Spoke with Hall today. Like I thought, Penn St is a serious player. In fact, he told me that they are his #1 school right now, with Nebraska at #2 and K-St at #3. We had a REALLY good talk and I was super impressed with him. Really great young man. Even while Penn St is his "leader," I still get the feeling that he will be N when it's all said and done. I think the better he gets to know Rhule/this staff, they will win him over quickly. But that's just my opinion.
One last interesting thing is that I did talk to him about Raiola. He said that he has met Raiola and has even thrown with him. He told me that if Raiola is N, he will be N. He said that he couldn't pass up the opportunity to play with the best player in the country. I always knew that a player like Raiola would have a significant positive impact, by my conversation with Dae'vonn really opened my eyes to how big of a deal it really is.
All in all, Nebraska has work to do with Hall. But I also like where they are at with him at this point. Hall also mentioned that March is going to be a crazy month for him, as he will be taking visits nearly every weekend (including Nebraska and Penn St).