Just totally agree with this....when someone said Joemo and Gatis were visiting Fields on 2 consecutive weeks I thought two things: 1. Doesn't seem like this kid is COMMITED and 2. God that seems like a lot or work/travel/expense/ and time to get this guy out of georgia. Would it be easier to full court press 2 or 3 impact recruits closer to home?
2018 Recruiting Thread
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Nope, institution is not above all else. But I'd say maybe its core values are/can be...
Look for the Lions to try to flip Elite 11 QB Quincy Patterson. Has a PSU offer, camped at PSU last Summer, and a PSU coach went to see him several weeks ago. 2019 QB Jalon Jones will also be a target.
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true, but we have to remember, that Fields was not a top 10 player when we began recruiting him, and still wasnt when he committed
what it really speaks to is this staffs ability to ID talent early in the process
Leary would be a great flip. Had a strong Elite 11 camp and is one of the best all time NJ qbs.
Pitt fans love Fields decommitting from Penn State more than they love a 3-star committing to their school.
Can't remember the last time they had 5-star recruits consistently showing interest in their program.
When you start to become a major powerhouse in college football again, you recruit with the big boys, and big decommits like this are going to happen. It's just a lot more embarrassing for Pitt when this happens, because well....the recruit is probably decommitting from Pitt and flipping to one of his other MAC school offers.
Can't remember the last time they had 5-star recruits consistently showing interest in their program.
When you start to become a major powerhouse in college football again, you recruit with the big boys, and big decommits like this are going to happen. It's just a lot more embarrassing for Pitt when this happens, because well....the recruit is probably decommitting from Pitt and flipping to one of his other MAC school offers.
He just started following Jesse Luketa. And Greg Pickel. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Here is the thing to remember.....you never know what you've got with recruiting. We all follow the recruiting rankings and want to move up or stay up. It's a horse race. Big picture, this is one recruiting year. We are absolutely fine at QB. Trace, Stevens, Clifford. With our offense, we have had no issues recruiting skill position players. It sucks, and the haters will fling shit, etc. We'll move past it. I remember when we lost Brandon Wimbush how pissed I was. Well, we'll see if Wimbush ever has a season as good as Trace just had. Someone brought up Kevin Jones recently. We lost Kevin Jones and a season after that Larry Johnson ran for 2000 yards.
Franklin and Penn State will continue to recruit at a high level. We're the leaders on about 10 four stars that will be dropping over the next couple of months. There will be good days and bad days but the trend is up.
Franklin and Penn State will continue to recruit at a high level. We're the leaders on about 10 four stars that will be dropping over the next couple of months. There will be good days and bad days but the trend is up.
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Here is the thing to remember.....you never know what you've got with recruiting. We all follow the recruiting rankings and want to move up or stay up. It's a horse race. Big picture, this is one recruiting year. We are absolutely fine at QB. Trace, Stevens, Clifford. With our offense, we have had no issues recruiting skill position players. It sucks, and the haters will fling shit, etc. We'll move past it. I remember when we lost Brandon Wimbush how pissed I was. Well, we'll see if Wimbush ever has a season as good as Trace just had. Someone brought up Kevin Jones recently. We lost Kevin Jones and a season after that Larry Johnson ran for 2000 yards.
Franklin and Penn State will continue to recruit at a high level. We're the leaders on about 10 four stars that will be dropping over the next couple of months. There will be good days and bad days but the trend is up.
Exactly ... we are fine at QB for many years to
come. There will be up and downs. As several have shown when you're recruiting against the top 5 all those teams have top players decommit. For me it's just good to see PSU in that conversation again and in franklin we trust
$$$ article, but Nana is a freaking stud...
Scouting report: Nana Asiedu is already one of the top prospects in the country, but he continues to get better and better. Asiedu was dominant at last weekend's Washington, D.C. Under Armour Camp. He showed great foot quickness and tremendous balance. Asiedu also displayed a strong initial punch and played with good leverage. Every defensive lineman at the camp challenged him and they all failed. He still has a huge upside and the potential to develop into a superstar at Penn State.
