Looks like he’s heading to Notre Dame. Another miss for Campbell.
We didn’t make Gregory final 7
Taylor is trending to Nebraska
Not much left for us besides more 3 stars from Idaho.
2027 Recruiting Thread
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Looks like he’s heading to Notre Dame. Another miss for Campbell.
We didn’t make Gregory final 7
Taylor is trending to Nebraska
Not much left for us besides more 3 stars from Idaho.
I wouldn't mind 3 star commitments like Trent Williams and Lane Johnson were in college.
I like how everybody throws in that random 3-star who turns out to be a stud. If you go back far enough, teams with the highest-rated recruiting classes almost always make the playoff and contend for national championships — with the notable exception of Indiana. Curt Cignetti is a great coach who figured out an effective transfer portal model that everybody is going to copy (Ohio State and Penn State leaned into it heavily last year).
Word on the street is that we are going to need a transfer QB in 2027. Manske may have something quite serious.
ND is loading up on offensive linemen. They just flipped a kid from UCLA. That already had a commitment from two other OL players including Halter, a four star OT from Pittsburgh Central Catholic, who is the fourth ranked player in PA. In addition, they just got a commitment from the #1 player in NJ, a five star OT. Now, they are the favorites to land the #1 player in DE who was previously committed to PSU. They aren’t messing around.
Who’s Penn State getting for the offensive line? Literally a bunch of no names
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Their donors seem to have a problem with Indiana winning the national championship.
Yeah, apparently they’ll know this summer if he’s good to go for 2026 and beyond. It is a shame because he has a ton of potential. It’s something very new. If we need a transfer QB, that will be $3-$6M in this market.
I wish our donors had a problem with Indiana winning the national championship
3-6 million you can count out Penn State for that then. Probably sign a QB from Slippery Rock.
Nothing about this coaching staff leads me to believe they will spend $3-6 million on a single portal player. QB or not.
I would very much disagree with that assessment. They would absolutely spend what’s necessary to get a starter QB if they needed it. You know they have spent big money on specific players. So for example, they spent $1 million to retain Tony Rojas, who is recovering from an acl.
It's either contribute to the payroll or stadium construction. We know what Kraft's top priority is.
We will see. They spent far less than $3 million on Rocco Becht, their home grown, known commodity, QB to follow them. I don’t see it happening and I’m not sure I want them to spend that much if it means cutting corners on portal players or recruits at other positions of need due to NIL constraints. Weren’t you on here a few days ago saying that they weren’t going to spend big money on top players and they were spreading it out to “build a roster”, while referencing NIL limits at PSU? Now, you think they are going to spend $3-6 million on one guy? Also, if they were willing to spend a million dollars on an often injured Tony Rojas, did they offer Amare Campbell, last year’s leading tackler the same deal?
Massachusetts is in the middle of tackling this problem (pun intended).
The only schools who aren't in the MIAA are the NEPSAC prep schools ... so the Catholics, charters and other privates compete against the publics (who now have a school choice option, if they elect to accept).
Obviously, since the Catholics recruit like it's allowed and encouraged (it's not, it's illegal), they pull in better talent and tend to be overall better than the publics, though better publics can still hang, generally.
In football, we have 8 Divisions (4 or 5 in most other sports) ... the starting point is male student enrollment, but schools can move up or down based on certain criteria, and requests to move. End result is the Catholics are over-represented in Division 1 and Division 2. Comically, the best Catholic school in recent times (Catholic Memorial), is D2 ... so they're playing 2nd division squads, like idiots ... and they won't move up. Regardless ...
The most recent attempt to somewhat fix this is we're keeping the division-based postseason tournaments, but we're adding a "Super 8" playoff. We did this in baseball in the past, with the best 8 schools, as voted on by some committee, playing in a "best of the best" tourney, and allowing the other division members to play amongst themselves.
Here, they are proposing to limit the selections to teams from D1 and D2 only. Selection is based on a "power ranking" (a combination of strength of schedule and margin of victory) which already determines selection and seeding for the divisional tournaments. So, a stud D3 team in the top 8 of the power rankings, overall, would just play in its normal postseason divisional bracket (I'm sure we'll see some good schools lobbying to get reclassed down to D3). So, this past year, that would have resulted in 5 Catholics in the Super 8.
Catholic school coaches are angry because now they lose their edge ... they want to look good against lesser competition, rather than battling with each other. One douchey coach - the Xaverian HC (where Will Wood is from) - said: "This is an anti-Catholic (Conference) movement to get us out of the tournament," Fornaro said. "I knew it was going to happen at some point, and we'll work with it. My fear always is, just from a Catholic (Conference) perspective is this: once they get that, what's to prevent them in a few years from saying, 'Now you have to have your own tournament. "I just don't know if it's the best thing for the sport," Fornaro said. "I'm sure I'm the outlier because there are people saying 'you guys win too much. You're going to punish the players in successful programs. What are we going to do, lay down for you? Get better."
