Penn State recruiting

[redguard117]

You know what they say about stones and glass houses, and whatnot?

This? Ohio State's Moral Compass is Broken

 

[pnuts34]

With the decommitting of Dorian Johnson and Ross Douglas immediately after the sanctions annoucement and Christian Hackenberg now waffling on his commit, you still think as you did when you made these posts?

No. I don't. And I said to feel free to call me out if kids start to decommit. I wish there were somemore kids that could help our roster.

 

[stowfan]

This? Ohio State's Moral Compass is Broken

Article dated 5-10--2011, what a laugh considering the source.

 

[LitlBuck]

With all of the possible de-committs from the 2013 PSU class, I think if I were a 2013 recruit with a Buckeye offer and I was sitting on the fence I might pull the trigger a little faster. I know that their class doesn't have much too offer so it might not make any difference.

 

[jbawjbaw]

Actually, I don't think the sanctions are "obviously more extreme than many imagined". Emmert had the death penalty still on the table as recent as a few days ago. As far as PedState getting "USC type" sanctions instead of what they got, you think that "only" a two-year bowl ban (along with two-year CCG ban) would've had no effect? Sorry, but I don't think so. Maybe not a bad as it will be now (heck, they had two decommits within a couple hours of the announcement, who knows how many more), but they still would've lost commits. And if these kids are as "PSU loyal" as you say they are, then even bowl bans should have no effect, but obviously they have.

In my original post I was clearly going off of USC type sanctions. Your opinion is that players still would have left. Mine is that they wouldn't have.

Feel better?

 

[jbawjbaw]

fify

I am no psu fan and I didn't expect these type of sanctions fwiw.

Did they deserve them? I think so. But i didn't expect them.

 

[pnuts34]

I am no psu fan and I didn't expect these type of sanctions fwiw.

Did they deserve them? I think so. But i didn't expect them.

You really didn't expect these type of sanctions?
I think Miami gets "usc" like sanctions. But their coach didn't cover up boys being raped foe years. I kind of thought everyone knew the hammer would come down

 

[Muck]

You really didn't expect these type of sanctions?

Given how completely unprecedented this situation was anyone who 'expected' any specific outcome was basing that expectation on speculation or hope rather than precedence or any other type of concrete information.

 

[pnuts34]

Given how completely unprecedented this situation was anyone who 'expected' any specific outcome was basing that expectation on speculation or hope rather than precedence or any other type of concrete information.

True, but thinking that their sanctions would be comparable to usc, when the deceit of this program took place over the span of 20+ years, one can assume that osu's sanctions would exceed what usc got. I don't think you need concrete information to know that. A man had 48 counts of various charges against him and was convicted of 45 and the coach of one of the most storied programs covered it up. Pete carrol never claimed to having a squeaky clean image like joe pa. There was too much dirt going on and being covered up to not think these sanctions would be extreme

 

[MD Buckeye]

Senior mods or admins, feel free to merge with the existing Penn State threads. Thanks.

 

[Oh8ch]

Good Lord but the folks at Audibles can sure make lemonade:

Hackenburg will play in the NFL so getting taught by BOB would be a positive for him. Same with Breneman. They would have 2 years of sanction free football here too. Plus they'd go down as the best recruiting class possibly ever if they chose to come here.