Pickett, No. 20 Pitt try to lock up Coastal against Virginia
Associated PressPITTSBURGH — When Kenny Pickett walks through the tunnel and out onto the Heinz Field turf on Saturday, it will be the last time as a college quarterback. Over the last three months, everything has changed as the player head coach Pat Narduzzi stressed didn’t have to be “Kenny Perfect” has largely become just that. “That’s the expectation that I have for our program, is that we’re the Coastal champion every year,” Cavaliers coach Bronco Mendenhall said. “It was just taking him a little longer, like it would any of us, to see, read and react.” LONG TIME AWAY This game will be Virginia’s first against ACC competition since the Cavaliers beat Georgia Tech 48-40 on Oct. 23, and the recent results have not been good. “I don’t think there’s a chance for two games to be more meaningful for a season and to our team than these two with the implications, which is a Coastal championship, a state championship, then anything that would come after the results of these two,” Mendenhall said.
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