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2027 Recruiting Thread

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PSUALREADYKNOW

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Blair10 said:
Here are 2 glaring NIL blunders committed by Franklin:

1) Using valuable NIL money on Julian Fleming to play WR. This was one of the worst NIL moves of the Franklin era.
Fleming was a well known bust at Ohio State and Franklin signed him anyway. (2024 example)

2) Using valuable NIL money on 5 star TE Andrew Olesh. Olesh didn’t even dress for a single game and was not able to get beyond 4th string at the tight end position at Penn State. (2025 example)

Olesh’s TE peers by comparison, all played during their freshman year in 2025:

Elyiss Williams (Georgia) - played in 13 games as a 5 star TE
Linkon Cure (Kansas State) - played in 9 games as a 5 star TE
DaSaahn Brame (Tennessee) - played in 9 games as a 4 star TE
Nick Townsend (Texas) - played in 13 games as a 4 star TE

Given Penn State’s known TE depth, it made no financial sense to allocate valuable NIL funds for the TE position in 2025.

This blunder prevented Penn State from signing CB Brandon Finney who signed with Oregon and was named 2nd team All-B1G and defensive MVP in the 2026 Orange Bowl.
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LMTLION said:
The best way to eliminate the trolls is to put them all on ignore, existing and new. Such people can really sap your energy and it’s really harmful to engage them.
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Nits1989 said:
Boy, I wish we still had James Franklin as a coach! Kidding!
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would the current recruiting class and season QB depth be better right now or worse if we still had Franklin? Would the teams talent composite moving into the season be lower or higher if we still had Franklin? Would we have whiffed on the amazing in state talent if we still ha Franklin? You can dislike Franklin and just have an insanely irrational view at the same time. Stew in your misery-I would be feeling much better about this season if Franklin were still here. We’re now like 6th team in the Big 10. Northwestern and Minnesota are just about as good as we are. We slip every day and you stick your head in the sand about how good it is that we fired James Franklin. Really smart.
 
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PSUALREADYKNOW

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LMTLION said:
Franklin was a failure at the end and a Tyler Warren away from being a failure in 2024 as well. He gave up on his 2025 team because he didn’t get a raise over the summer. The team was completely disorganized in the first half of the season. Donors finally gave money to the program and he pissed it all away. Thank God he’s gone.
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To say thank god when James Franklin caliber coaches don’t just grow on trees is naive and shows you are not spoiled because we haven’t been champions since 86…but either living in the past or stupid. Or both?
 
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LionsAndBears said:
He's another example of what T Frank was talking about this week when he said that Campbell recruits kids without limitations, whether the label says 3*, 4* or 5*. McGee definitely fits that mold. If they stick, Telfair and McGee on the outside would be possibly the most gifted pair of CBs we've ever had as far as physical size and athleticism.
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Ever had? Are you on crack rock?
 
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PSUALREADYKNOW said:
That’s hindsight. One player won’t ha

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would the current recruiting class and season QB depth be better right now or worse if we still had Franklin? Would the teams talent composite moving into the season be lower or higher if we still had Franklin? Would we have whiffed on the amazing in state talent if we still ha Franklin? You can dislike Franklin and just have an insanely irrational view at the same time. Stew in your misery-I would be feeling much better about this season if Franklin were still here. We’re now like 6th team in the Big 10. Northwestern and Minnesota are just about as good as we are. We slip every day and you stick your head in the sand about how good it is that we fired James Franklin. Really smart.
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Let's hope that securing Armstrong indicates an influx of cash (NIL) and a change in talent acquisition philosophy. Because no matter how good the coaching is, "coaching them up" isn't the path to "excellence at the highest level." Getting premier talent and then "coaching them up" is a better method.
Anyone who follows recruiting can go to "the internet tailgate" and quickly see that OSU got commits from 2 5 stars yesterday. They are piling up 5 star receivers like cord wood. Let's not continue to enter gunfights with water pistols.
Franklin is a much better coach than the BWICAC are willing to admit. We can only hope the CMC is as good as they think he is.
 
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PSUALREADYKNOW said:
I would be feeling much better about this season if Franklin were still here. We’re now like 6th team in the Big 10. Northwestern and Minnesota are just about as good as we are. We slip every day and you stick your head in the sand about how good it is that we fired James Franklin. Really smart.
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Hey, look at a the bright side. 6th is better than the 12th we finished last year. And 12th was an improvement over our standing after Franklin’s 0-3 Big Ten start.

Also, why’d you create a new nic? That’s weird.
 
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LMTLION said:
We never offered, and there’s reasons for that.
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Oh my goodness! So nice to see that some of the "oldies but goodies" remain. I was fearful that all of the old justifiers were dead - now that "someone else dropped a bag on him" had become the default.

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