Dustin picciotti where is he now

The physical, 6-foot-3, pound Picciotti was the No. Unfortunately, the highly regarded player never got to fulfill his enormous potential. After two years of battling concussion issues and numerous headaches, Picciotti called it quits and stopped playing football. Phil is the nephew of Dustin and has similar build of his uncle, as he is currently 6-foot-3, pounds. Pittsburgh Sports Now was able to catch up with Picciotti to learn more about him and the early stages of his recruitment.

He told me that I look like a typical hard nosed, hit you in the mouth middle linebacker. It was really exciting to receive an offer from Pitt. My uncle, Dustin, went to Pitt. That was come as a bit of a surprise. And as he was going down, Picciotti heard "a whole bunch of pops" in his right ankle.

It was extremely hard [to watch]. The Bucks fell behind , and along the way saw two other running backs knocked from the game with ankle injuries of their own.

Ultimately, fourth-stringer Bob Warden sparked a drive late in the fourth quarter. But CB West stalled after advancing to the Prep 6-yard line, and now the onus was on a Bucks defense that had performed valiantly but had given up two touchdowns, one on a second-quarter pass that wide receiver Ed Hinkel ripped from the grasp of cornerback Ted Kinyon in the end zone, the other on a yard run in the third period by a running back identified as Demond Sanders in media reports.

That is, in fact, his given name. He is more commonly known by the nickname his family gave him years ago -- Bob. And he has gone on to considerable renown as a safety for the Indianapolis Colts.

A missed extra point after Sanders' TD gave the Bucks a sliver of hope. As they dug in one last time, Pettine turned to his top assistant, Mike Carey, and asked if the punt-block was on. Carey assured him it was. But that was the dice-roll the Bucks decided to take as the clock ticked under three minutes and the Ramblers lined up to punt.

Hinkel, who doubled as the punter, stood 2 yards deep in his end zone and awaited the snap. Murray, his battered camera in hand by this point it was held together with athletic tape, he recalled , took up a vantage point in the back of the end zone, behind Hinkel. Weinress positioned himself on the sideline to the punter's right. On the far right side of the defensive formation i. He was one of Bucks' most reliable players. Seldom, Pettine said, did he have tell Elsing something twice. Seldom did he lack for motivation.

Elsing had blocked a punt earlier in the season, against CB East, after which he plucked the ball out of midair and ran for a touchdown. But as Murray and Elsing showed in their documentary, Pettine was hardly satisfied with the senior's work in that phase of the game. Pettine then reminds Elsing to aim for a spot four yards in front of the punter. And that's what Elsing was doing after the ball was snapped to Hinkel.

The CB West player to Elsing's immediate left, linebacker Bryan Colahan, had crashed into the blocker on the far left of the Prep formation, allowing Elsing a free run off the edge. It was just a matter of whether he could get there in time. Hinkel was about to kick. Elsing kept coming. And finally, just a few feet away from Hinkel, he made a headlong dive.

He tracked the ball down near the sideline, then stumbled 1 yard into the end zone, where he was engulfed by his jubilant teammates. And all of it happened right in front of Weinress, who captured the scene for posterity. Weinress, who now works for a film company in Australia, wrote in an e-mail recently that it was one of the greatest clutch plays he had ever seen, on any level of football.

Pettine, in another moment shown in the film, tells Philadelphia Inquirer columnist Bill Lyon after the game that "some force other than what I understand" tipped the balance in the Bucks' favor.

There was still the matter of the extra point, no sure thing in the swirling winds at that end of Hersheypark Stadium. But Bobby Tumelty booted it through cleanly. And the Bucks still had to protect their lead over the final But they did that, too. For him, and his coach. The victory, the Bucks' 45th in a row and the last of Pettine's , was the greatest in school history, in the estimation of the retired coach.

He also called it a "scriptwriter's dream. It strikes a balance between what is believable and what is unbelievable. Pettine would latch on as an assistant at North Penn in -- something that didn't sit well with everyone in Doylestown -- working for one season under his son, and another under his successor, Randy Cuthbert, when Mike Jr.

Mike Jr. Now 68, the elder Pettine spends his time doting on his grandkids and fretting over three-foot putts. He regularly attends high school football games, and while he finds it relaxing to watch from the stands, he can't help but think along with the coaches on the sidelines, can't help but wonder how he might handle a given situation. Carey, Pettine's longtime assistant, succeeded him as the head coach at CB West and extended the winning streak to 59, a new state record, in It wouldn't end until the state final that year, in which the Bucks faced Cathedral Prep in another thriller.

This time the Ramblers won in overtime. Elsing accepted a scholarship to the University of Rhode Island, as did Colahan. The first game of their freshman year was a loss. So was the next one, and the next three after that.

But it was something with which they soon became familiar; only one of the four Rams teams on which they played finished with a winning record. Now Elsing teaches health and physical education in Rhode Island, and Colahan is back in school, getting his teaching certificate.

Both have taken up rugby. That is not an opinion Picciotti shares. He accepted a scholarship to Pitt shortly after his final season at CB West, and was regarded as the No. But he suffered a concussion in the Big 33 Game, an all-star game in July matching many of the top players from Pennsylvania and Ohio, and then another shortly after preseason drills began at Pitt.

He missed the first four games that season, and wound up rushing just seven times for 23 yards. Turnovers were a problem for Pitt early last season when the Panthers turned the ball over 18 times during a start. With Walker and transfer Brandon Miree out, and Tim Murphy moved to fullback to replace Picciotti, the Panthers were left with just returning starter Raymond Kirkley and freshman Abdur Abdullah at tailback. For now, Marcus Furman has moved back to tailback after moving to receiver in the spring.

Freshman A. Schneider and converted linebackers Brian Bennett and Kellen Campbell will compete with Murphy for the backup fullback position. Both worlds. Colorful looks. Cast of characters. Millennial Republicans are increasingly liberal in their social stances.