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Lions247: A Penn State athletics Podcast

Penn State impresses recruits and prepares to host more; breaking down Big Ten newcomer UCLA

Lions247: A Penn State athletics Podcast

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

Basketball, Sports, Football

4.9921 Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Penn State football recruiting efforts are in the spotlight as we review feedback from Illinois game visitors, look ahead to the prospect list for this Saturday, spotlight top commit performance and preview October on the trail. Then we break down the Nittany Lions' next opponent with UCLA beat reporter Mike Regalado. Follow the team on X: @Lions247 @TDsTake @danieljtgallen @tyler_calvaruso @MarkXBrennan. Follow or subscribe to the Lions247 Podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts. And watch every episode on YouTube. 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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0:13.1

Welcome back into the Alliance's one of course of a podcast. I am Tyler Donahue. It is our midweek episode of game week number five here for the Penn State football program. UCLA coming to town on Saturday for a noon kickoff,

0:16.6

9 a.m. Los Angeles time.

0:18.7

We'll actually go out to Los Angeles later on in this episode.

0:21.6

We'll catch up with a UCLA insider who covers the team

0:24.7

for 24-7 sports. Not only are they dealing with a really tough start on the

0:29.2

field, three consecutive losses drop them to one in three haven't been very competitive in

0:33.7

conference play thus far number 18 in total offense number 17 in total defense

0:39.2

among big 10 squads but they're also dealing with the quarterback injury that is kind of

0:43.0

thrown increasing uncertainty on top of their offensive situation. We'll dive

0:47.7

into that a little bit later but we're going to begin this episode with a bunch

0:51.1

of recruiting conversation with our resident recruiting insider Tyler Calverous.

0:55.4

So welcome back.

0:57.0

Thanks for having me, man.

0:58.6

Lot to get into, you know, Illinois game, really impressive group this weekend still coming together, but all in all, a lot going in

1:05.8

Penn State's favor on the recruiting show right now.

1:08.7

We've had a lot to talk about with you the last few weeks because there's been three consecutive going on four consecutive games inside Beaver Stadium.

1:16.5

That's going to change a lot in October. They've only got one match up at home. That is the UCLA game.

1:21.7

But let's go over the details from the last time Penn State was in front of its Beaver Stadium crowd. 109,000 plus and there were a significant group of recruits in attendance as well. You and I spent a lot of time last week on the of

1:35.0

a group of recruits in attendance as well. You and I spent a lot of time last week on this podcast,

1:36.0

breaking down the importance, the significance of this not quite a white out opportunity for Penn State.

1:42.0

How did it turn out and in terms of

1:44.6

individual prospects where do you want to start? I think it definitely lives up to

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