BWI Live: A Penn State football podcast from Blue White Illustrated

Penn State basketball raced out to a 19-point lead against Rutgers on Sunday night in a pivotal game to keep its NCAA tournament hopes alive. Despite that, the team suffered an epic collapse, failing to register a field goal in the game's final nine minutes. That epic power outage led to a 59-56 loss at home in front of a White Out crowd at the Bryce Jordan Center. 

Now, with two games left on the schedule, the season is on the brink for the Nittany Lions, who face must-win games for the rest of the regular season and beyond. Today on the BWI Penn State Hoops show, basketball insider Nate Bauer and host Thomas Frank Carr discuss the game and how Penn State can quickly pick up the pieces after the loss. They'll be live at noon on YouTube to take your thoughts and feelings about the team's latest loss and the road ahead. 

While T-Frank will focus on the game's final nine minutes, Bauer wants to point to the seeds sewn in the first half that ultimately became the issue late. They'll discuss the undercurrent of Penn State's big lead, a strong performance by Cam Wynter, and the shooting struggles for the Nittany Lions...at home? 

For his part, Penn State head coach Micah Shrewsberry thinks that his team stopped doing the little things with such a large lead, and it became a ball game thanks to a lack of focus.

"We came out and started the half great. But then we let our foot off the gas; we let go of the rope, and we didn't do the things that got us that lead. Little plays that don't seem that they were big, but we give them a bucket, and then they get a free throw rebound. We gave them more chances," he said after the game. 

"Maybe you foul, and they shoot a free throw and miss it, and that helps close the door. We left the door open too many times. Even when we weren't scoring the basketball, we couldn't come up with timely stops; they would get long offensive rebounds. They hit every timely basket that they needed to make, and we missed a lot of them. But it was because of the things that we did early in the game."

Check out the show at noon to hear more from the head coach who blamed himself for the loss in the postgame press conference. You'll hear comments from Sunday night, and his availability on Monday to help narrate the show. 

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Penn State should land several commitments this week, according to Blue White Illustrated's recruiting experts. Today on the Recruiting show, Ryan Snyder discusses Kari Jackson and Kenny Woseley's timeline for possible commitments. He and host Thomas Frank Carr also break down the On300, which dropped Monday at noon.

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Penn State running back prospect Peyton Lewis is a fast-rising, and fast running tailback out of Salem Virginia. In the past two months he's amassed over 20 offers after having just four in December. Today he sits down with host Thomas Frank Carr to discuss how his recruiting has taken off, how he feels about Penn State, and his mentality as a football player. He'll also chronicle his journey through adversity that gave him a new perspective on life. He also reveals his top five schools and the rest that are still in the mix early in his recruitment.

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The BWI Daily Edition mailbag is open! Nate Bauer and Sean Fitz discuss questions from the BWI message board and five-star reviews on Apple Podcasts. On today's show, Fitz and Nate discuss how families and the ecosystems surrounding a college football prospect can affect recruiting. They'll also discuss the tight end battle, Penn State's issues up the middle on defense and more!

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Penn State released a statement last Friday that the university has decided on the future of Beaver Stadium. The program intends to renovate the historic stadium instead of building a new facility on a new footprint. 

That’s big news, right?

Today, the BWI Daily Edition digs into the “if” “and” and “buts” of the statement to parse through the words and explain to fans what the real news was last Friday. Then, host Thomas Frank Carr and senior editor Nate Bauer discuss what the program can do, and what they must do in order to renovate Beaver Stadium and launch Penn State fans into the future of college football. 

Penn State isn’t renovating anything

So instead of building new, the program wants to renovate the existing structure. But that doesn’t mean what you think it means; according to Bauer, 

“A renovation is not a renovation, okay? In this context of what Beaver Stadium is, they will tear down what exists in phases so that they can continue to play football in Beaver Stadium while handling it piece by piece, by piece, by piece by piece.”

Next, he and T-Frank discuss what that will do to seat capacity and the badge of honor that Penn State fans have about the 107,000-seat capacity of the stadium. 

