In college football, as is the case with many things in life, the more work you put in, the better the result usually – but not always – turns out to be.
In this sport, though, you need to be patient to see those results.
Penn State is hosting an important recruiting weekend for its Class of 2023 … but it will likely be no earlier than 2025 until those prospects (if of course they wind up at Penn State) will play significant roles on the field. The flip side of that, of course, is that the players who will likely shoulder the heaviest part of the load for the Nittany Lions in 2022 will come from the classes of 2019 and 2020.
And that leads us to what has been a not-so-minor issue for the Nittany Lions during these last two seasons of football purgatory; Penn State is putting together solid-to-strong recruiting classes on the front end, but not getting enough out of those classes by the time the players leave.