Poaching PSU Football Players and Notre Dame

Yesterday (August 2) Brian Kelly sat down with Eric Hansen (SBT) and Keith Arnold (NBC) and answered questions from radio listeners.

Here is what he had to say about PSU players and PSU 2013 recruits.

“As it relates to players on their current roster, we treated it as if they were already committed to Penn State,” he said. “They would have to publicly decommit from Penn State and then they would have to contact us. That didn’t happen, which was fine with us.”

As far as recruits for the current cycle that ends with signing day in February, the Irish are being more aggressive.

“We’ve had a number of situations — Gunner Kiel, for example, who was committed to LSU — (where) we’re always going to be in the mix there if they feel like they still want to listen.

“So there may be a player or two who are committed to Penn State that feel they want to open up their recruiting. If they want to open up their recruiting, certainly if we have an interest and a need, we could want to get involved in that situation.”

The ten day grace period of transferring has just about run its' course.  Here is the current list of ship jumpers.

Player	Pos	New School
Rob Bolden	QB	LSU
Tim Buckley	S	NC State
Anthony Fera	K/P	Texas
Khairi Fortt	LB	California
Kevin Haplea	TE	Florida State
Ryan Nowicki	OL	Illinois
Jamil Pollard	DT	Rutgers
Silas Redd	RB	USC