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The most under rated 2025 PSU commits?

If I had to choose which of our 2025 commits are the most underrated by the 4 recruiting services, I would choose RB Tiqwai Hayes and WR Lyrick Samuel.

While Hayes is rated a 4star by 3 of the 4 recruiting services, none of them have him part of their top 250 / 300. Hayes had 2 super previous seasons at Aliquippa rushing for nearly 4,000 yards and tons of TD's. He has a monster offers list too. This kid should be a high 4star, top 250 player when all is said and done.

I also think Lyrick Samuel is way too low as a low 3star. I can see this kid getting a flood of offers as his season progresses. High 3star, possible 4star.

What say you? I'm just trying to stimulate some recruiting talk on this very quiet board.

So What’s With Little Rock?

These guys are the real deal. I was wondering whether PSU set a team score record today and then I read that Little Rock beat their opponents 57-0.

We need to get these guys on our schedule. I don’t think they are quite ready to threaten a top tier team yet, but I’m sure their coach would welcome the opportunity to go against the best team. And Cael is all for scheduling duals that he knows will benefit the other team.

So where does the 2025 class go from here.....?

On the one hand it seems like Franklin has taken some players that aren't rated very high by the "experts".

On the other hand it seems like a great sign when Franklin gets commits early like he has, from the players he has identified as takes early in the process. So it looks like a nice start to the class

But unless a good many of the current commits go to camps and get significant bumps up in ratings there's no way this class can finish top 10 in ratings by the "experts". Franklin would have to finish off the class off with 12-13 mid 4-star to high 4-star players to end up with a top 5 to top 8 class, so it's likely that some here will cry about the class no matter how the rest of the class fills in. The 12 current commits seem like a great start, but one that will draw some criticism from the cryers.

What about filling position priorities. The strength of the class seems to be the 3 LB's so far, a position where PSU already has nice young talent from the 2024 class and where the new DC may not play a 3rd LB too much. And the 3 OL recruits including O'Hara also seem to be a strength. Two RB commits but the staff reportedly would bring in a 3rd if he was too good to pass up. Not even a start on a DL class.

What's everyone think?

So it would seem that going forward the priorities are 3-5 DL with a priority on a couple top pass rushers as a good portion of the 2024 DL class seems lke it will end up at DT. 2-4 additional DB's as well on defense.

On offense I like that Hagans got a WR with size and good speed to start the class, and it would seem that PSU will take at least 2 more WR's, and possibly 3 more, hopefully with a couple more with some size. 2 or 3 more olinemen as well, hopefully with an OT that is closer to playing than what the couple OT recruits in the class seem to be. 1 or more likely 2 TE's given that there was only 1 in the 2024 class an there may be attrition from the roster after things shake out going into the next season. And the staff wants another QB, hopefully the PA kid Zollers.

Most NCAA Wrestling Championships By Coach

Was thinking about where Cael stacks up at this point. I feel like we are pretty close to him taking over the #1 spot.

Coaches With The Most Titles​

  1. Dan Gable, Iowa - 15
  2. Ed Gallagher, Oklahoma State - 11
  3. Cael Sanderson, Penn State - 10
  4. Art Griffith, Oklahoma State - 8
  5. Myron Roderick, Oklahoma State - 7
  6. Harold Nichols, Iowa State - 6
  7. John Smith, Oklahoma State - 5
  8. Tom Brands, Iowa - 4
  9. Jim Zalesky, Iowa/J Robinson, Minnesota/Port Robertson, Oklahoma - 3
  10. Thomas Evans, Oklahoma/Gary Kurdelmeier, Iowa/Joe Seay, Oklahoma State - 2

Warren Buffet's homage to Charlie Munger with 99 rules to live by

I thought this was pretty good for a Monday....


1. The way to live a good life is to write your obituary and live it backwards.

2. Go to sleep each night a little less stupid than you were when you woke up.

3. Over-competitiveness corrupts even the best of people.

4. Incentives drive behaviour more than anything.

5. Don't have an opinion unless you can state the arguments against your position better than the people in opposition.

6. The best way to get what you want is do deserve what you want.

7. Invert. Always. Think about the biggest screw-up is. And work like hell to avoid it.

8. Underspend your income.

9. Learn the big ideas in all the disciplines. Pay no heed to sectoral boundaries. And cross-apply like crazy.

10. Great investing requires a lot of delayed gratification

11. It's not supposed to be easy

12. The big money is not in the buying and selling... but in the waiting.

13. "I think I'm rational, and that's a moral imperative to me. I don't want to be anything else."