Scouting report: Nana Asiedu is already one of the top prospects in the country, but he continues to get better and better. Asiedu was dominant at last weekend's Washington, D.C. Under Armour Camp. He showed great foot quickness and tremendous balance. Asiedu also displayed a strong initial punch and played with good leverage. Every defensive lineman at the camp challenged him and they all failed. He still has a huge upside and the potential to develop into a superstar at Penn State.
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Here is the thing to remember.....you never know what you've got with recruiting. We all follow the recruiting rankings and want to move up or stay up. It's a horse race. Big picture, this is one recruiting year. We are absolutely fine at QB. Trace, Stevens, Clifford. With our offense, we have had no issues recruiting skill position players. It sucks, and the haters will fling shit, etc. We'll move past it. I remember when we lost Brandon Wimbush how pissed I was. Well, we'll see if Wimbush ever has a season as good as Trace just had. Someone brought up Kevin Jones recently. We lost Kevin Jones and a season after that Larry Johnson ran for 2000 yards.
Franklin and Penn State will continue to recruit at a high level. We're the leaders on about 10 four stars that will be dropping over the next couple of months. There will be good days and bad days but the trend is up.
Exactly, PSU should still be recruiting in the top 10-15 every year, should be enough to compete at an extremely high level every year. The recruiting will only get better from here on out. I don't look for them to flop anytime soon... All is good, PSU can compete and will compete with the best of them, regardless of a #1 or #15 recruiting class. No need in getting any panties in a bunch.
I would still be surprised if we don't end up with a Top 5 class. They should be taking 25 and we really are in good shape with a ton of 4 stars.
Quincy Patterson, a 3-star recruit from Solorio Academy in Chicago, is one who could surface here. The Virginia Tech pledge presents dual-threat abilities, lives in Big Ten territory and, like Fields, advanced at Elite 11 finals last weekend.
Devin Leary, another member of the 2017 Elite 11 class set to compete at The Opening, doesn’t hold an offer at this time but he might be one of the first prospects to receive a phone call as Penn State works to renew its 2018 quarterback search.
The 6-2, 189-pound prospect set New Jersey high school passing records for yards (3,688) and touchdowns (48) as a junior, leading Timber Creek High to a state championship. The Garden State has been fertile territory, and he is among Franklin’s most recent follows on Twitter.
Leary, a 4-star prospect in composite rankings who committed to North Carolina State in April, isn’t a rushing threat like Fields or Patterson, but he opened a lot of eyes last weekend in Los Angeles.
“Devin is supremely talented,” Elite 11 coach Quincy Avery told Land of 10. “He was spitting nothing but fireballs out his arm the whole entire time. You walked away from his pro-day performance [Leary posted the best score among 25 competitors[ and knew exactly why he was there. It was impressive to watch.”
Penn State starter Trace McSorley could return for his final year of eligibility in 2018. Behind him, redshirt sophomore Tommy Stevens appears ready to take starting reps when his chance arrives, and he earned 2017 spring game offensive MVP honors.
Sean Clifford, a member of the 2016 Elite 11 class, adds new blood to the quarterback room this summer. He was a top-10 pro-style quarterback in the 2017 recruiting cycle and led St. Xavier (Cincinnati) to a state championship last autumn.
This could be the moment that launches a domino effect across the college football recruiting landscape. If Penn State now pries a passer away from another program, that team also will re-enter the hunt for a player at the position, and so on.
You don’t need to look far back for an example in State College.
Penn State lost grips on a pledge from Elite 11 when QB Brandon Wimbush flipped to Notre Dame in 2014. The Nittany Lions responded by flipping Stevens from Indiana.
Recruiting is cyclical, and this chain of events seems to occur every year. Quarterback is simply too important in this sport to remain status quo, and top talent isn’t easy to hold on to as things evolve and other suitors rise.
Sometimes you’re the beneficiary of such developments. Other times, you get bitten by them. On this occasion, Penn State suffered the latter fate
Devin Leary, another member of the 2017 Elite 11 class set to compete at The Opening, doesn’t hold an offer at this time but he might be one of the first prospects to receive a phone call as Penn State works to renew its 2018 quarterback search.
