Penn State misses out on highly touted recruit
Highly touted defensive tackle Jarron Jones, who gave Penn State a "soft" verbal commitment in April before retracting it in July, committed to Notre Dame on Monday night.
Penn State misses out on highly touted recruit
Highly touted defensive tackle Jarron Jones, who gave Penn State a “soft” verbal commitment in April before retracting it in July, committed to Notre Dame on Monday night.
"I'm taking my talents to #southbend," Jones tweeted.
Scout.com ranks Jones, listed at 6-foot-5 and 290 pounds, as a five-star recruit and the second-best defensive tackle in the country. Rivals.com gives Jones four stars and ranks him the seventh best at his position. He is a senior at Aquinas Institute in Rochester, N.Y.
"It's perfect for me," Jones told IrishIllustrated.com, a Rivals.com affiliate. "Notre Dame is just like my high school, it's not even a big transition. The small class sizes, just typical high school to college. It's not going to be an adjustment in atmosphere and it's going to be something that I'm already used to."
--Jake Kaplan
Nd hasn't been a factor for years and won't be for many more.— philsfansince1946- ...and Penn State has been a factor?— ss1073
- more so than ND hell at least PSU has a top 3 finish in the last 10 years. PSU has won a share of th big ten 2 of the last 5 years. ND has not been relevant in the top ten in the polls in quite some time. This was a bad loss for PSU.
— Larry State College
This season is Joe's fourth season on the paper's Penn State beat. He previously covered the Nittany Lions for United Press International from 1976 to 1984.
Emily Kaplan is the Inquirer’s fall intern covering the Nittany Lions. She is a senior at Penn State and has covered a variety of sports for the university’s student-run paper, The Daily Collegian. Over the last two years, she has reported for The Associated Press from State College.
A Montclair, N.J. native, she has also interned at MLB Network, NHL.com and covered the 2012 Olympics in London. Follow her on Twitter here @EKaplan24.
