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Originally Posted by Undercover Brother
I don't get it either. The SAT score thing is nothing but slowplaying a kid. PSU is recruiting him as a QB. Maybe they know he would be in the bag with an offer and might scare away Forcier. PSU needs two QBs, not one.
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If Forcier is scared off by an offer to an athlete than is there really a point in waiting on him? The kid has a ton of ships, and has been recently saying many times he is wide open and not a Penn State lean. To this point we have supposedly offered 5 QBs :
[Newsome-VT lean, Forcier-?, Newton-?, Murray-laughable, Savage-doubtful...wouldn't be surprised to see him join Stokes at some point]
2 or 3 of those QBs are almost assuredly not coming to Penn State. We're seriously going to put all of our eggs in a basket with Forcier & Newton. Crawford has said numerous times that he and his brother grew up fans of Penn State, Craig has said he follows the team and called Penn State 'his team'. He has said he would really like to get his shot at QB but wouldn't be mad if he didn't get it because he can play QB, safety or be an ATH.
We are going to have so many scholarships to hand out, chalk up another one for Chris Bell as well. Craig Crawford is 6'2-6'1 205 pounds with a verified 4.38 40 and could be a dual-threat QB, WR, Safety, possibly even a DWill type getting touches at WR/RB. He is already a four star prospect and is in the Rivals top 100. Crawford is likely going to be heading out to Wake's spring game...if they offer Crawford and Jordan Love is there and pulls the trigger on Wake I am going to be ridiculously pissed off. I'd really like both of them at Penn State, and the thought of Wake throwing a ship at Crawford and possibly beating out Penn State for Jordan Love would make me want to throw up.
I don't feel we can take anything for granted, he could very well be in the bag with a late offer but why risk it just to hold out and see what Forcier or the other 4 QBs do. We've gone two years without recruiting a QB and if Daryll Clark can start over Pat Devlin and the staff doesn't concern itself with the position they shouldn't start now - just be damn happy to get Crawford and hope you can lure a C.J. Brown and/or Forcier later.
