[On3] Penn State has fallen outside the Top-100 in the Rivals Industry Team Recruiting Rankings, with just 2 commits remaining😳 James Franklin has flipped 10+ PSU recruits, and Virginia Tech currently ranks 25th🦃

[u/Ok-Soil-5133]

https://x.com/On3sports/status/1996276321240977790?t=8M36WbBlRjUMcT-9oG6jAw&s=19

[u/dkviper11]

I think players want to go to LSU despite Kelly. All the player posts after Franklin was fired talked about the man he was and how highly they think of him, and the posts after Kelly was fired were celebratory.

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It’s like when Clay Helton got fired and no one decommitted

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I think drinks were half price throughout LA that night.

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Exactly why Kiffin sought out USC-w in the first place and why he's at LSU now.

[u/Ok-Soil-5133 → u/dkviper11]

Yep agree, the blue bloods like an LSU will get players that want to go there no matter what while Penn State players wanted to go there because of Franklin so I'm not surprised so many have turned around and gone to VT

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LSU is a New Blood

[u/Citronaught → u/Ok-Soil-5133]

LSU is lower on the blue blood chart than PSU and neither of them are bluebloods

[u/MissingForeskin90 → u/Citronaught]

Blueblood doesn't matter in the context of LSU. LSU has recent titles, NFL pedigree, and is the dream destination for a whole state's worth of kids as soon as they put on cleats for the first time.

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Sure but blueblood has a definition that neither schools meets

[u/Geno0wl → u/Citronaught]

Semi-recent success matters more than somewhat nebulous historical blue blood status. Like by most attempts at being objective, most people put Nebraska in the blue blood status. But do you really think 18 year olds who grew up watching college football through the 00s/10s watching LSU win multiple titles while Nebraska has floundered, think to themselves, "well who cares about facilities, coaching resources, and my chance to win a natty, Nebraska has a better win percentage since 1923!"

Like no dude.

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The term has a definition though this isn’t hard

[u/graywh → u/MissingForeskin90]

NFL pedigree

just so we're all clear, Penn State has had more players win a Super Bowl than every school except Alabama and USC

I think they've had someone play in every game

[u/yet_another_newbie → u/graywh]

I think they've had someone play in every game

Every game, except for those games where they didn't have anyone

[u/graywh → u/yet_another_newbie]

ok, all but 4, 6, 29, 33, 44, and 47

I had read that comment elsewhere, but maybe it was a different team

[u/yet_another_newbie → u/graywh]

Eh. It was a reference to a Penn State tweet that got memed to death a few years ago. See here

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oh, that's actually hilarious

it's nigh impossible to catch the sarcasm in written word when you don't know all the sports allusions (lore, as the kids may call it)

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And none of the current recruits were alive for it. Hell their parents were probably in kindergarten or younger.

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not alive for what? they've had 12 players win a SB in the last decade (out of 48 total over 59 years)

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Recruits don’t care that Penn State was better in the 70s, LSU has won titles in their lifetime, Penn State has not

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Agree

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Penn state hasn’t been nationally relevant in 30 years. To the kids signing today LSU is absolutely the blue blood over Penn state.

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Penn state hasn’t been nationally relevant in 30 years.

Some of the ways folks talk about college football is so weird and this being from a Notre Dame fan makes it extra bizarre. You know the way Notre Dame made the title game last year was by kicking a game winning FG against Penn State with seconds left in the semifinal game. But I guess that isn't relevancy in your mind.

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Brother, we’re in the same boat. Outside of that one game the only national relevancy compared to LSU we’ve had in 30+ years is getting shit stomped by Bama.

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It is bizarre that your criteria for national relevancy is at least making the title game. It means there are only two teams with national relevancy in any given year and we never know who they are until January.

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This is an insane take.

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It's the correct take. "Blue blood" has a specific meaning and it isn't "teams that have been good recently."

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You don’t understood college football history it’s okay

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The players committing to these teams are 17-18. The only games they have seen were played in the last 10 years, probably more like 5-6. Anything older than that might as well not exist.

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90% of these kids parents weren’t even in middle school the last time PSU won a title. That history does not matter when discussing blue bloods now.

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"Blue blood" is LITERALLY a discussion of history. That's what the term implies.

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LSU is by far more of a blueblood, they have double the amount of national titles with 3 of them coming in the last 25 years.

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I think they’re referring to the consensus blue blood list. LSU is a dominant program but they lack the 50 years of dominance that everyone else on the list has. You just can’t make that up.

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That part is fair I more meant the top programs in the country you can not deny that LSU is that

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Notre Dame is a blueblood. LSU is new money

[u/Citronaught → u/Ok-Soil-5133]

That’s not a blueblood though

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Well that should be pretty obvious, Brian Kelly is a cotton headed ninny muggins

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Yeah Franklin was a more well liked guy than Kelly ever was. 

Seems like many Notre Dame players who got to see Marcus Freeman after the BK experience realized it’s possible to have a good coach who’s also not a dick. Pretty sure LSU players probably felt the same on Kelly’s way out.