Leesburg's Noor Davis spurns Penn State amid scandal, uncertainty, January 3, 2012

 

 

By Jim Halley, USA TODAY

January 3, 2012

 

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — Noor Davis of Leesburg, Fla., and Noah Spence of Bishop McDevitt (Harrisburg, Pa.) are USA TODAY All-USA First-Team linebackers, the type of recruits Penn State, known as "Linebacker U," once might have landed.

 

But Penn State's recruiting class, already hurting before the child sexual abuse scandal that engulfed it in November, hasn't gotten a commitment from Davis, who's says he plans to sign with Stanford, or Spence, who says he will sign with Ohio State, or for that matter, from any of the recruits at the Under Armour All-America Football Game Thursday in St. Petersburg, Fla.

In this Oct. 25, 2011 file photo, Penn State coach Joe Paterno answers questions during his weekly NCAA college football news conference, in State College, Pa. By Ralph Wilson, AP

"There aren't any Penn State commits here, but there are some de-commits here from Penn State," said Davis Tuesday. "I didn't want to go to a school that was amid NCAA allegations or controversy. I want to go and try and win a bowl game, a ring, all four years. So I don't want to be punished for the mistakes of somebody before me. I wanted to go someplace where they wouldn't do something like that and never have, so I wouldn't have to deal with it."

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Jim Halley

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January 3, 2012

 

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