Wiz Update

Stefen Wisniewski visited PSU for Michigan and then the following week for the Illinios game. He loved his visit, however did not commit. He was to visit Boston College this past weekend and my then be ready to make his decision. It is down to PSU and BC. His father, Leo, said he may be ready to announce in the next few days.



BlueWhiteIllustrated.com - Did Wisniewski commit to PSU?

Green Update

Green has cancelled all his scheduled visits until after his season. He will take all of his visits in December and beyond. He mentioned his finalist are (and all expected to get visits) USC, PSU, Georgia Tech, Tennessee and Ohio State.



BlueWhiteIllustrated.com - Green cancels visits, names five officials

McCready Update

Nolan McCready is a former walk-on at PSU however has earned a scholarship for last year. This year it was told to him that he would not be on scholarship, however with the way some things worked out, Nolan is back on Scholarship.



BlueWhiteIllustrated.com - McCready: Former walk-on makes his mark

Langley Update

Donald Langley, the 3 star DT from Maryland, was up to visit Happy Valley this past weekend for the game. Langley said it was an "awesome time" and has stated he has a finalist grouping of 4 schools: PSU, Tennessee, Texas A&M and Oklahoma. He is not noting a leader but will make his decision November 6th at noon. Donald did say his parents want him to attend PSU while his coaches want him to attend Tennessee.



Scout.com: Langley Talks PSU Visit, Sets Date

Wisconsin Game Announced

The PSU vs Wisconsin game will be played at 12 noon EST.

Nov 4th - www.scout.com

Big 10 POW

Paul Posluszny earns his fifth career Defensive player of the week. This is a Big 10 record which has never been done before.

Jeremy Kapinos also received player of the week honors for the special teams version of the award. This marks Kapinos 4th time with the honor.

Scout.com: Two PSU Big Ten Honors

QBs Cleared to Play

Both Morrelli and Clark have been cleared to play tomorrow vs Illinios.

GOPSF.COM

Posluszny Semi-Finalist for Lombardi Award

He has made the cut for the top lineman or linebacker award. December 6th they will announce the 4 finalist.

KRT Wire | 10/18/2006 | Penn State's Posluszny again in the running for Lombardi Award

Morelli Update

Anthony Morelli's father has told the Pittsburgh Tribune that his son will play Saturday vs. Illinios. Lets hope this is true...

PSU's Morelli plans to play vs. Illinois - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

Wrestling Gets More Commits

Penn State wrestling hauled in four big time recruits this weekend.

The first is a two time PIAA state champ at AAA. Nazareth senior Tim Darling, 152 pounder, has orally committed to the lions. Tim chose Penn State over preseason #1 Minnesota, Lehigh and Virginia Tech.

Other commits include Jared Platt of Blair Academy (NJ), Cameron Wade of St. Peter Channel (OH) and Frank Molinaro of Southern (NJ).

All four of these wrestlers are ranked #2 nationally at their weightclass by Amateur Wrestling News.


Tim Darling

Centre Daily Times | 10/17/2006 | Two-time PIAA champ commits to Penn State

McCoy Speaks

LeSean McCoy spoke in his interview from Bob Lichtenfels of scout.com talking more about how he is doing and where he is with recruiting. McCoy is planning on making at least 3 official visits with the running being Miami, Pitt, Penn State and Florida. McCoy did admit that is is looking for the school that best fits him now instead of the most recognized school in the nation. He did actually say that PSU was close to home and that may be the best thing for him. This is going to be down to the wire I have a feeling.



Scout.com: The Real McCoy

Donald Langley Update

Donald Langley, 3 star DT by scout.com, visited Oklahoma last week and here are some things he had to say. First, he enjoyed his visit and came away more impressed than he thought he would. However, it was weird how a Sooner interview quickly turned into a PSU discussion. I would say that Langley is Penn State's to lose. Langley will be visiting Happy Valley this weekend for his official and when asked he mentioned it was his last visit and that he will be holding a press conference on November 4th to announce his school. Right now he is down to Oklahoma, Tennessee, PSU and Texas A&M. Donald did mention that his parents want him to go to PSU so he is close to home. Donald is from Germantown, MD which is a 3 hour drive from State College. He has only been to PSU for camps so this weekend is big for PSU's recruitment of Langley. He mentioned that "all these other schools have so much to offer that I just hope Penn State has the same thing." See what I mean in PSU's to lose...



