Zach Zwinak Commits to Penn State
by BSD on Sep 14, 2009 4:33 PM EDT
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Gimme a throwback fullback and siren WHOOOOOO!!!
In this day and age where national recruits like to hold elaborate press conferences on ESPN where they play watch the shuffling hats, it's refreshing to see a kid who just nonchalantly tells his local newspaper beat reporter, "Oh yeah, I called Penn State and committed today."
He noted that the coaching staff's ability to call the right play at the right time has been a major boon. But perhaps more importantly for (Zach) Zwinak, he no longer has to worry about what school he'll be playing for in 2010. After Friday night's game, he made a call to Penn State to verbally commit.
"It's a great school, great people, great football," Zwinak said. "It's a relief. I can just focus on my team and the season."
Rivals lists Mr. Zwinak as the No. 1 fullback in the nation and the fourth best player in Maryland. In his junior year he rushed 133 times for 1,447 yards and 19 TD.
Here's what you won.
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F1rst!
Awesome get.
I wonder if he saw Suhey’s role so far this year and thought it looked good to him?
Welcome to the family Zach
Black Shoes. Basic Blues. No Name. All Game.
"Everyone has a plan, until they get punched in the mouth."
Why not
Penn State is one of the few teams that have gone to the spread but still consider the fullback a prominent part of the offense.
Mike
Black Shoe Diaries
totally agree
our first two games have gotten suhey some nice touches and I think we will continue with it. great get for us. kid has Penn State written all over him
I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member
by TheMightyErik on Sep 14, 2009 4:43 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
So does this start a new
commit run?
Who on BSD had their pants wet over the prospect of Zwinak becoming a Nittany Lion? Well sir, your day has finally arrived.
One man doing the work of 100's for the good of 1000's
and me
"We hugged as grown men do. It was a great moment. Then, it was business as usual." -- LJ Sr.
totally me too...
love to see this kid be the next alstott
I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member
by TheMightyErik on Sep 14, 2009 4:44 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
having watched some KJ Carter highlights today
his running style instantly reminds me of KJ. not speed necessarily, but just the mechanics of his running…and also his ability to shed 1000 blocks per carry.
/hyperbole
We decide when you hear the snap count...
We do seem to get groups...
Which makes me feel pretty nice about Khairi…
ZACH ZWINACK
ZACH ZWINACK ZACH ZWINACK ZACH ZWINACK ZACH ZWINACK ZACH ZWINACK ZACH ZWINACK ZACH ZWINACK ZACH ZWINACK ZACH ZWINACK ZACH ZWINACK ZACH ZWINACK ZACH ZWINACK ZACH ZWINACK ZACH ZWINACK ZACH ZWINACK ZACH ZWINACK ZACH ZWINACK
We are gonna shock them with 5,000 mega watts of raw ROO POWER.
good
Zack with a k Zacks are usually douchebags.
NittanyWhiteOut.com. Arguably the second best Penn State blog I know of.
dude...it's called the preview button. try it sometime.
I bleed Blue and White.
by Horse N Buggy on Sep 14, 2009 5:11 PM EDT up reply actions
to his defense
it’s not like that hasn’t been said around here, but usually in jest.
by Screen Name 20 on Sep 14, 2009 7:06 PM EDT up reply actions
Beachum
Did anyone else notice Brandon playing fullback? He looked pretty powerful on his carries…i would love to see more of him
"I'm not affraid to compete"
~Robert Bolden
I noticed...
but mostly because the guy sitting behind me said “who’s this Beachum kid? Never heard of him.”
We are not normal. We are legends.
by NittanyAlum02 on Sep 14, 2009 5:15 PM EDT up reply actions
screen specialist
Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good.
Also
What are the chances he ends up at LB especially if we wind up whiffing on Fortt?
I heard he also pretty stout on the defensive side.
Black Shoes. Basic Blues. No Name. All Game.
"Everyone has a plan, until they get punched in the mouth."
watching the video
I totally agree. You have to watch a big kid like that and think, wow, he could handle himself as an LB. You know that Joe is.