14. Knowing what you don’t know is more useful than being brilliant.

15. Take a simple idea seriously.

16. If you want to be a good partner, be a good partner.

17. A lot of success in life and business comes from knowing what you want to avoid: early death, a bad marriage

18. Never, ever, think about something else when you should be thinking about the power of incentives.

19. Don't be the patsy.

20. Being prepared will improve your life.

21. The best thing a human being can do is to help another human being know more.

22. There's no genius in knowing what to do. The genius is doing it.

23. To the man with only a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.

24. I try to get rid of people who always confidently answer questions about which they don't have any real knowledge.

25. I believe in the discipline of mastering the best that other people have ever figured out.

26. The number one way to get ahead is to avoid doing dumb things.

27. I don't have any wonderful insights that other people don't have. I just happen to avoid certain gross follies.

28. You don't have to be smarter than the rest; you have to be more disciplined than the rest.

29. All I want to know is where I'm going to die, so I'll never go there.

30. The first rule of compounding: Never interrupt it unnecessarily.

31. Do the right thing.

32. It is remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid.

33. No wise pilot fails to use his checklist.

34. Assume life will be really tough, and then ask if you can handle it. If the answer is yes, you've won.

35. Never feel sorry for yourself.

36. Sometimes it booms and sometimes it busts. Pay no heed. Go about your business.

37. Bad incentives will destroy.

38. Take the high road. It's far less crowded.

39. I don't think much of a man who doesn't know more today than he did yesterday.

40. It's not necessary to do extraordinary things to get extraordinary results.

41. Patience is the key to success not speed. Time is a friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.

42. If you want to improve your odds of reaching big goals, read 500 pages daily.

43. Our approach has always been to look for a no-brainer decision.

44. You must learn how to handle mistakes and new information that changes the odds.

45. We're trying to find the easy job, because we're not smart enough to do the hard job.

46. Don't think short term

47. The best way to get a good spouse is to deserve a good spouse.

48. Avoiding stupidity is easier than seeking brilliance.

49. It's amazing how much trouble you can avoid if you're trying to do the right thing.

50. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.51. Our game is to recognize a big idea when it comes along when one doesn't come along very often.

52. Simplicity has a way of improving performance by enabling us to better understand what we are doing.

53. In my whole life, I have known no wise people who didn't read all the time - none, zero

54. When you mix raisins and turds, you've still got turds

55. I did not succeed in life by intelligence. I succeeded because I have a long attention span

56. A great business at a fair price is superior to a fair business at a great price

57. Whenever you think something or some person is ruining your life, it's you. A victimization mentality is so debilitating

58. If you want to understand science, you have to understand math. The good thing about business is that you don't have to know any higher math

59. We look for a horse with one chance in two of winning and which pays you three to one

60. Recognize reality even when you don't like it. Especially when you don't like it

61. A business model that relies on trickery is doomed to fail

62. Those of us who have been very fortunate have a duty to give back

63. Remember that reputation and integrity are your most valuable assets, and can be lost in a heartbeat

64. There's no way that you can live an adequate life without making many mistakes65. Is there such thing as a cheerful pessimist? That's what I am

66. I have a black belt in chutzpah. I was born with it

67. It never ceases to amaze me to see how much territory can be grasped if one merely masters and consistently uses all the obvious and easily learned principles

68. The biggest mistake is in not learning from the past

69. It's not the bad ideas that do you in, but the good ones

70. Acknowledging what you don't know is the dawning of wisdom

71. Our job is to find a few intelligent things to do, not to keep up with every damn thing in the world

72. If you don't allow for self-serving bias in the conduct of others, you are, again, a fool

73. The big money is not in the buying and selling, but in the waiting

74. Everybody engaged in complex work needs colleagues

75. I don’t have a single achievement I’m all that proud of

76. We all are learning, modifying, or destroying ideas all the time

77. What do you want to avoid? Such an easy answer: sloth and unreliability

78. Another thing that does one in, of course, is the self-serving bias

79. There’s only one way to the top: hard work

80. Do what you like and are good three rules for a career: Don’t sell anything you wouldn’t buy yourself; Don’t work for anyone you don’t respect and admire; Work only with people you enjoy

81. Almost all good businesses engage in 'pain today, gain tomorrow' activities

82. It takes character to sit with all that cash and to do nothing

83. Investing is where you find a few great companies and then sit on your ass

84. People who cannot be alone with their own thoughts for a long time are terrible candidates to become successful investors

85. We recognized early on that smart people do very dumb things, and we wanted to know why

86. A lot of people with high IQs are terrible investors because they’ve got terrible temperaments

87. Someone will always be getting richer faster than you. This is not a tragedy

88. The desire to get rich fast is pretty dangerous89. Patience is not just a virtue; it’s a strategy

90. Success comes from making rational decisions based on facts, not emotions

91. I met the towering intellectuals in books, not in the classroom91. Neither Warren nor I are smart enough to make decisions with no time to think

92. You’d be amazed at how much Warren reads – and at how much I read

93. We have three baskets for investing: yes, no, and too tough to understand

94. If something is too hard, we move on to something else95. You must force yourself to consider opposing arguments

96. There’s a tendency to think that our present politicians are much worse than any we had in the past

97. There isn’t a single formula. You need to know a lot about business and human nature

98. Choose clients as you would friends

99. The really big opportunities in life will be very few. So when you find a lollapalooza, and you can see it, don’t hang back like a timid rabbit. Step boldly and grab it. And don’t do it small.

Would you take Kiffin over Franklin?

Even though it would mean the complete obliteration of everything “penn state” that remains? Would you be ok with our players dunking basketballs on the sideline if meant better playcalling? With our assistants creating fake twitter/x accounts to troll our opponents?

Now hear me out. I don’t mean to prop up Franklin. Those are just the actual things that they do at Ole Miss. So would you take Kiffin over Franklin? Would you be bothered by the things Kiffin does or you wouldn’t be? I’m just curious where everyone stands

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