What an arsehat. "Get better." That's a "let them eat cake moment." Eff these guys. Yeah, just get better. Why didn't we think of that? Compete with the deep pocketed alumni donating tons of money for facilities. Compete with the camps they hold on campus at these fancy facilities, advertising their wares, and then telling casually mentioning after a drill that they need a LT, they have guys who can work with them and get them to the next level, etc. The reality is, the Catholics should be embarrassed, because the better publics do mostly compete with them, despite being at a SERIOUS disadvantage.
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What is the injury that they can’t determine anything until the summer? That seems odd.
Let's add a few:
RB: Q. Martin
WR: Howard
OL: Malachi Goodman
DE: Kemanjou
LBer: Tatsch (sp?)
DB: Joseph
Safety: Toure
FG Kicker: Barker
Random??? Let's just stick to Penn State in recent years. Ioane, Fashanu and Dawkins were all 3 stars. There are plenty of 3 star players who have done very well.
Nick Dawkins was just ok and I believe he wasn’t drafted. Fashanu hasn’t lived up to a 1st round pick yet for the Jets. He’s been awful run blocking just like every Penn State offensive lineman has been since Franklin was here.
Aren't we talking about college? Fashanu had a tremendous college career. Rated the #1 OT in the draft. Dawkins was 2 year starter and above average player. The bottom line is that I could name many 3 star kids who had good to great college careers. So 3 star athletes don't concern me. I'll wait and see how they perform on the field.
I think if you asked majority of the people on this board if Nick Dawkins was a stud majority of them would say no. You can have your 3 stars. I’ll take a team full of 4 and 5 stars and beat your 3 stars more often than not.
None of those were starters last year (except Barker). I think Kemajou & Toure saw decent PT.
Looks like 2027 Recruiting is going to be a little quieter these next 2 weeks until the June OVs start. By the looks of the OV schedule, we may have this class all but wrapped up by the end of June, minus a random recruit here and there and of course the attempts to fend off the poachers.
2027 OV Schedule
6/2
6/4
6/5
6/2
Layton von Brandt
6/4
Elijah Burns-Crump
6/5
Khalil Taylor
David Segarra
Stanley Montgomery
Brandon Sherrard
Deshawn Hall
Zahmar Tookes
Cooper Terwilliger
Colt Lumpris
Landon Blum
Gabe Jenkins
Parker Newman
Jamir Dean
Malakai Taufoou
Ifeanyi Emedobi
Blake Betton
Carter Blattner
Semajay Robinson
Ryan Robbins
Ka'ron Ceaser
Tyson Washington
Zachary Gleason Jr.
Jon Sassic
Irrelevant. Some if tge players you listed were not starters either. Did Granvill play a down?
2027 OV Schedule
6/11
6/12
6/19
6/11
Trey Hopkins
6/12
Kei'Shjuan Telfair
Gary Walker
Aiden Gibson
Elijah Guertin
Da'Jon Talley-Rhodes
Dhillon McGee
Isaiah Alvarez
Jonathan Galette
Sean Saint Fleur
Rico Jackson
Aniti Paiva
6/19
Kyler Kuhn
Cooper Ohnmacht
Sean Currie
Chukwuma Odoh
Roman Combs
Javarris Warner
Zayvon Miller
I would tend to agree. But for me, I don't give up on a kid just because he's a 3 star. That is certainly your prerogative.
Like I care what some boomer Joe Pa bot has to say with his 1970s insultWe all know what you beat more often than not!
Michael Robinson was a top 100 4- star prospect. He was evaluated as an athlete, and most recruiting sites projected him as a probable safety. Robinson chose PSU because JoePa promised him a shot at QB.
You said key retentions. It was important to retain those I added. Goodman, Kemanjou, and Howard will probably start. Toure and Joseph will see increased PT as 2nd team players. Tatsch if recovered will see increased PT @ LBer. (2nd team).
Fashanu's rookie year was not good because of nagging injuries and playing unfamiliar positions, both tackle and guard, on the right side. He was moved to left tackle in 2025. Season did not begin well, but he graded very well during the second half. As a run blocker? Well more than half of Breece Hall's runs for first downs and TDs were through the 5-hole.
Funny, I’m a miserable person? I think Penn State has a legitimate chance to win the National Championship this year. Sorry I’m not kissing Campbell’s *** on his recruiting so far — I call it like I see it. I think he’s an excellent coach with a real shot to win it all this year, but I’m ‘miserable’ because I’m calling him out for mostly whiffing on a lot of the kids so far.