But I wonder if she has the hots for guys that run blogs?

How you doin’, sweatheart?

I’ve heard nothing but good news about him. They said this injury wasn’t as severe as the first one. They expect him to participate in non-contact drills this spring and be ready to go next fall.

He would be a good candidate for a medical redshirt. But he’ll likely have his degree and whether or not he wants to return will be iffy. If he remains healthy and has a good season I would enter the NFL draft if I were him.

But I think it’s a mutual thing. I can’t recall ever reading about Penn State asking a kid to give up his scholarship. But it wouldn’t surprise me if they callled in some fifth year guy that has his degree and zero chance of playing in his final year and say, “Hey look, you would really be helping us out if we could free up your scholarship for someone else.” If the kid has the Penn State morals instilled in him by that point he’ll take one for his team.

But if we’re only looking at having to shed three or four guys I think we can do it without having it come to that. Some kids in this class may have to take a grayshirt year. There is talk that Kersey may not qualify and Wallace will probably be asked to grayshirt too. Then there is always one or two kids who leave after spring practice when it becomes apparent they are not going to be major players at Penn State. In some of these cases it’s Joe who calls in a few slackers and tells them their time may be better served somewhere else. If Joe likes the kid he’ll call around to some other coaches and try to find a spot for them. I have heard of that happening. But for the most part PSU will honor scholarships for good kids that work hard.

What makes schools like Alabama and FSU different is that they will oversign by nine or ten kids. You can grayshirt a few kids and weed out a few slackers, but come August you’re going to have to make some tough choices. That’s when you start reading about career ending ankle sprains and academic suspensions left and right. A kid misses a study hall and the coach kicks him off the team for the dubious “violation of team rules.” There are probably a hundred ways to get a kid off your team if you need roster cuts. But I can honestly say I’ve never read anything from a disgruntled PSU player about something like this happening.

Alabama also has a sneaky way of getting more than 85 kids on their scholarship roster through a special scholarship fund which I’ve been thinking about detailing in a blog post sometime. I’ve just been waiting for some kind of relevant current event to slip it in there.

Like Mike said, there’s a difference between suggesting that a kid moves on with his life after four years of free education and promising 10 extra high school athletes a scholarship every year when they’re clearly borderline academic qualifiers.

Curtis Dukes would beg to differ the kid is fast and huge. He also had 4 stars. No worries in the RB department from me.

Not only that, but we need to embrace the Royster and DC17 recruits. Kids that fly under the radar often make the biggest impact for a team. Iowa’s Green, or Royster were kids that Scout or Rivals ignored — yet they’re likely the best two backs in the conference in 2008 (no love for Wells or Ringer). Clark wasn’t even supposed to be a factor, and he was the best QB in the Big Ten.

I just think if we begin dominating PA recruiting, and continue developing those under-rated players, we’ll be ever-bit as talented as the Florida and USC all-5-star-recruit rosters.

WTF is wrong with this coaching staff. its despicable!

but damn, JoePa just can’t recruit anymore, and his son, Jay, just F’s everything up. I’ll really miss Chris Colasanti, Jon Ditto, Nick Sukay, Andrew Dailey, Quinn Barham, Kevion Latham, Tom McEowen, and Bani Gbadyu.