Storm is another one. But so far, so good, all the feedback that I've gotten. And that's hearing from the academic staff, hearing from their peers, the players, as well as the strength staff, and then early indication, it's just one day, but today was pretty good. He's also just always got a huge smile on his face.
And his testing numbers were really good in the baseline testing, as well. Opening Statement: Overall, I felt really good about the recruiting class and how we finished it up. He's going to bring some things in from his experience at UVA that is valuable and I'm going to want that feedback from him, and we'll ask for that feedback. Learning resource network psu. "The ladies finished strong today, " KSU head coach Casey VanDamme said. We have had guys play in years past but maybe they were a backup, but there just seemed to be a large number in this class that were able to play and not just play but take on a primary role and be impactful. I like where we're at. You know, having some very honest, thoughtful conversations from both sides and both directions. I think in a lot of ways it probably helped us.
I think that's the other thing is, you have conversations and let people know what you're doing and why. So to me, with offensive lineman, it's typically hard to find guys with that type of length and athleticism. So obviously we'll have Marques recruiting in Virginia and that state has been very good to us. So you could make the argument that you just are causing the same challenges for a few more teams. For us, I don't want them to go from zero to a hundred. I mean, Dani [Dennis-Sutton] is obviously a really good example of that. Flashes Gain Ground to Finish UCF Challenge in Top Ten. And honestly the other thing is, it impacts the running game. I think the biggest thing is being transparent with your guys in your current program because, ultimately, you want to do right by the guys in your program. I want what's best for our program. I'm looking for us to develop and recruit a room that people in our conference are fearful of, and also on a national scale as well. But there's a number of those guys that did not come in early and were still able to impact our program and our roster. I think he's pretty far along professionally and there are some areas that I think we can help him as well. We have to start working on it and identifying it right away.
You guys will get to know him. You know, wide receiver, I will tell you that Malik has been impressive so far, Malik McClain. Tested extremely well in our baseline testing when these guys arrive. Back in December, you mentioned defensive back and wide receiver as two other priorities positions you still felt you had need to fill. Flashes in Search of Late Surge at UCF Challenge. You know, people don't specifically bring up the Rose Bowl but obviously, everybody watched the game, and I think it's impactful and I think it's helpful obviously. I do think that was helpful.
In a perfect world, you'd love to have a little bit more experience and a little bit more age in that room. I believe, you know, your staff, you need to put it together where everybody is pulling their weight in both areas and then you know, we have to take advantage of people's strengths and backgrounds. Game weeks you're preparing for recruiting stuff. Berta Sanchez +5, 149 (75-74). I mean, everybody you talk to, just loves Marques. Learning resource network penn state.gov. And then the other thing was watching his tape. Apparently it wasn't. I thought Sean [Clifford] did a great job with that. That puts the fear in people. The way the calendar fell this year, we usually will try to come back from spring break and have one or two sessions to get the sinning out of them and then get into spring ball but the way the calendar falls this year and when the spring game is, we're not really able to do that, so we'll come back from spring break and get going right away.
And the philosophy for that was, the kid who grew up wanting to go to Penn State his whole life and was going to go to Penn State, let that guy sign. What impact, now that you have time to step back, what impact did they have on last season and what impact do you expect them to have on this season? I won't bring that one up. Learning resource network penn state department. But once we kind of went to moving everything up, not only the early signing period, but also official visits and those types of things, it's obviously become challenging. "Overall we saw a lot of positives at this tournament but we definitely have some things to improve upon to compete at the level that we expect. Yeah, I think that's a fair point.
Three different Flashes will enter the third and final round in a tie for 39th, as Mayka Hoogeboom, Jennifer Gu and Leon Takagi are all right on par after round two. We had a young man that actually just flew out for a junior day, who was at the practice. We have 12 guys that came in this class at mid-semester, so that helps to see if those guys would have a chance. Yeah, I think obviously across the board, we would say that there is a clean slate to a degree; that there's going to be competition kind of across the board at all these positions, but as you know we are going to have to put somebody out there first based on how the season ended and Drew's [Allar] role last year, then that would be him. Distance: Par 72 - 6379 Yards. How big is that for the program in terms of being able to point to a guy and say, look, he can go win a Super Bowl? We would be open obviously at every single position to try to bring some guys in. Sometimes people break up spring ball into a few days before spring break and finish it afterwards. Every time you get through those things as a family, every time you get through those things as a team, it brings you closer together, and we were able to take a challenging topic and subject matter and work through it. But we are going to need both of those guys specifically, [Beau] Pribula and Allar, too early to speak on [Jaxon] Smolik, but we are going to need both of those guys not only competing but taking on a significant leadership role. If you look at his resumé, he's got a really good resumé. Kent State will resume action at 8:45 ET, and will be paired with Iowa State and Virginia Tech for the final 18 on Tuesday.
What will change for him, do you think, coming from Virginia to Penn State and then on top of that, what is it about him do you think can help elevate this room that you have right now? I thought those guys just did a phenomenal job and I think for most everybody in this room -- you probably could have went into the season and you guys probably could have picked out, you know, who the leaders were going to be. A guy that we think has tremendous upside, has position flexibility, whether it's tackle or guard. Some staffs are built where this guy is only going to coach and not recruit or this guy is going to be the recruiter and maybe not the coach. That's why you've seen staff sizes increase. Q. Piggybacking on the question about how young you're going to be at quarterback, you are you comfortable with that? Now you're going to have 12. Early in December, too? I think the challenge of the transfer portal, I think you can do it and I think there's some options that we can look at and are still open to. You know, we kind of have examples of both. We talked to a good number of guys, and it just became obvious that this was the guy that we needed to bring into our room and kind of within our family, and so far, so good. What I also don't want to do is every single year, keep changing the calendar. You know, academically, we got an academic report this morning, he's killing it. I would say some of the focus of the off-season, probably the biggest one, is leadership and really identifying leadership as a staff and players as well, being transparent and open about that and then really working hard at trying to resolve that.
Also, this week you have Miles Sanders playing in the Super Bowl. I want what's best for college football and I want what's best for student athletes. Distance: Par 72 - 6379 YardsTeam Results (2/3 Rounds Complete). Looking forward to questions, and again, appreciate everybody showing up. It ended up being as good of a class as we thought or maybe even a little bit better. I don't necessarily think that is appropriate in this setting. Gradually work into that role and that position. A lot of guys, everybody says they want to play as freshmen, but very few people are willing to do the things necessary to get it done and that is mentally and physically. We'll have eight of these winter work out sessions. Whatever you need, you know where to go. Location: Orlando, FL. We have always tried to do it after spring break but still give us enough time to get out on the road recruiting. But I think you would like to feel that way and you would like to say that. I think you guys have probably seen a lot of the position posts by their position coaches this morning, in terms of who was the competitor of the day, and things like that.
But I think you guys are going to really enjoy getting to know him. It's been really good having him around.