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It was a busy weekend to kick off the June recruiting calendar for Penn State football. The Nittany Lions hosted their Whiteout camp on Saturday, their biggest collection of elite talent at a camp this summer. They followed that up with over 200 prospects from the Classes of 2022 through 2025 on Sunday in the Elite Showcase I. At the Whiteout camp on Saturday, the Penn State had four of their five...

Penn State recruiting kicks off June with their biggest camp weekend of the summer. The Whiteout Camp takes place Saturday, and recruiting insider Ryan Snyder joins the BWI Daily Edition to tell you all about it. He and host Thomas Frank Carr go through the biggest names in attendance on Saturday and preview other important weekends this month. They also look at critical official visits, including...

The BWI Daily Edition takes your questions every Thursday on the mailbag episode of the show. Senior editor Nate Bauer and host Thomas Frank Carr solicit questions from website members and social media to answer Penn State fans burning questions this offseason. If you want to know more about your favorite Nittany Lion team from our experts, join BWI for just one dollar and access the Lions Den mes...

Penn State offensive coordinator Mike Yurcich came to Penn State with a lot of fanfare surrounding his hire. The former Oklahoma State and Texas offensive coordinator drew praise for his ability to score points and create explosive plays for the offense. But unfortunately for Penn State fans, none of that came to pass in 2021 during his first season with the Nittany Lions.  So to get a better sens...

Penn State recruiting for May wraps up with the BWI Daily Edition Recruiting show. Host Greg Pickel and insider Ryan Snyder discuss the relevant topics of the last week and preview the critical information about upcoming events.  They start with news about one of Penn State's top recruits in the Class of 2023, Jven Williams. The five-star interior lineman set a record and took home gold in two eve...

Penn State made the recruiting class of 2021 available to the media for the first time as Nittany Lions football players on Wednesday. Blue White Illustrated was on had to speak to them and get the first impression of the group. Host of the BWI Daily Edition, Thomas Frank Carr, senior editor Nate Bauer, and reporter Greg Pickel give you their thoughts about the players they spoke to Wednesday. The...

It's coming down to crunch time for Penn State football with several top prospects as May draws to a close. The BWI Daily Edition Recruiting show focuses on two top prospects who have been in the news lately. Recruiting insider Ryan Snyder and reporter Greg Pickel tackle that and other notable news items from the last week.  They start with the news that four-star receiver Rodney Gallagher moved u...

Penn State football writers will get their first chance to speak to the recruiting class of 2021 this week. The program will host a media session on Wednesday for the 15 players from the class in their first official interviews as Nittany Lions. The progam has a long-standing policy not to allow players to speak to the media in their freshman year, but now that the group has had a year on campus (...

Penn State football has been a .500 team with embattled quarterback  Sean Clifford  at the helm for the past two seasons. However, many fans are frustrated that Clifford is the presumed starter heading into next Fall. So the host of the BWI Daily Edition, Thomas Frank Carr, is endeavoring to find out how the Nittany Lions can be successful next season by looking to the past. He’s examining the 201...

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Penn State football has been a .500 team with embattled quarterback Sean Clifford at the helm for the past two seasons. However, many fans are frustrated that Clifford is the presumed starter heading into next Fall. So the host of the BWI Daily Edition, Thomas Frank Carr, is endeavoring to find out how the Nittany Lions can be successful next season by looking to the past. He's examining the 2019...

The BWI Daily Recruiting show sets the stage for a busy summer of Penn State recruiting news today. As we enter the second half of the month, recruiting news focuses on official visit lists and when players take their trips to various schools. Insider Ryan Snyder joins reporter Greg Pickel to dish that information and more. Pickel starts the show by discussing the upcoming timeline for commitments...

Penn State football enters the summer months trying to build a winning team for the upcoming season. But the man at the center of that effort, quarterback Sean Clifford, is a sticking point for most fans. How can the team win with a player that helped guide them to a roughly .500 winning mark over the last two seasons? Today on the BWI Daily Edition, host Thomas Frank Carr tries to answer both que...