I was also comtemplating him at TE
He looks to have nearly the right size and more than enough speed… If we could teach him a new blocking scheme, why not?
"I thought the kid we were using had the potential to be a good quarterback, and I blew that one." - Joseph V. Paterno
by leeharvey418 on Sep 15, 2009 7:58 AM EDT up reply actions
The quote from the newspaper kind of says it all
but I totally didn’t see this coming, at least this soon for him. I also kind of figured he was a VT legacy and was theirs to lose, even though we still love our fullbacks here.
But none the less , welcome to the family Zach!
Whooo whoooooo!
but that’s only in the morning.
by Tailgate Shogun on Sep 14, 2009 6:30 PM EDT reply actions
Dude looks pretty tough
i wouldn’t want to run him into an angry him in a back alley.
"For me the game wasn’t grounded in reality. It was about the uniform you put on that turned you into a warrior. It was about the mythology of the battle, the victory, the defeat, the struggle." - Mike Reid, PSU '69
He looks like he's not unfamiliar with shoving freshman into lockers
especially with that HS football letterman’s jacket on.
by dawsonPSU10 on Sep 14, 2009 11:49 PM EDT up reply actions
are you posting from experience?
"For me the game wasn’t grounded in reality. It was about the uniform you put on that turned you into a warrior. It was about the mythology of the battle, the victory, the defeat, the struggle." - Mike Reid, PSU '69
How many times have I made a reference
to Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, or Monty Python on here? And you think I was the guy shoving kids into lockers in HS?
Actually, to be fair, I was a large nerd, I was 6 foot 230+ throughout HS, so I wasn’t really one to be trifled with, not that I would have done anything anyway, because I’m a big softy (Though that kind of stuff actually never happened to anyone in my HS, our lockers were literally 6 inches wide, so you’d have to pretty much dismember someone to stuff them into a locker)
So we have
“Big Red, ’Lil Red…and Z-Red?”
"...big hitter; the Llamma...long..."
by BlueWhiteLife on Sep 14, 2009 11:31 PM EDT up reply actions
"For me the game wasn’t grounded in reality. It was about the uniform you put on that turned you into a warrior. It was about the mythology of the battle, the victory, the defeat, the struggle." - Mike Reid, PSU '69
This is a great pickup
he looks like a mauler out there and has some quick feet when running the ball.
speaking of LB's
poz just left the game nursing his left arm…off to get x-rays :(
before he left halfway through the 2nd quarter, 6 solo tackles…and then buffalo let in a TD, doesn’t look good for the bills.
We decide when you hear the snap count...
How many scholarships do we have after all the defections/bootings?
If we have 15/16 commits (Norwood is looking more and more like a grayshirt), do we have space for Lattimore, Floyd, Fortt and Easley? Does this mean Stills is really just coming to visit, never to return?
They'll find room one way or another
If the blue chippers want to come here, you can be sure as hell we’ll pull a schollie out of our ass from somewhere.
PS, I have absolutely no idea where we’re at with schollies at the moment, it was looking like 18 was the general consensus, but I have no idea if that’s changed now with players leaving. I would tend to think that while some of the seniors leaving doesn’t change anything, some of the others like Koroma and JB Walton have added to that number, but I don’t know.
I forgot about Ditto
So with him, Koroma and Walton, that would up it to 21
by dawsonPSU10 on Sep 15, 2009 12:14 AM EDT up reply actions
Maybe, Maybe not
We only have about 15 graduating seniors, so in my projection I figured we would have a few transfers or dismissals. So these guys are eating up my cushion to get to that 18 number.
We do have a bunch of guys planning on enrolling early though. They would count toward the 2009 numbers, and there is talk that Levi Norwood is going to greyshirt. So we could take 20-22 I would say.
Mike
Black Shoe Diaries
I think it's a bit more now that he's on board.
"I'm colonel cool! And I'm the captain on this rocket to the stars!"
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