Bostick returns to Pitt football broadcast booth

After two years mostly away from the microphone, Pat Bostick is returning to flank longtime play-by-play man Bill Hillgrove for Pitt football games on the radio in the fall.

Bostick, a Panthers quarterback from 2007-10 best known for leading the 13-9 upset of West Virginia in 2007, was the color analyst next to Hillgrove from 201115. Another former Panthers player, Bill Osborn, filled that role the past two seasons but missed a few games in 2017, with Bostick filling in.

“[Osborn] has some great things going on, both professionally and personally, that are demanding his full-time attention,” Pitt football spokesperson E.J. Borghetti said. “He was recently named a senior vice president for Defend Your Head, a helmet technology company that is doing important work. On the family front, Billy’s boys are playing football every weekend and those are moments you just don’t want to miss.”

For Bostick, 29, he’s again adding radio duties to his day job as associate athletic director for major gifts for the Pitt athletic department, a position he was promoted to in 2017.

The rest of the Pitt football game-day programming crew remains the same from last year on 93.7 The Fan (KDKA-FM) and beyond; Hillgrove, 77, is entering his 45th season doing play-byplay, and Larry Richert is providing pregame coverage and sideline reporting for the sixth year in a row. Seminoles since 2012, after spending four years at Oklahoma and the previous three at Tennessee as pitching coach.