Facilities are crucial to a team’s ability to recruit, and dorms are perhaps the most important. One of the country’s best recruiters in James Franklin believes so too.

When asked about freshman Dani Dennis-Sutton’s stellar performance this season, Franklin used it to pitch that new dorms would help bring in more guys like him.

“There is a way to do it within the rules and still get the same thing accomplished,” Franklin told reporters. “That was part, that was a big part in the recruiting process. We lost a kid a few years ago because we didn’t have singles for the football team like other schools do. That kid got drafted and now is playing in the NFL, and we almost lost Dani over it.”

Some highly-coveted recruits such as Dani come from boarding schools, and they don’t want to go to a college with worse living situations than their high school. Franklin thinks that new dorms would bring Penn State recruiting to new heights.