They also discuss financing and how the athletic department and the university must tackle a project that will likely cost more than half a billion dollars. Bauer doesn’t see this coming off without someone getting upset about where the money comes from.

“What is the appetite going to be if this major project, Beaver Stadium project, demands ticket increases? Right. And not just like five, ten bucks a pop, but doubles ticket costs, doubles seat, licensing costs. What will the appetite be for that ten years from now? I have no idea. I just it’s very fascinating to me for Penn State to be in this position right now because this is all happening currently.”

So what is the landing position, then? What are you aiming for if you’re at Penn State and you imagine a new stadium? The trend nationally is to build smaller stadiums and charge a higher entry price. Is that in the DNA of the program?

“Okay, So I think that there is a middle ground. Look, you’re not going to sell 100,000 seats at Beaver Stadium to just the upper class. It’s not going to happen. But you cannot build an experience that is ultra-elite and only provides a premium experience. It’s just you cannot have that type of capacity. And I don’t think that that’s what they want.”

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Penn State basketball won two straight last week thanks largely to the efforts of point guard Jalen Pickett. Today, he joins the Penn State Hoops Show to discuss the team's push for an NCAA tournament berth. Afterwards, host Thomas Frank Carr and Nate Bauer discuss the interview and the decisive remaining four games on the schedule.

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Penn State football is less than a month away from the start of spring football. So today, on the BWI Live show, host Thomas Frank Carr ranks the offensive positions from five to one heading into spring football. He’s studied depth chart and has compiled a comprehensive analysis of the offense’s strengths and relative weaknesses. He’ll also take your questions live on the show and discuss what’s on your mind, starting at 7 pm on YouTube.

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Penn State heads into a critical window for the program where the team may have a realistic shot at a Big Ten Championship and beyond. Led by sophomore running back Nicholas Singleton and probable starting quarterback Drew Allar, there is a potentially exceptional quality about this group. But how far away are they from realizing that potential? And what might prevent them from doing so?

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Penn State recruiting is slow at the moment but it rarely is. Recruiting insiders Sean Fitz and Ryan Snyder discuss the most surprising, interesting, or interesting stories from the past decade.

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The Blue White Illustrated Daily Edition is back with its new Friday Top Five. This week Ryan Snyder and Thomas Frank Carr list the top five program moments for Penn State under head coach James Franklin. Ryan discusses why he picks the games, players and situations that defined the Nittany lions under Franklin since the head coach was hired back in 2014.

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Penn State sports fans submitted their questions and the BWI Daily Edition is here to answer them. Nate Bauer and Sean Fitz discuss what's on the mind of listeners and viewers of the show. Here is this week's lineup of questions

hohmadw1978

In looking at our 2023 defense, which position group do you and Nate see as the strength of the defense for next year?

mrmk5110

Ryan wrote a great article about Kaden Saunders the other day, and in it Kaden talked about some of the growing pains he had in his first year and some of the adjustments he had to make. For all of the '22 Freshmen who didn't have an on field impact during 2022 (such as Saunders, Kaleb Artis, etc.), who can you tell has been making some early progress/impact through the February workouts?

mrmk5110

PSU's Basketball lineup will look a lot different next season. Which of the current freshman do you see most likely to step up for them next season based on what we have seen so far?

LeFennecFox

Is the WR room on the verge of a RB room of 2022 path? Where we had a really deep / crowded room and then suddenly older guys who aren't starting leave and it hollows out (for good or bad). 

John D

Football: During the February "dead period," can you give us insight into what the day-to-day life is like for coaches in this period before spring ball? i.e. Are they prepping with advanced scouting for '23? Are they reviewing tape from '22? Are they tinkering with schemes based on projections with new personnel? Thanks!

Any word on how Demetrius Lilley is developing behind the scenes? How about Jameel Brown? It was awesome seeing him get some run against Illinois in the first half. 

Poncho570

With kids starting to pick their jersey numbers, who's your pick to dawn the #0 jersey now that Sutherland is moving on?

Daveb9127

Who will be the Nittany Lion that improves their stock in the draft the most with a good combine workout ??

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