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Camp has arrived which means the Pitt football Q&A is back up and running and will be a daily feature again.

My first thoughts on the upcoming team are very incomplete.

Why?

Simple, because the first rule of football is you are only as good as your offensive line and there are so many questions about this offensive line that it makes no sense right now to try and get into the predictions business. The line could be anywhere from great to very mediocre -- and not surprisingly when people ask me for my predictions about the team I say the same thing -- I could make a case for 5-7 just as easily as 10-2.

That's why the position battles that matter most -- and that you'll read about most -- are all on the offensive line -- and mostly at tackle. I think that by the time the season starts, the two starting tackles will be Jason Pinkston and Joe Thomas but Pinkston is clearly going to have earn it as he has started second team on the depth chart behind Jordan Gibbs and Thomas.

Also, Lucas Nix and Chris Jacobson will both try to work their way onto the two-deep at guard, which should be fun to watch given how highly both were regarded as prospects.

Anyway, check back every day as I will answer two or three or sometimes four questions for you concerning the Panthers and then at some point later in the month we will begin having our weekly chats again.

Q: Can you give us odds on Pitt running out of the tunnel against Bowling Green sporting the throwback uni's?

Ben Shockey, Syracuse, Indiana

ZEISE: It is early -- can we wait to send the "let's go back to the 70's" nostalgia questions about the uniforms, the script and the idea of an on-campus facility at Panther Hollow until, oh I don't know....the second week of camp? And the odds of them wearing throwback uniforms against Bowling Green are roughly the same as of the odds of that game being changed to a neutral-site game at Altoona's Mansion Park Stadium versus Penn State.

Q: Is it possible for Pitt to win all the games at home this year? If they would and win just one or two on the road they'd be sitting pretty for a hugh bowl. What do you think?

Paul Lochrane, Tarentum, Pa.

ZEISE: I have said it before, I'll say it again -- there is not a game on Pitt's schedule it can't win. In fact, I don't see a game that Pitt will be more than a touchdown underdog in. And given the talent on this team, the experience on this team I don't see how anyone could rationalize more than three or four losses. Think about it -- I'd say West Virginia and South Florida are the only two teams in the conference who should be expected to beat Pitt. You want to tell me it is a tough assignment to win at Notre Dame in most years, I'll buy that one, too. Beyond that, however, I don't see another team that Pitt shouldn't beat. Of course, all of that is speculation at this point but I really think it is reasonable to expect eight or nine wins -- though as we've seen for three years, what is reasonably expected is not necessarily achieved.

Q: What will happen to TJ Porter and Cedric Mcgee when Derek Kinder is ready to return to the line-up?

Wayne Gross, Belle Glade, Fla.

ZEISE: Not much -- both will be either in the starting lineup or heavily involved in the rotation at receiver and both will play a lot of snaps, regardless of what Kinder does. That's especially true given that Maurice Williams is no longer on the team because there is quality depth, but not as much as it would seem. The rotation at receiver will be Kinder, Porter, Oderick Turner and McGee. Those guys will play the bulk of the plays. I'm sure at some point Jonathan Baldwin will get a look as will Aaron Smith and Aundre Wright, but those three young guys will all have to work very hard to break into the rotation given how solid and consistent the four top receivers are.