Gaines picked the Nittany Lions over Michigan, Notre Dame, and Syracuse, among others.
"Trace is one the best resources I have. He's been through everything on and off the field."
Cam Brown and Tariq Castro-Fields are two of the many Nittany Lions who will get to play in front of a hometown crowd this weekend.
Here's everything Nittany Lion fans will need to be aware of for Penn State's Big Ten opener Friday night.
Even if a long history of Penn State wins haven't backed up claims of a rivalry between the Nittany Lions and Maryland, their meetings feature all the emotion, missed handshakes, and late hits of the sport world's greatest rivalries.
Cappelletti talked about his younger brother Joey, who had been battling leukemia for years, during his Heisman Trophy acceptance speech in 1973.