Half The Battle

That clip reminds me of Bethlehem Catholic from 2002. They rank among the greatest Pennsylvania h.s. football teams that never won anything. All because of Austin Scott, who tore them apart the week after this clip in what was the de facto state championship game.

It’s good we’re getting who we want in terms of recruits, but how they pan out, good or bad (be it trouble or EPIC SUCK, etc.) is a totally different story. The one benefit that I do see from this class is that we’re taking in (potentially anyway) multiple highly touted kids. We’re building depth with talent instead of walk-ons (no offense to Little Red). We’ve proven that we have the ability to turn 2 star players into 1st team all-big10 players, so hopefully we can continue to develop high level talent into the same mold, and I have no doubt that we can, despite some failures in the past (which may or may not have been our fault: See Rambler’s first post above).

The one thing I can say about Austin Scott is he may have been better, but he lacked discipline. Remember him taking over when Hunt went down in the Orange Bowl in 05, he looked good, but then he didn’t come back in shape, and he got benched, and rightfully so. He may have had the talent, but I guess attitude is the trump card, especially at PSU. I’m sorry his career ended the way it did, especially since it damaged his image to have a career in the pros (even though that didn’t work out. The wikipedia quote from the Browns coach said, “he had trouble grasping the offense and lacked a will to achieve”), but he wasn’t cut out to make it at PSU.

Recruiting is half the battle. And if Knowing is also half the battle, then why isn’t Antonio Logan-El our starting LT this year?

the only 4 or 5 star kid on offense from the last 5 years that has done anything, ANYTHING for us is DWill. The rest were complete and total disasters.

Being from a fellow District XI school, he could do no wrong there. They said he was even caught selling drugs small time and didn’t have anything happen. I feel like we are past the point where we have more busts than outstanding players.

There is someone on Scout that has a great quote from Adrian Coxson. It was when he committed and he said he will strive not only to help us win a National Championship but to also be a true student-athlete. For whatever reason I think we have been recruiting a group of guys who are more committed to football than they are to college life and its pitfalls.

Not saying we won’t have future incidents, I just think we are pass the time where they all happen around the same period making it look like the team is a runaway train.