Oh, Hello: PA WR Eugene Lewis Commits To Penn State
by Jeff Junstrom on Aug 10, 2011 5:50 PM EDT
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Eugene Lewis, Ladies and Gentlemen!
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Home/HS: Plymouth, PA/Wyoming Valley West
Height: 6'1"
Weight:180
40 Time: N/A
Starz 'n Sheetz
Stars: 4* (247Sports, Scout, Rivals)
Offer sheet: Virginia, Virginia Tech, Illinois, Michigan State, NC State, Northwestern, Oregon, Pitt, Rutgers, South Carolina, Vanderbilt, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Boston College, UConn, Louisville, Maryland
Cinema
Not much in the way of highlights on Lewis (that I could find, please link some if you have them). Instead, here is an interview done by BlueWhite Illustrated at a recent Penn State camp that Lewis attended.
The Tale
Eugene Lewis has been high on the Nittany Lions for quite some time, and it was just a matter of time before the talented wideout committed to Penn State. Eugene was on campus today, and apparently had seen enough. I figured he would wait until morning, but either way, he's now the 14th commit to the Class of 2012.
Outlook
Even though this one has been expected for some time, it is still a big relief to get a skill position player like Lewis on board. I commented earlier today that the skill position depth is already stocked well into the future, and this further solidifies the wide receiver position. Belton, Zanellato and Robinson last year, Lewis and likely one more wideout this year, and you can rest easy whenever anyone asks "How will the Penn State receivers be in 20xx?"
Lewis projects as an outside receiver, which should complement Belton's slot role and Zanellato's possession receiver role nicely in the future. He blew up at camps this summer, impressing all over the country, including the Nike camp in State College in May and The Opening camp in Oregon in July (as you can see from the roster, the talent level in Oregon was quite high).
Lions247 has Lewis as the 9th best prospect in PA, a telling sign in and of itself about the talent level in the Commonwealth this year, and the 25th best WR in the country. Scout.com's Bob Lichtenfels says of Lewis, "[h]e has an outstanding frame and is such a smooth and fluid athlete. He won’t shatter any speed records running a forty-yard dash, but he has a different speed with the ball in his hands. He has exceptional field vision and runs like a scat-back. He is very instinctive and always makes things happen."
Welcome to Penn State, Eugene.
Oh, and to the next commit (you listening up there, Armani?), would you mind picking a more conducive commitment time for the BSD staff? Thanks!
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Take out those earrings and welcome to Penn State Eugene!
"Hey Joe, don't worry about the guys we lose. Only make sure the guys you bring in here belong here, and they're coming here for the right reasons." - Rip Engle to Joe Paterno
I know, I'm just kidding about him
"Hey Joe, don't worry about the guys we lose. Only make sure the guys you bring in here belong here, and they're coming here for the right reasons." - Rip Engle to Joe Paterno
I didn't even know Moye had pierced ears
until the video where he forgot to take them out! I thought it was awesome.
Fire Dan Snyder
Also of note...
With Lewis’ commitment, Penn State is now No. 19 in the country and No. 2 in the Big Ten, according to Scout.com’s extremely recently updated rankings. Reeves’ addition on Friday will help as well, but catching Michigan will be tough. A couple of five-star players certainly would help…
Paging Mr. Spence.
@EpicTripod
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SBN - Pittsburgh
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Well that should be humorous
If we finish with a great grade in recruiting, it’ll be fun to watch and see if people will backpedal from the “stars don’t matter” stance and praise the coaches for a great haul.
As long as our needs are being met and we add depth, I don’t particularly care.
Luring recruits with my new "Posting HD" scheme since '08.
it’ll be fun to watch and see if people will backpedal from the "stars don’t matter" stance and praise the coaches for a great haul.
This will never happen.
Fire Dan Snyder
Because I'm in the "stars are indicative, not determinative" camp
I think that there’s a logical middle ground that will require no backpedaling whatsoever.
"We gon' get down. We gon' do the do. I'm going to hit these mother****ers" - Dock Ellis, May 1, 1974.
by OctaShields on Aug 10, 2011 9:50 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
C'mon man...why you gotta be like that?
With an offer sheet like that, I don’t care if he’s five stars or -2 stars. It’s a good pickup. Why does only one faction get to enjoy it when a kid signs. It’s kind of dumb to say the star gazers love the five star kids and the non-star gazers love the two star kids. In fact, the non-star gazers just celebrate any recruit and wish him well. We don’t have to backpedal anything.
In reading your reply
I think I misinterpreted 06’s original post, because I am with you wholeheartedly in your stance.
Fire Dan Snyder
by Cari Greene on Aug 11, 2011 10:33 AM EDT up reply actions
And another thing
I find it funny seeing all the people that were berating the coaching staff for their recruiting efforts last year (or even two weeks ago) now heaping praise on them for this recruiting class. Who’s backpedaling again?
Well that's not entirely fair.
