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Lions247: A Penn State athletics Podcast

A look back at the 2017 Penn State recruiting class; Extended Five-Star Mailbag

Lions247: A Penn State athletics Podcast

247Sports, Penn State, Penn State Nittany Lions, Penn State Football, Penn State athletics, College Football

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4.9921 Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2021

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

In a down time, we take a look back at Penn State's Class of 2017 and what the Nittany Lions were able to do with a class that ranked 15th nationally by the 247Sports Composite. Sean Fitz and Tyler Donohue recount the hits, misses and stories of the cycle that went hand-in-hand with Penn State's 2016 Big Ten title. The guys also take a few questions in the Five-Star mailbag and talk some running back recruiting. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

All the big names are here.

0:02.0

Oh, who is that?

0:03.2

I think she was in the movie about that really big shark.

0:05.9

No, not her, the florist.

0:07.8

She's automating invoices on the go

0:09.7

so she can spend more time on that flower wall. Quickbooks to save you up to eight hours a week

0:15.0

so you could bring your vision to life.

0:17.0

That's how your business differently.

0:19.0

Into its Quickbooks. Welcome back into the Lions 24-7 podcast Tyler Donahue and Sean fits with you on a beautiful sunny and very springy day here in Happy Valley.

0:41.0

It's Friday morning and we're kind of caught in between Springball and a really, really busy June recruiting month where we're going to have the campus visits and we're going to have the prospect camps and all that coming our way.

0:53.6

So we figured right now in between good time to maybe have a reflective conversation,

0:58.2

look back a little bit, and we landed on the 2017 recruiting class because we've got a lot of answers on that group at this point

1:04.9

several players more than you would anticipate maybe remain on campus because of the

1:09.9

NCAA eligibility changes you got some fifth year juniors around, and then about half this

1:14.6

class has concluded their career elsewhere or continuing their college career elsewhere, a couple

1:19.3

in the NFL.

1:20.3

So we got a lot to dive into, Sean, there there and this was the class that signed with

1:23.8

Penn State coming off of their big 10 championship run. It was James Franklin's

1:28.2

fourth overall class with the Nittney Lions and this is one that I didn't really cover. I remember my

1:34.0

first time on campus covering this program Sean. Those guys were introduced at the

1:38.5

spring football game in 2017. A few of them were already enrolled of course

1:42.2

but this is a group that I'm going to lean on you in terms of the high school dynamics and the in the camps and all that because aside from Sean Clifford, K.J. Hamler, Fred Hansered, some of those other guys.

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