2027 Recruiting Thread
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Uhhhh, no. I’ve been happy to support the team whether it’s Paterno, Bradley, BOB, Franklin, or Campbell.
Can you find it in your heart to support the team? Or are you just a troll?
A few folks at PSU still root for a coach, not PSU....dead, fired....it doesn't matter as they cannot move on from their little fanboy crushes on coaches.
The new HC is yet to even coach a single game and these d-bags are all in to this woe is me basically for attention. They know it will be a failure. Now a few we saw like this when JF was hired and they didn't hide they were bigots and upset it wasn't a Joe guy, but not even giving MC a game is just for attention. They're idiots....long story short. I have no idea how he will work out....crazy to say that, but just hoping for the best.
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He's currently on the team and expected to be a very prominent part of this year's defense . Where did he come from? I'm not the one stupid enough to say a coach ignored 3 position groups a year and a half after his team was finished #5 in the nation. It looks like the current coach could be "ignoring" WR as well. How about you hold your breath until the new staff finishes better than #5 in the nation?You named one LB… it takes more than one LB to have a good defense lol.
Run your mouth when PSU has reached "excellence at the highest level."
No one beats you for running your mouth. So many put you on ignore, you created multiple handles to get attention.
One needs multiple handles to deal with your abundant stupidity.
The BWI podcast today was good as well. Confirms that something wonky happened with Gibson and he needed an escape valve out of his state now for the 2026 season that Rutgers provided that we could not provide because we are loaded at running back this year. It also confirms that we are in a strange spot as a 10-25 school for money. We lose many of the recruits that the top 10 $ schools truly want, and we have risk from the tier below us that want to grab somebody like a Gibson that will be program changing and drastically overpay to do it. Interesting times.
I don't know that many on here believe Gibson isn't a loss. CMC and staff have to find a comparable replacement. Too bad he chose to reclassify, which apparently knocked PSU out of his commitment.
PSU RB depth appears to be: Hansen, Peoples/Martin (battling for #2), and Wallace.
I wouldn’t mind if we held steady at RB or picked a developmental rb, but I really want to see us reach and flip an elite WR. I still think that Campbell’s crew is doing well in recruiting in many respects, but I do have concerns that they are religiously adhering to their scale. They are holding some money for the portal, for sure. They are preparing for the five-year rule as we may have a number of players come back for another year. Read a few places that we are 20% for recruiting class. That may need to be bumped up to 25% for this year and next year to rebuild after Kraft’s lost 2026 class. The only caveat is if we have enough funds to get what we want out of the portal. I have some doubts there because the portal general is higher than high school recruiting.
And with the new five-year rule, they can all be back next season.
Or they can hit the portal and explore other options for more cash. Nothing is guaranteed here.
Yea. That is pretty thin. After Hansen it is a big question mark. Not sure martin is even a RB. I think I read he was tested at other positions in spring.
Psu is two injuries away from needing Gibson.
That is true. We have three very solid backs, and obviously there will be a loser in terms of carries among the three. I could see that person leaving. Or maybe Hansen is able to go to the NFL.
He knows the answers to his stupid questions. He’s just being a small shriveled wiener.
On the recruiting and what appears to be a ceiling on paying HS recruits, I think he formulated a plan with priorities and an importance on certain things.
1 stabilize the program with the portal bringing talent with him that he trusted and respects via the portal, Check,
2 lay a firm foundation for the culture he demands, Check.
3 Recruit a solid supporting cast for next year, Check.
4 Develop strong relationships with High Schools and their coaches, identify and build relationships with players you intend to offer for the class of 2028, Ongoing.
These are just my observations of what I think I see playing out.
Hate to be Debbie Downer but I don't see whomever gets the least PT this year might choose to portal after this season; especially if the staff can add another RB comparable to Gibson in this class.
I don’t know how to feel about this because it basically confirms what I feared. PSU doesn’t have adequate NIL and they are going to have to rely on Campbell and Co finding diamonds in the rough and coaching them up. This isn’t a very optimistic message.
Apparently, PSU itself is pissed at HVU. Leave it to us to be late out of the gate setting up NIL and then having a collective that may be incompetent. Maybe this will lead to something newer and much better.
The HVU website boasts 2.1 million NIL distributed to 31 teams. That seems low. Hope adidas is supplying NIL. Hope there’s other NIL outside HVU.
That seems absurdly low. Something is off or PSU is poverty NIL University
I have 3 or 4 on ignore in this thread. You guys should know who that is and just do that.
