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    2027 Recruiting Thread

    The kid needs to get someone else to make up a "highlight" tape. That one won't get him much interest - he must have some better game film than those dozen or so plays. For a high school kid who is much bigger than the high school kids he is going up against, he was a NF in the bulk of that clip.
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    Team GPA

    Back in the day, it was common to have really good students as most of the walk ons (and, back far enough, a lot of very good students among the scholarship kids too). Now, with no walk-ons to speak of, it is pretty much all recruited scholarship kids (with a few who earned scholarships after...
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    Team GPA

    Honestly, probably closer to a 2.5 - if you account for both grade inflation (which has been CRAZY for a while, throughout most of the country - and then went absolutely bonkers since "COVID"), and the choices of curriculums. Not that it is either good, bad, or indifferent - its just what it...
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    “At Big Ten spring meetings, coaches lobby for 24-team playoff”

    With the way things have been moving - who knows? Don't disregard anything. That said: A bunch of "post-high school" kids wearing red jerseys playing football against a bunch of post-high school kids wearing blue jerseys? No one cares. Its the XFL - at best. Exact same scenario, but put OSU...
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    “At Big Ten spring meetings, coaches lobby for 24-team playoff”

    Yep. But in the end, the ONLY thing that will drive the decision-making process is $$$. All the other razzmatazz (academics, time load, etc etc etc) is smoke and mirrors and propaganda - for the kids who still believe in Santa Claus. With each expansion of the post-season: The import and...
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    2026 Pirates Thread

    8 Saves, 27 Holds, 10 Blown Saves Yes, that is really bad Last year - even with all the troubles of Holderman and a few others: 36 Saves, 76 Holds, 26 Blown Saves. If you do the math, it all boils down to an increase of 8 more losses over the course of the season (vs an average bullpen) - or...
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    2027 Recruiting Thread

    As of today, the PSU recruiting class is a bit over 1/2 way completed. The average quality (as per the "recruiting gurus") is 87.65. As classes fill out across the country - barring PSU's quality among the later part of the class increases substantially - it will be a 25ish ranked class...
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    $25 MM renovation and expansion of Physical Education Building at Penn State Abington

    It would appear to be abundantly obvious that someone(s) made out like bandits. That money all ended up in some pocket. It didn't evaporate. Honestly, its enough to make anyone who cares about Penn State weep. Over and over again.
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    2027 Recruiting Thread

    IIRC: Smith was - as Marshall stated - the highest paid POSITION COACH (that would exclude Head Coaches and Coordinators). Obviously, many coordinators making more - but I think Smith was around $1.8 million or so - which was/is the most highly comped position coach, IIRC. Last year, of...
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    2027 Recruiting Thread

    This class, FWIW, is tracking to be lower part of the top 25 (current rankings reflect "volume", with PSU having significantly more of their class already "committed") CJF's recruiting was the same way - a large portion of it committing early, and was usually and often "top 5", until the rest of...
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    Beaver Stadium reconstruction thread

    Producer Price Index by Commodity: Special Indexes: Construction Materials (WPUSI012011) | FRED | St. Louis Fed Materials Costs Index: Jan 2024: 334.374 Jan 2025: 326.249 Jan 2026: 347.710 That is an annualized inflation rate of a tad UNDER 2% per year since project inception. ENR has non-res...
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    APR Rates

    WRT: $$ 'College" Athletics and its linkages to "education"? Yep, I'd say you are overwhelmingly correct - with maybe a few hold outs among fans of certain programs, who want to believe that linkage remains. Overwhelmingly, the key players in that symphony have long since moved on from any...
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    Beaver Stadium reconstruction thread

    Yep. I had to refresh my memory as well - as to the specific numbers. Will it all be paid out? Who knows. I would expect so - but there is always at least some element of risk that one wouldn't have if the purchaser of the advertising was some large corporation (Pepsi or some national bank...
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    Beaver Stadium reconstruction thread

    Werzyn Family and West Shore Home Make Significant Field Naming Gift for Beaver Stadium - Penn State - Official Athletics Website 15 Years, $3.3 M per year over that time period (IIRC, the earlier years are a bit higher - then a bit lower)
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    $25 MM renovation and expansion of Physical Education Building at Penn State Abington

    Actually, they did - (maybe not at that meeting I linked in). They were sold a bale of baloney (some of them probably realized it was baloney, others probably did not) But whattareyagonnado?
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