Austin Johnson Commits To Penn State

The more I thought about the Muller thing, I came to this conclusion. It’s like standing at your best friend’s wedding and thinking to yourself: “Man, you could do a whole lot better”.

If these kids got offers in January, they would be guys that would merely be filling out a class after we struck out on kids that we really wanted. Here, it sounds like the staff saw these guys in person and knew a bit about them previously, then liked them enough to offer.

The usual suspects have already lost their minds about this, so they’ll either be proven right or the staff will. For what it’s worth, I’d be on Larry Johnson as a talent scout (although maybe not as a great judge of character).

I see BC, Rutgers, and Syracuse?

Dude, I don’t know how you do it – especially on such a consistent basis.

I’m now to the point that my very first morning activity (well – aside from taking a leak) is to boot up old BSD and search longingly for your next bit of contributed wisdom. You never disappoint!

I thank you.

That way I can use my favorite line from Anchorman after each of your posts without it being a complete non-sequitur. Thanks.

LJ Sr.wants him in June >>> Rivals 4*, Scout 4*, or having 5+ BCS offers.

But peruse through the Scout rankings. Here are most of our d-lineman from the past several years:

Alford (3 star with offers from Miami, Syracuse, Virginia, Rutgers)
Hali (4 star)
Gaines (3 star with offers from Mich State, Wisconsin, Purdue)
Hayes (4 star)
Baker (3 star with offers from Cuse and Wisconsin)
Taylor (4 stars)
Evans (4 stars)
Odrick (4 stars)
Maybin (4 stars)
Still (4 stars)
Latham (3 stars with offers from UNC, Georgia Tech, Cal, Oregon)
Crawford (4 stars)
Hill (3 stars)
Stanley (3 stars with offers from Georgia, Michigan, Nebraska, Va Tech)
Ogbu was 2 stars and had an offer from UNC. Koroma and Ware had similar offer sheets to these guys who comitted yesterday. Ware wasn’t offered until January.

It’s not like LJ has made due with under the radar guys. He’s had highly-recruited, highly ranked kids with big time offer sheets. The 3 first round picks (4 if you count Taylor) were all 4 star recruits.

But, as I posted above, the recruiting services and LJ generally agree. His last 3 All-Americans (Hali, Maybin, Odrick) were 4-star recruits. So, we’ll see how this plays out. I’m not OMG FIRE EVERYONE upset about it, it’s more of a “where’d these kids come from” thing. It’ll be interesting to watch.

Very good at shedding blockers, but he doesn’t seem to get much of a push. Looks like he stays a little too high to get good leverage, but at 6’5", I could see why it’d be a little tough.

Once you’re past the Philadelphia suburbs, HERE BE DRAGONS.

Just not in an O$U kind of way. Just needed to clarify what was otherwise extremely well put. I see nothing wrong with getting big kids that LJ and Bradley think they can turn into players.