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PSU - the rise of a new rule :-p

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jhick40;751252; said:
Anyone have opinions about JoePa's comment about Jarret? I didn't follow his recruiting, but I don't see hatred or the like.
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Simply that if Penn State feels a player isn't up to snuff academically, they have every right to show no interest. The article claimed JoePa said Jarrett was "unfit for college." That's crap. Penn State is a school that holds itself to relatively high standards and Paterno said nothing of the sort about college - just Penn State.

As for the comment itself, it's hard for me to form an opinion since neither the blogger nor the article he linked to bothered to give any context. As usual. They made it sound like Paterno went off from the blue and just decided to rag on Jarrett with no provocation. Since there's no context, I refuse to fall into their trap and denounce Paterno like they're hoping for.
 
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The Jarrett comment was actually made at a news conf with reporters post signing days a year or so after Jarrett had his great Fr season at SC. He basically said "there was a WR in NJ last year that we would have like to have gone after. Unfortunately, he did not have the grades for PSU so our hands were tied and I am not going to lower our standards for one kid no matter how good they are..." Everyone knew that it was Jarrett being referenced though not mentioned in name. He also said something along the lines that PSU was now recruiting against Stanford and not OSU and UM for athletes. The implication was that they were going after a higher class of athletes than the powers that be in the B10 and that was why they were having trouble competing.

The irony is that there are kids on the current PSU roster with 800'ish SAT scores with 2.x GPA's that could never have gotten into PSU under any circumstances as regular students let alone the UP campus. Yet, we are being told that they are only going after Ivy leagues scholar athletes. So there seems to be some hypocrisy here.
 
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They stayed away from Jarrett, but somehow Daryll Clark was okay? Lesean McCoy wasn't exactly a bright one either. And J.B. Walton = Marques Slocum

Is Galen Hall even allowed to recruit anymore? I thought he had gotten some huge sanction from the NCAA.
 
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BuckeyeNation27;751525; said:
it's just coincidental that somebody who got Florida on probation goes to penn state and all of a sudden they're pulling down star studded recruiting classes.
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St Joe has shrived him of his sins, Galen has seen the light and has repented. C'mon 27 you know no one can be in the sainted presence of Paterno for long and continue their evil ways. PSU does no wrong, they do everything classier and cleaner than anyone else. Just ask their fans, they'll tell you. After all, what other school in America has a library named after the football coach and the local YMCA building named after a basketball player?
 
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Speaking of Penn State... did anyone watching the Bball game notice the nitwit with the sign which read:

Ohio isn't even a real state

("real" was written in blue, very clever)

1 - What could this possibly mean?
2 - Does such a sign constitute smack talk?
3 - If it is smack talk, who's supposed to get pissed off? I doubt the basketball team much cares....


I'll tell you, I used to just not like PSU because I didn't like em. Now, I don't like em because I don't like em, and because the fans are dipshit meat heads too boot.
 
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Buckeyeskickbuttocks;753171; said:
Speaking of Penn State... did anyone watching the Bball game notice the nitwit with the sign which read:

Ohio isn't even a real state

("real" was written in blue, very clever)

1 - What could this possibly mean?
2 - Does such a sign constitute smack talk?
3 - If it is smack talk, who's supposed to get pissed off? I doubt the basketball team much cares....


I'll tell you, I used to just not like PSU because I didn't like em. Now, I don't like em because I don't like em, and because the fans are dipshit meat heads too boot.
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I saw that sign, and one that had tOSU with a '$' for the 'S'. That one pissed me off.
 
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Buckeyeskickbuttocks;753171; said:
Speaking of Penn State... did anyone watching the Bball game notice the nitwit with the sign which read:

Ohio isn't even a real state

("real" was written in blue, very clever)

1 - What could this possibly mean?
2 - Does such a sign constitute smack talk?
3 - If it is smack talk, who's supposed to get pissed off? I doubt the basketball team much cares....


I'll tell you, I used to just not like PSU because I didn't like em. Now, I don't like em because I don't like em, and because the fans are dipshit meat heads too boot.
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That's a pretty common joke (in their stands and on their boards)... I have no idea why.
 
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That's just pathetic. You know you're a second tier program when you start dedicating parts of your stadium to upsets over 3-1 teams.:lol:

I remember when PSU was an elite team that expected to win at home, guess those days are gone forever.:osu:
 
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When it comes to Jarrett's recruiting, I know his grades were pretty low his freshman and sophomore years of high school. He admitted to just doing enough to get by, posting between 2-2.5 GPA. He did raise it a bit by graduation. I don't know if he had any outstanding problems in his personal life, so I'm not sure why JoePa would have said Jarrett was "unfit for college." I know that Notre Dame also pursued Jarrett, but decided to drop their scholarship offer because they didn't think he could make the grades. Not being fit for Notre Dame, Penn State, or anywhere else for that matter is quite different than being fit for college as a whole.
 
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Jaxbuck;741497; said:
That is so bad, I'm embarrassed for them. That has to be the single sorriest thing I've ever seen football related.

I can't believe I'm going to say this but that could be a sign of a fanbase more delusional than the Domers.
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I dont know about that. Uber Lame actually celebrates a loss to USC as one of there greatest victories ever.

I'm there with you, I'm embarrassed for both of them. Sad day at Penn St. indeed.
 
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