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Sunday, January 27, 2013
Week in review: NittanyNation
By Josh Moyer
NittanyNation takes a look at this week’s Penn State football news and what you might have missed:
DE Jordan Kerner is trying not to look back
after suffering a career-ending injury
.
Adam Breneman's high school coach talked about just what
makes the tight end special and what PSU fans can look forward to
from him.
A look back at the
top PSU sleepers
since 2006. And the
biggest misses
since 2006.
Video: The top recruits in the nation -- including Christian Hackenberg -- talked about some of
their craziest recruiting pitches
.
In our bi-weekly chat, we talked about
Penn State football and recruiting
for more than an hour. We also talked Penn State recruiting on the
Big Ten podcast
.
Rashaun Smith may just be a high school freshman, but he already has quite a few scholarship offers -- including one from Penn State. He was the
subject for this week's "5 Questions."
As part of an ongoing series, we took a closer look at five Penn State commitments this week -- including
Richy Anderson
,
Curtis Cothran
,
DaeSean Hamilton
,
Parker Cothren
and
Brendan Mahon
.
Adam Rittenberg wrote that the
Big Ten's bowl lineup will change next year
and could have a dramatically different look.
Jack Seymour had scholarship offers from Ball State and Western Michigan, but
turned those down to become a preferred walk-on
at Penn State.
We took a
look back at the Class of 2009
to see just how good it really was. Overall, it fell short of expectations -- but it still wasn't a bust.
Bill O'Brien was in Beaver County earlier this week and
spoke with four juniors
in Aliquippa (Pa.). 2014 RB Shai McKenzie, also from western Pennsylvania,
received an offer from Penn State
.
We took a look at team needs, key commits and key targets
as part of a signing day primer
.
Preferred walk-on Von Walker spoke about his goals and commitment to PSU
at length in a Q&A
.
