Hello! What a great time to be a Nittany Lion! Right to it, here are the confirmed visitors I have seen or heard about coming to the Lasch Bash (or this week) not behind pay walls:
2018: Culpepper (13th & 14th), Mustipher, Hawkins, Smith, Oweh, Walker, Bradley, George, Anderson-Butts, Young,Raines, and Levis (camp on the 14th), Earlington
All the commits should be there. A few names (they may be coming and on pay wall lists) that I would like to see make the trip: Anoma (Mr. and Mrs. Mustipher offer him a ride!), Scruggs, Earlington, and Friday.
Looking at where we stand: Culpepper could be a commit before I even post this. Young seems like a lock, having filmed his commitment video on July 10th and now visiting this weekend, it would be very weird if he committed elsewhere. Let’s count those two in the over/under for the weekend and set it at 4. Mustipher probably isn’t quite ready to call it but I would put it on an outside chance. Anderson-Butts, now being recruited as an ATH (which is telling of the WR situation), looks to have a fully committable offer (not sure it ever wasn’t, but there were certainly rumors) and could pull the trigger this weekend. Daniel George has previously said he was looking to wrap up his recruitment in July and this could be it. If Levis earns an offer this weekend then that could be the QB solution. PS. We look to have Enis all the way (I love that people are saying silent verbal, oh the silliness of that phrase).
I think Parsons is supposed to be in Bama this weekend and possibly in OSU next weekend. If he does or does not go to OSU could be telling on where he stands with them. Honestly, this event is big for team building of the class and his recruitment has been very much about him (some don’t like that, I don’t really care bc people/kids do need to make the best decision for them), so I’m not sure this event would actually help bring him in. Walker is going to take visits and seems to not like that the analysts are saying that it’s predetermined that it will be PSU for him. I don’t think that’s a reflection on PSU at all, just that he doesn’t like reporters telling him where he’s going to go to school. There is a lot of smoke that Dotson is leaning back toward OSU and he will be there next weekend. I probably have him one category to high at this point. There probably won’t be room for him at PSU anyway, or maybe that smoke is why PSU is picking up pace with their other WR targets. Raines will be in this weekend and I got to think this one goes down to late in the year to avoid local backlash if nothing else. I think there is huge pressure on him to stay home, but man PSU is quite the draw right now for every player out there. Also, with his size and the DB class probably wrapping up with Young and Anderson-Butts as an ATH, that Raines will be looked at as more of an OLB prospect going into the season. Smith will always be a hard pull out of Ohio and Oweh’s interest in ND and OSU is concerning. It’s one of the reasons diversifying our DL bonds is important and getting Anoma or Friday on campus again will be big. Having Hawkins on again is great but I still think he’s Cinci bound.
Linebacker becomes really interesting here with 11 spots left in the class. You figure something like 2 more OL, 4 more DL (including Parsons), 2 WR, 1 ATH (Anderson-Butts), 1 DB (Young), and a QB (probably Levis if he impresses this weekend). That’s 11. PSU is not leading with Lamb, have cooled on Asamoah (who is leaning Pitt now), doesn’t have a shot at Simon, and then there is Raines. Where does that extra spot come from? Maybe only 1 more OL? We have room to back-count Kuntz and any other Early Enrollees, but getting to 85 was going to be tough with even 25. Maybe with all the LB camp work Parsons is doing he plays a stand up scrape blitz type roll that Bell really flourished in. Overall not a bad problem to have.
2019 visitors: 5* DE Harrison, 4* OL Wallace, 4* CB Hawkins, 4* ATH Hickman, UR RB Houston, 4* LB Stover, 4* LB Lee, 4* OT Keegan, 4* WR Hellams, UR ATH Thomas
2020: future 5* WR Fleming, DT Williams, LB Sherman
Commit Watch (if it ended today):
4* S Young, 4* DT Mustipher, 4* WR Enis, 4* WR George, 4* ATH Anderson-Butts, 3* DT Culpepper, 3* QB Levis
Very Good Chance:
5* DE Parsons, 4* OT Walker, 4* WR Dotson, 4* S Raines, 4* DL Smith, 4* DE Oweh, 3* Bradley
In The Battle:
4* DT Friday, 4* DE Anoma, 4* OG Scruggs, 4* LB Lamb, 4* DT Hawkins, 3* DE Earlington, 3* CB Montgomery, 3* Asamoah
Work Left To Do:
5* DE Henry, 4* CB Griffith, 4* LB Hollifield, 4* CB Tutt, 4* LB Simon, 4* WR Scates, 4* ATH Booker, 4* DT McNeill, 4* CB McKinley III, 4* OT White, 3* Eskridge, 3* ATH Hooker, 3* CB Williams, 3* LB Artis, 3* LB Bastida, 3* ILB Hoelscher
Have To Get Really Lucky:
4* WR Smith, 4* TE Ruckert, 4* DT Sandidge, 4* DT Stills, 3* TE Pitts
2018: Culpepper (13th & 14th), Mustipher, Hawkins, Smith, Oweh, Walker, Bradley, George, Anderson-Butts, Young,
All the commits should be there. A few names (they may be coming and on pay wall lists) that I would like to see make the trip: Anoma (Mr. and Mrs. Mustipher offer him a ride!), Scruggs, Earlington, and Friday.
