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Pitt Making Final Preparations for New-Look Spring Game

A new format has the Pitt Panthers excited for this year's Spring Game.

Stephen Thompson

Pitt Making Final Preparations for New-Look Spring Game
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PITTSBURGH -- Pitt Panthers head coach Pat Narduzzi teased earlier in the week that his team would rethink their Spring Game format this year and, on the final day of practices at the facility in the South Side, he finally revealed how the game would be organized. 

The new-look finale to Spring Ball is meant to get more matchups of "best on best". In the past Narduzzi has seen Spring Games devolve as the typical full-team draft creates disjointed lineups without chemistry, so he wants to get the best idea of how players perform together in certain game-like groupings.

Hear what Narduzzi had to say and what his players and assistant coaches thought of the Spring Game's new organization. 

HC Pat Narduzzi

DL Dayon Hayes

DL Coach Charlie Partridge

OL Jake Kradel

CB M.J. Devonshire

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Stephen Thompson
STEPHEN THOMPSON

Stephen Thompson graduated with a bachelor's degree in communications and political science from Pitt in April 2022 after spending four years as a sports writer and editor at The Pitt News, the University of Pittsburgh's independent, student-run newspaper.  He primarily worked the Pitt men's basketball beat, and filled in on coverage of football, volleyball, softball, gymnastics and lacrosse, in addition to other sports as needed. His work at The Pitt News has won awards from the Pennsylvania News Media Association and Associated College Press.  During the spring and summer of 2021, Stephen interned for Pittsburgh Sports Now, covering baseball in western Pennsylvania. Hailing from Washington D.C., family ties have cultivated a love of Boston's professional teams and Pitt athletics, and a fascination with sports in general.  You can reach Stephen by email at stephenethompson00@gmail.com and follow him on Twitter. Read his latest work:

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