Penn State nets a recruit, and frequent-flyer miles:
“Let’s say you’re a college basketball coach. Let’s say you have a whop ping four scholarships left to give in April but only four official visits to your school remaining to hand out for the rest of the school year.
“And all you have left to choose from is a shrinking pool of recruits, many with academic issues, others in high demand with only elite schools on their lists.
“And let’s say you’re a coach at Penn State, last-place finisher in the Big Ten for three successive seasons and on track to make it four. How can you possibly compete?
“You work harder. You fly farther. Maybe you find a kid or two relatively few college recruiters have seen.
“That was the plan of PSU coach Ed DeChellis and lead assistant Kurt Kanaskie when they began digging into the mines of European talent.
“And they brought back two commitments in the last month. One is Joonas Suotamo, a 6-9, 225-pound forward from Finland.
“The other is Milos Bogetic, a 6-10, 242-pound forward from Podgorica, the major city in the former Yugoslavian republic of Serbia and Montenegro. …”