This week, Penn State football hit the halfway mark with the Class of 2023 when four-star receiver Ejani Shakir committed to the program. With Shakir on board, the Nittany Lions now have 12 members in the class heading into the critical official visit portion of the recruiting calendar. So today on the BWI Daily Edition, host Thomas Frank Carr and recruiting insider Ryan Snyder to discuss Shakir's...

Penn State football is getting reinforcements arriving on campus this week. Players who could not enroll during the spring semester are now filtering into campus during the first summer session, and that's where the BWI Daily Edition mailbag starts today. Host Thomas Frank Carr and senior Editor Nate Bauer discuss the importance of getting those players on campus, the status of Penn State basketba...

Penn State football recruiting is still questing to find it's running back for The Class of 2023. However, since he got an offer back in March, one of Penn State's top targets is four-star running back London Montgomery . The Scranton Prep tailback sat down with the host of the BWI Daily Edition, Thomas Frank Carr, to discuss his recruitment. JOIN Blue White Illustrated: https://www.on3.com/teams/...

Penn State recruiting heads into the summer months with plenty of work ahead of them. Despite May being a quiet period for news, there's still plenty going on with the staff as they circle the country during the "evaluation period" of the recruiting calendar. Today, the BWI Daily recruiting show looks at several topics this spring, including the NCAA's NIL guideline announcement. Host Greg Pickel...

Which positions have the best battles shaping up for Penn State football in the Fall? Where are the weak points on the roster? To set the stage for the summer months, the BWI Daily Edition is looking at the Penn State depth chart coming out of spring practice. Greg Pickel watched all the film from the Blue-White Game and built a depth chart based on what he saw during the scrimmage. He joins host...

The Penn State football staff is out on the road evaluating talent during the final portion of May before the summer official visits begin in July. During this time, recruiting insider Ryan Snyder updated his hot boards after 700 high school athletes crossed the campus at Penn State during spring football. He shares some of those names on the BWI Daily Edition and recaps the week in recruiting.  J...

The BWI Daily edition mailbag is back to answer all of your Penn State football, basketball, and college sports questions! Host Thomas Frank Carr and senior editor Nate Bauer discuss the topics on the mind of viewers and listeners of the show. #PennState #NittanyLions JOIN Blue White Illustrated: https://www.on3.com/teams/penn-state-nittany-lions/join/?plan=annual SUBSCRIBE to Blue White Illustrat...

With Penn State spring football in the rearview mirror, we can break down what we saw and heard over the last five weeks. Reporter Dave Eckert did a power ranking of the Nittany Lion positions before spring football, and he's on the BWI Daily Edition to update those rankings. He and host Thomas Frank Carr go through positions nine through one, and T-Frank asks Dave to explain his thinking. Meanwhi...

Penn State spring recruiting is in the books as the team looks ahead to the critical summer months and official visits. But, before turning the page, The BWI Daily Recruiting show looks back at what happened over the month and a half of spring football and just how many prospects came through campus in the first return to typical spring recruiting since the COVID-19 Pandemic started. Before that,...

This past weekend, Penn State had eight players selected in the 2022 NFL Draft. So who went to a good situation? Who found themselves stuck in a bad one? Blue White Illustrated film analyst Thomas Frank Carr and reporter Greg Pickel discuss that on the BWI Daily Edition. They breakdown the entire draft weekend from former Nittany Lion Jahan Dotson going 16th overall to the four undrafted players s...

Penn State football had eight players drafted in the 2022 NFL Draft. The Nittany Lions had a player chosen on each day of the daft, and the BWI Live show is here to recap the weekend. Host and film analyst Thomas Frank Carr will take you through his notes about the draft, undrafted players, and how each one fits in with their new team. Reporter Dave Eckert and senior Editor Nate Bauer will also gi...

In a press conference on Friday morning, Penn State officially introduced its new athletic director, former Boston College AD Patrick Kraft. Afterward, BWI Daily Edition host Thomas Frank Carr and reporter Dave Eckert shared their thoughts about the event outside of Beaver Stadium. They touch on the overall tone of the event, Kraft's most notable comments, and a fan-endearing story near the end of...