Chris Bleich
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Especially with Penn State trending upwards. He'd have to want to leave his state. That happens, but if he's already a commit, not likely.
This article gives me a little hope
https://www.landof10.com/nebraska/nebraska-recruiting-notebook-chris-bleich
Yeah, I saw that. I think its a REALLY good sign that we are getting a guy like that to at least "think about it" and seem to mean it, especially considering he's from PA and a Penn State commit. I would say let's not hold our breath, and just be happy our program is trending up so hard that we're having that kind of impact on players.
With all due respect, what do you expect a guy to say after a visit? I don't expect him to say "it was horrible and affirmed my decision to stay at Penn State"?
I think it's great that he came and got a good experience but I don't read much into what these guys tell recruiting media.
I think it's great that he came and got a good experience but I don't read much into what these guys tell recruiting media.
As a Penn State fan, I'm not too worried about him flipping. I think you will see a different approach with him taking visits after we get a couple more commitments from Olineman. He shouldn't have committed if he wasn't ready, but I don't blame recruits for making sure as it's a big decision. Plus why not enjoy the process? Just have to be open and honest with the coaches.
If PSU gets a commit or two this weekend at OL, I can see the staff recruiting over him if he continues to take visits. It's tough call and you don't want to offend him like Ferentz did with Eno Benjamin.
Micah Parsons is a different case. Although he is verbally committed to us, he will need to be recruited like he is not until he signs with Penn State. He is on a different level and can go to school anywhere he wants. I think Ohio State is PSU's biggest competition even he will visit many schools throughout the year.
Agree somewhat, but if he was just being nice, he could have said it was an awesome visit. Instead, he went much further, talking about family atmosphere, lifetime commitment, and that he really needs to think about it now.
I agree the deck is still stacked against us, but this is much more than just being nice, in my opinion...
I agree with this. Keep in mind he is visiting all these schools on his own dime.
What are your thoughts on him as a prospect? Do you all like his film? Do you think he is true 4 star talent?
I compared him to Brenden Jaimes who was 5.7 3*... with that said I think Jaimes and Bleich are both 4* talent. You don't see much more dominant video's than both of theirs
I don't see him flipping. If im correct, I may be wrong but I'm fairly certain he was the kid who left IMG and returned home for family issues. If I am correct and that was him then why would he leave state again?
Weenies and Penn State should never be thought of together....Too soon?
OOOOOO BURN!
That's forked up! Too spoon? :-D
In all serious though lets sign this hoss and call our O-line commits good for 2018.
Crystal ball from Mike Schaefer today. Be huge to pull a local boy away from PSU.
I don't want to be a fly in the ointment but I have seen it written that the decision to decommit was not his call.
If you look at his 40 time and other sparq testing scores, he is on about the same level of athlete as a David Knevel. The problem is Knevel is 4 inches taller and 20lbs heavier
If you look at his 40 time and other sparq testing scores, he is on about the same level of athlete as a David Knevel. The problem is Knevel is 4 inches taller and 20lbs heavier
If true and he was told to look elsewhere, does that open the door for us, even just a crack, for athletes in Pennsylvania and surrounding areas?
It's pretty cutthroat to tell a local boy who has been committed for over a year to hit the bricks...
Probably it's just wishful thinking on my part...
Yeah I don't know about all that. I think the guys we have out recruiting will get us in on some guys as much as or more than a school cutting a local kid loose.
The peer recruiting is also key.
I look at it this way, if Masry Mapieu is let loose, I don't think the Nebraska door is all of a sudden open up more than it already was. Make sense?
Any chatter on Mapieu being cut loose? With his earlier comments that he's still looking at UCLA, etc I assume it's a two way street and NU still looking at other DT's.
On some other sites he is dropping a bit.
I do think the coaches are continuing to recruit other players at DE and with the Wildeman and Mapieu commitments we are sitting at 11 on scholarship at DE and NT. I am not sure how many more you can take.
So, IMHO, either the are recruiting over him or they they are not confident in his commitment.
Yes, it appears PSU may have let him go, but it wasn't a "we don't want him anymore" situation. It was a "he's taking other visits and doesn't seem to be committed anymore" situation. So you could say he essentially made the call himself to decommit anyway.
Honestly, I don't care how we get him but to pull top talent from other Big 10 teams is always a plus. Same thing with Tyjon Lindsey. Doesn't matter what went down but as long as they end up N its all good in the neighborhood. GBR
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In theory. But this came up last year too at Nebraska. Remember when Porcher said he was told if players took visits in January they would be considered uncommitted? Well other commits took January visits and didn't lose their status as committed. What that tells me is that Porcher was expendable while Guy Thomas wasn't.
This is probably right. PSU has their spring game this weekend, who wants a wavering commit hanging around the sideline during a big recruiting opportunity. And they have some other OL recruits coming to the game that they are working on.
Porcher decommitted in December.
To be clear, I'm not saying that if we get him that we necessarily stole one away that PSU really wanted, but every time we have somebody decommit, some smarta$$ always chimes in and sarcastically says "let me guess-we didn't want him anyway, right?"-as if every recruit that decommits from us is somebody we really wanted and we never just let anyone go on our own. I'm essentially just applying that same standard here.
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You missed the point.
There was an interview with him where he said he was told by Nebraska coaches that if a commited player takes a visit in January, the Nebraska staff would take that to mean they were not commited any longer. No other committed player shared that they were given that ultimatum. Sooooo
Using the reasonable person standard, I would believe that was Nebraska telling Porcher that if you want to go on visits that's fine but we are going to assume you don't want to come here. Bye bye. Same thing as what just happened at Penn St.
If Porcher was a must have player, they don't give him that ultimatum. Because apparently Guy Thomas felt comfortable enough with where he stood with Nebraska to go on his January trips.
I think you're missing my point too. If the situation was exactly reversed here and he was a longtime in-state commit that decommitted from us, there would be people who would sarcastically dismiss the idea that there was any way in which we didn't want him or let him go on our own. I'm just applying that same standard here. I'm aware that not everything in recruiting fits neatly into a "he was let go" or "he decommitted on his own" situation.
But I don't care about those people and their sarcastic dismissals. That didn't enter my mind when I read that Penn St told Bleich that he was no longer committed. It surely had nothing to do with my post.
It is often clear who ended the relationship if you read what is said.
But by all means continue arguing a point I am not making.
Here's where I got what I said. From pennlive.com:
It's why the Lions are in fine shape despite losing a four-star recruit, Wyoming Valley West offensive tackle Chris Bleich, to a decommitment hours after the sun came up on Friday morning, because once the junior started taking visits this spring, to places like Mississippi State, Pittsburgh, and most recently Nebraska, PSU began preparing for the potential that their future and Bleich's might not be the same by offering a few offensive line prospects.
To me, that sounds like "he's looking around and probably not really committed anyway" more than "we've decided we're no longer interested in him as a player". If they really had no interest in him whatsoever, they could have let him go before he started looking at other schools. I can accept that he's similar to what we did with Porcher. But I also will not accept at face value that they completely lost interest in him either.
The story I read had stated that Penn St had cooled on him and that's why he started looking around and taking visits.
I think I can set the record straight penn state did not ask chris to decommitting iwas with one family member today and he said the kid called penn state at nine o clock last nite to tell them he was decommitting . as we were talking the family member got text to call coach franklin. I got lost for ten minutes came back and he said they want to get chris back down on campus once everytying quiets down.sounds like psu is still going to recruit him hard . goes to show you cant believe everything on these boards
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