Scout.com: Recruiting: U.S. Army All-American visits OU

Tidbits from Saturday

The biggest question everyone probably has (or at least should) is the QB situation. I have heard both things from "Dont expect to see Morelli" to "expect to see both Morelli and Clark be ready". It is too big of a question to speculate, so just wait until the press conference tomorrow and I am sure we will have more answers. The good news is at least both parties are saying that Clark will be ready at a minimum.

Phil Taylor made his college debut for the Michigan game. It was expected that big Phil would redshirt, however, McEowen's injury appears to be a high ankle sprain leaving him less than 100%.

Due to the above scenerio, expect PSU to submit for a medical redshirt for Tom McEowen.

Derrick Morgan has a visit he called "Wild". He is scheduled to visit BC this weekend as his final official visit and announce a leader in November. Derrick is graduating early and enrolling in the Spring at the school of his choice.

Kevion Latham is still planning on taking visits but is listing himself as a strong commit.

The surprise recruit, Sturdivant was still on campus today. Expect more to follow on his visit.

Weslye Saunders did not make the trip as expected, but now there is another story starting to surface than what was reported last week (no SAT scores). Weslye reported to Mike Farrell of rivals.com that PSU has not made contact in some time and because of that, they have fallen down the list. Expect a story later this week.

Wiz (Stefen Wisniewski) was at the game (as expected) for an unofficial visit and will visit again this week for his official visit.

Purdue Game Time Announced

The Penn State vs. Purdue game will be on ABC for a noon kickoff.

Penn State Live

First Surprise Visitor

Trinton Sturdivant, 4 star OL and ranked #21 at the position, is listed as a soft verbal to Georgia, however that is not stopping him from visiting Happy Valley this weekend. Trinton said that he is hearing from Florida, PSU and Notre Dame, however he is not hearing from Georgia. He has even listed a new interested list containing Florida, Georgia, Penn State, Notre Dame and Auburn. He has already visited Florida and Notre Dame. This truly is a surprise as he was not even listed as having a PSU scholarship at this time. The one thing PSU can never have enough of are big time lineman prospects.



Scout.com: OL Sturdivant Considers PSU

Don't Expect to See Saunders

Wesley Saunders will not attend the Michigan vs. PSU game this weekend as planned. The reason being he has yet to receive his SAT test scores. The NCAA requires test scores prior to an official visit, so the visit will have to be at a later time.

Scout.com: Weslye Saunders Profile

SI.com's Take on a PSU Weekend

Sports Illustrated posted a report on how to spend your weekend in State College. I will let you read...

SI.com - SI On Campus - Road Trip: Penn State - Wednesday October 11, 2006 1:04PM

ABC Coverage Map for 8:00PM EST Game

Paternoville Population of 0 No More

The Centre Daily Times is reporting that there were almost 100 tents setup by 6 AM this morning. Last year there were 120 tents for the Ohio State game and they are at a fast pace to beat that number.



The Thin Man: Paternoville nears Ohio State numbers

Game Updates

A couple of things for this weekends game with Michigan...

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  First and foremost, Jimmy Shaw will be ready to play this saturday. It has not said that he will start, but Paterno has said he will be ready to play for Michigan. That is awesome news as long as he is really 100% ready. That gives us 5 ends and 5 tackles to rotate on Saturday to keep people fresh.
  
  Ends:
  

  
  Tim Shaw, Jim Shaw, Josh Gaines, Mo Evans, Jared Odrick
  

  
  
  Tackles:
  

  
  Jay Alford, Chris Baker, Ed Johnson, Tom McEowen, Steve Roach
  

  
  


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  A close second as far as good news is that Andrew Quarless will start at tight end. We got to see just a glimpse of what he can do last week at Minnesota. He is a manchild at 6'5" 250lbs with 4.6 speed.
  


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  A list of freshman that will redshirt has been made. Brackett (QB), Devlin (QB), Bani Gbadyu (SF/LB), Cedric Jefferies (DB), Navorro Bowman (LB), Travis McBride (DB), Aaron Maybin (DE), Doug Klopacz (OL), Abe Koroma (DT), Logan-El (OL), and Ollie Ogbu (DL).
  