Looking at where we stand: Culpepper could be a commit before I even post this. Young seems like a lock, having filmed his commitment video on July 10th and now visiting this weekend, it would be very weird if he committed elsewhere. Let’s count those two in the over/under for the weekend and set it at 4. Mustipher probably isn’t quite ready to call it but I would put it on an outside chance. Anderson-Butts, now being recruited as an ATH (which is telling of the WR situation), looks to have a fully committable offer (not sure it ever wasn’t, but there were certainly rumors) and could pull the trigger this weekend. Daniel George has previously said he was looking to wrap up his recruitment in July and this could be it. If Levis earns an offer this weekend then that could be the QB solution. PS. We look to have Enis all the way (I love that people are saying silent verbal, oh the silliness of that phrase).
I think Parsons is supposed to be in Bama this weekend and possibly in OSU next weekend. If he does or does not go to OSU could be telling on where he stands with them. Honestly, this event is big for team building of the class and his recruitment has been very much about him (some don’t like that, I don’t really care bc people/kids do need to make the best decision for them), so I’m not sure this event would actually help bring him in. Walker is going to take visits and seems to not like that the analysts are saying that it’s predetermined that it will be PSU for him. I don’t think that’s a reflection on PSU at all, just that he doesn’t like reporters telling him where he’s going to go to school. There is a lot of smoke that Dotson is leaning back toward OSU and he will be there next weekend. I probably have him one category to high at this point. There probably won’t be room for him at PSU anyway, or maybe that smoke is why PSU is picking up pace with their other WR targets. Raines will be in this weekend and I got to think this one goes down to late in the year to avoid local backlash if nothing else. I think there is huge pressure on him to stay home, but man PSU is quite the draw right now for every player out there. Also, with his size and the DB class probably wrapping up with Young and Anderson-Butts as an ATH, that Raines will be looked at as more of an OLB prospect going into the season. Smith will always be a hard pull out of Ohio and Oweh’s interest in ND and OSU is concerning. It’s one of the reasons diversifying our DL bonds is important and getting Anoma or Friday on campus again will be big. Having Hawkins on again is great but I still think he’s Cinci bound.
Linebacker becomes really interesting here with 11 spots left in the class. You figure something like 2 more OL, 4 more DL (including Parsons), 2 WR, 1 ATH (Anderson-Butts), 1 DB (Young), and a QB (probably Levis if he impresses this weekend). That’s 11. PSU is not leading with Lamb, have cooled on Asamoah (who is leaning Pitt now), doesn’t have a shot at Simon, and then there is Raines. Where does that extra spot come from? Maybe only 1 more OL? We have room to back-count Kuntz and any other Early Enrollees, but getting to 85 was going to be tough with even 25. Maybe with all the LB camp work Parsons is doing he plays a stand up scrape blitz type roll that Bell really flourished in. Overall not a bad problem to have.
2019 visitors: 5* DE Harrison, 4* OL Wallace, 4* CB Hawkins, 4* ATH Hickman, UR RB Houston, 4* LB Stover, 4* LB Lee, 4* OT Keegan, 4* WR Hellams, UR ATH Thomas
2020: future 5* WR Fleming, DT Williams, LB Sherman
Commit Watch (if it ended today):
4* S Young, 4* DT Mustipher, 4* WR Enis, 4* WR George, 4* ATH Anderson-Butts, 3* DT Culpepper, 3* QB Levis
Very Good Chance:
5* DE Parsons, 4* OT Walker, 4* WR Dotson, 4* S Raines, 4* DL Smith, 4* DE Oweh, 3* Bradley
In The Battle:
4* DT Friday, 4* DE Anoma, 4* OG Scruggs, 4* LB Lamb, 4* DT Hawkins, 3* DE Earlington, 3* CB Montgomery, 3* Asamoah
Work Left To Do:
5* DE Henry, 4* CB Griffith, 4* LB Hollifield, 4* CB Tutt, 4* LB Simon, 4* WR Scates, 4* ATH Booker, 4* DT McNeill, 4* CB McKinley III, 4* OT White, 3* Eskridge, 3* ATH Hooker, 3* CB Williams, 3* LB Artis, 3* LB Bastida, 3* ILB Hoelscher
Have To Get Really Lucky:
4* WR Smith, 4* TE Ruckert, 4* DT Sandidge, 4* DT Stills, 3* TE Pitts
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