Penn State Football Recruiting Podcast

Aside from his Brett Favre-like retirement practices, raiding our cupboard with his “respect” for Paterno was just out of this world ridiculous. A good chunk of their 4 and 5 star recruits were PSU recruits. I realize some were going to leave anyways, but I can’t imagine all of them would have had Meyer not put the full court press on.

Full disclosure: At one time I wanted him as our next coach. We all make mistakes right?

Speculation it will be Michigan State.

Nothing’s final until the LOI is signed, my friends. Meyer was a new B1G coach, calling on recruits that he and his staff felt could be swayed. There is no legitimate reason to be unhappy with him for being there with open arms once our top level recruits had second thoughts after the JS scandal broke.

Recruits pick their school based on any number of things. One main reason is to have an enjoyable, winning experience playing football at that school. None of us can blame the top guys in our class, the ones that have their pick of top football programs, for not wanting to risk playing at PSU for the next 4 years with all of the uncertainty surrounding the program.

Best of luck to the kids that chose not to come to PSU, they weren’t ours to begin with. Best of luck to Urbz, too, except for when we play him.

Side note; he looks like a guy who would sell me overpriced insurance. Just sayin’.

I see armani reeves just signed with OSU as well. So thats a good way to start the day. I hate to say this but I was pulling for Michgan in that one. After he eliminated PSU of course, just so Urban Meyer didnt get another one from us. This is what I predict, Michigan vs OSU tight game that comes down to the wire. Michigan somehow steals 2 seconds from OSU and wins the game. Karma for Urban Meyer. Now I am gonna go shoot myself for talking about MIchigan And OSU in the same conversation

and save the scholarships for next year? Give a deserving walkon or two a one year scholarship, and get after the class of 2013 starting Monday. I mean, really get after it.

Nice job, Junny. There was really no way to get a recruiting podcast out of this class without throwing in some discussions of other schools. There just isn’t enough action left I fear (not having a good feeling on Cox tonight). It did, however, feel a bit like Michigan and OSU talking about how awesome they are. I would have loved to hear some perspective on some of the new guys if there were anyone available to talk about the former WV tandem, Bench, or some bits and pieces about the recent add ons.

I just don’t see how a kid who wanted to play for Joe Paterno could suddenly want to play for Urban Meyer. Not that he’s necessarily a bad guy, but it just seems really different. It’s like a kid saying he wants to go to Oberlin and then suddenly deciding to the Air Force Academy. Maybe not that different, but a big shift, I’d think.

I don’t see how Ohio State has all this many scholarships to give. Hopefully that bites them in the ass eventually. NCAA sanctions just aren’t very effective, are they?

I’m sure we’ll do better next year. Even before the fiasco, Joe wasn’t recruiting, Galen wasn’t recruiting, etc. It wasn’t a good situation. Now we’ll have a mostly young hungry staff and will be able to dangle early playing time as a possible reward.

Bear in mind that Iowa cleaned our clocks for years with guys that most other schools didn’t want, so there’s that.

Why are we directing so much venom toward Urban Meyers?

The real culprit in the loss of so many of our quality commits is the freakin’ BOT selection committee that took a leisurely 2 damn months, during the final stretch run of the recruiting season, to name a new head coach. Plus nobody on the committee with any football background? Leisurely recruiting is fine if you are looking for a new head of the Art History department. During this time the only thing the new recruits heard, from every existing media outlet, was that the entire coaching staff was getting the boot. The existing staff did a great job under the circumstances in holding on to most, but what could they really tell the kids? What could they realistically tell those we were still trying to recruit? Certainly they didn’t know if they had jobs themselves. Now of course we like to say “Pick a school kid, not a football program”. Well, our BOT and President during this time were not exactly distinguishing themselves. They were clumsy, clueless and rightfully criticized. Not the best advertizing for the school. I wouldn’t be surprised if some of our now lost recruits went and recruited Meyers, not vice versa.

english fail at the beginning

sweet. Flexing some skills today