SB Nation User Blog: VVeRPennState

Penn State Wins Another Lambert-Meadowlands Trophy

VVeRPennState — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 14:57:56 -0000

Penn State won the Lambert-Meadowlands Trophy, awarded to the best team in the east, again this year. At this point they might as well rename it the Joe Paterno Trophy. In his 43 seasons as head coach, Penn State has won the award 23 times. Penn State also won the award once under Bob Higgins and 3 times under Rip Engle (with Paterno as an assistant). In total, Penn State has won 27 times, 20 times more than the second place Army (who won their last before we won our second), and 21 times more than third place Pittsburgh (their last was 28 years ago). While this award really doesn't mean as much as it once did, it is still pretty amazing the dominance Penn State has had in the eastern region, especially in the Paterno era.

Here is a link to the story

Harris Poll Voter Thinks Penn State is Undefeated

VVeRPennState — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 17:07:03 -0000

Sadly these are the type of people who decided who plays for the national title. Pat Quinn, an 80 year old who retired from Oklahoma States sports information department 22 years ago and Harris voter replied the following when asked this weekend about the national title:

I think Alabama and Penn State will probably play for the national championship. They’re the only undefeated teams, aren’t they?

When informed of Penn States loss, he replied.

Oh well, those Big Ten teams have a lot of votes.

How is this possible? How can you let people who follow football as casually as this guy decided the national championship?

Here is a link to the article.

The way the media is treating JoePa

VVeRPennState — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 03:28:56 -0000

Great win tonight, but one thing that kind of annoyed me is the Paterno injury sistuation. Honestly, I am kind of disappointed the way the media is treating it. It seems like they are assuming that he is no longer coaching the team just because he is up in the booth during the game. I heard a few times the ESPN anouncers referred to Bradley as the coach during the Wisconsin game. This is in addition to a few times over the last week I have seen the national media referred to Paterno "watching" the game from the booth as apposed to "coaching" from the booth. My question is, "Do you think the leg injury had effected the way Paterno has coached this team?", and if not "do you think the national media is portraining this injury the way they should be?"