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PSU Cornhole Board

brubby — Fri, 29 May 2009 14:20:07 -0000

PSU Cornhole Board

Just thought I'd share my first attempt at a Penn State cornhole board - all painted no stickers... Got a little tilted on the A-Logo, but not bad for an amateur.
Prepare now for tailgating comes sooner that you think...

Random PSU Sighting

brubby — Fri, 29 May 2009 14:17:34 -0000

Random PSU Sighting

Totally random PSU car decal in the parking lot of Safeway in Estes Park, CO this weekend. Just feels like a good time for random PSU pic or ebay item of the day till the fall gets the regular news flowing again.

Saban Vs Kiffen

brubby — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:18:06 -0000

Saban Vs Kiffen

Playoff Possibilities Continued...

brubby — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 22:27:30 -0000

After lots of good discussion from my last post about a possible realignment and playoff system, I've come up with another one that gets 'football factory' schools a 7th home game and allows more connectivity between conferences with additional ooc games.

The downfall is an extra week of the season and the eventual champ and runner up will have to play 16 games.

First - divide the teams into 7 MAJOR (12 teams each) conferences and 4 Minor (9 teams each) conferences.

Each major conference is split into divisions and plays 5 division games, 3 opposite division games and 4 ooc games.

7 conference championships and a play in championship between the "best" non-conference championship contender and the "best" minor conference team - choose any method you like to pick the "bests" - if you can't win your own division you shouldn't get to argue.

Week after the Conf Champ games - first round of the playoffs at the top four seeds home field (seeding by some sort of super fancy committee) - losers eligible for bowl games.

Bowls proceed as normal with orange & rose as semi finals and sugar the week after as a championship game.

Here are the conference alignments

ACC	Big 10	Big 12	Big East
Boston College	Illinois	Baylor	Cincinnati
Clemson	Indiana	Colorado	Connecticut
Duke	Iowa	Iowa State	Louisville
Florida State	Michigan	Kansas	Pittsburgh
Georgia Tech	Michigan State	Kansas State	Rutgers
Maryland	Minnesota	Missouri	South Florida
Miami-Florida	Northwestern	Nebraska	Syracuse
North Carolina	Ohio State	Oklahoma	West Virginia
North Carolina State	Penn State	Oklahoma State	Central Florida
Virginia	Purdue	Texas	Navy
Virginia Tech	Wisconsin	Texas A&M	Army
Wake Forest	Notre Dame	Texas Tech	Temple

SEC	Pac 10	MWC
Alabama	Arizona	Air Force
Arkansas	Arizona State	Colorado State
Auburn	California	UNLV
Florida	Oregon	New Mexico
Georgia	Oregon State	San Diego State
Kentucky	Southern California	Texas Christian
Louisiana State	Stanford	Utah
Mississippi	UCLA	Wyoming
Mississippi State	Washington	Boise State
South Carolina	Washington State	Brigham Young
Tennessee	Fresno State	Idaho
Vanderbilt	Hawaii	Southern Methodist

WAC	Conf USA	MAC	Sunbelt
New Mexico State	Memphis	Akron	Troy State
Nevada	Western Kentucky	Ball State	Louisiana-Lafayette
Utah State	Southern Mississippi	Bowling Green State	Louisiana-Monroe
San Jose State	Marshall	Central Michigan	Florida Atlantic
Tulsa	East Carolina	Eastern Michigan	Florida International
Houston	Northern Illinois	Kent State	Arkansas State
Texas-El Paso	Alabama-Birmingham	Miami-Ohio	Middle Tennessee State
North Texas	Toledo	Ohio	Louisiana Tech
Rice University	SUNY-Buffalo	Western Michigan	Tulane

Shot in the dark - playoff possibilities

brubby — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 20:06:07 -0000

This is kind of a dead time in my little Penn State-centric college football world when my mind is generally drawn to perfect world dreams of a beatiful bowl/playoff hybrid system were nobody gets screwed (unless they want to) and everybody has a chance for a TRUE National Championship not a MNC.

However, I realize that some people would consider this the ranting of a crazy man in the wilderness and wouldn't be interested. So, I put it to the group - if anybody is interested in a discussion about ideal world post season solutions let your voices be heard and I would be glad to share my rantings as well - maybe together we can come up with something worthy enough for derision from the BCS fat cats.

Dang I hate the Big Ten...

brubby — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 04:17:35 -0000

I'm sitting here watching all the recaps of a great day in college football and I switch over to BTN and what do I hear...

Penn State wins a SHARE of the Big Ten...

Ohio State wins a SHARE of the Big Ten...

Seriously... I understand that we both have the same conference record but why is there NO conference tie breaker. Yes, there are a series of Rose Bowl tie breakers but why in the world should we have to share the conference title (again) with tOSU when we beat them during the season and had a better overall record than them (again).

I love my team and am very proud of the entire program though its hard not to be a bit disappointed in the way the loss played out... but I really, truly, seriously hate the Big Ten.

and everybody that buys one of those tOSU big ten champions shirts...

Sorry for the rant... just had to get it off my chest...

It's all my fault

brubby — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 13:19:57 -0000

Mea Culpa

All year I had been true to all of my superstitions... every blasted one of them. Only blue for home games (white out exception of course), only white for away games. Lucky football present and never hitting the ground during the game.

But yesterday it all went a little wrong. I was out of town for work and I ended up wearing my BLUE 1986 championship shirt - what hubris - until I could get home right before the game. Then, in a move I will regret forever, I let my wife talk me into wearing an LSU shirt under my white 21 jersey. I went with it since they were playing Alabama and I figured it would be just like cheering for Penn State in another different kind of way. But the plain truth is that I overlooked Iowa. Just like in 1999 when I bought tickets in the Minnesota section for THAT GAME.

Let my guard down... pure and simple.

I'm sitting here over 12 hours later still feeling a little dead inside.

Someone please tell me its not my fault. Tell me the football gods didn't decide to visit my house and inspect my superstition levy. Tell me it was strange playcalling in bad weather. Tell me it was uncharacteristics drops on the few catchable balls. Tell me it was a doppleganger defense that for 3 drives made a craptastic loser into everybody's all american.

Just please... somebody tell me it wasn't my fault.

Has the "Thank You" been canned?

brubby — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 14:07:48 -0000

I was at the Beav for the last two games and although the atmosphere was wonderful as always, I was a little saddened by what appears to be a 'Tradition' change.

This year at the end of the WE ARE... Stadium cheer there was no corresponding THANK YOU... YOU'RE WELCOME. I remember it was faint but still there the last couple years but nothing this year.

I don't mean to come off as an old fogie dinosaur or anything - heck I'm only 34, but I always thought that was way cool and I'd hate to see that go the way of the marsmallow.

New Player Shirt Ideas

brubby — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:09:42 -0000

Hey everybody. I'm doing some light logo & graphic work and started getting excited about the new season.

I've been putting together some new player specific shirt ideas for the new season and was looking for some feedback. I've got two main types of designs - shirts that mimic helmets with a saying and personalized player logos.

I could do different players & teams. There's also an LSU helmet shirt since my wife went there,

All comments or suggestions are welcome...

http://www.zazzle.com/brubby21

Thanks

brian