BlueWhiteIllustrated.com - Phil Grosz's Inside Look at Penn State Football

Full Visitor List

Below is a full list of the recruits expected to make the trip this weekend to Happy Valley. All rankings are from scout.com. Watch for edits in case anyone decides to attend or decline closer to gametime.

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  Jon Ditto (4 star WR/TE) is a current PSU commit and will be visiting for an official visit.
  
  
  



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  Kevion Latham (3 star DE) will also be making his official visit. Kevion is a PSU commit and traveling from North Carolina.
  
  
  



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  Derrick Morgan (4 star DT) will be on campus for an official.
  
  
  




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  Tydreke Powell (4 star DT) is making the trip from North Carolina for an official visit.
  
  
  




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  Wesley Saunders (4 star DE/TE) is one more from North Carolina making the trip on an official.
  
  
  




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  Quinn Barham (unrated OL) is a PSU commit making his official visit from North Carolina.
  
  
  




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  Stefen Wisniewski (4 star OL) is the son and nephew of former PSU players. He has been nominated to the US Army All American Game. This will be Stefen's official visit.
  
  
  




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  Andrew Dailey (4 star LB) is a current PSU commit and will be making the trip for an unofficial.
  
  
  




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  Josh Marks (4 star OL) will be taking an unofficial. Marks is a current commit to the lions.
  
  
  




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  Chaz Powell (3 star DB) is another current PSU commit taking the trip for an unofficial visit.
  
  
  




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  Andrew Szczerba (3 star TE/DE) is yet another PSU commit making the trip unofficially.
  
  
  




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  Nathan Supar (4 star LB) will visit unoffically as a PSU commit.
  
  
  




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  Nick Sukay (4 star WR) is a PSU commit and will make the trip accross the state to see the game unoffically.
  
  
  




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  Maurice Williams (4 star WR) will attend the game unofficially.
  
  
  




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  Devonte Campbell (3 star LB/TE) will make an unofficial appearance.
  
  
  




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  Devon Still (3 star OL/DT) will make the trip unofficially from Delaware.
  
  
  

And now for a list of Junior:

• A.J. Alexander


• Eric Brennan


• Steven Caputo


• Mike Cruz


• Jewhan Edwards


• Shayne Hale


• Chris Henderson


• Anthony Hill


• Daniel McCarthy


• David Posluszny


• Terrelle Pryor


• Bill Schautz


• Mark Wedderburn


• Nathan Williams


• Quinton Williams


• Michael Zordich

And several Sophomores:

• Giba Goba


• Jordan Hill


• Lloyd Hill


• C.J. Johnson

And one Freshman:

• Alex Zordich

Carr Confirms

Manningham is out for the Michigan vs PSU game. It may not be as bad as first thought as Carr said everyone is very happy about the surgery results and only went on to say he will miss this week.



BlueWhiteIllustrated.com - Carr thrilled with results of Manningham surgery

Another Visitor

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  Devon Still, 4 star DE, will also be visiting this weekend. He currently lists Ohio State as his favorite with Miami behind. PSU still has a chance, but it will take some work to pull him from the Buckeyes.
  
  
  

BlueWhiteIllustrated.com - Still ready for another Big Ten visit

Carr on Manningham

As expected, Lloyd Carr is not saying anything about Mario Manningham. In a press conference yesterday, Carr said, "I don't have any comment on Mario. I just don't have anything to tell you."

ESPN is reporting that Manningham is undergoing arthroscopic surgery this morning for a partially torn meniscus in his knee. He may also have a partial medial collateral tear in his knee. ESPN is reporting from news in the Detroit News.

U-M receiver Manningham expected to miss Penn State game - 10/09/06 - The Detroit News Online

Illinios Game Announced

The Illini vs Penn State game is set for 12:00 noon and will be shown on ESPN2.

Penn State Live

Manningham Out for PSU Game? Year?

It is being reported one of Michigan's top (if not the top) receivers has suffered a slight ACL tear. Right now these are just rumors and really have no credit, however many people are posting they heard from many different sources. I would watch the situation closely at best.

