Also a good point – he’s a linebacker if I remember correctly. PSU is well known for its linebackers and stacked at that position; who knows, maybe they just didn’t need another, needed to free up a scholarship for someone else etc. It’s not a school that has a history of doing that, but you never know what’s at play; there are definitely schools that look for the smallest violations of rules or make life hard enough that people will quit in order to free about a scholarship or two.
I don’t understand the “buy-in” and fakeness of many/most college football players esp at these big name programs. I understand being thankful for the opportunity to go to college on full scholarship, play D1, maybe if you’re really lucky, get drafted one day. But all these players and coaches talk constantly about how they’re family, how much they love each other etc. and it’s like – really?? You wouldn’t hesitate to bench a kid in a second or throw him off the team if it benefitted the business. And family – you’ve known each other for all of a month?? Part of that may just be social media though – seems like all human interaction are SUCH a big deal now; before you’d talk to your friends, relatives, or spouse directly – now it’s like you have to show everyone else how much you love them by publicly proclaiming that they are the best ever . . . .