BWI Live: A Penn State football podcast from Blue White Illustrated

Penn State football is just over two weeks from the start of training camp, and Blue White Illustrated starts the season preview on the BWI Daily Mailbag show. Host Thomas Frank Carr and senior editor Nate Bauer discuss questions submitted to the show from the Lions Den message board and social media.  Bauer and T-Frank start the show with a rapid-fire question period about various Penn State foot...

Penn State football has 17 commits in the Class of 2023 and two high-profile players are making their decisions tomorrow. Will Tony Rojas or Ta'Mere Robinson join the ranks of Penn State's commits this cycle?  Before those big decisions, host of the BWI Daily and film analyst for On3, Thomas Frank Carr, put together a list of the five most fun players to scout in this class. He's watched each play...

It's a jam-packed week of recruiting for Penn State football, poised to add even more high-level talent to their Class of 2023. The BWI Daily Edition Recruiting Show reviews the past weekend in recruiting and previews the decision of both four-star linebackers Tony Rojas and Ta'Mere Robinson coming up later in the week. Host Greg Pickel starts with a quick review of London Montgomery's commitment...

On Thursday, Penn State football got bad news when the three-star quarterback Marcus Stokes flipped his commitment to Florida. So the question now is, do they need to replace him?  That's what the host of the BWI Daily Edition, Thomas Frank Carr, tackles on today's show. There's a school of thought that Penn State doesn't need to grab a quarterback this year because they got two quality prospects...

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Penn State fans can ask film analyst Thomas Frank Carr and senior editor, Nate Bauer, their weekly questions on the BWI Mailbag Show. Today they answer questions about Penn State's offense under Mike Yurcich heading into its second year, fixing the running game, how analysts play into the game-planning picture, and more.  To submit your questions, look for the BWI Mailbag submission thread on the...

Penn State athletic director Pat Kraft sat down last week for an exclusive interview with Blue White Illustrated. Senior Editor Nate Bauer joins the show to discuss what they talked about and how he sees the first week under Kraft's leadership after that conversation. They'll also discuss the nuances of Penn State's athletic model, the future of NIL, a timeline for events at Penn State, and more. ...

Penn State football sits eighth in the country in the On3 Class rankings for 2023, heading into a critical stretch of commitments in July. The BWI Daily Recruiting show discusses the important news of the weekend and previews the month ahead.  Host Greg Pickel and recruiting insider Ryan Snyder starts with the surprise that it was a quiet Fourth of July for Penn State recruiting. No players commit...

News shattered the college sports world last night when the Big Ten announced that they accepted USC and UCLA from the Pac 12 starting in 2024. As a result, Penn State now finds itself in the middle of a budding super conference poised to take over college athletics. On Friday's BWI Daily Edition, host Thomas Frank Carr and recruiting insider Ryan Snyder discuss that and Penn State's Class of 2023...

Each week senior editor Nate Bauer and football film analyst Thomas Frank Carr sit down to answer your Penn State questions on the BWI Daily Edition mailbag show. Today they answer questions about head strength coach Chuck Losey, how to best use freshman running back Nick Singleton, and more.   If you'd like to answers your questions on the BWI Daily, join for just one dollar and access the Lions...

The official visit period is over for the summer in college football recruiting, which means that most players will make their decisions in the coming month. Host of the BWI Daily Edition, Thomas Frank Carr, breaks down what we know and don't know heading into July. Then, he uses that information to build a mock class.  He starts with the news on Wednesday that sets some projections on edge. Four-...

In the burgeoning world of name image and likeness, few things are well-known facts for fans. To help fill in some of those gaps, the host of the BWI Daily Edition, Thomas Frank Carr, speaks to Jason Belzer, the founder of Student-Athlete NIL, the third-party company that manages Penn State's largest NIL collective, Success with Honor. In this nearly 30-minute interview, T-Frank and Belzer discuss...

Penn State senior editor Nate Bauer and film analyst Thomas Frank Carr are back for their weekly mailbag show on the BWI Daily Edition. They discuss several topics, including how complex or straightforward new defensive coordiantor Manny Diaz's scheme is. They also field questions about the Class of 2022 and 2023, including which players, like freshman Kaden Saunders, could play early.  They start...

