Yep, but he likely could afford to walk on if he was convinced he wanted to play at PSU, where his father played (?), I believe. The LB from TJ that just decided to walk on at PSU had a number of scholarship offers coming out of H.S. and there's no reason to believe he couldn't have gotten a scholarship to play in 2024 at a decent number of schools. Maybe not top 20 programs, but some very good accademic schools.Yeah, but the point stands, former 5 stars don't just "walk on" at their home state school. He either gets a scholarship from Penn state or he goes to 90-100 schools that would give him a full ride without first blush. This kid isn't sticking his parents with $200k of school payments considering his background. He either gets a scholarship at PSU or gets one somewhere else, clearly.
The operative word is "former". Rucci is not a 5 star recruit now and he knows it. It would seem that the dreams he had and promises made to him, if they were promises, at Wisky have not been realized and he is likely just looking for a place to enjoy his last 2 years of college. Who knows what his balance of priorities between football, accademic, and social life is, but that will govern what he might be open to.
What makes you believe the number is $200K? How do you know what the real number is isn't a drop in the bucket for his parents.
The point is that strange things happen and players that have spent 3 years trying to achieve their dreams sometimes do things that fans don't seem to believe are their best options. So predicting what a player might do is pretty useless, unless you just predict the most common path and it happens to come true and you somehow believe that makes what you predicted smart.....
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