Please tell me this is not true. - www.scout.com

Visitors This Weekend

There should be a very interesting sideline this weekend and that is only counting the recruits. Here is an update on the ones I have heard:

• Broderick Green (4 star WR and USC commit) is still thinking about making the trip. He mentioned he will know more Monday evening.
  
  
  



• Ryan Breen, the 2 star kicker commit, will be making the trip to happy valley.
  
  
  



• Quinn Barham, 2 star OL commit, will also be attending.
  
  
  



• Three star safety commit, Chaz Powell, will be in attendance.
  
  
  



• Defensive lineman prospect, Tydreke Powell (4 star), will be making the trip this weekend. He cancelled his visit to Florida last weekend due to schedule conflict, however said he is still making the trip to Happey Valley.
  
  
  



• Derrick Morgan, 4 star defensive lineman prospect, will be at the game.
  
  
  



• Wesley Saunders is a 4 star DE/TE prospect from North Carolina.
  
  
  



• Derek Moye is a 3 star WR prospect and is slated to make the game.
  
  
  



• Stefan Wisniewski (4 star) is an Army All American selection for the offensive line.
  
  
  



• Maurice Williams is a 4 star WR prospect.
  
  
  



• Kevion Latham (3 star), defensive lineman commit will be making the trip from North Carolina.
  
  
  

Zordich to Attend Michigan Game

Former lion, Michael Zordich Sr., will be visiting Happy Valley for the Michigan vs PSU game October 14th. However the reason is he will be coming with his son, Michael Zordich Jr. Jr is a highly ranked junior linebacker prospect out of Youngstown Cardinal Mooney in Ohio. It is expected that Michael will be one of the top prospects in the country for his position. He attended the Penn State football camp this summer and has Penn State on his list of favorites with Ohio State, Notre Dame, Michigan and others.

BlueWhiteIllustrated.com - Little Lion set to visit Penn State

Minny Game on Regional

The PSU vs Minnesota game will not be televised on ESPN2 due to the MLB playoffs. Instead the game will televise on ESPN Regional. The station in your area will depend on where you live.

Press Release - 9

Paternoville, Population of Zero

Preparing for the Michigan game a little early, Paternoville saw people already setting up camp this week. However, they were told to leave and when refusing to do so had police threaten with arrest. I don't see this as a good thing to piss off students that are anxious to support their team. Hopefully this is not taken too negatively by the students and they still setup next week. The unknown official told them they would not be allowed to setup tent until Thursday evening: 48 hours prior to kickoff.



Scout.com: Paternoville Closed Down

Injury Update

• Kevin Kelly will likely continue to kick field goals only and let the kickoff duties to another person. Kevin is recovering from a stress fracture to the iliac crest.


• Jim Shaw is still listed as questionable but it is appearing more likely that he will not be ready.


• Terrell Golden has continued practicing this week after seeing action at the end of the game last week.


• Levi Brown will miss the game again this week, but appears that he will play against Michigan. Levi sat out last week as well and it was reported that he could have played if he was needed. The same phrase was used for this week however the staff feels it is not worth the chance. Look for him next week in Beaver Stadium.


• Jerome Hayes may see some action this week however it is really up to him to say how he feels. It was stated before that Hayes will be ready for Michigan.


• Robert Price is also questionable for the Minnesota game due to a shoulder injury. Cadogan will start in his place.

Scout.com: Nittany Notes: Injury Report

Mother Hali Makes it to a Game

Tamba Hali's mother, Mama Rachel, saw her some play football for the first time this weekend. In this game, Tamba had 3 tackles with 1.5 sacks. His mother was having a great time doing all the typical things a football fan does at a game. Mama Rachel is in America for a few weeks until she has to go back to her home country. Tamba is still pursueing getting her moved to the USA permanently.



Kansas City Star | 10/02/2006 | Hali makes his mother proud

Minnesota Game Is On

The game is this weekend as planned as the Twins win their division. The game is to air 12 Noon on Saturday either on ESPN2 or ESPN Regional. It depends if ESPN is showing a Major League Baseball playoff game or not whether it will be regional or national on ESPN2.

Press Release - 9