Penn State starting linebacker Curtis Jacobs joins the BWI Daily Edition for an exclusive interview. He sits down with host Thomas Frank Carr to discuss his path to his new position, how he sees the game of football, and what makes him tick. Be sure to check out both installments of the interview. T-Frank starts out by taking Jacobs back to Penn State's bowl game performance against Arkansas. Like...

While it was quiet on a commitment from Penn State football recruiting Sunday and Monday, that doesn’t mean that their official visit weekend wasn’t a success. Recruiting insider Ryan Snyder has been hard at work digging up information on the uncommitted players that took official visits to Penn State Friday and Saturday. He joins host Greg Pickel on the BWI Daily recruiting show to share what he’...

Penn State football hosted several important recruits for their official visits over the weekend, but so far, it's been a quiet start to the week. Host of the BWI Daily Edition, Thomas Frank Carr, reviews what we know so far about how Penn State's efforts went from the weekend. From there, he shifts topics to talk about the second-year players on the current roster whom he spoke with earlier this...

Penn State football enters a key recruiting weekend with eight high-priority official visits on Friday and Saturday. It's a weekend that could produce more than one commitment for the program. To break it all down, BWI recruiting insider Ryan Snyder joins host Thomas Frank Carr to preview all the top prospects expected on campus this weekend, including Ta'Mere Robinson, Tony Rojas, London Montgome...

Blue White Illustrated senior editor Nate Bauer and host Thomas Frank Carr take questions from the audience for their weekly mailbag show. Today they discuss the name image and likeness questions submitted by message board members at bluewhiteillustrated.com. In this video, both questions deal with NIL.  First, the duo is asked which unexpected Big Ten school might compete with Ohio State atop the...

Penn State recruiting is reaching a fever pitch during June with multiple events weekly. The Nittany Lions hosted several official visits last weekend, a seven-on-seven tournament Wednesday, and have some potentially good news coming next weekend. Host of the BWI Daily Edition, Thomas Frank Carr, discusses all that and more on today's show. T-Frank starts with news this week about Lift For Life re...

The BWI Daily Edition recruiting show is back to give you vital information about what went on in Penn State recruiting over the weekend. Host Greg Pickel and insider Ryan Snyder discuss the key events, including a committment, a de-commitment, and new offers going out to campers from this past weekend. They start with the good Penn State recruiting news from the weekend with three-star receiver Y...

It was a jam-packed weekend for Penn State recruiting and host of the BWI Daily Edition, Thomas Frank Carr, recaps all of it on the show. He gets into the good and bad news before looking ahead to the rest of the summer with his preview. T-Frank starts with breaking news this afternoon that three-star offensive lineman Joshua Miller de-committed from the program and flipped his commitment to Geori...

Penn State recruiting enters the first big official visit weekend of the summer today. Recruiting insider Ryan Snyder joins the BWI Daily Edition to preview the weekend's events, including a seven-on-seven tournament and a prospect camp. He and host Thomas Frank Carr take you through the names and events you need to know. T-Frank and Snyder start with Penn State's seven-on-seven tournament they're...

Penn State head coach James Franklin met with the media yesterday, and the dominant topic of conversation was name, image, and likeness. Today, the BWI Mailbag is all about that conversation after Blue White Illustrated premium members latched on to the topic. If you'd like to submit your question to the weekly Thursday mailbag show, join On3 for just one dollar and get 12 months of premium access...

The Penn State coaching staff met with the media for about an hour on Wednesday, discussing various topics. The Blue White Illustrated team was on hand for the event and brings you their observations on the BWI Daily Edition. Host Thomas Frank Carr, senior Editor Nate Bauer and reporter Greg Pickel discuss what stood out to them about head coach James Franklin's comments and then explain which pos...

Last weekend, Penn State's two camps brought hundreds of prospects through campus, including some that left with a scholarship offer from the school. The BWI Daily Edition: Recruiting Show recaps the weekend, tracks the fallout from the event, and gets fans caught up on all the week's important news. Host Greg Pickel starts with the significant takeaways from insider Ryan Snyder about the Whiteout...