We Are Better!, 1/30/23, Jaelyne Matthews (OT, NJ, '25)
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Jaelyne Matthews - Toms River North - Offensive Tackle
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Butgers folks love that line.
Great get, and now the 500 plus daily grind to keep him commences. That has to be nerve wracking for coaches. Oh well better to have recruited and lost than never to have recruited at all. I guess.
Nice - you are getting ahead of the curve on this one....after all, why keep all that angst until the end?
I promise you that if the unforeseen, unimaginable tragedy does occur i won’t post the following:
1. The staff cooled on him.
2. He was a long term project anyway.
3. No loss, we’re stacked at the position anyway.
4. Or other stupidity too numerous to mention.
I’m embarrassed when some posters here say those things when a young kid changes his mind.
Now of course there will be the ever popular Rutgers board comments “ Just wait he’ll be back with us in two years”. “He better never take a shower at Pedd State. Why would any parent ever let his kid go there”.
Coach Traut doing a great job recruiting , some on this board were throwing him under the bus year one. Outstanding work with the O- Line in the Rose Bowl.
Coach Traut is recruiting well and developing players now as well.
I’ll say that I was somewhat skeptical at first but he’s won me over. Not that my approval matters one bit.
He's a great get no doubt. Has to like what he sees in our improving offense too. But, I share your caution here - worth noting he has about 16 or so offers (but will probably get a bunch more once the SEC wakes up); he's the first class of 2025 PSU commit; and he's only visited TWO schools - Penn State and Rutgers. He may stick with Penn State, but if I were him I'd definitely take my visits (and I bet he does). It's part of the game.
That’s what makes me cautious also. He’s only visited us and Rutgers. If he’d only visited Rutgers and Seton Hall, they may have gotten his commitment and they don’t even have a football team.
I don't think the staff pressures recruits to verbal (at least not this early in the process) so I'm always curious when a top prospect with lot of offers commits without looking anywhere else. This kid doesn't seem like a 'look at me!' type (like Parsons and others who verballed early only to decommit to look elsewhere) and OL guys rarely are. So, hopeful but won't be shocked when he starts taking visits.
This is the first kid from Toms River since Frank Gianetti - late 1980s or early 1990s I believe. I think Gianetti went to East.
Don't get me wrong, I wasn't recruited to play anything, but once I got my acceptance to Penn State, I threw away my other applications to John's Hopkins, Cornell, and Dartmouth. And yes, they were on paper back then!
My point is maybe he has just always wanted to go to Penn State!
My point is maybe he has just always wanted to go to Penn State!
Hang on. Your approval matters as much as anyone else’s here.
I don't know about Toms River, but we had Tom Bill.
Nope. As mentioned above this post, you are thinking of Tom Bill, who hailed from Hunterdon County, which is along the Delaware River - due west of Toms River.
As far as I know, the two Toms are not related.
Geez, we just post a thread about how nice it will be to have a 6'5" QB see over the OL then we recruit this 6'7" behemoth! Didn't they check with the board recruiting coordinator first??? 
University of Penn State? Come on man, at least know the name of the school you are committing to.
I hear you but he’s probably 16 years old so I’ll give him a pass. Much better than the stupid hat thing that some do or some silly video.
He also said it will be for his next 4 years so presumably this kid is very advanced academically, graduating high school in two years!
Seriously, I like that approach. Nothing flashy, just a classmate asking him where he’s going to go to college in a 20 second video.
I'd prefer they say they don't have room for him in their crowded o-line room. It's worked out well for us in the past.
I’m pretty sure Derrick Williams said the same thing when he committed.
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