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smalls103 said:

gd it, Jefe

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Since BTO was before your time, here were the other Easter Eggs:

“We have to go into overdrive to get Bachmann.

While Cael may let it ride after this huge class, he doesn’t even have to go out of state - just roll on down the highway to Faith Christian.

I trust Cael will take care of business and that we haven’t seen nothing yet as far as recruiting hauls.”

BTO is definitely on the Canadian Rock n Roll Mt. Rushmore - though that’s not saying much. The pride of Winnipeg, Manitoba

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Gotta give James and the staff credi. They have slammed some major recruits in the last few weeks....assuming they hold their commitments.

I bash the staff a lot, but have to give them props over the last month!

Alright. So, first this was a recruitment that up until maybe 4:00 p.m. (?) whenever my first message was on here about it in Richie's one thread, we felt good about Penn State's chances. The Nittany Lions were without a doubt the leader in everyone's minds last night. Oregon had a really good official visit, no surprise, but it sounds like that a late push came late last night or early today and it flipped this recruitment on its head. With that our initial FutureCast was incorrect and it obviously changed fast but that's just recruiting in today's era of college football. I haven't been able to confirm yet but I'd be very surprised if NIL didn't play a notable factor in this recruitment and I spoke to someone with knowledge of the Ducks' recruiting and they agree that a late NIL push seems likely here as the Ducks missed on several DB targets recently. That being said, I hope we continued to gain everyone's trust as we kept everyone informed as things were changing this afternoon. We take this very serious and honestly, when I'm wrong I take it personally. That being said, I'm not sure there's anything Penn State could've done in this one that they didn't do. Oregon does this to seemingly everyone, if they want a recruit, I'm not sure anyone can really outbid them.

So I'm sorry that our read on this recruitment this morning was wrong but I always think we've proven that we also are very much in the know when it comes to these things and work diligently to get the most up to date information for you guys.

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@tikk10
Messier made a "chopping wood, carrying water" reference about the Pens. Crazy game today. (And thanks to the Rangers for beating the Redwings.)

I am going to throw this out there. Do the Brand’s brothers make their recruits better? I have watched incoming freshmen come to Penn State under Cael’s tutelage and have seen them go from good to great. Zain, Bo, and Jason Nolf are the obvious, Quentin and James English are to be included, but I also watched the evolvement of a guy like Anthony Cassar. I watch Iowa wrestling and it appears to me that Spencer Lee is going to continue to be the world class wrester that he is, without anything Tom Brands can teach him. Austin DeSanto is going to do whatever he wants to do without any stamp or input from Tom Brands. Kaleb Young came to Iowa as a guy that was supposed to compete for a national championship. He is still not a top three. All three PA wrestlers. I watch Alex Marinelli and here is a guy that in my opinion has moved up only a couple of positions from the time he arrived at Ames. I don’t see Marinelli winning an NCAA championship. My question is this; what does Tom Brands and his coaching staff do to make a terrific high school recruit into a national contender?

I think Exinor announces tonight.

Fitz and Ryan put in picks for PSU. Maryland guy put in a pick for Maryland.

MICH-OSU-IA-OR-NE-PSU(#9). per a poll just out.

Gonna be a brutal season.

San Marcos, CA. 6'4" 205 as a Sophomore.


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OK, blame this thread on insomnia. I'll go first:

Summer 1981...a few months before I got married...Washington Beltway (I-495).

Drizzly Saturday morning, about 10:00, I'm driving my Mom (in her car) to an event in northern Virginia.

I'm doing 60-65 MPH or so in the third lane from the right at a curving section of the Beltway a few miles north of what was then the Cabin John (now the American Legion) Bridge where I-270 South merges with I-495.

The car in the lane to the right suddenly begins sliding, apparently a hydroplane, directly in front of me. I cut the wheel sharply to avoid a collision...and after that, it's in God's hands.

Our car swings wildly, doing a 360 and a half as I press the brake and fight the wheel...but no chance to regain control.

We see an embankment with trees in the median coming up on the left side of the highway. There's a guardrail, but it was unimaginable to me that it could stop us. My Mom sees it too and quietly says: Oh no. I'll never forget those words of hers.

Funny how time plays tricks on your brain at such moments. Everything is happening so fast...yet it also seems somehow like slow-motion.

We slam into the guardrail flat...you couldn't have parallel-parked with more precision...the force of the impact almost perfectly distributed along the length of the car...and come to a dead stop, the car on the left shoulder of the freeway, turned around, facing incoming traffic.

I was shocked that we were in one piece...not a scratch...and the car apparently driveable. So I took my chances that the vehicle would go and gunned it back across four lanes to the other side of the highway where we were at least facing the right direction. My knees were shaking.

The other car was over there too, seemingly not super damaged and nobody hurt. My Mom was a mess. She kept saying, you're going to be married...and you almost died. No argument there.

The other driver's insurance company called me days later, recorded my statement...and ended up paying for the damages to my Mom's car, which amounted mostly to scrapes and dents but was still a healthy piece of change.

Meanwhile, I was left to wonder how our car could slam with such mathematical precision so flatly into the guardrail when any other angle of impact would have severely damaged it or bounced us back into oncoming traffic or maybe even forced us through the rail into the trees...and also how in blue blazes there was an unlikely break for a few precious seconds in heavy Beltway traffic, which allowed us to 360-and-a-half across the highway without catastrophically colliding with any other vehicle.

Call it dumb luck, but I've always favored the explanation of angelic protection myself.

Commitment number 20 hopefully 🤞.

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