SIAP: PSU AD bemoans lies to recruits

Submitted by steeltownblue on

Thought this might be of interest to the board.   The PSU AD director is complaining that B1G universities are using the latest information about the Sandusky scandal in recruiting.  Claims there's no basis for re-opening penalties against PSU and that officials regard the matter as settled.

 

http://triblive.com/sports/college/pennstate/10756504-74/state-penn-delany 

LloydCarnac

July 27th, 2016 at 8:42 AM ^

PSU now stands for Penitentiary State University. That the AD's initials are SB are perfectly appropriate given his stance on the matter.

The worst negative recruiting that will ever be done is PSU's continued denial of Sandusky's crimes, and their subsequent coverup by PSU's athletic department and university administration.

Many believe the death penalty is in order for the cowards and perpetrators that have contributed to the PSU history of the last 40 years, continuing today. Any subsequent denials of the Sandusky era and legacy (serial child molestation) are just perpetuation of crime and abuse against innocence by PSU.

1VaBlue1

July 27th, 2016 at 8:43 AM ^

The PSU AD (Sandy Barbour) should be more concerned about about other schools mentioning that James Franklin is PSU's head coach.  Is that considered negative recruiting?

In other news, Mick Dimtonio said this about negative recruiting: "“It's not our MO. And that's not how we do business,..."  You know, except when Michigan is involved...

The Mad Hatter

July 27th, 2016 at 9:04 AM ^

"Penn State coach James Franklin said negative recruiting might need to be addressed at the conference level."

 

Let's address it by kicking PSU out of the Big 10.

MichFan1997

July 27th, 2016 at 8:46 AM ^

How to embed, but this was an OSU writer on Twitter yesterday: Just got a DM from father of a 4* prospect. “We’ve visited (OSU, UM, MSU and PSU) - the ONLY person that negatively recruited was Franklin." @birm

NFG

July 27th, 2016 at 8:48 AM ^

Meyer and Dantonio were both asked if they negatively recruited against PSU and both were very direct with their answers of "No" and Meyer seemed to be a tad pissed off by the accusation.




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unWavering

July 27th, 2016 at 8:56 AM ^

I mean, the thought that Urban would even have to negatively recruit against PSU is absurd. If you're a recruit, would you rather go play for Urban Meyer at OSU or James Franklin at PSU? I'm guessing there are almost zero recruits without PSU family or regional ties who would answer PSU.

mGrowOld

July 27th, 2016 at 8:57 AM ^

More than a tad pissed off and Franklin back peddled HARD when Urbz called him out on it. What I found amusing was the report from one of the recruitnics yesterday that they got a DM from a recruit that went to PSU, OSU, MSU and Michigan and the ONLY school that negatively recruited was PSU.

Oh, and fuck Penn State.

Yooper

July 27th, 2016 at 11:21 AM ^

Dantonio basically said I don't, and I don't want my staff to do so but I don't really know what has been or could have been said at some point in time.  I think he meant to say no but in an effort to sound smart he sounds terrible.  He should stick to simple cliches-when he strays from that path he looks stupid.

bacon

July 27th, 2016 at 8:49 AM ^

No basis??

The fact that it's now documented that more coaches, players, etc. knew about what was going on for decades and yet nothing was done is reason enough to open them up to more penalties. They need to stop complaining about how bad people are treating them and just acknowledge how bad they fucked this up and start making amens.

74polSKA

July 27th, 2016 at 8:57 AM ^

Was the information new to the case or just new to the public? I can't remember. Either way, it would not be surprising at all if the NCAA has told PSU that there will be no further discipline around the Sandusky situation. That said, being correct and being a whiny bitch aren't mutually exclusive.

RGard

July 27th, 2016 at 9:48 AM ^

so I agree that they won't do anything more about that sexual assault factory.

I think the NCAA could do something if they had the testicular fortitude.  Penn State's response to the NCAA (the Freeh Report) does not mention any of the earlier allegations about Sandusky and Paterno.  They deliberately held that back (IIRC, one of the 70s victims approached Penn State about a settlement before the Freeh report was released).

That duplicity of not coming clean should be punished.

PopeLando

July 27th, 2016 at 9:13 AM ^

Some examples of negative recruiting:

"Their coach is James Franklin"

"They're not... good...like at all"

"Listen kid, fair or not there is an association between PSU fandom and a child rapist. There's even some people denying that it happened, and a whole bunch of people who enabled it and don't think they were wrong to do so. If you go there, you will be exposed to that, and may even be expected to buy in."

LSAClassOf2000

July 27th, 2016 at 9:15 AM ^

It just seems to me that, at this point, they are essentially trying to blame the world for something which they did to themselves as a football culture, almost as if they won't deny it per se but they would rather there was some unwritten agreement whereby the abuse was not mentioned. It almost harkens back to the generation of Germans immediately after WWII who had to deal with history books that fast forwarded to Konrad Adenauer after the chapter on the Weimar Republic, or at least there seems to be that air of "let's just not discuss and maybe it will go away on its own..." logic on their side. The problem is that it needs to be discussed so that it doesn't happen again.