You know full well that there are good and bad recruiting classes. The staff, for a variety of reasons, underperformed last year. This year, for a variety of different reasons, is much better.
The staff deserves criticism when it’s appropriate, and praise likewise. Just like you at your job, the staff has good days and bad days. Last year, they had quite a few bad days, and this year they have some very good days. It’s just how it goes.
@EpicTripod
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Success With Honor
by Jeff Junstrom on Aug 11, 2011 12:18 PM EDT up reply actions
Which is why the people who don’t put a lot of faith in the star system tend to be the ones who don’t freak out on bad days and don’t put unreasonable expectations on kids because Rivals gave them five stars.
Sometimes the staff screws up. But sometimes life just deals you a bad hand and if you hit, you bust, and if you stay, the dealer takes the queen and gets 19 and you lose. Maybe the staff underperformed last year, or maybe their local recruiting ground wasn’t loaded with talent at the positions they needed to fill. And maybe they put their best recruiting pitch together and it still wasn’t enough because some kids in the end just wanted to stay closer to mommy.
None of us know the entire story or have all the information when it comes to a kid’s recruiting. We read his quotes, dissect his visits, pick apart cryptic tweets and message board rumors and fill in the gaps with what we want to believe. What’s not fair in my opinion is heaping criticism on the coaching staff for blowing it when you have 0.02% of the whole story when it comes to recruiting.
But that’s what I believe and I know what you believe and we’ve had this debate a half dozen times so there’s no need in repeating ourselves. I didn’t intend to get into it again today. I was just responding to the accusation that people like myself would be hypocritical to get excited about recruiting this week.
by BSD on Aug 11, 2011 1:22 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Looking back on last year
We don’t know exactly what was going on during the first few months of the recruiting season—really, we never know—but it definitely seemed like more than bad luck; it looked like something was wrong with the process. Still, it was premature for fans to start flipping out like they did; it was still possible for the coaches to fix the apparent problem by 1) closing out that class in strong fashion and 2) preventing the same thing from happening the following year. They have done both, proving that whatever problem there might have been early last year was both temporary and isolated.
ACCEPTS THE PAYPAL
Hello, everybody, coach get old, the new coach approaching, click in.
Welcome to http://www.pennlive.com
by newenglandnittanylion on Aug 11, 2011 1:49 PM EDT up reply actions
That's my feeling
The staff hit it out of the park with the 2009 class. The 2010 class, not so much, though they did finish strong. But the 2011 class is shaping up pretty nicely. Given this, I’m inclined to say that last spring was an anomaly. Chalk it up to Joe’s illness, limited scholarships, and not much talent in the back yard to choose from.
"He won’t shatter any speed records running a forty-yard dash"
I don’t know about you, Bob Lichtenfels, but a 4.35 seems pretty fast to me.
Luring recruits with my new "Posting HD" scheme since '08.
Exactly
" When you cross that Blue Line, you are mine...Across the Blue Line, it's all football. " " And what you need to do in your life is paint Blue Lines everywhere. " - Joe Paterno 2009
...
"...it smells like...victory..." Col. Kilgore
"Rambler can't have any power" ... He would be a tyrannical wielder of the the banhammer if he did. We couldn’t have: "Oh, you don’t like Iowa – banned." "You don’t like old country guys – banned" "You don’t like corn – banned" or "You’re a dirty rotten southern traitor – banned." It would be pure chaos." - Paige
by BlueWhiteLife on Aug 10, 2011 5:59 PM EDT up reply actions
Guess it isn't
ESSSS EEEE CEEEE SPEEEEEED.
Or even Quack Attack speed. Had he committed to Oregon, he probably would’ve suddenly registered a sub-4.0 40 to go along with a heinous new uniform.
Luring recruits with my new "Posting HD" scheme since '08.
Oregon's uniforms have the ability to blind anyone who gazes on them
They’ve also been rumored to be able to create a electromagnetic field of ugliness that is able to destroy electrical equipment at short range.
So a guy measuring 40 times for Oregon players is probably always wrong.
"Hey Joe, don't worry about the guys we lose. Only make sure the guys you bring in here belong here, and they're coming here for the right reasons." - Rip Engle to Joe Paterno
That struck me as funny too
I’m not sure if that was a Junny mistake or a Lichtenfelshwitzenheisen mistake or if it’s like most listed 40 times and relatively inaccurate
"Hey Joe, don't worry about the guys we lose. Only make sure the guys you bring in here belong here, and they're coming here for the right reasons." - Rip Engle to Joe Paterno
Shit. That was my mistake.
Those numbers belong to another player. You might be seeing them again soon.
@EpicTripod
BSD
SBN - Pittsburgh
Success With Honor
by Jeff Junstrom on Aug 10, 2011 6:06 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Welcome WVC'er!
" When you cross that Blue Line, you are mine...Across the Blue Line, it's all football. " " And what you need to do in your life is paint Blue Lines everywhere. " - Joe Paterno 2009
...
