The Lions' Pride

The folks running the event tell the guy's when they will air their announcements.

No drama, already decided

Wasn't LeBron's "The Decision" a big enough fail for ESPN/Nike?

best of luck to AA, wherever he lands.

I just don't see how a player like him can choose ND...

Penn State is LBU, we have Vandy, we produce great LB's...and are known for our defense.

ND has been irrelevant since 92'...and Kelly coached teams are not by any means known for their defense. I know for a fact that ND will be looking for a new coach in 3 years tops. The guy will be exposed or have a woody hayes type incident.

Although AA is a really smart kid so maybe he is fooling everyone?

I really AM at the end of patience.

Maybe it has something to do with TV, but WTF, I'm starting to think he isn't a PSU type of kid after all. First tosu and now all this.

Of course, I will be VERY happy if he comes to PSU. He is a fine athlete, just looking like a bit of a head case.

At this point, I'm more interested in hearing the story about Penn State "negative recruiting" against ND. I'm calling B.S.

Yeah, seriously... If he really said that, BS... Interested to hear what his brother- A Penn Stater, has to say about that...

Why? Because he isn't picking Penn State?

People on this board need to get a grip. Just because Anzalone feels that Notre Dame is a better fit for himself doesn't give PSU fans the right to question his decision or start lashing out at him for doing so. He, unlike the majority of recruits, took a very methodical approach to his recruitment and visited an extraordinary amount of schools, ranging all the way from the east coast to west coast, and not only was he looking into the football program and the academics of the university, but he was also very interested in the culture and type of people that he would be potentially surrounded by. At the end of the day, he felt comfortable with the academic prestige along with the prestige associated with the history that is imbedded in the Notre Dame football program (not to mention the national exposure he is going to get), and furthermore I think an essential part of why he is choosing Notre Dame is because of the level of comfort he feels with the current ND commits.

I wish him nothing but the best at ND. He has a good head on his shoulders.

Amen. +1. I think he made the wrong decision of course, but its no reason to talk bad about the kid. He is a good kid. Good luck to him.

or.... maybe because he provides countless interviews at every turn, his family has been all over the news because he committed and proceeded to de-commit like 2 weeks later, and his family thinks it was a good idea to post on PSU message boards (the night before he committed to OSU no less, and Alex was in on it himself). Just an attention starved family imo and i've been tired of the recruitment for awhile. David Williams is taking a methodical approach to recruiting and you don't see.
1.) his name in the news 24/7
2.) him committing/de-committing from anywhere
3.) his family posting on message boards

you can be methodical about your recruitment and not be an attention whore. Dorian Johnson, David Williams, etc. to name a couple. There have been PLENTY of PSU fans tired of this recruitment before it was ever known he was headed to ND and not PSU.

Notre Dame is a fantastic school, and I understand why he would choose to go to school there over PSU. Hasn't he already been accepted into their MBA program? Or is automatically accepted for some reason?

The thing that's annoying is prolonging the decision. If you know, great, tell somebody and get it over with. Extremely disrespectful to do this and keep coaches waiting for a few days. Hopefully he calls BOB and Muschamp before and let's them know before he goes public, and the sooner the better.

He has a good GPA and is making his decision for the right reasons, but the way he's handling the announcement makes it seem like he's not as mature as the rest of his recruitment suggested. JMO.