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Topic: 2025 Penn State Season Thread

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MrNubbz

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Re: 2025 Penn State Season Thread
« Reply #182 on: December 03, 2025, 01:05:16 PM »
First coach fired....none hired yet.  Amazing. 

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In all my years of coaching change/recruiting tomfoolery, I can't say I recall seeing anything quite like this.
Not good,not good,to think 10 + months ago they were fixing to be in the thick of the mix,BBTS deserves better
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Re: 2025 Penn State Season Thread
« Reply #183 on: December 03, 2025, 03:12:48 PM »
"Courage; Generosity; Fairness; Honor; In these are the true awards of manly sport."

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Re: 2025 Penn State Season Thread
« Reply #184 on: December 03, 2025, 04:36:23 PM »
Lost another, down to 2

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Re: 2025 Penn State Season Thread
« Reply #185 on: December 03, 2025, 06:59:44 PM »
That's crazy to me. 

When OSU was between coaches (Tressel, Meyer) they still had a helluva recruiting class because the Ohio players wanted to play for OSU no matter who the HC was. 

PA is a pretty good recruiting state. You'd think there'd be a similar loyalty to PSU within their borders. 

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Re: 2025 Penn State Season Thread
« Reply #186 on: December 03, 2025, 10:49:12 PM »
that was before $$$
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Re: 2025 Penn State Season Thread
« Reply #187 on: December 03, 2025, 10:56:44 PM »
PSU has a ways to go to top Tennessee hiring their official 19th choice, Pruitt like 10 years ago.  THAT was the worst dumpster fire HC transition ever, AND THEN he went on to get tossed for giving cash to players in McDonalds bags.

He was a visionary, turns out.  
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Re: 2025 Penn State Season Thread
« Reply #188 on: December 04, 2025, 08:44:39 AM »
That's crazy to me.

When OSU was between coaches (Tressel, Meyer) they still had a helluva recruiting class because the Ohio players wanted to play for OSU no matter who the HC was.

PA is a pretty good recruiting state. You'd think there'd be a similar loyalty to PSU within their borders.
They weren't. They hired Meyer in November 2011 and he recruited from the jump while ickell f'd up a season.

Meyer even "bumped" into a Wisconsin commit and got him to flip.

That's how things work for third base.
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Re: 2025 Penn State Season Thread
« Reply #189 on: December 04, 2025, 10:10:51 AM »
Fick recruited a lot of guys before November.

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Re: 2025 Penn State Season Thread
« Reply #190 on: December 04, 2025, 10:24:18 AM »
Spence, Washington, Reeves, Bogard, Marcus, Perry, Decker and many more all committed to OSU after Meyer was hired.

Go back and look.

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Re: 2025 Penn State Season Thread
« Reply #191 on: December 04, 2025, 10:32:08 AM »
Yeah, I remember, it was a weird class. 1/3 committed to Tressel, 1/3 committed to Fickell, and 1/3 committed to Meyer. 

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Re: 2025 Penn State Season Thread
« Reply #192 on: December 04, 2025, 11:42:38 AM »
turned out OK
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Re: 2025 Penn State Season Thread
« Reply #193 on: December 04, 2025, 12:14:56 PM »
"gentleman's agreement" refers to an alleged, unwritten rule in the Big Ten Conference, particularly during the 2011-2012 recruiting cycle, where coaches were said to have an understanding not to heavily recruit players who had already been committed to another conference team. This agreement was reportedly violated by Urban Meyer when he recruited players who were committed to Ohio State and later became a major point of contention between him, Dantonio, and other coaches like Bret Bielema
  • The alleged agreement: The "gentleman's agreement" was an unwritten rule among coaches in the Big Ten conference regarding recruiting priorities. It was not a formal NCAA or conference rule, but rather an understanding between coaches.
  • The alleged violation: This agreement was supposedly broken when Urban Meyer, then the new head coach at Ohio State, aggressively recruited players who were already committed to other Big Ten schools.
  • The controversy: This led to anger from other coaches, including Mark Dantonio and Bret Bielema, who felt the agreement was a matter of respect for each other's commitments.
  • Meyer's response: Urban Meyer dismissed the notion, stating that the agreement was "nonsense" and that he was not violating any rules. 


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Re: 2025 Penn State Season Thread
« Reply #194 on: December 04, 2025, 12:34:38 PM »
ickell got all of the 3* players in the class.
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Re: 2025 Penn State Season Thread
« Reply #195 on: December 04, 2025, 12:44:50 PM »
Including Michael Thomas

 

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