lineman Penny Semaia gives sideline reports. The Panthers will face an NCAA I-AA opponent in Youngstown SIRIUS SATELLITE RADIO: Every Pitt football game is avail- State. Pitt has faced I-AA foes three prior times, winning on each able via SIRIUS Satellite Radio. This week's game is on chan- occasion. nel 127. YSU is one of the nation's most successful I-AA programs, INTERNET: www.PittsburghPanthers.com winning four national championships in the 1990s. Pitt-YSU in Brief Series Began: first meeting Pitt Head Coach Dave Wannstedt Overall: 0-0 Overall (season): 0-3 (1st) At Pittsburgh: 0-0 At Pitt (season): 0-3 (1st) At Youngstown: 0-0 Alma Mater (year): Pittsburgh (B.S. 1974, M.Ed. 1976) At Neutral Sites: 0-0 Last Meeting: first meeting YSU Head Coach Jon Heacock Dave Wannstedt vs. YSU: first meeting Overall (season): 27-21 (5th) Jon Heacock vs. Pitt: first meeting At YSU (season): 27-21 (5th) Alma Mater (year): Muskingum (1983) Schedules and Results Pitt (0-3) YSU (3-0) Sept. 3 NOTRE DAME (ABC) L, 21-42 Sept. 1 SLIPPERY ROCK W, 44-16 Sept. 9 (Fri.) at Ohio (ESPN2) L, 10-16 (OT) Sept. 10 NORTHEASTERN W, 35-16 Sept. 17 at Nebraska (ABC) L, 6-7 Sept. 17 at Liberty W, 42-0 Sept. 24 YOUNGSTOWN STATE 2 p.m. Sept. 24 at Pittsburgh 2 p.m. Sept. 30 (Fri.) at Rutgers* (ESPN2) 8 p.m. Oct. 1 ILLINOIS STATE* 6 p.m. Oct. 8 CINCINNATI* TBA Oct. 8 at Indiana State* 1 p.m. Oct. 15 SOUTH FLORIDA* TBA Oct. 15 WESTERN ILLINOIS* 4 p.m. Oct. 22 SYRACUSE* TBA Oct. 22 MISSOURI STATE* 4 p.m. Nov. 3 (Thurs.) at Louisville* (ESPN) 7:30 p.m. Oct. 29 at Northern Iowa* 4 p.m. Nov. 12 CONNECTICUT* TBA Nov. 5 at Southern Illinois* 4 p.m. Nov. 24 (Thurs.) at West Virginia* (ESPN) 8 p.m. Nov. 12 WESTERN KENTUCKY* 1 p.m. * Big East game * Gateway Conference game Pitt Football Media Services WEEKLY PRESS CONFERENCE THE RADIO HOME OF PITT FOOTBALL Coach Dave Wannstedt will conduct his weekly press conferences The University of Pittsburgh, its multimedia rights holder ISP Sports Mondays of game weeks, beginning at noon. The conferences will be and Clear Channel Communications provide the Panthers with com- held at the UPMC Sports Performance Complex. When obliged by the prehensive radio coverage. Pitt football is simulcast on FM NewsTalk upcoming opponent, a 10-minute telephone hookup with the oppos- 104.7 (WPGB-FM) and Fox Sports Radio 970 (WBGG-AM) in ing coach will take place at 11:45 a.m. Transcripts as well as audio/ Pittsburgh and also is carried by the Pittsburgh ISP Sports Network. Pitt fans enjoy extensive programming surrounding football broad- video archives of Coach Wannstedt’s press conferences are available casts, including: on www.PittsburghPanthers.com. FSN Pittsburgh will replay Coach Wannstedt's press conference Tuesday at 1 p.m. • A two-hour football pregame show and 60-minute postgame coverage. PITT ON THE WEB • “Panther Hotline,” a 90-minute call-in show following All of the latest and most comprehensive news concerning Pitt football postgame coverage. can be accessed 24 hours a day on the University of Pittsburgh's official • A weekly Dave Wannstedt Show on Fox Sports Radio athletic Web site, www.PittsburghPanthers.com. Statistics, breaking 970, airing live from the Pittsburgh Steak Co., on news, weekly game releases and press conference video, audio and Wednesdays from 7:30-8:30 p.m. transcripts are available. The game release will be posted on Mondays For the 32nd consecutive year, Bill Hillgrove will be the “Voice of in Adobe PDF format. the Panthers.” Bill Fralic, one of college football’s greatest offensive linemen during his Pitt playing career from 1981-84, enters his second "PANTHERS WEEKLY: THE DAVE WANNSTEDT year as color analyst. SHOW" ON FSN Pitt football is also carried by the Pittsburgh ISP Sports Network. FSN Pittsburgh, the leader in all-sports programming throughout the Network Stations: tri-state area and beyond, will air "Panthers Weekly: The Dave WPGB 104.7 FM Pittsburgh Wannstedt Show" during the 2005 football season. Hosted by FSN WBGG 970 AM Pittsburgh anchor Rob King, the show will feature Coach