The Lions' Pride

I couldn't agree with you more. The question is will we be able to keep on him, and make good impressions. We have never been able to land a solid big man with his capabilities and potential. It sure would be nice to have a decent low post game to compliment our outside shooters.

Yea, it's still very early in the process for a 2015 kid, but Chambers is on the rise and he and his staff are making in-roads for PSU in all of the Jersey/Philly/DC areas. Unless he really blows up to be a top 50 kid (possible but I just don't know), we'll have a shot--especially if we have a real nice year next year with Tim back, as everyone expects. There will be a lot of positive buzz about Penn State heading into Delaney's final recruiting stretch and that will help too. Finally, being from Pitman and have at least some prior connection to Penn State won't hurt either.

It's early, but I'm cautiously optimistic about this one.

Jon still loves Penn State. Having known him well while at PSU and having spoken with him several times since he left (both while at UCLA and after), I can tell you that Jon doesn't hate PSU and he didn't transfer because he hated PSU. Now, his feeling for Jerry Dunn, I'll leave those for someone else to tell.

1. I hope we're at the point with Pat that the only transfers will be mutually-beneficial transfers, agreed upon by coach and player.

2. Jon never hated PSU.

3. Many of the players did not like playing for Jerry during his time as HC. Everyone that I know thought he was a great person and a nice guy, but not HC material when it came to practice, game management, bench management and x's and o's. This, in my opinion, was a big factor in guys leaving (e.g. Stephenson, Grays, Jon Crispin, Chamblis, etc.), but I'm not sure I could say for sure it's the only/sole reason.

4. Who knows if Gerry McNamara would have really chosen PSU or not, but as the recruiting story goes Gerry was obviously very high on PSU, in large part because of the offensive freedom that Jerry gave Joe Crispin. However, Gerry cooled on PSU because of the the lack of commitment to, and contract uncertainty, for Jerry Dunn. Now, I'm not saying Gerry would have ultimately chosen PSU over Syracuse if Jerry had received a contract extension, but I think the uncertainty ended the game.