This began as a comment in another thread, but I think it deserves its own fanpost.

Yesterday WarBuck46410 posted this:

this is meant to be helpful.

welcome to the real world of CFB. For the first time in 46 years (or thereabouts), PSU is hiring a new coach.

welcome to the typical fan reaction to your new possible coach. Please name me more than 2 fanbases that have gone "woot woot" over their recent coaching hire. I invite you to visit fansites at the relevant time period for Miami (FL), Florida, Minny, Michigan (twice), tOSU (2000), Tennessee (actually LOLing at their hiring ineptitude), UCLA (gawd, what a nightmare), Notre Dame (20 years now of nightmare), etc.

again, welcome to the real world of CFB. You have had the honor of avoiding this for a very long time. You are in a new world; please begin to get accustomed to the temperature of the water.

next, please note the Giant Pink Elephant in the coach-hiring room better known as the Devastation That Is Jerry Sandusky, a horrible fire-breathing people-eating dragon of destruction. please…. you had to know that the sex scandal was going to -—- um -— complicate things.

next please note the well-know "rule" that the "guy that follows the GUY [Paterno] fails" and it is better to be the "guy that follows the guy that follows the GUY." Your next great coach is waiting until the new guy fails. Maybe the new guy won’t fail. But some of the better coaches decided to sit it out to avoid being the guy that follows the GUY.

fwiw, ESpin -— gawd I hate them -— is being supportive. Regarding Brady, the spin here is "hissy fit." But during the basketball game, the ESpin announcers spun it as O’Brien being the guy that "stood up to Brady." PSU can use all the good press it can get (even if from ESpin).

all I’m saying: if it’s O’Brien, welcome your O’Brien overlord and hope for the best.

Again, this is meant to be helpful.

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I'd like to introduce you to the first two commits for the inaugural Penn State NCAA hockey team.

via Chris Heisenberg's 2011 List

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but this still feels so good.

After the Illinois loss, this game was what I pointed to to save season; Texas Bowl be damned. They came through in flying Blue and White!

Schadenfreude has never been so sweet!

From Mgoblog...

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In light of our favorite football teams “issues” with a particular forsaken-cornfed and unfortunately talented football team as well as my baseball team of choice’s problems with the damn !@nk33$, I would like to ask which is the preferred method of suffering. Is it better to suffer the unexpected loss or to repeatedly be bludgeoned by the same foe year after year?

PS. Nice night for a ballgame at Citizens Bank Park eh?

PPS. I blame Iowa…

PPPS. Thank god we’ve beaten Michigan or else this would all be too much.

Here is an outsiders perspective of the PSU hockey situation and perhaps the wider effects of a DI PSU hockey program.  Nice to know we would likely have a place to call home should they finally launch a team.

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Over the recent history USC has won an ample supply of Big Games, namely Rose Bowls. As we all experienced last year and have observed in the past, USC playing in The Rose Bowl Game is really just another home game for USC. As big of a game as the Rose Bowl is, its nice to be able to play it in a overwhelming supportive environment. 

Lets look at the road games for the past 4 years.

DATE            OPPONENT      RESULT

2005

September 3  at Hawaii          W 63-17

September 24 at Oregon          W 45-13

October 1    at Arizona State   W 38-28

October 15   at Notre Dame      W 34-31

October 22   at Washington      W 51-24

November 12  at California      W 35-10

January 4    vs. Texas  (RB)    L 41-38

2006

September 2  at Arkansas        W 50-14

September 23 at Arizona         W 20-3

September 30 at Wash. St.       W 28-22

October 28   at Oregon State    L 33-31

November 4   at Stanford        W 42-0

December 2   at UCLA            L 13-9

January 1    vs. Michigan (RB)  W 32-18

2007

September 15 at Nebraska        W 49-31

September 29 at Washington      W 27-24

October 20   at Notre Dame      W 38-0

October 27   at Oregon          L 24-17

November 10  at California      W 24-17

November 22  at Arizona State   W 44-24

January 1    vs. Illinois (RB)  W 49-17

2008

August 30    at Virginia        W 52-7

September 25 at Oregon State    L 27-21

October 18   at Wash. St.       W 69-0

October 25   at Arizona         W 17-10

November 15  at Stanford        W 45-23

December 6   at UCLA            W 28-7

January 1    vs. PSU (RB)       W 38-24

What is the toughest place USC has played in the last 4 years? Notre Dame, Nebraska, Oregon, Cal, UCLA?  Historically I would have placed Nebraska as being a tough place to play, probably the old Notre Dame, but past that I don't see an intense road game on their schedule.

