Drew Allar's Decision: Staying at Penn State for Growth

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00:00Penn State's Drew Allers coming back to, uh, his senior season in Happy Valley.

00:09And I said yesterday, Mike, I think he needs more seasoning.

00:12I've heard about his, uh, high draft stock.

00:16I am not buying it all that that kid is ready for the NFL.

00:20I never thought he was good at Penn State.

00:22In fact, I bet against him against Oregon because I said, he'll be the guy that costs

00:26him the game.

00:27Sure enough, two picks.

00:28He cost him the game.

00:30He's not ready for the NFL yet.

00:31No.

00:32I mean that those, what you're seeing, what you're hearing about him as a first round

00:36pick prospect is someone in the media trying to get attention.

00:40That's what it is.

00:42It's nothing more than that.

00:43Uh, and, and we shouldn't give credence to people who are just trying to get attention.

00:48We should give attention to legitimate, uh, analysis, legitimate reporting and drew Aller

00:54as a first rounder today.

00:57Come on.

00:58I mean, there's, there's no way he gets past like three tests at the combine before they

01:02start knocking him down rounds, uh, that that's not happening now.

01:07He's a promising talent still.

01:09He's got a long way to go.

01:10And part of it has been that he has not had elite receiving talent at Penn State.

01:17I think everyone's acknowledged that.

01:18I mean, he's doesn't have the Jahan Dotson's out there that they used to have at Penn State.

01:23Uh, they, they've had a pretty, uh, fallow period at that position.

01:28So it's harder for him to develop into a, uh, a NFL style playmaker, but it can come

01:34and they may do well, who knows, uh, uh, in the portal, uh, at that position and, and

01:40elevate Drew's development.

01:42But it's certainly not now.

01:43And that's why he wisely just chose to listen to people who know, uh, and I'm not saying

01:49me cause I, and I'm just talking about this for the first time, but listen to people who

01:53know and say, yeah, I, I need another year at Penn State.

01:57So you wrote about the kid that's leaving cause it costs them him.

02:03And this is the cost of doing business now in college football with this, uh, transfer

02:08portal vacuum that sucks guys out of programs.

02:12Like how about the Marshall?

02:13They fired the coach, the entire team quit, the entire team's going to the portal and

02:17they canceled their bowl game.

02:19I mean, kids are transferring now.

02:21Like I'm walking down to my mailbox.

02:24That is true.

02:26Uh, look, I, I, I don't blame this young man for doing this in, in the middle 2000s, probably

02:33around 2004.

02:34I'm going to say maybe a little right around then Joe Flacco left Pitt, uh, after he was

02:40beaten out for the starting job at Pitt.

02:42And in that, in that period, he had to transfer down a level in order to play immediately.

02:47He transferred to Delaware and a Delaware was a great program at that point and it worked

02:51out great for him.

02:52And he had a tremendous career that included a super bowl ring.

02:55Uh, but now you don't have to do that anymore.

02:58And that's the right thing.

02:59Uh, you shouldn't have to sit out a year.

03:02The first time you transfer, when you start doing it two and three times, I can be persuaded

03:07that that's not really right, but the first time it should be immediate.

03:12And that's, what's going to happen here.

03:14Uh, him having to leave the program now, uh, I suspect that once he realized that he had,

03:20if he wants, when Aller was coming back, uh, that he, he had to leave in order to get some

03:25time as a starting quarterback and to get, uh, a reasonable NIL payout in the move, uh,

03:31that he had to do it now that there were, the positions were closing around the country.

03:35Other people were being recruited.

03:37He had to get on that merry-go-round, uh, and you, look, the CFP championship is January

03:4420th.

03:45If he happens to choose West Virginia, which is one of the schools that's been mentioned,

03:48they start classes on the 13th.

03:50So he's got to be there, uh, at some point around there.

03:53So I totally understand why he would have to leave.

03:56And I kind of think Penn State said, if you're going to leave, go ahead.

03:59Wait, wait a minute.

04:01No one goes to class.

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