NFL draft prospect Christian Hackenberg has plenty to say about his college career.
"I played for three years at Penn State, and throughout that entire span, it always hasn't been awesome," the quarterback said last month.
Hackenberg's word choice of "awesome" doesn't quite encompass it all.
Before Hackenberg arrived in Happy Valley, before he was sacked 103 times in three seasons and saw his completion percentage drop from 59 to 53 percent, before his head coach and star receiver bolted to the NFL, he had a chance to bolt himself.
In the summer of 2012, when Hackenberg was a high school senior, Penn State was hit with NCAA sanctions stemming from the Jerry Sandusky scandal: a $60 million sanction, a four-year football postseason ban and a vacation of all wins dating to 1998.