SB Nation User Blog: Screen Name 20

BSD get linked by tWWL

Screen Name 20 — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 12:20:25 -0000

BSD get mentioned and linked in tWWL's Big 10 blog.

http://myespn.go.com/blogs/bigten

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Recruiting Budget

Screen Name 20 — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:41:53 -0000

http://chronicle.com/temp/email2.php?id=qsMjnbxncyhpzdpGqdzyqxM9hZJffwVt#women

Two things strike me here: (One good, One bad)

1) Bad: The amount of total budget shortfall we have versus other schools.

2) Good: The high percentage of our recruiting budget that is allocated for women's sports. This is a good thing and can maybe explain some of our success in volleyball and soccer (our Lady Lions just pulled in top recruits from from England (2) and one from Vegas).

We are at a disadvantage on the football recruiting trail when comparing ourselves to other schools (aside from Jay Pa). As an extreme example, Tennessee allocates almost 6X as much to men's sports as us.

PSU Recruiting Class

Screen Name 20 — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 15:28:59 -0000

PSU Recruiting Class

FWIW, espn Scout's Inc has the PSU recruiting class as top 10 so far...

Eric Shrive Commits...

Screen Name 20 — Thu, 15 May 2008 16:18:08 -0000

to PSU. Nice pickup of a (6' 7", 300) 5* OL. I don't have premium access, but here's the link.

http://pennstate.scout.com/

Along with another OL from VA, Frank Figueroa (6'4", 270), the recruits are starting to pour in. The Shrive pickup is a steal as he was originally been reported as favoring ND.

This is great news. Now I'd like to see us pull is some WR's and a couple QB's.