6 Quotes by Rick Pennypacker

I think that had a lot to do with it, too.

Virginia is getting a kid that is a very good football player and a potentially great college football player. I've had some great ones to play for me and went on to the next level. Brent's upside is tremendous.

Brent told me all along that with all the scholarship offers he had, that he would know where the right place was once he visited the right school. Well, when he came back to high school here on Monday he was wearing a big smile. That told me all I needed to know.

There's some people up here who are a little upset that he's not going to Penn State. He's only going to get bigger, stronger, and faster. He could have had a lot more statistics if we had been worried about that sort of thing. Several of our games were over at halftime or otherwise his numbers could have been even better.

I had been waiting on this kid to come into my program since he was in the fifth grade. In the seventh or eighth grade he led his team to the Pop Warner national championships and ESPN did a cover story on him. He's always been good.

I didn't even think that Brent was going to take his visit there. His mom visited Virginia with him last weekend and they fell in love with it ... the community, the school, the atmosphere, the coaches and players.