Wannstedt’s insights WBFD 1310 AM Bedford on a weekly basis and provide an insider’s view on everything Pitt. The WESB 1490 AM Bradford WBUT 1050 AM Butler Dave Wannstedt Show debuts August 30 and will air each Tuesday WLSW 103.9 FM Connellsville at 7 p.m. (The lone exceptions will be the second and fourth episodes WCED 1420 AM DuBois when the show will air Monday, Sept. 5, at 7 p.m., and Friday, Sept. WPDC 1600 AM Elizabethtown 23, at 7:30 p.m.) WFNN 1330 AM Erie WDAD 1450 AM Indiana WCRO 1230 AM Johnstown WTAE-TV'S "THE LAST WORD" WQTW 1570 AM Latrobe WPIC 790 AM Sharon WTAE-TV, channel 4, will have “The Last Word” with Dave WOWY 97.1 FM State College Wannstedt each Thursday during its 11 p.m. newscast this fall. Coach WMBS 590 AM Uniontown Wannstedt will discuss the football scene at Pitt with WTAE sports- WOYK 1350 AM York caster Andrew Stockey. www.PittsburghPanthers.com Worldwide Media Services Contact Information Pitt Media Relations: (412) 648-8240 Pitt Media Relations Fax: (412) 648-8248 BIG EAST CONFERENCE CALL Panthers on the Web: www.PittsburghPanthers.com Pitt head coach Dave Wannstedt will be available for interviews via a Heinz Field Press Box: (412) 697-7198 Big East football teleconference each Monday from 11:20-11:30 a.m. Every Big East coach will participate in the teleconference for 10-minute Assistant Athletic Director/Media Relations: E.J. Borghetti intervals beginning at 11:10 a.m. and ending at 12:30 p.m. Borghetti e-mail: [email protected] Please contact the Pitt or Big East media relations office for the Associate Media Relations Director: Greg Hotchkiss number to access the teleconference. Replays are available via the Hotchkiss e-mail: [email protected] official Big East Web site at www.bigeast.org/airwaves/. BIG EAST Communications: (401) 453-0660 BIG EAST SATELLITE FEED BIG EAST Fax: (401) 751-8540 Pitt's weekly game highlights and interviews will be provided by the Big East Conference and aired every week via a satellite feed. Additional Assoc. Commissioner/Communications: John Paquette information and coordinates are available by contacting the Big East Paquette e-mail: [email protected] Communications Office at (401) 453-0660. Director of Communications: Jon Gust Gust e-mail: [email protected] Probable Pitt Two-Deep OFFENSE DEFENSE SPECIALISTS SPLIT END DEFENSIVE END PUNTER 86 GREG LEE (6-2, 200, JR) 41 CHRIS MCKILLOP (6-3, 245, SO*) 18 ADAM GRAESSLE (6-4, 225, JR) 87 Marcel Pestano (6-1, 190, FR*) 98 Vernon Botts (6-4, 260, JR*) 22 Josh Cummings (5-11, 205, SR) LEFT TACKLE DEFENSIVE TACKLE PLACEKICKER 56 CHARLES SPENCER (6-5, 330, SR*) 55 THOMAS SMITH (6-4, 300, SR*) 22 JOSH CUMMINGS (5-11, 205, SR) 74 Dale Williams (6-6, 300, SR*) 47 Nick Williams (6-2, 275, FR*) or 16 David Abdul (5-10, 200, JR*) or 50 Rashaad Duncan (6-1, 280, FR) 37 Conor Lee (5-11, 195, FR*) LEFT GUARD 70 DOMINIC WILLIAMS (6-4, 300, FR*) DEFENSIVE TACKLE HOLDER 57 C.J. Davis (6-2, 290, FR) 91 PHIL TILLMAN (6-1, 315, SR) 18 ADAM GRAESSLE (6-4, 225, JR) 97 Corey Davis (6-1, 300, FR*) or 4 Joe DelSardo (5-8, 195, JR) CENTER 52 Ron Idoko (6-2, 300, SR*) 68 JOE VILLANI (6-3, 300, JR*) LONG SNAPPER 64 Chris Vangas (6-2, 300, SO*) DEFENSIVE END PUNT: 54 CHARLES SALLET (6-0, 235, JR*) 59 MARK ESTERMYER (6-2, 240, FR*) RIGHT GUARD 58 Joe Clermond (6-2, 250, SO*) or 60 JOHN SIMONITIS (6-4, 325, JR*) 93 Gus Mustakas (6-3, 250, FR) FIELD GOALS/PATs: 71 Dave Weber (6-3, 310, FR*) 75 MIKE McGLYNN (6-5, 325, SO*) SAM LINEBACKER RIGHT TACKLE 39 DERRON THOMAS (6-1, 235, SO*) PUNT RETURNER 75 MIKE McGLYNN (6-5, 325, SO*) 17 Clint Session (6-0, 235, JR) 25 DARRELLE REVIS (6-0, 190, SO) 72 Chase Clowser (6-7, 340, FR*) 4 Joe DelSardo (5-8, 195, JR) MIDDLE LINEBACKER TIGHT END 51 H.B. BLADES (6-0, 240, JR) KICKOFF RETURNER 45 ERIK GILL (6-5, 275, SR*) 40 Scott McKillop (6-2, 240, FR*) 34 LAROD STEPHENS-HOWLING (5-7, 165, FR) 84 Steve Buches (6-4, 250, JR*) 27 Brandon Mason (6-1, 215, SO) or WILL LINEBACKER 2 Marcus Furman (5-9, 185, SR*) QUARTERBACK 44 BRIAN BENNETT (6-0, 235, JR*) OR 3 TYLER PALKO (6-2, 220, JR*) 9 J.J.