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Class of 2025, four-star wide receiver Taz Williams Jr. will make his decision on July 13th, right now all the FutureCasts point towards Penn State as they are the current favorite with SMU considered a dark horse. Right now I expect this one to end with some good news for the Nittany Lions.

Who do you guys think will fill out the rest of this recruiting class?

Do ya think howard is committing to us?

The D has firmly established itself, with high-end coaching and a steady flow of talented players. But the O is still misfiring - or under-firing.

I think the coaching staff has a great rep for being player-oriented, and developing player potential ( esp. on D) but for whatever reason we have yet to catch up with the top schools when it comes to high end offensive players. And that seems to include Dominate the State.

The 2024 season is our chance to prove we belong in the Playoff mix. An infusion of West Coast Big Name schools will bring fresh opportunities to be seen in new markets and appreciated for the overall team we put on the field. It will also test our coaches and players in new ways.

CJF is a quality guy who may well be building coaching staff strength in areas where we have been a notch or two lacking. Time for DA, the WR room, and a talented RB room, and the new OL to show we can do it on both sides of the field. Nothing like an explosive O to attract reluctant 5 stars to a play-off bound team, and prove NIL isnt the BE-ALL in CFB.

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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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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.