Nitt Picks Has Bullets

I saw the headline about Paterno hurting recruiting, and fully expected a url containing the letters ‘altoonamirror’ to pop up when I moused over it. Do I at least get credit for being in the right quadrant of the state?

But we’ve done the full stadium white out three times, Notre Dame, Illinois and Iowa. Me thinks that the one of the main factors are 1 a late start, 2 early in the season, 3 against a decent (but not necessarily premier) opponent.

Show me the game on that schedule that meets those criteria. There isn’t one.

PJ is huge, 6-5 and 235 and Bolden, listed at 6-4, 195, needs to belly up to the training table or they’ll move him to WR.

I never knew that.

Normally I wouldn’t subject myself to reading them (as they read like a bad Audibles thread), but I had some free time so I checked them out. Allow me to sum up:

“WE USE TO OWN PENN STATE! THEY SUCK!”
“WE STILL KICK ASS IN BASKETBALL!”
“Hey guys, I think the article is more a knock on the state of UM and MSU football than PSU being arrogant for not scheduling a whiteout.”
“STATE PENN IS AWFUL! WE OWN THEM! SHUT UP LOGICAL UM FAN!”

but they exposed what a rediculous article that is about Pryor. Tressle only takes seniors to media day. Pryor is a junior, Pryor doesn’t fit the coach’s criteria to go.

The media will have to get their inappropriate Pryor comments elsewhere.

He is an overhyped arm punter. I may be bitter about him not coming to PSU, but now I am just tired of hearing about him.

but it’s amazing that he’s lived so long after diagnosis. My thoughts and prayers are with him and his family.

I was surprised to see him going instead of another senior.

Good for him. I hope he does well and gets a shot in the NFL. Good kid, great leader…he deserves a shot. I loved him at PSU, and I’ll cheer for him wherever he goes.

My dad, son, and I dropped a loud “WE ARE…” on him when he passed by on his float during the parade in South Bend Saturday. He was signing something for someone, got a big smile on his face, and started looking to see where it came from. Good to see him get the HOF honor – he was one of my first PSU FB heroes.

…by not caring about a small class when he has plenty of depth.
…by not cheating and racking up recruiting violations.
…by not being young.
…by having intestinal trouble.

Yeah don’t care. I’m personally hurting Penn State recruiting more than Joe Pa is.

thats why we pulled in a top 12 recruiting class last year even though it was a relatively tiny 20 schollie class (tiny by SEC standards anyway). And had Easley and Coxson not turned out to have character issues (or whatever the hell happened) or jumped ship for “greener pastures” in the SEC as soon as their offer came (Easley), we would have easily had a top 5 class or near that (not that I’m disappointed in last years recruiting at all).

We nabbed like 7 or 8 of the top 10 elite football players in PA last year, and this year when there isn’t a tremendous amount of elite talent to dominate in our own state and we’re not pulling in stud athletes every other week we’re suddenly SOL and headed down the toilet again as a program? And did they notice before they condemned PSU to mediocrity that this year’s class is actually smaller than the year before it?
 
I know recruiting is important to sustained success, but come on, it’s not JoePa’s fault, and for that matter there’s no fault to be taken by anyone on the staff. We have a small class, meaning we have to be very selective in who we offer to make sure we fill our needs as best as possible. We don’t have the luxury, or the soullessness, of the SEC who can pull in 30 players every recruiting class, and just cast aside those kids they don’t want anymore because the next hot recruit just came onto the scene. We don’t just throw out offers at kids all around the country regardless of the need for the position we play, just because they’re highly touted. We’re more methodical (read: traditional) than that. Our coaches are able to see potential in the people they hand offers to (regardless of hype, stars, rankings, media attention, camp awards, etc.), and I would argue they do it better than any other staff in the country. I like seeing sirens as much as anybody, but I’m not going to start blaming coaches, Joe or otherwise, just because we’re ranked as the 63rd best class or whatever just because we only have three commits. /end rant

+1

Have you ever seen a political speech where they get liberals, moderates, and conservatives to hold a dial and move it up and down whenever they like or dislike something? I think that would make for a great exercise in Big Ten media days and get fans from all eleven teams to rate the coaches speeches in real time.

Who would compete with Tressel for lowest number? Would Paterno just coast through with the best score? Would Zook get the most erratic chart from all members?