My personal belief is he absolutely talked to PSU. NO doubt.
I also believe he got offered. Reasons: Lot of highly regarded PSU followers and "insiders" who said he was offered. The "blackout". The fact that these things DONT happen the way the "haters" want to believe. PSU didnt come down here on some random fishing expedition. If they flew all their big wigs down here to meet AG, it was with a conditional offer in hand. AG would not have met with them, unless he felt they were likely to make him an offer.
I suspect he met with them and was made a conditional offer. I think he said he would take a few days to mull it over with his family. I believe he LOVES PSU, his alma mater, and has always dreamed of being the next Joe Pa at PSU. DESPITE this, I feel like his family probably didnt want to go, he was leery of the NCAA issues they have, may have felt like he was set up for failure up there, AND that he has a **** of a recruiting class coming in here, he really believes that he can win and win big here, and that he would be looked upon as a rat if he bolted on the recruits that believed in him. I think in the end, the PSU offer was not "an offer he cant refuse" and he passed.
AG was the first one they interviewed. AG had a LOT of buzz from PSU media, alumni, and former players even clammoring for him. They flew all the way down here to meet with him before any other coach. Im not buying for ONE second that "he went to them with his hat in hand and begged for a job". They wanted him, or at a minumum had him very high on their list.
In the end, we will never know what ACTUALLY went down, but I do feel they came down here and he met with them, and very likely got SOME kind of offer to consider.