"...it smells like...victory..." Col. Kilgore
"Rambler can't have any power" ... He would be a tyrannical wielder of the the banhammer if he did. We couldn’t have: "Oh, you don’t like Iowa – banned." "You don’t like old country guys – banned" "You don’t like corn – banned" or "You’re a dirty rotten southern traitor – banned." It would be pure chaos." - Paige
Here's to keeping guys who from our backyard.
It sure beats the alternative:
(Or, Rutger’s Leftovers Sure Are Tasty! Suck it, Syracuse, BC, and sometimes UConn!)
by Aaron PSU on Aug 10, 2011 6:14 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs
We're also ELITE
Because this guy had offers from that national powerhouse Virginia Polytechnic Institue and State University.
Luring recruits with my new "Posting HD" scheme since '08.
by 06Lion on Aug 10, 2011 6:16 PM EDT up reply actions 2 recs
+1
I'd like to have two Armies -- one for display, with lovely guns, tanks, little Soldiers, staffs, distinguished and doddering Generals and dear little regimental officers, who would be deeply concerned over their General's bowel movements or their Colonel's piles; an Army that would be shown for a modest fee on every fairground in the country.
The other would be the REAL ONE, composed entirely of young enthusiasts in camouflage uniforms, who would not be put on display but from whom impossible efforts would be demanded and to whom all sorts of tricks would be taught. That's the Army in which I should like to fight.
by PSU_Lions_84 on Aug 10, 2011 8:09 PM EDT up reply actions
“They’re a tough group of kids, but they gotta get it together. One has to get his grades up and they gotta stop with the whaddyacallit tweedle dum machines.”
@EpicTripod
BSD
SBN - Pittsburgh
Success With Honor
by Jeff Junstrom on Aug 10, 2011 6:54 PM EDT up reply actions 2 recs
"They've gotta block well in our offense."
It ain't safe in the city, watch the throne
by Adam Collyer on Aug 10, 2011 6:57 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
at least that is what Joe says in 2084 as a spry 153 yr old
My grammer skills need improved.
by BMAN13 on Aug 10, 2011 8:36 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
In 2084, I'll be at the century mark
"I don’t know what he’s done differently, whether he’s eating differently or Sue is making him happier, but he’s definitely a different coach out there" Devon Still
Welcome to Penn State, Mr. Lewis!
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by newenglandnittanylion on Aug 10, 2011 6:39 PM EDT reply actions
I'm just as excited...
about Northwestern and Vandy on his offer sheet. It means it’s HIGHLY unlikely that the kid will struggle with the books.
I just don't want to die without a few scars. ~Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, Chapter 6
good point
"We gon' get down. We gon' do the do. I'm going to hit these mother****ers" - Dock Ellis, May 1, 1974.
I cannot believe a kid could select Penn State over Virginia Tech.
Maybe kids are stupid nowadays. I weep for our country.
"Infantrymen of the polis think it a disgraceful thing to run away, and they choose death over safety in flight. On the other hand, hired soldiers, who rely from the outset on superior strength, flee as soon as they find they are outnumbered, fearing death more than dishonor."
by ReadingRambler on Aug 10, 2011 7:22 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs
wooo, now Schutt as well?
Fire Dan Snyder
by Cari Greene on Aug 10, 2011 7:59 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs
Just saw that, holy crap
"Hey Joe, don't worry about the guys we lose. Only make sure the guys you bring in here belong here, and they're coming here for the right reasons." - Rip Engle to Joe Paterno
We have a chance to sweep the floor this weekend in recruiting!
This is fantastic news.
"Hey Joe, don't worry about the guys we lose. Only make sure the guys you bring in here belong here, and they're coming here for the right reasons." - Rip Engle to Joe Paterno
ESPN reporting Schutt has picked the Lions.
Here’s hoping it’s a firm commit, and not just a consolation prize choice.
I'd like to have two Armies -- one for display, with lovely guns, tanks, little Soldiers, staffs, distinguished and doddering Generals and dear little regimental officers, who would be deeply concerned over their General's bowel movements or their Colonel's piles; an Army that would be shown for a modest fee on every fairground in the country.
The other would be the REAL ONE, composed entirely of young enthusiasts in camouflage uniforms, who would not be put on display but from whom impossible efforts would be demanded and to whom all sorts of tricks would be taught. That's the Army in which I should like to fight.
by PSU_Lions_84 on Aug 10, 2011 8:20 PM EDT up reply actions
.....looking good Billy Ray
Feeling good Lewis!!!!!
Welcome to the family young man!
With firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right
- A.Lincoln
by SarcasmJam on Aug 10, 2011 9:40 PM EDT via mobile reply actions 4 recs
This movie
will always be an auto-rec.
by psuwxman on Aug 10, 2011 11:03 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Lewis highlights
Not much of a highlight reel, but it shows the type of player he is. I live in his school district, so I’ll probably go check out some games this season. Also, he has mainly played QB during his HS career, and his kind of a hybrid Terrell Pryor/Derrick Williams type player.
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