I admit I found Monday’s lengthy discussion on Fleming to be a bit bizarre. Greg’s insistence on Franklin and staff needing to disclose more about injuries as a potential reason for Fleming going elsewhere (IMO) bordered a bit on self-serving, especially given the lack of mention of the variety of reasons why Fleming could have potentially wanted to get out of Pennsylvania and go to Ohio State that have been discussed on this board and elsewhere since his commitment - regardless of what he said.
In the other Fleming segment, Dustin’s selection of every mid-level four star and higher from the region and beyond who went elsewhere (including Parsons, who committed to Penn State?) was rather strange considering the segment was titled “PSU’s Success Landing High Profile Recruits”. You’d think if it was a discussion of PSU’s success in landing high profile recruits that there would be some kind of mention of the high profile recruits that Penn State has landed.
Greg was trying to implicate Franklin that he mishandled the recruitment and was talking about it as lesson learned that shouldn’t happen in year 6.
It was a cheap shot and ridiculous.
We lost Fleming because we went 9-4 last year and went through 3 receiver coaches in the past year. OSU meanwhile, is still OSU, and has sent several receivers to the NFL in the last 3 drafts. That’s why we lost him.
Fleming talking about Shorter’s playing time was just Fleming talking too much as he felt compelled to provide additional reasons during an hour long interview on why he didn’t select Penn State.
There is no friggin way we lost Fleming because of Justin Shorter’s lack of playing time. Nor did we lose Fleming because of a mishandled recruitment by James Franklin for not talking to him more about why Shorter wasn’t playing.
