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Q: Can Pat Bostick's delivery be corrected?

-- Jake Friel, Butler

Zeise: That is going to be the top priority of Matt Cavanaugh in the offseason -- working on Bostick's delivery and on his mechanics. Coaches were hoping to redshirt Bostick this year for that reason. They wanted to work on his arm strength, work with him on his mechanics and on his physical conditioning and give him an entire year to develop and mature physically. That wasn't possible with the way things transpired. But it is too hard to try to fix mechanics in the middle of a season when a guy is trying to learn game plans and prepare for games, so it is something that has been put on hold until the offseason. It will be interesting to see if they can work this hitch out or not, but if they can't, it won't be for lack of trying.

Q: Dorin Dickerson is not a linebacker, he's afraid to hit and never gets to the ball unless they are running over him. He was supposed to be the next great player at Pitt, now three position changes later he's ready to maybe get a degree and think back to good old days ruling the WPIAL. Paul get off that bandwagon, take off those sunglasses because you're losing you credibility as a beat reporter hanging on!

-- Ray Floyd, Pittsburgh

Zeise: I suppose I would have much more credibility if I wrote that Dorin Dickerson is a bust and that he is barely seeing the field even though he is coming off a game in which he played more snaps than the starter at his position and he has played a lot in every game. I have never said Dorin Dickerson is the second coming of Lawrence Taylor or even hinted at it or that he is even a good linebacker yet. What I have consistently said is he has a lot of talent and a lot of speed and that he is six months into learning a brand new position. He's going through some of the growing pains that every young player goes through. But given his natural athletic ability, he could develop into a playmaker, something this defense needs. Is he there yet? No. Can he get there? That remains to be seen. I also have said his best position might not be linebacker, though, given the depth chart at receiver and running back, I'm not sure where you would play him right now. So if not throwing a kid who is playing a lot of snaps under the bus before coaches are clearly ready to means I am wearing "sunglasses" then guilty as charged. I'm going to go way out on a limb: If Dorin Dickerson never becomes the "next great player" -- and there is some evidence to suggest he'll never live up to the hype that was bestowed upon him -- he won't be the first, or the last, highly touted high school athlete who didn't find success in college football.