Is it possible that people are underestimating the impact of this being a freshman QB's first road game as well as easily the most hostile environment USC has faced in the past 4 years? Not that it can make up for poor performances in general, but I think it will be VERY interesting to see how USC handles the horseshoe.

Stadium?

From smashtheguitar via The Collegian.

Fathead will be releasing college stadium fat heads.

Only Beaver Stadium, Ohio Stadium and Notre Dame Stadium are being produced currently. Outch michigan...forgotten by the fathead people?

My favorite quote of the article is definitely this one.

If you show me a Daryll Clark Fathead, I'd give you a heck of a lot more money," he said. "I'll see Beaver Stadium every Saturday. I'd kind of like to say hello to Mr. Clark every morning.

Poor soul has obviously not yet attended the church of Zug.

May 3, 2009

Redd goes Blue and White

Sean Fitz
BlueWhiteIllustrated.com

On the heels of an announcement by four-star wide receiver Adrian Coxson on Thursday, Penn State added to its early offensive haul on Sunday morning when Rivals250 running back Silas Redd informed the staff of his long-awaited decision to be a Nittany Lion.

I'm not quite sure of the whole blog posting/linking etiquette here but its all free on BWI here.

Its been reported that Les Miles plans on twittering DURING games this fall. He will twitter before and after games and at haltime he will dictate to a graduate assistant turned twitterjockey.

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Why isn't there more of an outcry for Joe Paterno's departure? As a huge PSU fan it’s obvious that Penn State football is no longer among the elite. We even got out recruited by 5 other Big 10 teams this year. I hope we make a run for the Big 10 championship this year. Regardless, he needs to leave at the end of this year!! – PSU1

A: You had more of a leg to stand on if this was 2004. Since going 7-16 in 2003 and 2004, Penn State has gone 29-9 with a Big Ten title and three very, very nice bowl wins (Florida State in the 2006 Orange Bowl, Tennessee in the 2007 Outback, and Texas A&M in the 2007 Alamo). You’re right in that Penn State might not be among the national-title elite like it was when it first joined the Big Ten, but Paterno did a fantastic job of turning things around since it looked like the era was over just a few years ago. Paterno doesn’t need to step down, especially since the team is almost certain to win at least eight games yet again this year, but he needs to get succession talk in place if he wants to have a say in it. There’s a sizable portion of the Nittany Lion nation that loves JoePa, and always will, but are secretly jealous of Michigan for being able to go outside the fam and get a Rich Rodriguez; that’s not likely to happen in Happy Valley. Whenever the Penn State job opens up it’ll be the sweet gig in whatever year that is, and the program will likely have its pick of top-shelf coaches. I think Paterno will end up pulling a Bob Knight/Fidel Castro, wake up one morning and realize it’s time, and hand the reins over to his son, quarterback coach Jay Paterno.

http://cfn.scout.com/2/731052.html

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Browsing the Fox sports webpage NHL section I stumbled across something looking like a Lady Icer Jersey and was stunned. Looks like Derrick Williams has some competition this week.

On Saturday, Miss Virginia Tara Wheeler will be competing with 49 other women in the Miss America Pageant in Las Vegas. But don't let the make-up and formal dresses fool you. As a former Penn State women's goalie who plays pick-up hockey on occasion, Wheeler can hold her own against the guys. As she prepared for the pageant, Wheeler talked to FOXSports.com about her shootouts to raise money for charity and what she's learned from hockey that will help her compete for the Miss America crown.

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