Penn State lands commitment from 2025 Rivals250 RB Tiqwai Hayes
The Nittany Lions continue to load up at the running back position.
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FB Recruiting 2025 four-star RB Tiqwai Hayes commits to Penn State!
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Happy Valley Insider - Four-Star In-State Running Tiqwai Hayes Commits to Penn State
Penn State's 2025 recruiting class has added a second running back with the commitment of Aliquippa's Tiqwai Hayes.
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Penn State lands commitment from 2025 Rivals250 RB Tiqwai Hayes
The Nittany Lions continue to load up at the running back position.
Love it! We get the best from PA especially Western PA. Keep them coming!
I love those Aliquippa kids. They’re a breed apart when it comes to toughness.
It's amazing that that school annually fields football teams that not only beat school districts with all of the resources that you can imagine like Montour and West Allegheny, which are really good programs, but usually blow them out, although they just squeaked by WA this past weekend.
I'm sure that Pitt and Narduzzi love this news. The Aliquippa pipeline to Pitt has been DIVERTED to Penn State.
I'm sure Zuriah Fisher had a lot to do with this commitment......he told Tiqwai the way it is at PSU.
I'm sure Zuriah Fisher had a lot to do with this commitment......he told Tiqwai the way it is at PSU.
It hasn’t been posted on the Lair yet. But when it is I’m sure the kid will be labeled a traitor. Or they’ll roll out the standard Pitt’s 2* Florida recruits are better than Pa 4 or 5* players. Unless of course they stumble into one, then it’s recruiting magic.
I agree about Aliquippa and the thoughness of the kids and the excellence of the program. It must bring great pride to the community.
Love this pickup, although I'll love it more in about 15 months.
Love this pickup, although I'll love it more in about 15 months.
We got another good one! Beat out Ohio State and Michigan. Of course the pitters offered but he turned them down along with a bunch of other MAC level programs.
The Lair members know about it. They just can't yet accept it. Another local loss to PSU.
This seems to be trending well. I know Zuriah Fisher is an Aliquippa kid. Have we really gotten any big Aliquippa recruits in the past?I agree about Aliquippa and the thoughness of the kids and the excellence of the program. It must bring great pride to the community.
Love this pickup, although I'll love it more in about 15 months.
Seem to be recruiting “lightning and thunder” RB classes. He looks like thunder to Barkers lightning. Smith is lightning next year but hoping Martin is a WR or LB.
The Pitt board has reported that Hayes' teammate and Pitt commit Cameron Lindsey was up at Penn State for the whiteout game and was sniffing around. I don't know whether CJF will ever give him a commitable offer but at least it has the sPitters crapping their pants over possibly losing one of their RARE 4star commits.
There's some talk to keep an eye on Lindsey right now, but nothing set in stone at the moment.
Really? Interesting! I don't know whether CJF likes getting another linebacker or just busting Narduzzi's balls some more.😀
I think he might want to flip someone else he likes more than Lindsey.
What’s stopping him from flipping Lindsey and some others if he can? In today’s college football world present scholarship counts on a team are meaningless. Come one come all, if you don’t make it there’s the portal to control the numbers.
I think they are holding out for bigger game. That is a hunch and not information.
I saw some pictures/videos of the Quips' new stadium this year. Looks beautiful and I'm happy the kids now have a facility that they deserve.I agree about Aliquippa and the thoughness of the kids and the excellence of the program. It must bring great pride to the community.
Love this pickup, although I'll love it more in about 15 months.
Pageantry and victory: Aliquippa opens 'new' Heinz Field with 37-19 win against Armstrong
“This town has been waiting for this place to come to fruition for 50 years.”
www.post-gazette.com
Aliquippa plays up two class levels. By size, they should be 2A.
Does Southern Columbia play up in classification?
Nice to see such a strong football tradition at a few small public schools.
They do it with transfers. That is why they are forced to play in a higher classification than their enrollment would indicate.
For when Harvey picks USC (or even Colorado as he is begging Prime for an offer)
Actually, the rules state that if you win two consecutive titles you have to play up the next year. Quips have won so many they are forced to play up two places. And kept winning so much that the PIAA tried to force them up to the 6A level. Quips went to court to prevent that and won.
As for transfers……it’s complicated. Lots of these kids grow up with one parent…..and often that parent has serious issues like drugs, mental health problems, or in prison. So the kids are taken in by grandparents, aunt, older brother. And because these fluid situations they often opt to live with a family member in Aliquippa. Same things happens at Clairton and a couple other schools..
Not exactly fair but in a screwed up world this is often these kids best shot at success of any sort.
Different positions. Harvey is a full fledged edge guy now with Linsdey a linebacker.
I live in the West End of Pittsburgh, and know that there were kids who lived in the City of Pittsburgh as well as an unnamed school district that borders the western edge of the City that is in tremendous decline who attended another unnamed suburban West Hills school that has tremendous facilities just to play sports; I wouldn't be surprised if this still is happening.
By the way, my nephew's high school baseball team was in the same division as Aliquippa this past season, and they had one of the worst high school baseball teams that I've ever seen, and I don't know if they're that good in any other sport other than football.
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I am sure it does. But many articles have been written about the Quips and how players end up there. Our dysfunctional society with the destruction of the family is a huge reason why.
2024 TribHSSN Preseason Football All-Star Team: Aliquippa’s Tiqwai Hayes | Trib HSSN
Four-star Penn State commit Tiqwai “Tikey” Hayes is expecting to ride out as a back-to-back state champion at Aliquippa.
tribhssn.triblive.com
Been almost 11 months since he committed, but it sounds like he'll be an EE come December. 6' 207 now.
Think of this commitment when you bemoan the fact that PSU can't get any St. Joe's kids. That used to be the case with Aliquippa kids, but that dramatically has changed in recent years, which is a good thing. Slowly but surely, PSU is establishing a pipeline with Aliquippa.
Penn State lands commitment from 2025 Rivals250 RB Tiqwai Hayes
The Nittany Lions continue to load up at the running back position.pennstate.rivals.com
Large majority of these kids will be EE's going forward.2024 TribHSSN Preseason Football All-Star Team: Aliquippa’s Tiqwai Hayes | Trib HSSN
Four-star Penn State commit Tiqwai “Tikey” Hayes is expecting to ride out as a back-to-back state champion at Aliquippa.
Been almost 11 months since he committed, but it sounds like he'll be an EE come December. 6' 207 now.
How is it possible? How do they have enough credits to graduate high school a semester or a year early? Most athletes are not known for their academics.
It is so common now that a lot kids plan on it well ahead. And with the thing called the internet they can take extra classes in summer.
Summer classes, online classes, etc. It's very easy now to get into college in December versus June / July.
My local high school is Cedar Cliff. About 30% of Juniors and 70% of Seniors aren't in high school today. They take classes through Harrisburg Area Community College (HACC). Almost no need to have AP classes because why not just take the class at a college? The kids/parents have to pay HACC but it's an extremely reduced rate and almost every college bound student has a year worth of college credit by their HS graduation.
Did the internet not exist when John urshel enrolled?
Aren't graduation rates down?
