4th in Nation for Football Attendance

Penn State fans have earned the 4th spot in attendance totals for 7 home games this year. This marks the 15 consecutive year that PSU has been in the top 4. The only schools to top PSU are Michigan, Tennessee and Ohio State.



Press Release - 9

Position Ranking for 06 Recruting Class

Orlando Sentinel has published position ranking on this years recruiting year.

PSU notes:
- #4 at QB
- #4 at OL
- #1 at DL (also mentioned to possibly be the best position class signed by anyone)


Assessing signings position by position - OrlandoSentinel.com: Recruiting

ESPN Pos Update

ESPN has published a good article on Pos and how he handled the injury and is looking ahead.

One interesting comment is that Pos mentioned that he all but decided to return to PSU for this year anyhow even w/o the injury.

ESPN.com - NCF - Maisel: Recovery room

Temple or Penn State at Philadelphia?

Several days after Temple announced Zach Mills will be on the coaching staff, Matt Rhule has been named Defensive Line Coach. Matt is the 5th former PSU letterwinner on the football coaching staff.

Temple Athletics - Owlsports.com

Its Over, Finally

Vidal sent his LOI to USC today. The drama is finally over (for this year anyhow). Good luck to him...

Scout.com: Fare Thee Well, Vidal; Drama Ends

Local Vidal Update

Below is a link to a story about the Vidal situation. The article quotes Bob Lichtenfels who works for scout.com. Bob knows a lot on the Vidal front as he was the only person I know that said Vidal did not send a parental signed copy of his LOI to USC when others were reporting it was a done deal.

It does not appear to be good new, however, some thoughts. Bob has not posted anything of this manor on scout.com, so why quote something this direct in a local paper? We will all know soon enough when he announces Friday around noon.

The York Daily Record - PSU Football

Hazelton to Announce

Vidal will be making his decision this Friday. His father, Dexter, said that Vidal will be calling around noon to tell him where he is going.

On a side note, Dexter also said that Vidal only needs to pass chemistry to become eligible. There have been rumors that he will not, but it seems like it is down to one class.

Scout.com: Hazelton to Announce

Zach Mills Coaching at Temple

Zach has been named offensive graduate assistant coach at Temple. He was hired by ex-PSU coach and new Head Coach, Al Golden.

Temple Athletics - Owlsports.com

Another Kicker

Penn State may add to its kicking depth. Ryan Redler has transferred from Clemson to PSU and is trying out for the team. Ryan was selected to the first team All-FCIAC in 2004 and hit 89 percent of his PATs in his high school career.

Scout.com: Penn State Gets Clemson Transfer

Students Said To Have Violated NCAA Rules

Apparently it is an NCAA violation for students to hold signs with names of football player recruits or yell their name at basketball games. The NCAA has reviewed these occurances during PSU football games however said that the university is doing the right thing by explaining to students that this is not legal under NCAA rules.

Talk about a stupid rule.

Centre Daily Times | 02/13/2006 | Penn State students' efforts to entice recruits breaks rules

Surprise

Anyone that watched the Wisconsin vs Penn State basketball game was hit with a heck of a surprise. Those of you that have TiVo and recorded the game, go to hour 1:08 and you will hear it. Vid-al Hazel-ton... Vidal made a surprise visit this weekend to State College and when at the game, the students welcomed him.

This has to be a good sign...



Scout.com: Hazelton Makes Surprise PSU Visit

NCAA Replay Change Possibility

A NCAA committee made an announcement yesterday that they have recommended to allow at least one replay challenge per game by the coaches. This is a big change to the replay format last year (and the past 2 for the Big 10) as the replays could only be initiated by referees. The recommendation will be voted upon in March before it becomes official.

Rumor has it that Michigan gets one more review than any visiting team. :)

FOXSports.com - COLLEGE FOOTBALL- NCAA adds coaches' challenge to replays

Junior California QB

Samson Szakacsy is a class of 2007 quarterback from California. Last season Samson completed 73% of his passes for 1,959 yards and 23 touchdowns. He currently has interest in Pac 10 schools Stanford and UCLA. So what is the news for PSU fans? Samson would actually prefer to play college ball in the Northeast. He has listed Penn State in his top 10 schools and plans to take a visit this summer.

Samson Szakacsy Profile - Football Recruiting

Notre Dame Game Time Set

The Penn State vs. Notre Dame game for September 9th, 2006 is set for a national audience on NBC at 3:30 PM EST.

Press Release - 9

Another Walk-On

Jesse Alfreno has also decided to walk-on at Penn State. Jesse earned All State honors 3 years. He was second team his sophomore year and first team his junior and senior years at defensive back.

The Derrick

Kicker Added to 2006 Class

Collin Wagner, the kicker for State College High School has told Penn State that he will be upgrade from Little Lion to Nittany Lion as a walk on. Wagner was elected to the Big 32 team this year. He was also named to the Pennsylvania Football News Class AAAA first team All-State at punter, the Patriot News Platinum 33 Team as kicker, Associated Press Pennsylvania Class AAAA All-State at punter and First Team Mid-Penn Conference as placekicker. Wagner was also rated at the Scout.com Kicking Combine for kickoffs at a 4 star (highest).

Welcome to the team Collin...

Scout.com: Kicker Joins PSU Class of 2006

One More Added

Graham Zug has decided to join the Nittany Lions as a preferred walk=on. Graham is ranked a 2 star WR by rivals.com and had offers from Navy, Delaware, Richmond and Albany. He was also offered preferred walk on status at Connecticut, North Carolina and Virginia. Graham will enroll in the second summer session so he can contribute right away.

BlueWhiteIllustrated.com - Lions continue to add to pride

PSU is IT

Sports Illustrated confirms it. PSU is the place to be...

SI.com - SI On Campus - We Are ... Irresistible - Friday February 3, 2006 1:56PM

Vidal Saga

Thought I would post a link to a "free" story for people to read themselves over the whole Vidal story that occurred yesterday. Needless to say, this is going to get real interesting.

Hazelton pulls back letter of intent to USC

LOI Update - Final

Eliades letter is in and is the final expected LOI of the day.

VH is being confirmed to USC by many sources. However, the source that I feel the most confident w/ is saying that neither of his parents have signed the letter yet and will not until Vidal makes a choice w/o hesitation. More to come for some days (even weeks) in the future on this one I am sure.

LOI Update

Taylor's letter has been received. Down to only Eliades I believe and his is expected at 3:30 PM...

LOI Update

Gbadyu, Koroma and Latimore are now official. Think Taylor is the only one left, but he is at the meeting in MD...

LOI Update

Add Bell and Carter to the list of signees...

LOI Update

Jefferies, Bracket and Troutman are all signed...

LOI Update

Royster, Logan-El and Evans letters have been received...

LOI Day

I will try to keep updated on Letter of Intents (LOI) that come in today as they are received by PSU.

Keep in mind that Bowman has already enrolled at PSU so no LOI is needed.

So far today:

Maybin was the first commit of the day with his letter being received at 7:47 AM this morning. Following Maybin was Odrick, Devlin, Quarless, klopacz, McBride, Wallace, Walton, McEowen then Ogbu.

This is up to date as of 9:30 AM.