The 6-2, 189-pound prospect set New Jersey high school passing records for yards (3,688) and touchdowns (48) as a junior, leading Timber Creek High to a state championship. The Garden State has been fertile territory, and he is among Franklin’s most recent follows on Twitter.
Leary, a 4-star prospect in composite rankings who committed to North Carolina State in April, isn’t a rushing threat like Fields or Patterson, but he opened a lot of eyes last weekend in Los Angeles.
“Devin is supremely talented,” Elite 11 coach Quincy Avery told Land of 10. “He was spitting nothing but fireballs out his arm the whole entire time. You walked away from his pro-day performance [Leary posted the best score among 25 competitors[ and knew exactly why he was there. It was impressive to watch.”
Penn State starter Trace McSorley could return for his final year of eligibility in 2018. Behind him, redshirt sophomore Tommy Stevens appears ready to take starting reps when his chance arrives, and he earned 2017 spring game offensive MVP honors.
Sean Clifford, a member of the 2016 Elite 11 class, adds new blood to the quarterback room this summer. He was a top-10 pro-style quarterback in the 2017 recruiting cycle and led St. Xavier (Cincinnati) to a state championship last autumn.
This could be the moment that launches a domino effect across the college football recruiting landscape. If Penn State now pries a passer away from another program, that team also will re-enter the hunt for a player at the position, and so on.
You don’t need to look far back for an example in State College.
Penn State lost grips on a pledge from Elite 11 when QB Brandon Wimbush flipped to Notre Dame in 2014. The Nittany Lions responded by flipping Stevens from Indiana.
Recruiting is cyclical, and this chain of events seems to occur every year. Quarterback is simply too important in this sport to remain status quo, and top talent isn’t easy to hold on to as things evolve and other suitors rise.
Sometimes you’re the beneficiary of such developments. Other times, you get bitten by them. On this occasion, Penn State suffered the latter fate
This kid's goals probably just went from "just get on the field and have a good time in college at a good program" to "fast track me to the NFL, please." PSU has a log jam at QB and it is far from home. That will just about do it if your goal is NFL or bust in three years. Wish the kid luck if he goes to a school as its billed savior as an 18 year-old.
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Door at Florida is wide open and he'll definitely play the savior part.
Also nice to see The Collegian is covering decommits now too (after speculating that Fields probably shouldn't come to PSU because we had too many QB's). CJF should cut access to the team to The Collegian the entire summer.
I mentioned Jace Ruder several weeks ago. New offers keep coming in. Would fit in well with JOMO's O.
http://247sports.com/Article/247Sports-recruiting-Kansas-product-Jace-Ruder--53071019
http://247sports.com/Article/247Sports-recruiting-Kansas-product-Jace-Ruder--53071019
Watch this.
Say what you want but, IMO, his dad lead him away from us.
PSU is not for everyone. Like CJF said, these are kids. Let's hope Fields has a change of heart, if not, we move on, next man up.
Mrs Simmons was our best recruit .......
The same can obviously be said for top ten players from Penn State's back yard (Parsons)....
Despite the decommitment from Fields, he is still likely to be the number one QB target on Penn State's board. I wouldn't say we are the favorite to land this fine your man, but we aren't out of the running yet either. Maybe CJF doesn't want to wait until LOI day to find out, and we get a commitment from another stud QB. Lets just let this play out.
Did you watch the film Ranger Dan?
CJF calls it as it supposedly is.
Engagement - then marriage.
Daddy dearest did his dandiest to break up the impending nuptials.
I agree and we should refrain from negative comments. Has he even been to a game yet? We could run the tables this year, have a Hesiman winner and play in the Title game. I personally would love that to show up the doubters and naysers.
Well, okay, but after a de-commit, does the kid ever end up back at the original school? pretty rare, I think
No, I don't think I've seen the film that you are referring to. I'm not predicting that Fields ends up at Penn State... I'm just saying that leaving things in CJF's hands to bring in the best QB possible (Fields or otherwise) as opposed to tweeting at Fields or his dad and removing any chance of Fields coming to Penn State.
From NJ, graduated from Rutgers where he was a recruiting analyst for Buffy.
