News & Thoughts about PSU Recruits and Incoming Transfers

Bob addresses one situation explicitly: 1) that college "is not a charity to reward those who fail to even try" -- hard to argue with that.  But there's a second situation: that some players may be better off elsewhere, not because they "fail to even try," but rather because they turn out not to be as talented or proficient as was hoped when they were recruited  (sometimes due to injury) -- even though they may well be trying very hard indeed.  In both cases, they may well have a better chance of playing elsewhere.  But Bob's first point is totally irrelevant when the problem is not that the player isn't trying, but that they aren't as good as was hoped, or because of injury are no longer the player they once were.  As long as players are trying, I think they deserve their scholarships.  Darcy Dorton is a great example of a player who was significantly slowed by injury, and who chose to transfer to College of Charleston in order to keep on playing.  She continued to root for Penn State and I'm obviously still a big fan of hers.