I don't understand. All I was saying about Florida is Golesh has done well and had the same time Campbell had. I actually don't know if Florida has a better class than ours or not. Are you saying it is harder to recruit in Florida?
Florida is doing pretty well recruiting with their new coach.
There seems to be a variety of streams of revenue. There’s ncaa revenue share, there’s the HVU collective, Adidas, and there’s other individual deals outside the collective. This is the best I understand it, but it’s hard to get information on exactly how it works, even on the other forums out there. What is universally understood is that our collective is run very poorly and cycles through directors. Unfortunately, it also is absolutely true that our donor system is extraordinarily fragmented and completely silo’d. Supposedly the PSU Association won’t even share contact information to allow Kraft and the collective to reach more of our wealthy alums. There’s nobody in control of this. Kraft should be the glue and he is not. He may be the biggest problem we have.
It was IN UCLA, their QB was one of the highest rated and most coveted in the country, he had an unreal game, we had bad luck, and injuries if I recall. Our LB’s were awful! That loss was just a microcosm of the season-I don’t blame James Franklin for that loss. It was just bad luck. It happens. In what universe does a team automatically deserve to win every game? UCLA had a young coach too and the team had been rallying at that point and was fired up. It happens. It doesn’t mean James Franklin is a bad coach or should have been fired.
Your bias against Franklin is nauseating you Iowa State fan boy. You didn’t buy tickets to last season because you knew better? Nobody knew better! I don’t know any PSU fans who weren’t emphatically confident about our success last season. You’re SO smart…you possess such clairvoyance. I just call that being an ***. Anybody can say I told you so after the fact.
This must be Kraft’s profile with this dumb *** little Campbell button. Shove that button up your keyster you disloyal slime ball. You wouldn’t say ANYTHING to Franklin in person. Is James Franklin one of the ten best coaches in the country or not? Go sit down you little Matt Campbell richard rider.
You don’t/can’t even make posts proving points or using facts-you just talk **** on James Franklin because you love to get pats on the butt from the other bullies, football savants, psych majors, and of course the Monday Morning Quarterbacks on this board.
From the bottom of my heart, gfy.
You’re a spoiled brat.
Additionally, your prose is weak, lacks targeted syntax, is repetitive, and your tone sounds like a 9 year old who always gets his way and is mad at someone. Just a bitter little twit.
Nice Campbell button.
When you say “so glad” he’s gone you sound naive, spoiled, immature, and dumb. Just like @PSUForever
You can gfy too.
This post shows you have you no idea what you are talking about. Remember sweetie, it’s better to be thought a dumb little sniveling naive rat then to fat finger a response on a forum and remove all doubt.
THAT statement is the issue. We don’t hate the team you idiot.
We LOVE the team and that is why we are concerned.
Don’t you get it? Some people don’t think the team is better this moment than it WAS.
You can’t put lipstick on a pig and don’t piss on my back and tell me it’s raining. We’re a Becht injury away from winning four games this year.
It’s interesting…I think it might be the opposite…Your psychology is so flakey and notable…I wouldn’t be surprised if YOU were rooting against us last year praying for Franklin to fail. Cheering for his demise like a sicko.
You are gas lighting. Keep digging yourself a bigger hole. Come on-do it. More dumb replies will help, right? Say something. I know the truth because I’ve experienced sociopathic creeps like you before.
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Kraft is likely a liar but at the very least a prolific prevaricator. Despite objections and warnings about the timing, he forged ahead with the stadium project at a very unpredictable and turbulent time for college football. This cost PSU big time recruits before the 7/1/25 NIL Clearinghouse deadline. It continues to hobble recruiting and there should be no one who denies it.
Matt Campbel is blameless in this matter and might just be waking up to the mess he walked into.
Lack of funds cost PSU players like Luke Wafle and Kraft's magical mystery tour of a coaching search cost PSU the rest of the 2026 class. Pat Kraft promised "excellence at the highest level" and he should be held to that standard. Not Matt Campbell, who is left with the task of cleaning up Kraft's mess.
Everyone should recall the secretly recorded conversation Kraft had with team leaders. He placed the blame for roster financial decisions on Franklin (and the BWICAC lapped it up) insisting that proper management of monies could have acquire a game breaking receiver.......So I ask all the experts here, now that we have flawless financial management, Where are the big time WRs and game breakers? LOL Kraft has a bridge (luxury box) he wishes to sell you.
